By Pierre Bourdieu (London: Routledge, 2010), xxx + 607 pp. £15.99 paper. A combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg...

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Attali subtitles his book “The Political Economy of Music,” which, combined with the author's background as a professor of economic theory and an advisor to former French President Mitterrand, may warn the reader that this is a dry piece of Marxist analysis. Though Attali's historical analysis of music is thoroughly economic, his honest critiques of Marxism and his downright libertarian, Utopian and anti-economistic conclusions are surprising and welcome. His points of reference are always wholly human and his vision is painted with imagination and colors that flow straight from the struggles of May 1968. In describing an evolution and anatomy of power through its tools in everyday life.

Noise: The Political Economy of Music

are formulating in response to shifting repressive governments, declining local support, and steady international support. During Kang’s study and through to the present, established unions in the industrialized countries have invested in the development of labor organizing in those newly developing economies and are continuing to seek new legal options in their own countries. In addition, they are using international institutions in an attempt to bring a boomerang effect back on their own governments. Is there a potential for greater alliance between human rights nongovernmental organsizations (NGOs) and labor unions? Finally, Kang concludes by noting that governments took advantage of past global and local financial crises to curtail labor rights. What will be the impact of protracted global recession on trade union rights? In sum, Kang’sHuman Rights and Labor Solidarity provides a rich contemporary history. By covering many aspects of the contextual history and many details of government decisions, the book provides a valuable resource for scholars developing future study of the ways in which trade union rights are, and are not, protected and enjoyed human rights. This finding alone is important as it invites those of us who look at the recent history of the human rights struggle as an institutional success story to do so through a more pessimistic lens. In the area of labor rights, as in all human rights, the means to exercise rights are essential to their enjoyment. Collective action is an essential means of securing rights.

Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity

The overarching question of this article is how can we develop a critical understanding of the social place of highways and automobility in the case of a non-capitalist European context such as socialist Albania? Socialism was a period of modernisation for Albania. Part of this modernisation project was the production of a modern built environment, especially infrastructures and urban spaces. Within this context during socialism thousands of miles of new roads were constructed in the country. The remarkably limited use of roads, combined with their systematic building and maintenance, kept this infrastructure's materiality in a relatively good condition for many decades. Since the early 1990s, though, the end of the regime has signified a period of booming mobility and automobility. Postsocialism and the wider context of neoliberalism have been marked by state withdrawal from many of its previous roles, and the maintenance of basic infrastructures has become increasingly dependent on international aid. Nevertheless, the roads are currently being socially reappropriated and reconfigured, as people embrace automobility, which was a very limited practice during socialism. This article explores the kind of socio-material relationships that road construction and the roads themselves generated in socialist Albania and how these are linked to postsocialist spatial practices.

The road from capitalism to capitalism : Infrastructures of (Post)Socialism in Albania

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Maternity Leaves, Maternal Becomings: The Cultural Construction of Mothering in Present-Day Budapest and Sofia

The Armenia Fund Telethon is an annual media event broadcast from Los Angeles that calls on all Armenians to give donations for humanitarian aid and infrastructure projects in Armenia and the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork during the 2013 and 2014 editions dedicated to the new Vardenis–Martakert highway connecting the two territories, this article examines the transnational ritual sphere through which de facto state formation in Nagorno-Karabakh is transformed from a political issue into a humanitarian question for diaspora households worldwide. While the new road facilitates mobility, its participatory materialisation appeals to distant addressees with the promise of helping Karabakh Armenians stay put and strengthening Armenian claims on de jure Azerbaijani territories. Challenging scholarly accounts of the Armenian diaspora as past-centred, subjective and symbolic, the Telethon’s humanitarian governance constructs Nagorno-Karabakh as materially diaspor...

The humanitarian road to Nagorno-Karabakh: media, morality and infrastructural promise in the Armenian diaspora

Among the cultured classes of Armenia, the country’s system of governance through oligarchic patron–client networks is widely believed to reflect negatively on cultural fields such as architecture, music and folklore. In particular, the concept of rabiz, in earlier times referring primarily to a genre of “oriental” music, has emerged as a ubiquitous term signifying moral corruption, backwardness and passive complacency. This paper examines this perceived decay through an ethnographic study of the transformation of Yerevan’s monumental Covered Market into a shopping mall after it was acquired by an enterprising member of parliament. Bringing together militant intelligentsia and young activists, a civic initiative emerged that framed the events as a conquest of the city centre by its semi-rural margins and propagated a boycott of the oligarch’s businesses with a repertoire of protest marches, folk dances and choir performances. The initiative was soon countered by spectacular mobilizations in favour...

Dances with oligarchs: performing the nation in Armenian civic activism

This paper examines the controversial music genre rabiz in relation to political and socio-economic developments in post-Soviet Armenia. Rabiz, an urban folk-pop genre characterized by melismatic s...

Of oligarchs, orientalists, and cosmopolitans: how “Armenian” is rabiz music?

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The humanitarian road to Nagorno-Karabakh: media, morality and infrastructural promise in the Armenian diaspora

Dances with oligarchs: performing the nation in Armenian civic activism

Of oligarchs, orientalists, and cosmopolitans: how “Armenian” is rabiz music?