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University of California Press Dawn Rose on a Dead Body Armed Violence and
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University of California Press Local Color
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University of California Press Moorings Voyages of Capital across the Indian
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University of California Press Delta Futures Time Territory and Capture on a
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University of California Press Circulations Modernist Imaginaries of
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University of California Press Sonic Socialism
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University of California Press Atmospheric Knowledge Environmentality Latency and Sonic Multimodality
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University of California Press Exit Wounds How Americas Guns Fuel Violence
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University of California Press No Place Like Home in a New City
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University of California Press Atmospheric Knowledge Environmentality Latency and Sonic Multimodality
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University of California Press No Place Like Home in a New City AntiUrbanism and Life in Nairobi
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science and the UFOs
Book SynopsisThe debate about UFO''s has raged for as long as people have stared into the heavens. Yet to this day the scientific establishment has steadfastly refused to engage in systematic study of what they are. This book examines why. Randles and Warrington establish by detailed case histories of many UFO sightings that unexplained phenomena certainly exist. Picking their way expertly through the maze of misinformation and fantasy, they examine the possible explanations, rejecting the ''standard'' view- that UFO''s are alien spaceships- in favour of more scientifically based and testable ideas. They suggest ways in which scientific standard should be applied and consider the fruits that such enquiries might yield- and the potential consequences for mankind of explaining the hitherto inexplicable.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Family Life
Book SynopsisWho does what in the family, and how far do the divisions and inequalities which occur in a family context reflect those in society as a whole? This introductory text to the sociology of the family combines recent feminist interpretations of domestic life with the traditional concerns of family sociology to offer a fre4ash treatment of a topic of importance not only for students of sociology but also for those engaged in professional training for such careers as social work or health visiting. Particularly concerned with the impact that domestic roles have both inside and outside the home, Family Life examines how their organization is structured by the broader social and economic contexts within which families operate. A major part of this involves uncovering the way in which the division of tasks and responsibilities between the genders within the home is both shaped by and shapes the divisions and inequalities that occur outside it. How far do the routine domestic demands upon wTrade Review"Useful for its coverage of the crucial social and demographic trends which have transformed family patterns for a substantial proportion of the population in the United Kingdom... A wide-ranging discussion of marriage, housework, child care, leisure and home centredness..." British Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. The Family in Society. 3. Women, Marriage and Housework. 4. Home and Leisure. 5. Marriage: an Unequal Relationship. 6. Divorce and Single-Parent Families. 7. The Elderly, the family and Community Care. 8. Unemployment and Family Life. 9. Marriage, the Family and the State. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Vera Brittain
Book SynopsisThis is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .Trade Review"Gorham has written an important life of Vera Brittain that scholars and students of the period will not want to miss." American Historical Review, June 1997 "By far the most substantial product of academic interest in Brittain to have appeared to date." Times Literary Supplement "Sensitive and compelling biography." The Toronto Star "Gorham is to be commended for producing a balanced book, and for making extensive and intelligent use of feminist criticism. Gorham has been blessed with extensive source materials and has used them well in a fine, provocative, inspiriting biography." The Women's Review of Books, July 1996Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Macclesfield and Buxton:. 2. Origin, 1893-1911. 3. 'Provincial Young Ladyhood', 1911-1914. Part II: 'History's Greatest Disaster': Love and Work in the Great War:. 4. Somerville, 1914-1915. 5. Love in Wartime. 6. War Work. Part III: 'Lady into Woman': Friendship, Work and Marriage in the 1920s:. 7. Friendship and Feminism. 8. Feminism and Internationalism. 9. Semi-detached Marriage. Part IV: 'Having Crossed the Rubicon': The 1930s and After:. 10. The Writing of Testament of Youth. 11. 'Having crossed the Rubicon.'. 12. Conclusion.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theories of the State
Book SynopsisAn understanding of "the State" is crucial for the grasp of 19th- and 20th-century political thought and practice. This work offers an overview of the key theoretical bases of notions of the State. Absolutist, constitutional, ethical, class and pluralist theories are all critically analyzed.Trade Review"The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This volume showcases the strengths of anthropological analysis: bringing detailed ethnographic and historical analysis to the understanding of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies face." Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico "Joan Vincent has a rare grasp of anthopology´s past and vision of its future. The 21st-century renewal of political anthropology will be excellently served by her thoughtful assemblage of foundational texts, modern classics, recent achievements and current controversies." Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University "In this incomparable volume, Joan Vincent has brilliantly compiled the key texts in the anthropological study of politics. Suitable as a textbook for the beginning student and as a reference work for the professional academic, it will appeal to scholars in many different disciplines. Not only does this volume provide readers with a genealogy of an anthropological approach to politics, it introduces or reacquaints them with some of its most important contemporary contributors." Akhil Gupta, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsThe Nature of The State ; 1. Introduction ; Is politics about the State? States, the State and the idea of the State Stateless societies and the State tradition Antecedents to the State Etymology of the State ; 2. Formal Features of the Modern European State The State and other Collectivities ; Society and the State Community and the State Nation and State Government, Administration and the State ; 3. Cognate concepts of the State ; Sovereignty Authority, Obligation and Legitimacy ; 4. Theory and the State ; Essential Contestability and the State Human Nature and the State
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Womans Place
Book SynopsisA Woman''s Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts''s interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War. A Woman''s Place shows working-class women to be conscious of, and secure in, the separate, private sphere of home and family, with little feeling of male oppression, but more of class oppression and economic injustice to man and woman alike. A woman''s key place within the family as budget manager and domestic decision taker was widely recognized. It was, however, a position won at great cost. The hazards of childbirth, the grueling physical routines of washing, cleaning and cooking, the necessity of undertaking part-time, or (in Preston especially) full-time paid employment to boost the family''s meager income, were the coin with which that role was bought. Trade Review"Their talk is lively, and it's a wonder to read the voices of people who do not usually get to talk for themselves." (The Smart Set, 7 April 2011) "A Woman's Place is a book to which all future historians of the working-class will be indebted." Times Higher Education Supplement "A Woman's Place will be read with interest for the illuminating accounts of working-class experiences, but equally for Dr Roberts' erudite gloss on her material ... Her achievement is to record working-class lives as they were lived and her success in doing so establishes her as one of the most accomplished practitioners of oral history." Economic History Review "A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations ... and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected." New Society "This is a first-rate book for both expert historian and general reader; it deserves wider circulation." Women's Review of Books "Her two volumes appear austere but tell an absorbing tale. I hope she is collecting material for a third." Times Educational Supplement "... one of the best social histories of Britain before 1940." The Sunday ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Growing Up. Home Life. School. 2. Youth, Work and Leisure. The Status of Young Workers in the Family. Employers and Employees. The Work Ethic. Young Women at Work. Leisure. Courting and Pre-Marital Pregnancy. 3. Marriage. Sexual Relations and Attitudes to Family Size. Family Limitation: Knowledge and Methods. Pregnancy and Childbirth. Power Relationships within Marriage. The Effect of Social Change. 4. Women as Housewives and Managers. Working-class Homes. Family Income. Balancing the Budget. Were Working Class Women Successful Household Managers?. 5. Families and Neighbours. The Extended Family. Neighbours and Neighbourhoods. Conclusion. Appendices. . 1. Population of the Three Towns, 1981-1931. 2. Women's Occupations, 1891-1931. 3. Percentages of Women at Work, 1891-1931. 4. Wage Indices for 1905. 5. Respondents' Biographies. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Capitalist City Global Restructuring and
