B.A. Political Transformations (Professor Kaufmann's half of the module)
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Lectures
Liberalisation and Cosmopolitanism in the West, 1750-1945 [AUDIO]
Culture Shift: Liberal Attitude Change in the Post-Industrial West [AUDIO]
Individualism, Modernism and Lifestyle Differentiation [AUDIO]
Secularisation and Religious Revival: Islam, Europe and the USA [AUDIO]
Revision AUDIO 1 (general revision, but note 2 questions not 3) [AUDIO 2 ( Q & A for undergraduate revision)]
Weekly Readings
Required:
Marshall, T.H. [1950] 1992. Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays (Cambridge: CUP)
– 305.5094 MAR [PC]
Recommended:
*Zubaida, Sami. 2003. Law and Power in the Islamic World (London: I.B. Tauris), ch. 4 - 340.59 ZUB
*Kaplan, Lawrence. 2004. 'China
and Freedom,' Prospect, Issue 99.
– [JNIS]
Brynen, R. et al (eds). 1995. Political Liberalisation in the Arab World: Theoretical Perspectives, volume 1 (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner); – [NIS]
*Kaufmann,
Eric. 2004. The Rise and Fall of
Anglo-America: The Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), chs. 5-7- [PC]
*Newman, Gerald. 1996. The Rise of English Nationalism, (Basingstoke: Macmillan) chs 1-2. - 942.07 NEW
Doyle,
William. 1989. ‘The Revolution in Perspective’ in W. Doyle, The
Oxford History of the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press),
pp.391-425 - 944.04
DOY
Ball,
T., J. Farr & R. Hanson (eds.), Political
Innovation and Conceptual Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press),
esp. pp.333-356 (French Revolution) - R13
[Bal]
Palmer, R. R. [1959] 1964. The Age of the Democratic Revolutions: A Political History of Europe and America 1760-1800, 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) - MCQ [Pal]
Required:
Recommended:
*Mayer, William G. 1992. The Changing American Mind: How and Why American Public Opinion Changed between 1960 and 1988 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) – [NIS]
*Inglehart, Ronald (ed.) 2003. Human Values and Social Change: Findings from the Values Surveys (Leiden: Brill) – [NIS]
*Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press) – [NIS]
Davis, DW, K.M. Dowley and B. Silver. 1999. 'Postmaterialism in World Societies: Is it Really a Value Dimension?, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 935-62 – [JNIS]
Inglehart, Ronald and P. Abramson. 1999. ' Measuring postmaterialism,' American Political Science Review, vol. 93, no. 3., pp. 665-77 – [JNIS]
Caplow, Theodore, Howard M. Bahr, John Modell and Bruce A. Chadwick. 1994. Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens Press) – [NIS]
Jennings, M. Kent and Richard G. Niemi. 1981. Generations and Politics: A Panel Study of Young Adults and Their Parents (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press) – [NIS]
Shafer, Byron E. and William J.M. Claggett. 1995. The Two Majorities: the Issue Context of Modern American Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) – [NIS]
Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press), pp. 80-87 ('Lifestyles and Life Plans') - KCB [Gi] - [PC]
Recommended:
*Bell, Daniel 1980. The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980 (Cambridge, MA: ABT Books), part III – [NIS]
*Martin, Bernice. 1981. A Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) - 941.085 MAR
*Taylor, Charles. 1989. Sources of the Self: the Making of the Modern Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), esp. ch. 24 – 126 TAY
Chaney, David. 1996. Lifestyles (London & New York, N.Y.: Routledge) – [NIS]
Brooks, D. 2001. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (New York: Simon & Schuster) – [NIS]
Vidich, Arthur J. and Joseph Bensman. 1995. "Changes in the Life-Styles of American Classes," in Arthur J. Vidich (ed), The New Middle Classes: Life-Styles, Status Claims and Political Orientations (New York: New York University Press), pp. 238-58 – [NIS]
Gans, Herbert J. 1994. 'Symbolic Ethnicity and Symbolic Religiosity: Towards a Comparison of Ethnic and Religious Acculturation,' Ethnic & Racial Studies, Vol.17, no. 4, pp. 577-92- CE Library - I33 & Reference
Gottdiener,
Mark. 1997. The Theming of America:
dreams, visions, and commercial spaces (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press) –
[NIS]
McCracken, Grant. 1988. Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (Indiana University Press, Bloomington) – [NIS]
Required:
Pinker, S. (2011). The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined. New York, Viking., chs. 1- 2
Gray, John. 2011. 'Delusions of Peace' - review of Pinker book in Prospect magazine, 21 September
Pinker, S. (2011). The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined. New York, Viking
Elias, N. (1994). The Civilizing Process. Oxford, Blackwell.
Gray, John. 2014. 'Destination Denmark', review of Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, Literary Review, September
Fukuyama, F. (1992). The End of History and the Last Man. Hamish Hamilton, London.
Ridley, M. (2010). The rational optimist : how prosperity evolves. London, Fourth Estate.
