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Enchanted Revolution
Authors: Kang Xiaofei 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution. It examines the Communist Party’s first anti-superstition campaign in its wartime headquarters of Yan’an, the holy land of the Maoist revolution. The book argues that religion was not a mere adversary for the revolution; it also served as a model with which the Party mobilized support and constructed legitimacy. In its rise from rural backwaters to national dominance, the Party attacked “superstitions” that had supported the foundations of Chinese religious life. At the same time, Party propaganda co-opted the same religious resources for its own political ends. In this parallel and often paradoxical process, the persuasive power of Party propaganda relied heavily on recasting the cosmic forces of yin and yang that sustained the traditional gender hierarchy and ritual order. Furthermore, revolutionary art and literature revamped old narratives of female ghosts and ritual exorcism to inject the people with a new hegemonic vision of the Party-state endowed with both scientific potency and the heavenly mandate. Gendered language and symbolism in Chinese religion thus remained central to inspire pathos, ethos, and logos for the revolution. The interplay of religion, gender, and revolution holds historical and contemporary significance of the Maoist legacy in contemporary China. It also offers insights into the transformative power of propaganda in global politics.
Model Doctors and the Wonder of Science
Authors: Kang Xiaofei 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 shows that for the purpose of creating rural prosperity, the CCP waged the anti-shaman campaign as part of a broader public health campaign. Party propaganda established hierarchically ordered gender roles for male and female doctors to oppose shaman healers. The campaigns also showcased the combined power of the Party and science through public exhibitions. In both aspects, the Party deployed religious terminologies to frame the new narratives of model doctors and the wonder of medical science. Furthermore, the CCP government made strenuous efforts to turn traditional temple fairs into new venues of public exhibition in order to advance mass education. Once again, Mao’s mass line politics operated in the transition between new Party initiatives and old religious traditions, with successes and failures.
An Enemy to Rise or an Enemy to Fall
Authors: Kang Xiaofei 
Published: May 2023

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Chapter 6 studies the anti-shaman campaign and Communist fictional writing in the spirit of Mao’s landmark speeches on art and literature in May 1942. The representative work is Gao Ganda (Uncle Gao), a novel created by the Yan’an-based writer Ouyang Shan (1908–2000). In the novel Ouyang worked within the limits of rich anti-superstition materials in the Party newspaper to make shamans and rural superstition central targets for the rural revolution. He used the final triumph of the novel’s peasant hero to signify the success of the anti-shaman campaign for Yan’an’s cooperative movement and for the prospect of a new peasant life under CCP leadership. However, the clash between the peasant hero and the shaman villains in the novel arrived too late and hence mattered too little for the new revolutionary wars targeting the landlord class after 1946. The obscure history of Uncle Gao reveals propaganda workers’ perplexities with the anti-superstition drive in CCP’s rapidly changing political agendas. In Communist fictional writing, the Yan’an campaign thus presented a rare moment that shamans rose to be the enemy before they quickly fell back to the lesser noticed margins of the revolution.
Dispelling the Negative Perception of the BDSM Community in Johannesburg, South Africa
Authors: McCormick Tracey L. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This chapter introduces the organized and established BDSM scene in Johannesburg to scholars of BDSM in the Global North. The chapter provides evidence of consensual, safe, and sane communities that started to hold members-only play parties in public venues from about 2000. The communities are almost exclusively white and male and coalesce around two online forums, Collar Me and FetLife. It is on these forums that members communicate and share educational material and organize members-only play parties in public clubs. That these communities are sexually organized does not mitigate the fact that many of the higher-ranking members are racist and exclude potential Black members for not displaying the correct BDSM etiquette.
Afterword
Authors: Weinberg Thomas S. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Highlighting key themes that emerge in the book, along with directions for future research, the afterword reflects on the current and future states of research on BDSM. Reflecting on the range of findings about the role of race in BDSM communities and interactions, the development of knowledge about the healing potential of BDSM, the expansion of studies focused on specific BDSM subcultures, the relationship between BDSM and other aspects of life, the role of representations of BDSM in how both BDSMers and non-BDSMers understand BDSM, and examinations of the ways that particular methodological approaches shape our understanding of BDSM, the afterword identifies commonalities across the diverse topics and methodological approaches in the volume.
Collaboration for Common Goods
Authors: Markofski Wes 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
How do multicultural evangelicals, as opposed to white conservative evangelicals, engage diverse social others across boundaries of race, class, gender, sexuality, politics, and religious difference? With what spirit and purpose do they enter the public arena? And what lessons can they teach us about evangelical Christianity and ethical democracy in America? This chapter presents ethnographic vignettes of multicultural evangelicals in action across the United States (Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta, and Boston) engaged in faith-based community organizing, community development, political advocacy, and public service. After introducing readers to these organizations and settings, the chapter proceeds to give an overview of the book’s chapters, main arguments, and key concepts.