Book SynopsisThe world of modern capitalism is a global network both of corporations and of cities -- a world command citiesa such as New York, London and Tokyo; a specialized command citiesa which concentrate on particular industries, such as Detroit; a state command citiesa such as Washington and Brasilia; and so on.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction 1 Cities and the New International Division of Labor: An Overview 3 Part II Theoretical Perspectives: The Global Economy, the State and the City 2 World-System Theory and the Study of Comparative Urbanization 37 3 Cities and the International Division of Labor 66 4 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction and Collective Action 87 Part III Economic Restructuring in Cities: A Global Perspective 5 The Politics of Dependency in Deindustrializing America: The Case of Buffalo, New York 113 6 Growth and Informalization at the Core: A Preliminary Report on New York City 138 7 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective 155 8 Economic Restructuring and the Internationalization of the Los Angeles Region 178 9 Lima and the New International Division of Labor 199 Part IV State Responses to Global Restructuring 10 The State, Capital and Urban Change in Britain 215 11 Plant Closures in Socialist France 237 12 Urbanization, the Informal Economy and State Policy in Latin America 252 Part V Local Responses to Global Restructuring: Community, Household and Urban Politics 13 Community and Corporations in the Restructuring of Industry 275 14 Urban Survival Strategies, Family Structure and Informal Practices 297 15 Local Mobilization and Economic Discontent 323 16 Restructuring and Popular Opposition in West German Cities 343 17 Urban Protest and the Global Political Economy: The IMF Riots 364 List of Contributors 387 Index 389
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Women of the Medieval World
Book Synopsis'Outstanding contributions to women's history.' History TodayTable of ContentsPreface vii Julius Kirshner and Suzanne F. Wemple Abbreviations viii John Hine Mundy: An Appreciation 1 Eugene Rice 1 Teste David cum Sibylla: The Significance of the Sibylline Tradition in the Middle Ages 7 Bernard McGinn 2 A Legacy of Miracles: Hagiography and Nunneries in Merovingian Gaul 36 Jo Ann McNamara 3 Bishops as Marital Advisors in the Ninth Century 54 Jane Bishop 4 S. Salvatore/S. Giulia: A Case Study in the Endowment and Patronage of a Major Female Monastery in Northern Italy 85 Suzanne F. Wemple 5 Stephan Langton’s Ermo de Virginibus 103 Phyllis B. Roberts 6 Ancilla Dei: The Servant as Saint in the Late Middle Ages 119 Michael Goodigh 7 Prostitution and Repentance in Late Medieval Perpignan 137 Leah Lydia Otis 8 Female Imagery: A Clue to the Role of Joachim’s Order of Fiore 161 Stephen Wessley 9 Queen Sancia of Naples (1286-1345) and the Spiritual Franciscans 179 Ronald G. Musto 10 ‘Of the Gift of her Husband’: English Dower and its Consequences in the year 1200 215 Janet Senderowitz Loengard 11 Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy 256 Julius Kirshner 12 On the Status of Women in Medieval Sardinia 204 John Day 13 Anthonius Guainerius and Medieval Gynocology 317 Helen Rodnite Lemay 14 The Problem of Feminism in the Fifteenth Century 337 Beatrice Gottlieb Select Bibliography of the Writings of John H. Mundy 365 List of Contributors 367 Index 371
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Genius
Book SynopsisFocusing mainly on the arts, this book explores the history of the idea of genius, from its origins in classical antiquity to its deconstruction in postmodernist criticism. It examines key points in the development of the idea and looks at what constitutes genius in specific subject areas.Table of ContentsPoetic genius and its classical origins, Penelope Murray; the "super-artist" as genius - the 16th century view, Martin Kemp; the second Homeric renaissance - allegoresis and genius in early modern poetics, Glenn Most; Shakespeare and original genius, Jonathan Bate; Goethe on genius, Michael Beddow; the emptiness of genius - aspects of Romanticism, Drummond Bone; Nietzsche on genius, Michael Tanner; deconstructing genius - Paul de Man and the critique of Romantic ideology, Christopher Norris; what is musical genius?, Wilfred Mellers; genius in mathematics, Clive Kilmister; genius and mental disorder - a history of ideas concerning their conjunction, Neil Kessel; genius and psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung and the concept of personality, Anthony Storr.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Another Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book is Lash''s most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of ''difference'' and ''reflexivity'' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. ThTrade Review"Serious, intelligent and innovative, this book compels us to rethink our modern/ postmodern certainties." Mark Poster, Laguna Beach, CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Space:. 2. The First Modernity: Humans and Machines. Garden City and Functionalism. Structuralism. Formalism. Modernist Humanism?. Conclusions. 3. Simulated Humanism: Postmodern Architecture. Avant-gardes. History. Humanism. Complexity. Vernacular. Conclujsions. 4. Ground the City. Fields of Mapping: Grids and Labyrinths. Productions of Space: Classical and Gothic. The Other Modernity: Lived Space in Japan. Urban Space and Allegory. Part II: Society. 5. From System to Symbol: Durkheim and French Sociology. Space and Society. System. Symbol: Durkheim and Mauss. 6. Symbol and Allegory: Simmel and German Sociology. Values and Facts. From Symbol to Allegory. Conclusion. Part III: Experience. 7. The Natural Attitude and the Reflexive Attitude. Alfred Schutz: from Meaning to Understanding Signification and Existence. 8. Difference and Infinity: Derrida. Kant, Husserl, Derrida. Escape from Totality. Time and Self-presence. Three Modes of Signification. Part IV: Judgement. 9. Reflexive Judgement and Aesthetic Subjectivity. Finality of the Object, Singularity of the Subject. Permanence and Finitude: Gadamer. 10. Discourse, Figure....Sensation. The Body With Organs. Greeks, Jews, Pagans. Conclusions. Part V: Objects. 11. Objects that Judge: Latour's Parliament of Things. Towards a Non-Modern Constitution. Morphisms Weavers and Object Trackers. Ç'accuse. Networks: Spiralling Time and Space. 12. Bad Objects: Virilio. From Cité to War Machine. Death: Bads, Contingency, Theodicy. From War to Cinema. From the Mental and the Instrumental: The End of the Gaze. Polar Inertia: The Last Vehicle. Time of Exposure. 13. The Symbolic in Fragments: Walter Benjamin's Talking Things. Allegory: The Aesthetics of Destruction. Protestant Ethic, Baroque Melancholy. 14. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lyotard Reader
