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1. Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

   After the Aesthetic Turn

   By Michael Shapiro

   Series: Interventions

   This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. The New Violent Cartography

   Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn

   Edited by Samson Opondo, Michael Shapiro

   Series: Interventions

   This edited volume seeks to propose and examine different, though related, critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the political and draw on a broad range of cultural contexts...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Genre and the City

   Edited by Michael Shapiro

   This book’s chapters analyze aspects of urban politics with a combination of critical thinking (influenced by Walter Benjamin, Jacques Ranciere, Henri Lefebvre, and Achille Mbembe, among others) and readings of artistic genres (film, literature, and architecture). The coverage of cities includes,...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Time of the City

   Politics, philosophy and genre

   By Michael Shapiro

   Series: Interventions

   The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban...

   Published June 8th 2010 by Routledge
5. Cinematic Geopolitics

   By Michael J. Shapiro

   Series: Global Horizons

   In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic"...

   Published October 7th 2008 by Routledge
6. Sovereign Lives

   Power in Global Politics

   Edited by Jenny Edkins, Michael J. Shapiro, Veronique Pin-Fat

   For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through reading of humanitarian...

   Published September 14th 2004 by Routledge
7. Methods and Nations

   Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

   By Michael J. Shapiro

   Series: Global Horizons

   Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists,...

   Published January 1st 2004 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Moralizing

   Edited by Jane Bennett, Michael J. Shapiro

   The Politics of Moralizing issues a stern warning about the risks of speaking, writing, and thinking in a manner too confident about one's own judgments and asks, "Can a clear line be drawn between dogmatism and simple certainty and indignation?" Bennett and Shapiro enter the debate by questioning...

   Published October 17th 2002 by Routledge
9. Integral Theorems for Functions and Differential Forms in C(m)

   By Reynaldo Rocha-Chavez, Michael Shapiro, Frank Sommen

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series

   The theory of holomorphic functions of several complex variables emerged from the attempt to generalize the theory in one variable to the multidimensional situation. Research in this area has led to the discovery of many sophisticated facts, structures, ideas, relations, and applications. This...

   Published August 2nd 2001 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
10. Integral Representations For Spatial Models of Mathematical Physics

    By Vladislav V Kravchenko, Michael Shapiro

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series

    This book provides a new mathematical theory for the treatment of an ample series of spatial problems of electrodynamics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and elasticity theory. This technique proves to be as powerful for solving the spatial problems of mathematical physics as complex analysis...

    Published June 26th 1996 by Chapman and Hall/CRC