Handbook on politics and society / edited by Shireen Hassim (Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor, WiSER, Wits University, South Africa) and Anna C. Korteweg (Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hassim, Shireen, editor.

Korteweg, Anna C., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in political science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture.

Political science--Social aspects.

Political science.

Politics, Practical--Social aspects.

Politics, Practical.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"This ground-breaking Handbook decentres theories of social and political arrangements originating from parochial histories of Europe and North America. It provides critical perspectives on capitalism, states, and political mobilisation, adopting an interdisciplinary approach to key contemporary issues in politics and society. Chapters address decolonial notions of scholarship that build on alternative conceptualizations of political and social practices. Authors explore a range of topics: post-socialist economies and social reproduction; sex testing in sports; black beauty and blackness in a black majority world; conceptualizations of land, property, and extraction through an Indigenous lens; the geopolitics of cities; #meToo in India; queer and labour politics of migration; the non-end of marriage; human rights to care; and gendered, raced, and classed articulations of violence, before turning to rethinking futures. Including insights from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, the Handbook connects the politics of race, class, sexuality, and gender The Handbook on Politics and Society is an invaluable resource for students and academics in international political science and political sociology. Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in politics and anthropology will also benefit from its forward-thinking insights"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: Rethinking politics and society in the age of crisis / Shireen Hassim and Anna C. Korteweg

Part I: Living in capitalism

1. The re-organisation of economy, politics and gender equality in postsocialist Europe / Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela

2. Living with ruination: Building collapse and the political economy of materiality in luanda, angola / Claudia Gastrow

3. Social reproduction and surplus populations of the agrarian south / Lyn Ossome

4. Unsettling extraction through community relations to land / Rebecca Jane Hall

Part II: Rights regulation and mobile subjects

5. Governing the transborder mobility of workers and their labour rights: A multi-actor contest / Rianne Mahon and Nicola Piper

6. The human right to care: Latin American legal and political debates / Laura C. Pautassi

7. Bodies under scrutiny: Sex testing and protecting womanhood in international sport / Amanda Lock Swarr

8. Enduring maritonormativity in times of marital decline: Observations from South Africa and the United States / Michael W. Yarbrough

9. Creating queer subjects: Human rights and the adjudication of LGBTI asylum claims / Anna C. Korteweg

Part III: Constituting groups and crafting identities

10. Thinking race and racialization in the black majority world / Hugo ka Canham

11. The haunted happiness of racialised beauty: A performative theoretical view / Simidele Dosekun

12. Seeing elites from the south / Antoinette Handley

13. Hustling a living: Crafting a life under precarious conditions in urban South Africa / Hannah J. Dawson

Part IV: Framing and resisting violence

14. Genocide, femicide, and feminicide as concepts and frames in Canada and Mexico: Extending transnational dialogues on colonialism, the state, and gendered violence against indigenous women and girls / Paulina García-Del Moral

15. Anti-violence activism, new feminisms, and India's #metoo / Srila Roy

16. Unstable solidarities: The uses and abuses of "community" in the context of penal violence in South Africa / Gail Super

17. Imperial ignorance and beyond: Mapping the production and practices of organized ignorance / Christiane Wilke, Helyeh Doutaghi and Hijaab Yahya

Part V: Rethinking futures

18. Rethinking work / E. Fouksman

19. Mobile space-times and the rescaling of political community / Loren B. Landau

20. Visiting on the mountain: How property gets in the way of indigenous sovereignty / Yvonne P. Sherwood and Melodi Wynne.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035301904 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.