Book SynopsisJean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable The Postmodern Condition, Just Gaming and The Dirrerend. The Lyotard Reader is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard''s most important and significant papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting (Adami, Francken, Newman), psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard''s work means that it can not be readily situated within any one philosophical tradition. Instead he returns philosophy itself to debates across a range of areas and, in so doing, redefines the philosophical enterprise. A number of chapters in The Lyotard Reader appear for the first time in EnglTrade Review‘Andrew Benjamin asks me for a short – very short – foreword for this Lyotard Reader, nothing much, only four or five pages. Just like that , quite casually. As though it was the most natural thing in the world. But there's nothing natural at all about this Lyotard Reader, or about the idea that Lyotard himself should write a foreword for the Reader. You say foreword. Let him say a word before you read his words. A key word that gives the Reader, a key to the words in the Reader ...' Jean- Reader Francois Lyotard from the forewordTable of ContentsForeword by Jean-Francois Lyotard. Und So Weiter: In Lieu of an Introduction. Acknowledgements. 1. The Tensor. 2. The Dream-Work Does Not Think. 3. Passages from Le Mur du Pacigique. 4. Figure Foreclosed. 5. One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles. 6. Lessons in Paganism. 7. Beyond Representation. 8. Acinema. 9. Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity. 10. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde. 11. Scapeland. 12. Anamnesis of the Visible, or Candour. 13. Newman: The Instant. 14. The Story of Ruth. 15. Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game. 16. Levinas' Logic. 17. Universal history and Cultural Differences. 18. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx. 19. Discussions, or Phrasing ‘after Auschwitz'. 20. The Sign of History. Select bibliography of English Translations of Lyotard's Writings. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Another Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book is Lash''s most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of ''difference'' and ''reflexivity'' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. ThTrade Review"Serious, intelligent and innovative, this book compels us to rethink our modern/ postmodern certainties." Mark Poster, Laguna Beach, CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Space:. 2. The First Modernity: Humans and Machines. Garden City and Functionalism. Structuralism. Formalism. Modernist Humanism?. Conclusions. 3. Simulated Humanism: Postmodern Architecture. Avant-gardes. History. Humanism. Complexity. Vernacular. Conclujsions. 4. Ground the City. Fields of Mapping: Grids and Labyrinths. Productions of Space: Classical and Gothic. The Other Modernity: Lived Space in Japan. Urban Space and Allegory. Part II: Society. 5. From System to Symbol: Durkheim and French Sociology. Space and Society. System. Symbol: Durkheim and Mauss. 6. Symbol and Allegory: Simmel and German Sociology. Values and Facts. From Symbol to Allegory. Conclusion. Part III: Experience. 7. The Natural Attitude and the Reflexive Attitude. Alfred Schutz: from Meaning to Understanding Signification and Existence. 8. Difference and Infinity: Derrida. Kant, Husserl, Derrida. Escape from Totality. Time and Self-presence. Three Modes of Signification. Part IV: Judgement. 9. Reflexive Judgement and Aesthetic Subjectivity. Finality of the Object, Singularity of the Subject. Permanence and Finitude: Gadamer. 10. Discourse, Figure....Sensation. The Body With Organs. Greeks, Jews, Pagans. Conclusions. Part V: Objects. 11. Objects that Judge: Latour's Parliament of Things. Towards a Non-Modern Constitution. Morphisms Weavers and Object Trackers. Ç'accuse. Networks: Spiralling Time and Space. 12. Bad Objects: Virilio. From Cité to War Machine. Death: Bads, Contingency, Theodicy. From War to Cinema. From the Mental and the Instrumental: The End of the Gaze. Polar Inertia: The Last Vehicle. Time of Exposure. 13. The Symbolic in Fragments: Walter Benjamin's Talking Things. Allegory: The Aesthetics of Destruction. Protestant Ethic, Baroque Melancholy. 14. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Monsters and Mad Scientists
Book SynopsisA study of horror movies, which discusses individual movies in detail and seeks to identify the main traditions of the genre, such as the mad scientist, the monster and the psychotic killer, and to show the various strategies and techniques behind their creation.Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 Introduction: Horror-Movie Histories 1 Part I Genre History 2 Facts, Figures and Frightful Fiends 17 3 Genre History I: 1931 - 1960 27 4 Genre History II: 1961 - 1984 48 Part II Narrative Resources 5 Narratives 81 6 Events - Characters - Settings 106 Part III Science, Supernature, Psyche 7 Mad Science 133 8 Lurkers at the Threshold 158 9 The Sleep of Reason 185 10 Conclusion: Security and Paranoia 211 Subject/Name Index 225 Index of Film Titles 231
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Social History of British Broadcasting
Book SynopsisThis is a history of broadcasting and its impact on modern life in Britain from its origins in the 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. Its concerns are with programmes and their makers and with the audiences for which they were made. It is a pioneering work of cultural and social history.Trade Review"Their work promises to change irreversibly our perception of both the history of British broadcasting and of its place in the wider political, cultural and social history of Britain." Sight and Sound "This admirably balanced new study . . . deserves the attention of lay readers as well as scholars . . an important piece of work." The Independent on Sunday ". . . an impressive volume . . . informed by concepts." The Guardian "This is a quite outstanding book: a social history of radio broadcasting in Britain up to 1939. It is a work of sustained scholarship but, although more that 150,000 words long, an immensely enjoyable read." Tom Nossiter, London School of Economics. " A truly magisterial work, unlikely to be bettered for a generation." ScreenTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Public Service Broadcasting part 1. Part I: Broadcasting and Politics: . 2. The Containment of Controversy. 3. The Management of News and Political Debate. 4. Broadcasting and Unemployment. 5. Broadcasting and Foreign Affairs. Part II: The Production of Information: News, Features and Talks:. 6. News Values and Practices. 7. Features and Social Documentaries. 8. Forms of Talk. Part III: The Production of Entertainment and Culture: Music and Variety:. 9. Music Policy. 10. Musical Tastes. 11. Time and Money, Entertainment and Culture. 12. Styles of Variety. Part IV: Broadcasting and its Audiences:. 13. The National Culture. 14. Local and Regional Broadcasting. 15. Manchester and its Programmes. 16. The Listener. Bibliography and References. Footnotes.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modernity and Identity
Book SynopsisModernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: subjectivity and modernity's Other: Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman. Part I: Cosmopolitan Narratives:. 1. Why modernism still matters: Marshall Berman. 2. Cosmopolitan without emancipation: a response to Lyotard: Richard Rorty. 3. Modernity as postmodernity: Jean-Françoise Lyotard: Christina Bürger. 4. The disappearance of meaning: essay at a postmodern reading of Michel Ournier, Botho Strauss and Peter Handke: Peter Bürger. Part II: Representation and the Transformation of Identity:. 5. Popular Representation: recasting realism: Nicholas Abercrombie, Scott Lash and Brian Longhurst. 6. Popular culture and the construction of postmodern identities: Douglas Kellner. 7. Scopic regimes of modernity: Martin Jay. 8. Identity and reality: the end of the philosophical immigration officer: Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm. Part III: Spaces of Self and Society:. 9. Postmodern urban landscapes: mapping culture and power: Sharon Zukin. 10. A modern tour in Brazil. 11. Postmodernism and the aestheticization of everyday life: Mike Featherstone. Part IV: Modernity and the Voice of the Other:. 12. We, the people: popular culture and popular identity in modern Europe: Peter Burke. 13. Past, present and emergent identities: requirements for ethnographies of late twentieth-centuries modernity worldwide: George Marcus. 14. Narcissism, roots and postmodernity: the constitution of selfhood in the global crisis: Jonathan Friedman. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Social Change
Book Synopsisaeo The first comprehensive survey of a key area of contemporary sociology. aeo The author is respected worldwide as a leading authority in the field. aeo Carefully structured and clearly written.Trade Review"Piotr Sztompka's book on social change is at once a masterful textbook, a comprehensive encyclopedia of theoretical approaches and an innovative contribution to the field. This book by the prominent Polish sociologist will certainly change sociologists' and historians' view on social change." Prof Dr Hans Joas, Freie Universitat Berlin "I can think of no sociologist with more scope and sense of balance than Piotr Sztompka. The Sociology of Social Change gives remarkable evidence of both qualities. It covers the field thoroughly and well; it has to be the authoritative treatment of the subject. Moreover, it balances breadth and depth, objective reporting with critical interpretation, and others' ideas with Sztompka's own. This volume is simultaneously an original and synthetic contribution to our thinking about social change." Neil J. Smelser, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Concepts and Categories:. 1. Fundamental Concepts in the Study of Change. 2. Vicissitudes of the Idea of Progress. 3. Temporal Dimension of Society: Social Time. 4. Modalities of Historical Tradition. 5. Modernity and Beyond. 6. Globalization of Human Society. Part II: Three Grand Visions of History:. 7. Classical Evolutionism. 8. Neo-evolutionism. 9. Theories of Modernization: Old and New. 10. Theories of Historical Cycles. 11. Historical Materialism. Part III: Alternative Vision: Making History:. 12. Against Developmentalism: Modern Critique. 13. History as a Human Product: Evolving Theory of Agency. 14. New Historical Sociology: Concreteness and Contingenc. 15. Social Becoming: the Essence of Historical Change. Part IV: Aspects of Social Becoming:. 