Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah

Seawater has occupied an ambiguous place in anthropological categories of "nature" and "culture." Seawater as nature appears as potentiality of form and uncontainable flux; it moves faster than culture - with culture frequently figured through land-based metaphors - even as culture seeks to channel water's (nature's) flow. Seawater as culture manifests as a medium of pleasure, sustenance, travel, disaster. I argue that, although seawater's qualities in early anthropology were portrayed impressionistically, today technical, scientific descriptions of water's form prevail. For example, processes of globalization - which may also be called "oceanization" - are often described as "currents," "flows," and "circulations." Examining sea-set ethnography, maritime anthropologies, and contemporary social theory, I propose that seawater has operated as a “theory machine” for generating insights about human cultural organization. I develop this argument with ethnography from the Sargasso Sea and in the Sea Islands. I conclude with a critique of appeals to water's form in social theory.

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Nature/Culture/Seawater

Creative Geographies, methods of experimental ‘art-full’ research that have creative practices at their heart, have become increasingly vibrant of late. These research strategies, which see geograp...

Creative geographic methods: knowing, representing, intervening. On composing place and page:

Paul Feyerabend Farewell to Reason. London: Verso1987. Pp. 327.

Making: anthropology, archeology, art and architecture by Ingold, Tim

‘The Balkans’ acquired a particular allure for anthropologists and social scientists as the wars and destruction raged in Yugoslavia during the 1990s. The question of location is central here: what and where is ‘the Balkans’, who decides, and on what basis? Just as with other cases of geographic and social constructions, the answers to these questions are far from clear. For example, maps issued in different countries vary in whether they include the Republic of Slovenia as part of ‘the Balkans’. In the US or France, for example, Slovenia is shown as part of the Balkans, but not in the UK or Germany. The Croatians’ view on this issue is also ambivalent (Rihtman-Auguštin 1998b, 1999). For the purpose of this discussion, all the countries that came into existence after the dissolution of Yugoslavia are considered part of ‘the Balkans’. As ethnologists/anthropologists have positioned themselves at the forefront of the ‘nation-building’ project in recent years, something needs to be said about the relationship of the Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian ethnological traditions to former Yugoslavia. In the early 20th century both the Slovenian and the Croatian elites opted to join the Serbs in what was to become Yugoslavia after 1918 – a move which enjoyed much popular support. Many Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian scholars take the view that ‘their nation’ has been unjustifiably victimized in recent years, and have taken it upon themselves, as the chosen interpreters of the ‘national culture’, to set the record straight. This paper examines evaluations of events between 1991 and 1999, highlighting the role of anthropologists (as well as social scientists in general) in the construction and consumption of such analyses. My choice of these three former Yugoslav republics is primarily based on the fact that they either had established ethnological traditions before the Second World War (Serbia, Croatia), or had seen intensive development of ethnology and ‘would-be anthropology’ in recent decades (Slovenia – cf. Godina 2002). Therefore, although excellent research has been, and continues to be conducted in other former regions of

Distinguishing ‘self’ and ‘other’: Anthropology and national identity in former Yugoslavia

"A valuable resource for teaching and research alike, Other People's Anthropologies rethinks canonical accounts of the discipline's history." . Anthropos "The collection is a very welcome addition to the growing but still inadequate number of books and articles on world anthropologies. It is clearly written with concise chapters that give the reader a sense of the richness, diversity, commonalities and potentials of anthropology in the world today. Although the value goes beyond the classroom, this volume should be of interest particularly to those teaching anthropological theory who want to increase students' awareness of the significant anthropological scholarship beyond the so-called 'center'." . Anthropology News "At last! A volume that exposes the ethnocentric underbelly of Anglo-American anthropology. The practice and history of anthropology is far more interesting and engaging than most English-speakers know. This volume, combining reflective essays from prominent scholars and cutting-edge work by younger anthropologists will change the way many think of anthropology." . Robert Gordon Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voice to scholars outside these "great" traditions. It shows the immense variety of methodologies, training, and approaches that scholars from these regions bring to anthropology and the social sciences in general, thus enriching the disciplines in important ways at an age marked by multiculturalism, globalization, and transnationalism. Aleksandar Bo kovi is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade (Serbia) and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). His research areas include ethnicity and nationalism, popular culture, and he has also published widely on the history and theory of anthropology. In recent years, he published on anthropology in former Yugoslavia (Anthropology Today, 2005), Brazil (Dialectical Anthropology, 2005), South Africa (with Ilana van Wyk, Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2005), and "world anthropologies" (Anthropos, 2007). Bo kovi? is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, Myth, Politics, Ideology (Belgrade, 2006)."

Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Unbiased entropy estimates in stress: A parameter study

This article explores three dimensions of the current state of gender equality in Serbia: public policy on gender equality, public opinion on gender equality and the context of Serbia’s accession t...

Aleksandar Boskovic

Papers

Making: anthropology, archeology, art and architecture by Ingold, Tim

Distinguishing ‘self’ and ‘other’: Anthropology and national identity in former Yugoslavia

Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Unbiased entropy estimates in stress: A parameter study

‘Are we there yet?’ Citizens of Serbia and public policy on gender equality within the EU accession context