Required:
Recommended:
*Kaufmann, E. 2003. 'The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in the
Twentieth Century West: A Comparative and Historical Perspective on the United
States and European Union,' Global Society,
Vol. 17, no. 4 (2003), pp.359-83 – Available electronically: (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/download/eric_kaufmann/RiseCosmoTwenCent_HPUSEU.pdf)
*Gans, Herbert. 1979 "Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America," Ethnic and Racial Studies 2: 1-20 - CE Library - I33 & Reference
*Alba, Richard D. 1990. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America (New Haven & London: Yale University Press). - final chapter & conclusion – [NIS]
Plumb, J.H. 1969. The Death of the Past (London: Macmillan), intro + later chapters- L4C [Plu]
Kotkin,
J. 1992. Tribes: How Race, Religion and
Identity Structure Success in the New Global Economy (New York: Random
House) – [NIS]
Cohen,
Robin. 1997. Global Diasporas: An
Introduction (London: UCL Press), chs 7 & 8 - 325.2 COH
Bell, Daniel. 1980. The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980 (Cambridge, MA: ABT Books), ch. 10, esp. pp. 199-209 – [NIS]
Mukta, P. & Bhatt, C. 2000. (eds) ‘Hindutva movements in the West’, Ethnic & Racial Studies Special Issue, 23 (3). - CE Library - I33 & Reference
Spencer, P. and H. Wollmann. 2002. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (London: Sage), ch. 6 - 320.54 SPE[PC]
Required:
*Bruce, Steve (ed.).
2002. God is Dead (Oxford: Blackwell),
ch. 1 -
200.91821
BRU (1 week)
Recommended:
*Greeley,
A. 2001. 'The Future of Religion in America,' Society,
vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 32-37 – [JNIS]
*Bruce,
Steve (ed.). 2002. God is Dead (Oxford: Blackwell), chs. 1 (secularisation), 3
(Britain), 11 (US) and 12 (conclusion) –
[NIS]
*Bruce,
Steve (ed.) 1992. Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the
Secularization Thesis (Oxford: OUP) -
306.609034 REL [PC]
Wallis, Roy and Steve Bruce. 1991 'Secularization: Trends, Data and Theory,' Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 3, pp. 1-31. – [JNIS]
Martin,
David. [1978] 1993. A General Theory of Secularization (Aldershot: Gregg Revivals), ch.
2 – [NIS]
Barker,
E., J.Beckford and K.Dobbelaere, (eds.) 1993. Secularization,
Rationalism and Sectarianism: Essays in Honour of Bryan Wilson (Oxford: OUP)
- 306.6 SEC
Roof, Wade Clark and William McKinney. 1987. American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press) – [NIS]
Cole,
Juan. 1993. Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East (Princeton: Princeton
University Press), Chapter 4. -
962.04 COL - [PC]
Zubaida, S. 2003. Law and Power in the Islamic World (London & new York: I. B. Tauris), ch. 5 - 340.59 ZUB (see also review by Eric Kaufmann in Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 1., (2004) - available electronically on SwetsWise)
Session 17 - The World Population Revolution
Required:
Goldstone, J. (2010). "'The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World'." Foreign Affairs 1(89): 31-43.
Kaufmann, E. and M. D. Toft (2012). 'Introduction'. Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping National Politics and International Security J. A. Goldstone, E. Kaufmann and M. Toft. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 3-9.
Recommended:
*Haas, M. L. (2007). "A geriatric peace? The future of US power in a world of aging populations." International Security 32(1): 112-+.
*Jackson, R., N. Howe, et al. (2008). The graying of the great powers : demography and geopolitics in the 21st century. Washington, D.C., Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sciubba, J. D. (2011). The future faces of war : population and national security. Santa Barbara, Calif., Praeger.
*Demeny, P. and G. McNicholl. 2006. (eds.) The Political Economy of Global Population Change, special supplement to vol. 32, Population and Development Review, esp. ch. 1
*Kaufmann, Eric. 2010. Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (London: Profile)
Bashford, Alison. 2014. Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (Cambridge: CUP)
McNeill, W. H. (1989). Plagues and peoples. New York, Anchor Books.
Diamond, J. (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. New York; London, W.W. Norton & Co.
Goldstone, J. (2012). "Politics and Demography: A Summary of Critical Relationships". Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions. J. A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 268-275.
Session 18 - Immigration and the Rise of the Far Right in Europe
Required:
*Hainsworth, P. (ed). 2000. The Politics of the Extreme Right (London and New York: Pinter)
*Norris, Pippa. 2005. Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market (New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), esp. ch 8:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Books/Radical%20Right.htm
*Ignazi, P. 2003. Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press) –
Goodwin, M. (2011). New British fascism : rise of the British National Party. Abingdon ; New York, Routledge.
Harris G, ‘The rise and fall of the British National Party: the demand for extreme right politics in the UK’, unpublished PhD dissertation, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2012.
Goodhart D, ‘Blue Labour’, Analysis, 27 Mar 2011, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zlgdl (accessed 22 Jun 2014).
Required:
Fukuyama,
Francis. 2002. Our Posthuman Future:
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (New York: Farrar Straus &
Giroux), chs. 1, 5-6 - 660.6 FUK
Recommended:
*Habermas,
Jürgen. 2003. The Future of Human Nature,
translated by Hella Beister and William Rehg (Cambridge: Polity Press) –
[NIS]
*Ball,
Philip. 2004. 'What is life? Can we make it?,' Prospect (August) – [JNIS]
Burleigh,
M. 2000. 'Eugenic Utopias and the genetic present,' Totalitarian movements and political religions, Vol.1, No.1,
pp.56-77 – [JNIS]
Black,
Edwin. 2004. War Against the Weak:
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. (New York:
Turnaround) – [NIS]