16. Ideas as Historical Forces. 17. Normative Emergence: Evasions and Innovations. 18. Great Individuals as Agents of Change. 19. Social Movements as Forces of Change. 20. Revolutions: the Peak of Social Change. Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisFeminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary is of major interest to those who are aware of the breadth of its two component areas, and wish to explore the common ground between them more intensively. Entries deal with concepts from and significant figures in psychoanalysis, issues of sexual politics that intersect with psychoanalysis, feminist aesthetics and criticism which both use and challenge psychoanalytic thought. Each entry concludes with a short, carefully selected list of further reading.Trade Review"Not only a work of reference, but an indispensable guide to the territory of feminist argument." Parveen Adams, Brunel University "The entries are written by many of the best writers in the field; the bibliographies are invaluable ... Does an excellent job naming and covering the variety of issues at stake." Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee "Impeccably researched, as well as lucidly written." Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota "This Dictionary will be an essential resource for anyone undertaking research in the area of 'feminism and psychoanalysis'." Morag Shiach, British Journal of PsychotherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Dictionary Entries A-Z. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Organising Modernity
Book Synopsis* Law presents a novel and exciting approach to the subject of the social order -- central to modern social theory* The book draws on difficult arguments and concepts but presents them in an extremely accessible form* Law, in effect, offers an alternative postmodern sociology which should attract wide attention. .Trade Review"In this beautifully written book John Law describes a laboratory in political and economic turmoil. His notion of the 'mode of ordering' draws on post-structuralist theory to create a striking and critical vision of modernity. His book is also an impassioned reply to those on left or right who believe that it is possible to design the perfect society. Who said nothing good came of Thatcherism?" Michel Callon, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris "Professor Law's analysis offers challenges at many levels - to what we understand by laboratory management, to the nature of connections between science studies and wider social theory in throwing light on it, and on the relationship of author to subject. His most sustained challenge is to the role of the reader, who is never allowed to relax into passivity in tackling this open and honest book." Peter Healey, The Science Policy Support Group "This is a book that reanimates the old idea of the 'sociological imagination' and which continually captivates the reader with its restless questioning, its intellectual honesty and its sheer craft." Robert Cooper, University of LancasterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1. Introduction 1 2. Networks and Places 31 3. Histories, Agents and Structures 52 4. Irony, Contingency and Mode of Ordering 73 5. Contingency, Materialism and Discourse 94 6. Rankings 115 7. Dualisms and Gradients: Notes on the Material Forms of Ordering 137 8. Enterprise, Trust and Distrust 163 9. Postscript 185 References 196Index 206
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Of Critical Theory and its Theorists
Book SynopsisNo project holds a more prominent place in the development of modern European thought than the critical theory. Usually associated with various members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research of the 1920s and 1930s, critical theory has been enormously influential and quite controversial in its manifold claims. Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists provides unique interpretations of critical theory''s most important representatives: Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas, and others. Inspired by the interdisciplinary character of the original enterprise, Stephen Bronner ranges across many fields, from philosophy and aesthetics to politics and anthropology, reconstructing the radical aims of critical theory, and evaluating its success, its failings and its legacy. Of Critical Theory and its Theorists offers a panoramic view of an exciting tradition, and a bold new perspective, from one of AmeriTrade Review"Has the foundation of critical theory been withdrawn with the collapse of communism? Stephen Eric Bronner argues the opposite: only now, liberated from marxian dogmatism, can a genuine critique of modern society begin. He develops his ideas in an immanent and emancipatory confrontation with critical theory and its proponents. A brilliant book! Don't miss it!" Ulrich BeckTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Karl Korsch: Western Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory. 3. Philosophical Anticipations: A Commentary on the 'Reification' Essay of Georg Lukacs. 4. Utopian Projections: In Honor of Ernst Bloch. 5. Horkheimer's Road. 6. Ontology and its Discontents: Unorthodox Remarks on the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. 7. Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin. 8. Political Aesthetics in Retrospect: Reflections on the Expressionism Debate and its Contemporary Relevance. 9. Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. 10. From in America. 11. Remembering Marcuse. 12. The Anthropological Break: Herbert Marcuse and the Radical Imagination. 13. Left Instrumentalism: A Critique of Analytic and Rational Choice Marxism. 14. Jürgen Habermas and the Language of Politics. 15. Points of Departure: Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Bourdieu
Book SynopsisThis Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of Francea s foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and philosophers in the English--speaking world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Bourdieu as Philosopher: Richard Shusterman. 1."Bourdieu and Anglo-American Philosophy": Richard Shusterman. 2."To follow a Rule": Richard Schusterman. 3."Rules, Dispositions and the Habitus": Charles Taylor. 4."Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus and the Logic of Practice": Joseph Margolis. 5."Can there be a Science of Existential Stucture and Social Meaning?": Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. 6."Theory in Practice": Louis Pinto. 7."Peformativity's Social Magic": Judith Butler. 8."Practical Reason and Cultural Constraint: Agency in Bourdieu's Theory of Practice": James Bohman. 9."A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu, Mead and Pragmatism": Mitchell Aboulafia. 10."Bourdieu Noveau": Bill Earle. 11."Bourdieuean Dynamics: The American Middle-Class Self-Constructs": Chuck Dyke. 12."Bourdieu on Art: Field and Individual": Arthur Danto. 13."The Social Conditions of the International Circulation of Ideas": Pierre Bourdieu. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd PostFordism
Book SynopsisPart analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism''s newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism''s major theorists and commentators.Trade Review"Those tempted to venture onto this contested terrain would be well advised to choose their guidebook carefully and at present there are few which do the job better that Ash Amin's edited collection. The book's key virtue, it seems to me, is that it does not pursue a particular agenda in relation to the debate, but draws its contributions from across the spectrum of opinion." J. H. Love, Regional Studies "If this particular Reader were a CD then it would no doubt be called 'Now That's What I Call Post-Fordism' or perhaps 'The Best Book on Post-Fordism... Ever!'." Andrew Leyshon, University of BristolTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition: Ash Amin (University of Newcastle). Part I: New Macroeconomic Designs:. 2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions: Mark Elam (Linkoping University). 3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a 'Post-Fordist' Regional and Urban Structure: Josef Esser (Goethe University, Germany) and Joachim Hirsch (Goethe University, Germany). Part II: New Sociologies and Geographies of Industrial Organisation: . 4. Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies: Charles F. Sabel (MIT, USA). 5. A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology: John Tomaney (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 6. The Transition to Flexible Specialization in the US Film Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and the Crossing of Industrial Divides: Michael Storper (University of California, Los Angeles, USA). 7. Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe: Ash Amin (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Anders Malmberg (Uppsala University, Sweden). Part III: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism:. 8. Post-Fordism and the State: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University). 9. Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The After-Fordist crisis and Global-local Disorder: Jamie Peck (Manchester University) and Adam Tickel (Leeds University). 10. Post-Fordist City Politics: Margit Mayer (Free University of Berlin, Germany). 11. Post-Fordism and Democracy: Alain Lipietz (CEPREMAP, Paris, France). Part IV: Post-Fordist City Lives and Lifestyles:. 12. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on 'Post-Modernism' in the American City: David Harvey (Johns Hopkins University). 13. City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles: Mike Featherstone (Teeside University). 14. The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship: Susan Christopherson (Cornell University, USA). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Tongues of Fire