Engaging Race and Inequality
Authors: Markofski Wes 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Chapter 2 introduces strategic relocation—the intentional, invitation-based practice of moving into disadvantaged contexts in order to live, learn, and participate with residents in projects of social empowerment and transformation—as an example of racial integration of interest to theorists and practitioners of ethical democracy. Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and organizational document data from Atlanta and elsewhere, the chapter investigates the practice of strategic relocation in relation to work and community economic development, housing and gentrification, and education and youth development from the perspective of local residents and strategic relocators alike. It also investigates dynamics of racially integrated workplace and religious organizations, experiences of racial inequity in policing and law enforcement, and other topics. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the benefits, limits, and conditions of strategic relocation—and racial integration more generally—in relation to other interventions for racial justice and democracy in the United States.
Introduction
Authors: Robinson Rebecca 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The introduction provides an overview of the main themes of the book. It introduces the religious reforms undertaken by Augustus and Emperor Wu, as well as the scope of the study. In particular, the strengths and limitations of the comparative approach are discussed, as are various representative works of the genre. Further limitations of the scope of the book are addressed, including the question of religion in the ancient world and the availability of sources for both early China and Rome. The introduction concludes with chapter outlines which outline the book’s topics and arguments in more detail.
Reshaping Religious Institutions
Authors: Robinson Rebecca 
Published: May 2023

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“Reshaping Religious Institutions” looks at the structural and personnel changes made by Emperor Wu and Augustus as they reformed their respective religious institutions. In particular, it finds that both rulers recruited men from outside of the established court elite to serve in their religious institutions and as advisors. Emperor Wu recruited experts in mantic knowledge from far reaches of the empire, while Augustus co-opted loyal followers into the newly revived priestly colleges. In so doing, both rulers surrounded themselves by men who would help them achieve their goals, and weakened the authority in religious affairs of those who had traditionally held it.
Hegel and the Plurality of Legal Standing
Authors: Yeomans Christopher 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
In Chapter 3 we explore a second key to the synchronic historicism of the German Idealists, which is found in Hegel’s account of the coexistence of different forms of legal responsibility in the Sattelzeit. This key is historicist in two senses. First, the different forms of responsibility and their characteristic successes and failures are related to epochal shifts in the evaluation of action. And second, this account of the coexistence of different forms of responsibility is related to the great German legal reforms of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the paradigmatic Prussian Allgemeines Landrecht (ALR) (to which we have already seen Kant responding). This chapter takes up Hegel’s theories of legal responsibility against the background of the Prussian ALR and other German legal reforms.
Family
Authors: Yeomans Christopher 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 focuses on the institution of the family as it was understood by the German Idealists. It reconstructs the debate between the Idealists as a debate between representatives of the different social perspectives first laid out in Section 1.1 and then given more conceptual and action-theoretical structure in Chapters 2 and 3. The chapter begins with another brief historical introduction of both intellectual and social context. The intellectual context is primarily the development of Cameralist thinking in the 18th century in opposition to Aristotelian understandings, which then interacts in complex ways with the social changes brought on by war and modernization in the Sattelzeit.
Conclusion
Authors: Yeomans Christopher 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The contemporary relevance of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel is where we least expected it—in fact, where they seem most archaic—because it is where they seem most archaic to us that they were most political, that is, made most contact with the actual problems of state-building and governance. And though their political problems are not our political problems, their encounter with those problems forced them to thematize the relation of philosophy to politics in a way that remains broadly relevant for us today. Rather than seeking to advance or defend any of their positions on any particular institution, I have in this work sought to reconstruct those positions in a way that highlights the provisionality, pluralism, and historicism of those positions. On my view these three features are the crucial theoretical resources that Kant, Fichte, and Hegel have to contribute to our own political theorizing.
Populism and the Here and Now
Authors: Issacharoff Samuel 
Published: May 2023

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This chapter distinguishes populism as a form of democratic government with weak institutions. There are five key mechanisms by which the premises of democratic government clash with populist leaders’ claims of majoritarian legitimacy. These are the longer time horizons and repeat-play incentives of leaders in democracies; fractionated power and cross-institutional constraints present in democracies, which are opposed by populists as rejections of their immediate mandates; intermediary organizations like trade unions and independent media that function as checks on government in democracies but are treated as fighters for the established order by populists; transparent governance, where newly elected populists seek to erode watchdog institutions in democracies to cement their rule; and norms of governance, which provide vital blueprints for democratic governance but fail to provide durable constraints on populists.
