Mikkel Thorup

om penge, frie borgere, gensidig afhængighed og lige relationer

Fællesøkonomi

Bjarke Skærlund Risager

Maja Hojer Bruun

Patrick Joseph Cockburn

Property relations are such a common feature of social life that the complexity of the web of laws, practices, and ideas that allow a property regime to function smoothly are often forgotten. But we are quickly reminded of this complexity when conflict over property erupts. When social actors confront a property regime – for example by squatting – they enact what can be called ‘contested property claims’. As this book demonstrates, these confrontations raise crucial issues of social justice and show the ways in which property conflicts often reflect wider social conflicts. Through a series of case studies from across the globe, this multidisciplinary anthology brings together works from anthropologists, legal scholars, and geographers, who show how exploring contested property claims offers a privileged window onto how property regimes function, as well as an illustration of the many ways that the institution of property shapes power relationships today.

What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership

Contested Property Claims

This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the 'deadly dialogue' between them. This work investigates an extensive array of violent phenomena and actors, trying to broaden the scope and ambition of the history of terrorism studies. It combines an extensive reading of state and terrorist discourse from various sources with theorizing of modernity's political, institutional and ideological development, forms of violence, and its guiding images of self and other, order and disorder. Chapters explore groups of actors (terrorists, pirates, partisans, anarchists, Islamists, neo-Nazis, revolutionaries, soldiers, politicians, scholars) as well as a broad empirical source material, and combine them into a narrative of how our ideas and concepts of state, terrorism, order, disorder, territory, violence and others came about and influence the struggle between the modern state and its challengers. The main focus is on how the state and its challengers have conceptualized and legitimated themselves, defended their existence and, most importantly, their violence. In doing so, the book situates terrorism and anti-terrorism within modernity's grander history of state, war, ideology and violence. This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political violence, sociology, philosophy, and Security Studies/IR in genera Mikkel Thorup is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

War, Violence and the State

An Intellectual History of Terror

Peter Seeberg

Det moderne demokrati befinder sig i en krise. Nye tendenser truer fundamentet for det liberale, repræsentative demokrati. De klassiske trusler imod demokratiet – statskup fra oven, revolution fra neden – er blevet sjældenheder. I dag er det ikke generaler i uniform, der proklamerer demokratiets afslutning, men politikere og andre i jakkesæt, der underminerer demokratiet i demokratiets navn. Krisen manifesterer sig som regel ikke i dramatiske øjeblikke, men snarere i længerevarende udviklinger, hvor balancen mellem det demokratiske og det ikke-demokratiske langsomt og skridtvis skubbes i retning af det ikke-demokratiske. I dag snydes der mindre på valgdagen, men snarere alle de andre dage, hvor pressefrihed indskrænkes, oppositionspolitikere chikaneres, embedsværket politiseres, korruption sikrer loyalitet, og domstolenes uafhængighed krænkes. Alt sammen i et sprog, der ligner demokratiets. Demokratier dør i dag ikke med et skrig, men med en stille hvisken. I denne bog tager danske forskere pulsen på det globale demokrati. De viser, at den demokratiske virkelighed af i dag er en mangfoldighed og undertiden en sammenblanding af demokratier og såkaldte autokratier, hvor magten er placeret hos én gruppe, der bruger og udhuler de demokratiske spilleregler til at sikre sig fortsat magt. Bogen sætter ord på de udviklinger, der truer med at kvæle det levedygtige demokrati.

Demokratiets krise og de nye autokratier

Holger Ross Lauritsen

The political philosophy of the 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau has long been associated with the dramatic events of the French Revolution. In this book, an international team of scholars has been brought together to examine the connection between Rousseau's thought and the revolutionary traditions of modern Europe. The book explores Rousseau's own conceptions of violence and revolution in contrast to those of other thinkers such as Hegel and Fanon and in connection with his ideas on democracy. Historical analyses also consider Rousseau's thinking in light of the French Revolution in particular and the European revolutions that have followed it. Across the eleven chapters the book also touches on such issues as citizenship, activism, terrorism and the State. In doing so, the book reveals Rousseau to be an important source of insight into contemporary political problems. The political philosophy of the 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau has long been associated with the dramatic events of the French Revolution. In this book, an international team of scholars has been brought together to examine the connection between Rousseau's thought and the revolutionary traditions of modern Europe. The book explores Rousseau's own conceptions of violence and revolution in contrast to those of other thinkers such as Hegel and Fanon and in connection with his ideas on democracy. Historical analyses also consider Rousseau's thinking in light of the French Revolution in particular and the European revolutions that have followed it. Across the eleven chapters the book also touches on such issues as citizenship, activism, terrorism and the State. In doing so, the book reveals Rousseau to be an important source of insight into contemporary political problems.