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, Tongues of Fire deals with one of the most extraordinary developments in the world today - the rapid spread of Evangelical Protestantism in vast areas of the underdeveloped societies, notable Latin America. The growth of Evangelical Protestantism since the 1960''s from its epicentre in the United States has been a religious and social phenomenon of extraordinary proportions. David Martin, one of the world''s leading authorities on the sociology of religion, examines this remarkable phenomenon, taking account of how the religious elements have affected and have been affected by the cultural and political conditions and the future of the Americas, but also by those concerned with the relation of religion and social change throughout the contemporary world.Table of ContentsForeword by Peter Berger Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL GENEALOGIES AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Anglo and Latin: Rival Civilizations, Alternative Patterns 2. The Methodist Model: Anglo-American Cultural Production Reproduced in Latin America PART II: LATIN AMERICA: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY SITUATION 3. Profiles of Evangelical Advance in Latin America 4. Brazil: Largest Society and Most Dramatic Instance 5. The Southern Cone: Chile and the Argentine Contrasted 6. Smaller Contrasting Societies - Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala - and Mexico PART III: COMPARISON AND PARALLELS 7. Caribbean Comparisons: Jamaica and Trinidad: Puerto Rico and Haiti 8. Instructive Parallels: South Korea and South Africa PART IV: RE-FORMATIONS 9. New Spiritual Communications: Healings and Tongues; Songs and Stories 10. Conversions: Transformations and Turning Points 11. Protestantism and Economic Culture: Evidence Reviewed 12. The Body Politic and the Spirit: Evidence Reviewed PART V: CONCLUSIONS 13. The Argument Summarized and Extended Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Discourses of Power
Book SynopsisIn this accessible yet provocative text Barry Hindess provides a new interpretation of concepts of power within Western social thought, from Hobbes' notion of "sovereign power" to Foucault's account of "government". This book will be welcomed as an important contemporary contribution to one of the key debates in social and political theory.Trade Review"The combination of impeccable scholarship and original insight makes this book indispensable to all who wish to explore the complex field of modern power. Through bold and invigorating investigations of the central texts of modern political thought, Barry Hindess uncovers their conceptual anatomy and reveals the pervasive implications of flawed understandings of power from Locke to contemporary liberalism and critical theory. Through a lucid exploration of the arguments of Michel Foucault, Hindess poses us urgent and challenging questions about how one might think beyond these limited visions of political sovereignty and political community." Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmith's College, University of London "Barry Hindess has crafted an elegant and incisive guide to the debates about power set in motion by Michel Foucault. He offers both a clear account of what is at stake in these debates and a sharp critical sense of how they could develop." Professor R. B. J. Walker, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria "With this book, Barry Hindess sets new parameters for any future discourses on power. He unravels the confusion of power as capacity and power as right which has dogged modern political theory from Hobbes and Locke onwards, and sets out clearly the presuppositions of contemporary theories of power. On this basis, he is able to locate Foucault squarely in the mainstream of modern political thought, and to demonstrate the radicality of his attempts to refocus the analysis of power onto the nature and forms of government. In a brief concluding chapter, Hindess sums up both the strengths and limits of Foucault's challenge to political theory, and points to the fictions of political community as constraints upon political thought which remain to be critically examined. A model of clear and effective writing, this book should be read by all students of political and social thought." Paul Patton, Senior Lecturer in Philisophy, The University of Sydney "This book is a provocative and important contribution to the debate on power, written in a lucid and succinct style." Paul Rutherford, The University of Sydney "Hindess is relaxed and labyrinthine, supplying an engaging introduction to the debate [of the concepts of power], which students especially will enjoy." Preston King, University of LancasterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. That Mortal God: Hobbes on Power and the Sovereign. 3. A Right of Making Laws: Locke on Political Power and Morality. 4. The Supreme Exercise of Power: Lukes and Critical Theory. 5. Discipline and Cherish: Foucault on Power, Government and Domination. 6. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Political Theory Modernity and Postmodernity
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the modernity debate and an analysis of its implications for political theory. This book identifies two broad senses of modernity: modernity as mood and modernity as socio-cultural form.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Political Philosophy Agonistes. Part I: The Modernity Debate:. 1. Two Senses of Modernity. 2. Defenders of the Faith, Disturbers of the Peace. Part II: Living With/In Modernities. 3. An Ethico-Political Imperative. 4. Towards a Political Theory?. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Arguments for a New Left
Book SynopsisAs disillusion sets in with the free market right- the legacy of Thatcher, Reagan and Geoffrey Sachs-Hiliary Wainwright retrieves and develops what was best in the thinking and practice of the new left. Challenged by the appeal of neo-liberalism to young organizers in the civic movements of Central Europe, she tackles Hayek''s critique of the all-knowing state, and his regonition of ''practical knowledge'' that no state or party can secind guess. Drawing an alternative view of knowledge from the practice of social movements (from the 1968 student revolt, through militant shop stewards organizations and the women''s movement, to green activism of the 1980''s) as well as from new philosophical currents, Wainwright counters Hayek''s individualism and denial of the legitimacy of the collective action, with a conception of knowledge as fundamentally social.On this foundation she establishes a new understanding of transformative political agengy as well as self-consciously eTrade Review"When one of Britain'smost dedicated and resourceful activists writes with this vision and energy, one is compelled to listen closely." Terry Eagleton. "Hilary Wainwright is unique for her ability to synthesize academic analysis and the practical concerns of movement politics." Francis Fox Piven.Table of ContentsPreface. The arguments: A New Left and the Democratization of Knowledge. Part I: An Eastern Challenge to the Western Left:. 1. Encounters in the New Europe. Part II: At The Heart of the Challenge:. 2. Frederick Hayek and the Social-Engineering State. 3. Transformation from Below. 4. TheTheory and Politics of Knowledge. Part III: New Kinds of Knowledge for new Forms of Democracy:. 5. From Social Movement to Self Management: A case Study from the Women's Movement. 6. From Grass Roots Organizing to New Economic Networks. 7. From Extra-Parliamentary Oppositions to Parties of new Kind. Part IV:Why Movements Matter in the New Europe: . 8. Ending the Cold War. 9. Conclusions: Transforming Governmentality. Bibliography and Further Reading. Directory of International Campaigns, Networks and Newsletters. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Theory and Sociology
