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BOURDIEU'S SECRET ADMIRER IN THE CAUCASUS
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| By: |
Georgi Derluguian |
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Hardback |
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£14.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859845673 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859845677 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2004 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
A look at the rise of a nationalist warlord, Musa Shanib in war-torn Chechnya - what made a dissident intellectual with a penchant for the sociology of Bordieu reject the pen for the sword? |
| Synopsis: |
Musa Shanib is a prominent figure in Chechnya's revolution and commander of volunteer brigades in Abkhazia's war of independence from Georgia. In a chance encounter with the author Musa Shanib confided that Bordieu's sociology was the second major influence in his life, after the Qur'an. The question is how did a dissident intellectual become a nationalist warlord, rather than a liberal reformer like Vaclav Havel? To answer this question Georgi Derluguian both contextualizes and interprets Shanib's personal trajectory from de-Stalinization after 1956, through the nationalist rebellions of the 1990s to the most recent rise in Islamic militancy. The author offers an inventive combination of Wallerstein's world-systems theory and Bordieu's approach to class and culture, and successfully challenges the prevalent picture of globalization and terrorist reaction by analysing - in substantive empirical detail - the actual patterns of neo-partimonial capitalism and ethnic networks that have emerged in the ruins of the Soviet state. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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