Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Нира Юваль-Дэвис - Теоритизируя гендер и нацию Большинство теоретических подходов к изучению наций и национализма игнорировали гендерные отношения, считая их несущественными. При обсуждении вопросов национального «производства» или «воспроизводства» литература по национализму обычно не учитывает роль женщин. Вместо этого внимание сосредотачивается на бюрократии и интеллигенции. Материалистский подход придаёт первостепенное значение государственной бюрократии и другим государственным институтам в формировании и воспроизводстве национальных идеологий и границ. Другие исследователи национализма и социологии знания, такие как Геллнер (1983) и Смит (1986), подчёркивают особую роль интеллигенции в создании и воспроизводстве национальных идеологий, особенно для угнетённых народов. Будучи исключёнными из гегемонической интеллигенции и лишённые открытого доступа к государственным структурам, эти интеллектуалы «пересоздают» коллективную память, трансформируют народные устные традиции и языки в письменные формы, а также воссоздают «национальный золотой век» в историческом прошлом, реконструкция которого становится основой их национальных стремлений. https://syg.ma/@she-is-an-expert-1/nira-yuval-devis-teoritiziruya-gender-i-naciyu

Christina Klein - Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the Cold War have focused on the culture of containment, Christina Klein reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration a distinct chapter in the process of U.S.-led globalization. Through her analysis of a wide range of texts and cultural phenomena including Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The King and I, James Michener's travel essays and novel Hawaii, and Eisenhower's People-to-People Program Klein shows how U.S. policy makers, together with middlebrow artists, writers, and intellectuals, created a culture of global integration that represented the growth of U.S. power in Asia as the forging of emotionally satisfying bonds between Americans and Asians. Her book enlarges Edward Said's notion of Orientalism in order to bring to light a cultural narrative about both domestic and international integration that still resonates today.

Oliver Elliott - The American Press and the Cold War: The Rise of Authoritarianism in South Korea, 1945–1954 During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee’s repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee’s growing authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news stories in the United States. Could the press have done more to scrutinize American actions in Korea? Did journalists fail to act as an adequate check on American power? In the first archive-based account of how American journalism responded to one of the most significant stories in the history of American foreign relations, Oliver Elliott shows how a group of foreign correspondents, battling U.S. military authorities and pro-Rhee lobbyists, brought the issue of South Korean authoritarianism into the American political mainstream on the eve of the Korean War. However, when war came in June 1950, the press rapidly abandoned its scrutiny of South Korean democracy, marking a crucial moment of transition from the era of postwar idealism to the Cold Warnorm of American support for authoritarian allies.

Agreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century While the theory of demand that consumers buy more as prices fall and buy less as they rise is decidedly uncontroversial in mainstream economics, the absence of controversy belies the theory’s contentious and complicated history. This volume provides a better understanding of the history of demand theory and its relationship to major theoretical developments in twentieth-century microeconomics. Contributors investigate demand theory as it stabilized in the first half of the twentieth century by examining the Hicks-Allen composite commodity, French mathematician Jean Ville’s contribution to consumption theory, Walrasian theories of markets with adverse selection, and the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem. They analyze the relationship between demand theory and both the broader program of neoclassical economics and developments within contemporary economic theory.