Book SynopsisThis Timely volume represents an attempt by leading practitioners in the field to think reflexively about the present state of social theory and its historical analogues, and to consider new directions opposed to the classical social theorists, as well as new uses of the classics. Social Theory and Sociology begins to address a problem that is salient for students as well as academics, namely, why and how does the legacy of social theory matter? What is the value of what we are learning? No attempt is made to dodge these tough questions and some very different answers are provided. Ranging from classic figures such ad Marx top the new theoritical approaches deriving from science and tehnology studies, this book represernts a multivoiced, radically diverse consideration of what theroy is all about now, at the end of the century. Social Theory and Socioloogy will be esentail reading for advanced undergraduates and above of social theory-primarily thoTable of Contents1. Introduction: Social Theory and Sociology. (Stephhen P. Turner). Part I. 2. The Centrality of the Classics. (Jeffrey Alexandera). 3. Lego quia inutile: An alternative justification for the classics. (Gianfranco Poggi). Part II. 4. Three ideologies or one? The pseudo-battle of modernity. (Immanuel Wallerstein). 5. Whose Classics? Which reading? Interpretation and cultural difference in the canonization of sociological theory. (Craig Calhoun). 6. Crises of modernity. Political sociology in historical contexts. (Peter Wagner). Part III. 7. Measurement and the two cultures of sociology. (John R. Hall). 8. Marxism after communism. (Erik Olin Wright). 9. Standpoint epistemology (a feminist version): How social disadvantage creates epistemic advantage. (Sandra Harding). 10. The centrality of culture in social theory. Fundamental clues from Weber and Durkheim. (Anne E. Kane). Part IV. 11. Towards a reflexive sociology. A workshop with Pierre Bourdieu. (Loic J. D. Wacquant). 12. Homo sociologicus: Do we need him/her? (Peter Abell). 13. Science and technology studies and the renewal of social theory. (Steve Woolgar). 14. Theory then/theory now (or, 'The sociology is about to begin, said the man with the loudspeaker') (Alan Sica). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metaphor and Material Culture
Book SynopsisCombines theoretical interpretation with practical examples to show the significance of the concept of metaphor in the study and writing of material forms. This book presents three archaeological and ethnographic studies of metaphors chosen to demonstrate the richness of the concept for understanding texts, objects and artworks.Trade Review"Metaphor and Material Culture should win many converts, for it is his best book so far ... No one need feel inhibited from reading this study. In fact it has important lessons for all of us." Cambridge Archaeological Journal "This is an innovative book which raises important issues relevant to students of material culture." George Bankes, University of Manchester, Journal of The Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Preface. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. Part I: Metaphor and the constitution of the world:. 1. Metaphor in language, thought and culture. 2. Solid metaphor: the analysis of material forms. Part II: Text, artefact, art: Introduction. 3. Frozen metaphor: megaliths in texts. 4. The metaphorical transformations of Wala canoes. 5. Body metaphors in southern Scandinavian rock art. Part III: Landscapes and a sense of place: Introduction. 6. The beach in the sky. 7. Performing culture in the global village. 8. Conclusions. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metaphor and Material Culture
Book Synopsis* An innovative contribution to recent debates about the use of a metaphora in the social sciences, from an archaeological perspective* Written by one of the foremost scholars working on archaeological theory, with an international reputation* Combines theoretical interpretation with practical examples a from the fielda .Trade Review"Metaphor and Material Culture should win many converts, for it is his best book so far ... No one need feel inhibited from reading this study. In fact it has important lessons for all of us." Cambridge Archaeological Journal "This is an innovative book which raises important issues relevant to students of material culture." George Bankes, University of Manchester, Journal of The Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Preface. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. Part I: Metaphor and the constitution of the world:. 1. Metaphor in language, thought and culture. 2. Solid metaphor: the analysis of material forms. Part II: Text, artefact, art: Introduction. 3. Frozen metaphor: megaliths in texts. 4. The metaphorical transformations of Wala canoes. 5. Body metaphors in southern Scandinavian rock art. Part III: Landscapes and a sense of place: Introduction. 6. The beach in the sky. 7. Performing culture in the global village. 8. Conclusions. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Life in Fragments
Book SynopsisLife in Fragments is a continuation of the themes and motifs explored in Zygmunt Bauman''s acclaimed study, Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993). Described by Richard Sennett as a major event in social theory, Postmodern Ethics subverted the pieties of subversion which rule the postmodern imagination, arguing for an ethic of being with the Other, beyond the fashionable imperative of anything goes or the deconstruction of identity through difference.Table of ContentsIntroduction: In Search of Postmodern Reason. 1 Morality without Ethics. 2 Forms of Togetherness. 3 Broken Lives, Broken Strategies. 4 A Catalogue of Postmodern Fears. 5 The Stranger Revisited - and Revisiting. 6 Violence, Postmodern. 7 Tribal Moralities. 8 Morality and Politics. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Norbert Elias Reader
Book SynopsisIllustrating both the continuity and development of the thought of Norbert Elias, this book brings together key excerpts from all aspects of his work, and should make it much easier for readers to come to grips with his thinking as a whole.Trade Review"The two volumes edited by Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom provide indeed, an easy access to the full scope of Elias' work, to suit undergraduate readers as well as more advanced scholars interested in material not published in English." Monica Greco, Goldsmith's College, University of LondonTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: 1920-1935:. 1. Idea and Individual. 2. On Primitive Art. 3. Court Society as a Sociological Problem. 4. The Expulsion of the Huguenots from France. 5. The Kitsch Style and the Age of Kitsch. Part II: 1935-1940:. 6. An Outline of The Civilizing Process. 7. Kultur and Civilization. 8. The Rise of the Fork. 9. The Sociogenesis of Courts. 10. Civilization and Rationalization. 11. The Society of Individuals - I. Part III: 1950-1965:. 12. Sociology and Psychiatry. 13. The Naval Profession. 14. Involvement and Detachment. 15. The Society of Individuals - II. 16. The Quest for Excitement in Leisure. 17. Group Charisma and Group Disgrace. 18. The Breakdown of Civilization. Part IV: 1965-1990:. 19. The Civilizing Process Revisited. 20. The Concept of Figurations. 21. African Art. 22. An Interview in Amsterdam. 23. The Sciences. 24. On the Concept of Everyday Life. 25. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present. 26. Renate Rubinstein. 27. The Civilizing of Parents. 28. Technization and Civilization. 29. The Society of Individuals - III. 30. Informalization and the Civilizing Process. 31. Mozart's Revolt. 32. The Symbol Theory. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Norbert Elias Reader
Book Synopsis* This much--needed volume introduces Eliasa s work as a whole to a new generation of scholars and students worldwide* Includes a large proportion of otherwise inaccessible material* An extensive, detailed bibliography guides the reader to primary sources in English and German. .Trade Review"The two volumes edited by Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom provide indeed, an easy access to the full scope of Elias' work, to suit undergraduate readers as well as more advanced scholars interested in material not published in English." Monica Greco, Goldsmith's College, University of LondonTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: 1920-1935:. 1. Idea and Individual. 2. On Primitive Art. 3. Court Society as a Sociological Problem. 4. The Expulsion of the Huguenots from France. 5. The Kitsch Style and the Age of Kitsch. Part II: 1935-1940:. 6. An Outline of The Civilizing Process. 7. Kultur and Civilization. 8. The Rise of the Fork. 9. The Sociogenesis of Courts. 10. Civilization and Rationalization. 11. The Society of Individuals - I. Part III: 1950-1965:. 12. Sociology and Psychiatry. 13. The Naval Profession. 14. Involvement and Detachment. 15. The Society of Individuals - II. 16. The Quest for Excitement in Leisure. 17. Group Charisma and Group Disgrace. 18. The Breakdown of Civilization. Part IV: 1965-1990:. 19. The Civilizing Process Revisited. 20. The Concept of Figurations. 21. African Art. 22. An Interview in Amsterdam. 23. The Sciences. 24. On the Concept of Everyday Life. 25. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present. 26. Renate Rubinstein. 27. The Civilizing of Parents. 28. Technization and Civilization. 29. The Society of Individuals - III. 30. Informalization and the Civilizing Process. 31. Mozart's Revolt. 32. The Symbol Theory. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Age Movement
