Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do with selling this access and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, as one polemical site for the affirmative disruption of this model.
В современном Китае насчитывается более 125 городов с населением свыше миллиона человек. Беспрецедентный их рост представляет собой важнейшее явление для исследований глобализации и трансформации Китая. В этой книге на основе изучения пяти ключевых тем - управления, миграции, ландшафта, неравенства и культурной экономики - рассматривается прошлое, настоящее и будущее китайской урбанизации.
Leah Litman - Who Is Supreme, the People or the Court?
Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book challenges the supremacy of judicial review over democracy itself.
Bowie and Renan suggest that the Left did not realize that the same right-wing legal movement that now dominates the Supreme Court was willing to accept a loss on whether the court would have the power to invalidate a federal abortion restriction in order to solidify their position against an even bigger prize the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that at least attempted to make the country a multiracial democracy. Earlier this term, the right-wing legal movement claimed that “prize” when the Supreme Court completed its demolition of the Voting Rights Act nullifying the last major provision that had remained in the law after the court previously dismantled the other key provision more than a decade ago.
Хлоя Дрийе - Кино, нация, империя. Узбекистан, 1919 - 1937
Основываясь на исследованиях, проведенных в узбекских и российских государственных архивах, и на глубоком анализе четырнадцати полнометражных фильмов, Хлоя Дрийе описывает дискуссии о процессах государственного и национального строительства Узбекистана, а также о возникновении национализма в целом. Книга «Кино, нация, империя. Узбекистан, 1919 - 1937» помогает нам понять, как Центральная Азия, входившая в состав Российской империи, сначала была деколонизирована, а затем вновь оказалась под давлением Москвы.