Sociology and anthropology Books
Harvard University Press Society and Economy
Book SynopsisA work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology, this first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas stresses that the economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities but is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and constraints as religion, science, politics, or law.Trade ReviewThis book represents not only a long-awaited statement by the leading figure in one of the most vibrant subfields of sociology, but also a major contribution to the social sciences as a whole. Always a masterful writer, Granovetter is in rare form here, giving the book an almost ‘impossible-to-put-down’ quality. This is the most important work ever published in the field of economic sociology. It should be read by anyone with an interest in social theory, and social life in general. -- Mark Mizruchi, University of MichiganThis long awaited book by one of the founders of the New Economic Sociology builds conceptual grounds for a sociological perspective of the economy. Focusing on the role of norms, trust, power, and institutions for the workings of the economy, Society and Economy is an impressive synthesizing statement that will help structure future research. Based on discussions covering a staggering range of scholarship, Granovetter’s book demonstrates the crucial importance of social structures for economic organization. One can only hope that it will reach a broad and interdisciplinary audience. -- Jens Beckert, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesBreathtaking in scope and insight. -- William Ocasio, Northwestern UniversityA summing up of a lifetime’s work in economic sociology…Brings to mind an earlier age in social science with books like Max Weber’s Economy and Society and Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation…A wide-ranging and deeply thought through book. -- Sanjeev Goyal * Journal of Economic Literature *Long-awaited…Granovetter’s sociology develops conceptual tools for an analysis of economic life…[He] offers a powerful broadside against neoclassical economic assumptions. -- Elaine Coburn * International Sociology Review *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Condition of Postmodernity
Book SynopsisIn this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.Trade Review"Devastating. The most brilliant study of post-modernity to date. David Harvey cuts beneath the theoretical debates about postmodernist culture to reveal the social and economic basis of this apparently free-floating phenomenon. After reading this book, those who fashionably scorn the idea of a 'total' critique had better think again." Terry Eagleton "Few people have penetrated the heartland of contemporary cultural theory and critique as explosively or insightfully as David Harvey." Edward Soja "David Harvey's book is probably the best yet written on the link between ... economic and cultural transformations." Financial Times "David Harvey's engrossing book is probably the most readable, ambitious, and intelligent work on postmodernism yet published." Voice Literary Supplement "In Harvey's skilful hands various strands of contemporary life, normally held far apart by specialized scholarly interests, come together again and are shown to fit with each other ... a marvellous, enjoyable and mind-opening book." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsThe argument. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Passage from Modernity to Postmodernity in Contemporary Culture: . 1. Introduction. 2. Modernity and Modernism. 3. Postmodernism. 4. Postmodernism in the City: Architecture and Urban Design. 5. Modernization. 6. POSTmodernISM or postMODERNism?. Part II: The Political-Economic Transformation of late Twentieth-Century Capitalism: . 7. Introduction. 8. Fordism. 9. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation. 10. Theorizing the Transition. 11. Flexible Accumulation - Solid Transformation or Temporary Fix?. Part III: The Experience of Space and Time: . 12. Introduction. 13. Individual Spaces and Times in Social Life. 14. Time and Space as Sources of Social Power. 15. The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project. 16. Time-space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force. 17. Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition. 18. Time and Space in the Postmodern Cinema. Part IV: The Condition of Postmodernity:. 19. Postmodernity as a Historical Condition. 20. Economics with Mirrors. 21. Postmodernism as the Mirror of Mirrors. 22. Fordist Modernism versus Flexible Postmodernism, or the Interpenetration of Opposed Tendencies in Capitalism as a Whole. 23. The Transformative and Speculative Logic of Capital. 24. The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction and Image Banks. 25. Responses to Time-Space Compression. 26. The Crisis of Historical Materialism. 27. Cracks in the Mirrors, Fusions at the Edges. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Violence and Civilization
Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought -- violence and civilization. Although Elias is best known for his theory of civilizing processes, this study highlights the crucial importance of the concept of decivilizing processes.Trade Review"Violence and Civilization is an outstanding book. It is both an extremely valuable addition to the small but growing literature on the work of Norbert Elias and, in its own right, a major contribution to our understanding of a subject central to contemporary social theory - violence." Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin "Violence and Civilization is a tour de force, a 'must' for the growing number of sociologists who are coming to recognize Norbert Elias as a twentieth-century 'great'. Elias has often been criticized on spurious grounds - for example, for neglecting Nazism and the Holocaust - but, by tackling head-on how Elias actually grappled with such issues, Jonathan Fletcher succeeds in developing a critique which merits serious consideration. He has produced a clear, well-written text which is nicely balanced between exposition and appraisal. Violence and Civilization will be invaluable for those who wish to take Elias's project further." Eric Dunning, University of Leicester "A valuable addition to the literature on Elias's 'configurational sociology', a study that allows deeper appreciation of Elias's fertile imagination." The Times Higher Educational Supplement "This book is a welcome addition to the small Elias literature. The book provides a clear and not uncritical assessment of Elias's remarkable capacity to capture social complexity as it relates to the inner lives of human beings. There are not many readers who will not find somewhere in this volume an insight which can be taken on board and used as a point for future reference. Few scholars have the knowledge or ability to even think of writing such a book." British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 2 Civilization, Habitus and Civilizing Processes 6 The development of civilization as a concept 6 Changes in social and individual habitus 10 Socialization, aggression and shame 21 3 Violence, Habitus and State Formation 31 Violence monopolies and pacification 31 Linearity, development and evolution 39 On the concepts of violence and civilization 45 4 Identity, Violence and Process Models 55 Interdependence, social bonds and the we–I balance 55 Established-outsider relations 70 Criteria of civilizing and decivilizing processes 82 5 Social Habitus and Civilizing Processes in England 88 State formation and pacification 89 Public opinion and national ideals 96 Sport and violence: the example of foxhunting 107 6 Nationalism and Decivilizing Processes in Germany 116 State formation and national identification 117 Violence in the imperial establishment 123 Violence in the Weimar Republic 134 7 Genocide and Decivilizing Processes in Germany 148 National ideals and the rise of the Nazis 148 Mass murder and national we-identity 158 Civilization, ‘modernity’ and decivilizing processes 166 8 Elias on Violence, Civilization and Decivilization 176 Notes 185 References 197 Index 209
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Imaginary Institution of Society
Book SynopsisThis is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe.Trade Review"Shot through with radiant insights." The New Statesman and Society "An excellent introduction to the range, depth, and perceptiveness of his thinking. He has the distinctive ability to bring illumination where there is darkness and obscurity." Richard J. Bernstein, New School of Social ResearchTable of ContentsPart I: Marxism and Revolutionary Theory. . 1. Marxism: A Provisional Assessment. 2. Theory and Revolutionary Project. 3. The Institution and the Imaginary: A First Approach. Part II: The Social Imaginary and the Institution. . 4. The Social-Historical. 5. The Social-Historical Institution: Legein and Tukhein. 6. The Social-Historical Institution: Individuals and Things. 7. Social Imaginary Significations. Notes. Index.