Book SynopsisRepresents one of the responses to the defects and potentialities of modern times. This book traces the growth and development of the Movement, identifies some of its key characteristics, and provides a critical perspective. It provides a treatment of New Age 'celebration of the self', and situates it within the cultural context.Trade Review"Drawing on a vast and rich body of sources, Dr Heelas has produced a remarkably comprehensive picture of the multi-faceted contemporary New Age movement. His knowledge of everything from human potential movements to the new Gurdjieff-inspired religious systems and modern paganism is in itself no less impressive than his discerning commentary on what all this means for modern society. His deeply researched but lightly-worn scholarship informs every page, and anyone who wishes to get an understanding of the present-day fringe religious scene will need to acquaint themselves with this book." Dr B R Wilson, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford "A pioneering book, and a remarkable feat of sympathetic interpretation which will change the way we perceive the New Age. Paul Heelas makes sense out of a wider range of materials than I'd have believed possible. A book to buy and keep, as a document of our times." Don Cupitt, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge It should be clear from all of this that Heelas takes the New Age seriously and is able to point to it as cultural expression of modernity as well as, in some ways, a resource for modernity. Voices are often shrill and unidimensional in dealing with the New Ages; so his careful, searching judgements are surely welcome... Still, Heelas has contributed significantly to the small list of truly good books on the New Age movement. With its plethora of concrete examples, his work is rich in conveying the texture of the movement, and it is evenhanded in its evaluation of evidence and claims" Professor Catherine L. Albanese, Department of Religious Studies, University of California. "Heelas' work presents a particularly good introduction to the subject. Heelas' book will be of great assistance to everyone interested in undertaking research into some aspect of the New Age Movement." Religion "Paul Heelas has produced an extremely useful account of the new Age and this book will no doubt be a standard text for some time to come." Fiona Bowie, BASR Bulletin. "... Heelas' book provides a good comprehensive guide to the New Age Movement. This book is a valuable resource for those studying the sociology of religion, particularly for those interested in the New Age Movement." Andri Soteri, London School of Economics and Political Science "We have long needed a scholarly and objective description and assessment of the New Age Movement, and at last Paul Heelas... has provided us with one... Comtemporary Christians in particular need to know why New Age ideas attract, and they need a guide through this perplexing welter of beliefs, therapies, lifestyles, hopes and aspirations. They could have none better than The New Age Movement." The Christian Parapsychologist "Heelas's description of contempory New Age phenomena provide a valuable resource for the student of new Religious Movements" Wendy W. Young, University of FloridaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I. PORTRAYAL. 1. Manifestations. 2. Developments. 3. The New. 4. Significance. PART II. APPEAL. 5. Uncertainties of Modernity. 6. Certainties of Modernity. PART III. EFFECTIVENESS. 7. Sel-Understanding. 8. The Future. Appendices: (1) Characterizations of the New Age; (2) Before and After Exegesis. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Theories of Discourse
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the new theories of discourse developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, while in particular drawing on central insights provided by Slavoj Zizek. The book accounts for intellectual development of the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe from a Gramsci-inspired critique of structural Marxism over a neo-Gramscian theory of discourse to a new type of postmodern theorizing of great relevance for social, cultural and political theory. The central concepts of discourse, hegemony and social antagonism are carefully explained and discussed and the theoretical framework is applied both on a variety of theoretical problems and in a sample of empirical studies. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of discourse theory for our political understanding of democracy, citizenship and ethics. New Theories of Discourse is written out of the basic conviction that postmodernity provides a great challengTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Discourse theory in context. Part I: Intellectual development:. Introduction. 1. A Gramsci-inspired critique of structural Marxism. 2. The advancement of a neo-Gramscian theory of discourse. 3. Towards a new type of postmodern theorizing. Part II: Theoretical concepts:. Introduction. 4. Discourse. 5. Hegemony. 6. Social antagonism. Part III: Problems and possible solutions:. Introduction. 7. Structure and agency. 8. Power and authority. 9. The universal and the particular. Part IV: Discourse analysis at work:. Introduction. 10. The politics of nationalism and racism. 11. The politics of mass media. 12. The politics of the modern welfare state. Part V: Political perspectives:. Introduction. 13. Towards a radical plural democracy. 14. Beyond libertarianism and communitarianism. 15. The contours of a postmodern ethics?. Conclusion: The tasks ahead. Glossary. Further reading. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd SocioLegal Studies in Context
Book SynopsisSocio-Legal Studies in Context is the first attempt to take stock of the development of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom. With an increasing awareness amongst legal scholars of the need for socio-legal research, this volume is essential reading for all teachers of law and law related subjects. It will provide rich ideas for young researchers wishing to involve themselves in the socio-legal approach. The volume also provides an opportunity for more experienced researchers to look back and re-assess their own work and help them form their own plans for the future.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Denis J. Galligan (Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies). 2. Sociology and the Stereotype of the Police: Paul Rock (London School of Economics). 3. A Critical Survey of Law and Economics in the UK and the role of the Oxford Centre: Anthony Ogus (University of Manchester). 4. Remembering 1972: The Oxford Centre in the Context of Developments in Higher Education and the Disciplines of Law: William Twining (University College London). 5. Horatio's Mistake: Maureen Cain (West Indies). 6. The Challenges of Socio-Legal Research: Shari Diamond. 7. Global Approaches in the Sociology of Law: Volkmar Gessner (Bremen). 8. On Old and New Battles: Obstacles to the Role of Law in Eastern Europe: Andras Sajo (Central European University). 9. Being Social in Socio-Legal Studies: Peter Fitzpatrick (University of Kent). 10. Contested Communities: Richard Abel (UCLA). 11. The Future of Socio-Legal Research with Respect to Environmental Problems: Michael Faure (Limburg). 12. Geoffrey Stephenson (University of Kent). 13. What Socio-Legal Scholars should do when there is too much Law to Study: Robert Kagan (Berkeley). 14. The Last Word: Stewart Macauley (Wisconsin-Madison). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Guattari Reader
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a register of Felix Guattari's more political side, documenting his interventions in particular political conflicts in contemporary Europe. It should appeal to those working in and between politics, philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, sociology and cultural studies.Trade Review"This fine collection redirects our attention to Félix Guattari’s astonishing achievement. It will be a key document for those who want to grasp the compelling but mobile alliance of psychiatry, philosophy and politics with which Guattari continuously revolutionalized critical theory and clinical practice for over twenty-five years. To read it is to be haunted by one of the most challenging and yet sympathetic sensibilities of our time." – Mark Wigley, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Vicissitudes of Therapy. 2. From Schizo Bypasses to Postmodern Impasses. 3. A Discursive Interlude. 4. Polysemiosis. 5. Queer/Subjectivities. 6. Red and Green Micropolitical Ecologies. A Select Bibliography of Works by Guattari. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Guattari Reader
Book Synopsisaeo A complement to existing literature, bringing together variety previously untranslated material. aeo Broad disciplinary appeal. aeo Covers a broader canvas than any existing book. aeo Charting both Guattaris writing with Deleuze as well as his own solo career.Trade Review"This fine collection redirects our attention to Félix Guattari’s astonishing achievement. It will be a key document for those who want to grasp the compelling but mobile alliance of psychiatry, philosophy and politics with which Guattari continuously revolutionalized critical theory and clinical practice for over twenty-five years. To read it is to be haunted by one of the most challenging and yet sympathetic sensibilities of our time." – Mark Wigley, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Vicissitudes of Therapy. 2. From Schizo Bypasses to Postmodern Impasses. 3. A Discursive Interlude. 4. Polysemiosis. 5. Queer/Subjectivities. 6. Red and Green Micropolitical Ecologies. A Select Bibliography of Works by Guattari. Index.