Caudillos in Command
Authors: Issacharoff Samuel 
Published: May 2023

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This chapter, seeking entry points to mitigate the threats to democracy posed by populist governance, discusses how elected populists behave in power. The elected autocrats of the last several years typify caudillo command, staking their claim to governance on their charisma and command of the populace and military. One facet of caudillo command is that, rather than altering basic government structures, populist autocrats commit intralegal abuses, wielding legal mechanisms against the opposition to consolidate power—because these often operate short of criminal violations, they are difficult to address. The chapter then turns to corruption. Features of populist rule that regularly invite corruption include short-term politics, the dismantling of intermediary institutions, and the tendency to reward “the people” (with, e.g., pre-election social expenditures) and punish their “enemies” (e.g., by hiking taxes on opposition strongholds). Strengthening anticorruption institutions is thus an important entry point to addressing populist rule’s distortive effects.
Spacepower at War
Authors: Bowen Bleddyn E. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
As the Cold War progressed, space technologies became more capable and relevant to non-nuclear wars. This chapter traces U.S. military and intelligence space systems as they became “integrated” with the requirements and platforms of the battlefield to create the modern ways of warfare that we are now accustomed to in the most advanced military forces. It then looks at how the RMA debates on military technology obscured what was going on in spacepower development and military space technologies throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The chapter then moves to Russian and Chinese space-supported military modernization, then discusses the risks involved with using space systems for nuclear and non-nuclear wars, and explores methods of resistance against space-supported military forces.
Conclusions
Authors: Bowen Bleddyn E. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Space technologies and their original sin have played their part in globalizing world politics and economics since the Cold War years. Who gets to control space technologies and where funds are allocated to develop newer technologies influences international relations but also takes place within the anarchy of the state-based international order. This concluding chapter briefly analyzes the conditions of spacepower today and places the material aspects of spacepower in the context of international anarchy. This continues to shape the Global Space Age and will hamper efforts to overcome the original sin of space technology, even as some eyes turn towards the Moon and Mars for humanity’s future in space.
Erdoğan’s War
Authors: Tol Gönül 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s pugnacious president, is now the country’s longest-serving leader. On his way to the top, he has fought many wars. This book tells the story of those battles against domestic enemies through the lens of the Syrian conflict, which has become part and parcel of Erdoğan’s fight to remain in power. Turkey expert Gönül Tol traces Erdoğan’s ideological evolution from a conservative democrat to an Islamist and a Turkish nationalist, and explores how this progression has come to shape his Syria policy, changing the course of the war. She paints a vivid picture of the president’s constantly shifting strategy to consolidate his rule, showing that these shifts have transformed Turkey’s role in post-uprising Syria from an advocate of democracy, to a power fanning the flames of civil war, to an occupier. From the first days of Erdoğan’s rule through the failed coup against him, via the Kurdish peace process, the Arab uprisings and the refugee crisis, this compelling, authoritative book tells the story of one man’s quest to remain in power--tying together the fates of two countries, and changing them both forever.
Introduction
Authors: Tol Gönül 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
To many of Erdoğan’s critics, his Islamist ideology has been the chief reason for Turkey’s degeneration into autocracy or its troublesome foreign policy. This chapter argues that Erdoğan is first and foremost a populist. He pairs his populism with different ideologies. Islamism is only one of many factors that have taken Turkey to where it is now, and foreign policy has played a more complicated part in that process than has been accounted for. To Erdoğan, foreign policy has never been primarily about the international pushes and pulls. It has been first and foremost about his domestic strategy to keep his grip on the country. Foreign policy serves as the medium through which his chosen ideology is expressed and reproduced. In other words, foreign policy has helped Erdoğan tell voters what he stands for and how he imagines the national identity. Erdoğan has used foreign policy not only to construct his identity but also as a vehicle to divide and eliminate his rivals and consolidate his base. Thus, foreign policy has been part and parcel of his war against his domestic opponents.
Erdoğan’s Strategy Towards Hegemony
Authors: Tol Gönül 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The first chapter provides a window into Erdoğan’s strategy toward hegemony from the day he came to power until the Arab uprisings started. It explores how Erdoğan slowly and cautiously eliminated his secularist rivals in the country’s bureaucracy, military, judiciary, and media with the help of a pro-EU agenda and a regional policy advocating "zero problems with neighbors."
