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Few sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the international airport. Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies—from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to “no-fly lists” and the privatization of border control—now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers. This provocative volume broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, bureaucracy, and migration while establishing the airport as critical to the study of politics and global life.Contributors: Peter Adey, Colin J. Bennett, Gillian Fuller, Francisco R. Klauser, Gallya Lahav, David Lyon, Benjamin J. Muller, Valérie November, Jean Ruegg.

"Is there any such thing as political philosophy?" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranci re brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and "the end of politics." What precisely is at stake in the relationship between "philosophy" and the adjective "political"? In Disagreement, Ranci re explores the apparent contradiction between these terms and reveals the uneasy meaning of their union in the phrase "political philosophy"--a juncture related to age-old attempts in philosophy to answer Plato''s devaluing of politics as a "democratic egalitarian" process. According to Ranci re, the phrase also expresses the paradox of politics itself: the absence of a proper foundation. Politics, he argues, begins when the "demos" (the "excessive" or unrepresented part of society) seeks to disrupt the order of domination and distribution of goods "naturalized" by police and legal institutions. In addition, the notion of "equality" operates as a game of contestation that constantly substitutes litigation for political action and community. This game, Ranci re maintains, operates by a primary logic of "misunderstanding." In turn, political philosophy has always tried to substitute the "politics of truth" for the politics of appearances. Disagreement investigates the various transformations of this regime of "truth" and their effects on practical politics. Ranci re then distinguishes what we mean by "democracy" from the practices of a consensual system in order to unravel the ramifications of the fashionable phrase "the end of politics." His conclusions will be of interest to readers concerned with political questions from the broadest to the most specific and local.

Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with time-cinema with timein passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.

A guide to Italian political and social theory.

In this book, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Kurosawa's Rashomon which won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.

Demonstrates how national identity affects the dynamics of immigration. Revealing cross-national differences in how immigration and diversity are contended by different national governments, this book finds that how citizenship is constructed is the key variable defining the experience of Europe's immigrant populations.

An account of Sri Lankan politics and representative democracies. The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. This book examines how the disciplines of anthropology, history, and literature treat the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict.

Investigates the relationship between globalization and Danish cinema. This book offers two key strategies underwriting the transformation and globalization of contemporary Danish cinema - the processes of cultural circulation and the psychological efficacy of heritage.

A sustained theoretical reevaluation of "film languages," both visual and verbal.

Explores Kaufman's career within a broader discussion of the ideology of the American dream. Taking as it's starting point the 1999 biopic "Man on the Moon", this book seeks to decode Kaufman in a way that makes it possible to grasp his radical agenda beyond avant-garde theories of transgression.

A fascinating look at the relation between Islam and modernity.

Engaged with theory and grounded in study of cultural, political, and economic change, this book considers the contemporary crisis of the nation-state in North America. It details the territorial implications of the Iraq war, NAFTA, welfare reform, constitutional reform, cross-border regional development, and the legal battles of First Nations.

Provides a reexamination of early modern sexuality. The author examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality, and shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts, and thereby question key assumptions of modernity.

A groundbreaking exploration of German expressionist cinema and technology.

Offering an interpretation of eighteenth-century America, this book focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the elite urban minority. It explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together two distinct bodies of scholarship.

Reveals the dependence of American ethnic identity on Spain and Spanish imperialism.