£43.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio Television and Modern Life
Book SynopsisWritten by one of the foremost and widely--respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and political economy of media analysts who focus largely on the structure of economic and social power within the media.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Intentionality. 2. Sociability. 3. Sincerity. 4. Eventfulness. 5. Authenticity. 6. Identity. 7. Dailiness.
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Wiley The Students Companion to Sociology
Book SynopsisThis superlative Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the discipline of Sociology.Table of ContentsPart I: Sociology: Engaging with the Social World:. 1. Discovering Sociology Personal Accounts: John Rex (University of Warwick). 2. Discovering Sociology Personal Accounts: Frances Heidensohn (Goldsmith's College, University of London). 3. Discovering Sociology Personal Accounts: William P. Kuvlesky (Texas A & M University). The Sociological Imagination:. 4. From Personal Troubles to Public Issues: Glenn Goodwin (Pitzer College). 5. From Public Issues to Private Troubles: Martin Shaw (University of Sussex). The Public Impact of Sociology:. 6. The Black Report and the Politics of Health in Britain: Nicolette Hart (University of California, Los Angeles). 7. The Public Impact of Sociology: Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest: Jerry Starr (West Virginia University). Part II: Sociology and its Traditions: The Distinctive Character of Sociology:. 8. Founders and Classics: Jonathan Turner (University of California, Riverside). 9. Everything From Crabs to Islam: On the Relation Between Sociologists and Their Intellectual Neighbours: David Lee (University of Essex). 10. Sociology as both Humanist and Scientific: Chet Ballard (Valdosta State University). Values and Diversity in Sociology: . 11. Conservatism and Sociology: The Problem of Social Order: Graham Kinloch (Florida State University). 12. Social Reform, Revolution and Sociology: Chris Middleton (University of Sheffield). 13. The Feminist Challenge: Anne Witz (University of Strathclyde). 14. Mr. Faust Meets Mr. Bateman: Mapping Postmodernity: Steve Papson (St. Lawrence University). 15. Putting Sociology in its Place: Joti Sekhon (Greensboro College). Focal Themes of Sociology:. 16. Social Divisions: Harriet Bradley (University of Bristol). 17. Power: Concepts and Research: Jon Gubbay (University of East Anglia). 18. Social Identity and the Life-Course: Paul Bellaby (University of East Anglia). The Language of Sociology:. 19. A Brief Guide to 'Difficult' Sociological Jargon and Some Resolutions: David Jary. Part III: Contemporary Sociological Engagement: Social Issues:. 20. Higher Education and Employment in A Post-Industrial Society: Phil Brown and Richard Scase (University of Kent). 21. Inequality and Affirmative Action: Sociological Perspectives: Charles Jaret (Georgia State University). 22. Up Against Nature: Sociological Thoughts on Sexuality: Stevi Jackson and Momin Rahman (University of Strathclyde). 23. Wither Welfare?: Alan Walker (University of Sheffield). 24. Mcdonaldization and Globalisation: George Ritzer (University of Maryland). 25. Green Futures?: Ted Benton (University of Essex). Sociology to Fire the Imagination:. 26. Leaving Home: Liz Kenyon (University of Newcastle). 27. Fashion: Steve Miles (University of Glasgow). 28. The Managed Heart: Lori Holyfield (University of Arkansas). 29. Crime and the American Dream: Randy Blazak (Portland State University). 30. Civil War: Michael Drake (University of East Anglia). 31. From Reproduction to Production: Dongsook Gills (University of Sunderland). Part IV: Doing Sociology: Study and Research: Active Reading:. 32. How to Read Sociological Texts: Mary Patrice Erdmans (University of North Carolina). 33. Deciphering Research Reports: Derek Layder (University of Leicester). 34. Demystifying Theory: How the Theories of Georg Simmel (and Others) Help us to Make Sense of Modern Life: Leonard Beeghley (University of Florida, Gainesville). Doing Sociological Research:. 35. How to Formulate a Student Research Project: Frank Lyons and Chas Wilson (University of Portsmouth). 36. Society as Text: Documents, Artefacts and Social Practices: Simon Cottle (Bath College of Higher Education). 37. The Researcher's Craft: Observing, Listening and Note-taking: Robert Burgess (University of Warwick). 38. Team Research: David Philips (University of North London). 39. Research Ethics: Roger Homan (University of Brighton). Computers in Sociology:. 40. Using Computers: Millsom Henry (University of Stirling). Part V: Directory and Resources:. 41. Biographical Dictionary: David Fisher (Nottingham Trent University). 42. Sources of Data and Information: Martin Scarrott (University of North London). 43. Major Journals in Sociology: Simon Speight (University of Glamorgan). 44. Conferences and Societies: Steve Morgan (University of the West of England). Part VI: What Next?: Advice on Employment and Further Study:. 45. Marketing your Sociological Training: Sheila Miles (University of Sheffield and London University). 46. Opportunities for Professional and Vocational Training: Sheila Cross (University College of Ripon and York St. John). 47. 'Sociologist - will Travel': Janice Eglin (University of East London). 48. Postgraduate Studies in Sociology: North America: David Johnson. 49. Postgraduate Studies in Sociology: UK: Chris Middleton (University of Sheffield). 50. A Note on Postgraduate Studies in Australasia. From Sociological Study to Employment:. 51. Viewpoints From Three Sociology Graduates: Jo Osborne, Meeta Patel and Jacquie Hammond. 52. A Sociology Graduate in Employment: Kay Freeland (Abraham Baldwin College). 53. Being a Sociologist Employed in Public Agencies: A Personal View: Tricia Lain White (Department of Employment). Postscript: Potentials and Predicaments: The Editors. Index.
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