Nasty Politics
Authors: Zeitzoff Thomas 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Why do politicians engage in nasty politics against domestic political opponents? Why do they insult them, accuse them of crimes and conspiracies, attempt to intimidate them, encourage violence against them, and in rare cases attack them with physical violence? These are puzzling questions since there is good evidence that voters don’t like it and are concerned nasty politics may trigger political violence. To answer these questions, this book examines nasty politics in the U.S., Ukraine, and Israel and how key leaders such as Trump, Zelensky, and Netanyahu use it. Using surveys, case studies, in-depth interviews, databases of nasty politics, and large social media datasets, the book shows that across all three countries the public generally doesn’t like nasty politics. But it can be a way to signal toughness to voters, which is especially important in threatening times. For politicians, going nasty can also be a way to grab attention. This is particularly helpful for outsider politicians who are looking to disrupt the status quo, opposition politicians trying to make their voice heard, or incumbents losing power. The effects of nasty politics on democracy are mixed. It can be a legitimate tool for the powerless to gain attention. Or it can be a cynical ploy for incumbents to maintain their hold on power. Nasty politics influences the kinds of politicians who run for office, and its repeated use can turn voters off from politics. The potential for actual violence from nasty rhetoric is always lurking in the background.
Global Hero
Authors: Hale Henry E. , Onuch Olga 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This chapter introduces the book's topic, summarizes the argument, and discusses its importance. It begins with the onset of Russia's all-out invasion on February 24, 2022, and documents Zelensky's initial reactions and actions to mobilize the nation and the world to save Ukraine. At the same time, it shows how Zelensky's actions were just one part of a larger Ukrainian mobilization. It is shown that much of this came as a surprise to the world due to a number of misconceptions about Ukraine and Ukrainians, most of which could have been avoided had people paid attention to social scientific research on Ukraine. The chapter then explains key social science concepts that shed light on the story, including civic national identity (which we argue underpinned this mass resistance), rallying-around-the-flag, generational effects, and patronalism. The concept of "the Zelensky Effect" is summarized as referring to how Zelensky has both reflected and amplified Ukrainians' senses of civic national identity and civic duty.
Ukraine’s Future History
Authors: Hale Henry E. , Onuch Olga 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This concluding chapter draws larger conclusions from the preceding chapters and discusses what we can say now about Ukraine's future. It examines how Zelensky himself emphasizes the importance of knowing history for best shaping the country's future, and points out that he has helped strengthen Ukrainian civic identity by emphasizing people's common historical experiences as Ukrainian as the core of national identity (more so than any specific language or religion). This vision of identity also does not depend on having an enemy; it is strong and resistant to Russia whether or not Russia is emphasized as the "Other." Zelensky's high wartime popularity cannot be expected to continue even with full victory over Russia, and data reveals that potent domestic rivalries lurk under the surface, ready to reemerge when democratic competition returns in peacetime. These divisions, though, are not "ethnic" or "regional," but instead more akin to partisan differences in many Western democracies. Major threats do exist to Ukraine's democratic future, and these come from both sides (including Zelensky's) in different ways. But so also does victory present major opportunities for a bright and democratic future for Ukraine.
Explaining Jihadi Fratricide
Authors: Hamming Tore 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
To explain intra-Jihadi conflict and fratricide, this chapter presents a typology comprising three distinctive rationales: hegemonist, unitarian, and isolationist. These ideal type rationales describe how Jihadi actors view themselves vis-à-vis competitors and their attitude to internal conflict. In addition, it lays out a set of mechanisms that contributed to conflict eruption and continuation. This includes external military intervention, ideological framing, and socialization to conflict.
Diverging Desires
Authors: Hamming Tore 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This chapter covers the intensification and escalation of the conflict between al-Qaida and the Islamic State through a detailed narration of the transition from discursive contestation to infighting. While al-Qaida on one side attempted to de-escalate tensions, the emerging Islamic State showed no interest in reconciliation and the group's leadership actively sought to provoke conflict as a necessary means to split the Jihadi movement into clearly distinguishable camps. The al-Qaida leadership appeared incapable of reacting to the provocations, instead leaving the responsibility to respond to the Islamic State's accusations to a number of senior, yet independent, Jihadi ideologues.
Outside the Levant
Authors: Hamming Tore 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Whereas the previous chapters primarily describe events playing out in Syria, this chapter broadens the geographical focus explaining how intra-Jihadi conflict dynamics migrated to a number of other countries including Yemen, the Khorasan region, Sahel, West Africa, and Somalia. In the end, no country with both an al-Qaida and Islamic State presence evaded violent conflict. In describing events in these localities, the chapter not only shows how intra-Jihadi dynamics around the world were deeply affected by events in Syria but also that the conflict cycle in these placed followed a similar pattern known from the Levant.