Rousseau and Revolution

Morten BrAender

Flyene mod New Yorks tvillingetarne, bomben pa Bali, bomber og giftgas mod busser, tog og undergrundstog i London, Madrid og Tokyo - terrorismen er over os, ogsa i Danishmark. Konsekvenserne har vAeret enorme bade i det store og det sma: Love er blevet skAerpet, og vi er nu underlagt skarp kontrol ned i mindste detalje i fx lufthavne. Men kan vi som stat ruste os pa andre mader? Ja, denne bog giver det svar, at en grundig idehistorisk orientering i bade terrorismen og bekAempelsen af den kan nuancere vores forstaelse af problemet - og dermed gode grunden for en oplyst debat om, hvilke indgreb, vi som samfund finder nodvendige i kampen mod terrorismen.

Stater og vold i 500 ar

Antiterrorismens idehistorie

Er det sandt, at oplysning forer lige fra den franske revolution til nutidens demokrati? Ikke, hvis man sporger modoplysningen, som denne bog beskriver: Oplysningsfilosofien perverterer det, der gor livet stabilt og sandt, den forvandler mennesket til noget monstrost, friheden til trAeldom og terror - og fornuften til ufornuft.Modoplysningen er bade en radikal form for oplysningskritik og navnet pa en historisk periode, der strAekker sig over artierne for, under og efter den franske revolution. Denne bog giver for forste gang pa dansk et prAecist billede af modoplysningen - og rummer nyoversatte primAertekster af de tre centrale modoplysningstAenkere Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre og Juan Donoso Cortes.Oplysningsprojektet er i dag under angreb fra mange sider - lige fra radikal islamisme, konservativ nationalisme og new age-bevAegelser til filosofiske modestromninger. Men oplysningen er altid blevet sagt imod, og skal vi forsta modoplysningen ogsa i dens nutidige former, ma vi kende dens idehistorie. Det er den, der fortAelles i Fornuftens perversion.

modoplysning og 200 ars krig mod fornuftens herredomme

Fornuftens perversion

Nicolai von Eggers

Mathias Hein Jessen

En antologi med uddrag af tekster skrevet før, under og efter den amerikanske revolution udgivet i perioden 1750-1793 heriblandt "Uafhængighedserklæringen", "Bill of rights" m.fl. samt den oprindelige version af "Forfatningen" i sin fulde længde. Med en indføring i den idéhistoriske baggrund for revolutionen

Den amerikanske revolution

NAesten 200. Sa mange stater er der i verden. Der er mange slags - lige fra velfAerdsstater til fejlslagne stater og diktaturer. Men fAelles for alle stater er, at deres historie, tilblivelse og udvikling kan opsummeres af tre sma ord: magt, vold og politik.De tre ord udgor kernen i enhver stat. For staten vil bestemme, hvordan vi skal opfore os. Den straffer os, hvis vi bryder dens love, og den pastar endda, at dens beslutninger er i fAellesskabets interesse. Staten strAekker sin tilstedevAerelse lige til grAensen og ud i enhver pore af vort sociale liv, samtidig med at den kun kan eksistere, hvis vi tror pa den. Pa den made er staten blevet vor tids Gud. AllestedsnAervAerende, men alligevel fjern og fiktiv.Statens idehistorie. Magt, vold og politik viser tankerne om staten og dens tre uundvAerlige grundstoffer. Og den trAekker en rod trad gennem en rAekke afgorende fokuspunkter i dens lange og komplekse idehistorie. For bag borgerkrige og koncentrationslejre, hackere og pirater, liberalisme og konservatisme gemmer der sig altid en kamp for eller imod statens totalitAere herredomme.

Magt, vold og politik

Statens idehistorie

In this #1 Best Selling book Mikkel Thorup draws on his 20+ years of overseas experience to bring you a complete guide to living overseas, saving money on taxes, obtaining a second passport and traveling the world as an Expat. This book will save you years of trial and error and will give you a comprehensive blueprint to planting flags around the globe as a PT (Previous Taxpayer, Permanent Tourist, Perpetual Traveler). Expat Secrets is filled with timeless knowledge stemming from Mikkel Thorup's travels to more than 100 countries to bring you a No-BS approach to the offshore markets. So if Secret Vaults in Asia, Offshore Bank Accounts in Belize, Hardwood Plantations in Central America, Real Estate in China and Business Class Travel around the world excite you then this is the book for you.

How to Pay Zero Taxes, Live Overseas & Make Giant Piles of Money

Expat Secrets

Pro Bono? discusses philanthropy not as a social or humanitarian practice but as an integrated part of present-day creative capitalism, having a direct relation to its growing inequality. The book investigates four expressions of philanthropy as ideology: consumer philanthropy, where we are asked to consume with good conscience; corporate philanthropy where businesses engage in social work and where philanthropic associations reengineer themselves to mimic corporations; billionaire philanthropy where conspicuous consumption is now being supplemented with conspicuous philanthropy; and finally celebrity philanthropy where now one of the hallmarks of a celebrity is the commitment to use that fame to do good.

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