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Lexington Books Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Social Engineering in the
Book SynopsisThomas EtzemÃller examines the impact of two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. This study brings to light the roots of modern social engineering, providing insight for today's sociologists, historians, and political scholars.Trade ReviewIn the US, Swedish social scientist Gunnar Myrdal is best known for An American Dilemma, his 1944 book on race relations and racism in the US. By that time, however, Gunnar and his wife Alva Myrdal were already prominent as major intellectual contributors to Sweden’s planned society. They were also, in the eyes of many people, a model of a modern egalitarian marriage. Etzemüller traces the development of their social views and advocacy and the conflicts that sometimes troubled their publicly idealized partnership. The author places the couple within the historical setting of the creation of the Swedish welfare state. The Myrdals were devoted to their nation’s project of establishing a new harmonious community through the rational planning of social relations by experts. From their background in Sweden, the Myrdals became proponents of social planning on a worldwide scale. Although somewhat densely written for general readers, this book will be of great value to upper-level undergraduates and scholars seeking to understand Swedish social democracy, the problems and paradoxes of social engineering, and the life and work of two of the most important social scientists and reformers of the 20th century. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *The relationship between the personal, the political, and the public is at the core of modern politics. By focusing on the self-presentation in words and media images of the Swedish social scientists and reformers Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, Thomas Etzemuller offers a fresh perspective both on their one-time international celebrity status as “rational modernizers” and on the deep contradictions in welfare state ideology between individualism and collectivism, cosmopolitan liberalism, and nationalist state authoritarianism. This book is a compelling and highly readable story that feeds well into contemporary welfare state controversies. -- E. Stina Lyon, London South Bank UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Path through Modernity 2. Orchestrated Lives 3. Exploratory Steps 4. The Project of Modernity 5. The Power of Cold Reason 6. Rebuilding Society 7. Project Child 8. An Exemplary Life? 9. America 10. World Citizens 11. Conclusion: Latitude
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Harvard University Press Sociobiology
Book SynopsisWhen this classic was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the nature versus nurture debate. In the introduction to this edition, Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience over the past quarter of a century has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature.Trade ReviewIt is impossible to leave Wilson’s book without having one’s sense of life permanently and dramatically widened. -- Fred Hapgood * The Atlantic *Rarely has the world been provided with such a splendid stepping stone for an exciting future of a new science. -- John Tyler Bonner * Scientific American *This book enthralls and enchants… If you have this book… you can begin getting your mind ready for the illuminations about human society. -- Lewis Thomas * Harper’s *Sociobiology is an excellent book, full of extraordinary insights, and replete with the beauty and poetry of the animal kingdom. * Times Literary Supplement *Its contents do indeed provide a new synthesis, of wide perspective and great authority… Wilson’s plain uncluttered prose is a treat to read, his logic is rigorous, his arguments are lucid. -- V. C. Wymne-Edwards * Nature *Sociobiology explores the possibility that animal social behaviour—group living, kinship, attraction and mating, reciprocity and sharing, cooperation, conflict, and cheating, to name just the most familiar—has a genetic basis and can be shaped by natural selection: genes can be shaped by natural selection: genes can code for social behaviours in the same way that they code for body parts such as hands, hooves, eyes, antlers and ears. But, in an audacious final chapter, Wilson extended the analysis to humans: biology had grabbed our kinship, cooperation, mate preferences and the rest. Some branded Wilson and his ideas fascist, others as racist or guilty of genetic determinism. They are none of these things and, two Pulitzer Prizes later, Wilson has been vindicated… Wilson’s Sociobiology laid the foundations for a lifetime of meditations. -- Mark Pagel * Times Higher Education Supplement *A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance… Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. -- Pierre L. van den Berghe * Contemporary Sociology *Sociobiology, a new concept, is one with extraordinary potential value for understanding and explaining human behavior. * Practical Psychology *This book will stand as a landmark in the comparative study of social behavior. * Quarterly Review of Biology *It’s been 25 years since E. O. Wilson wrote Sociobiology, naming a new science and starting it off with a bang—and a firestorm of protest. ‘Nurture!’ and ‘Nature!’ came the cries from every corner of the academic world, as the book became a causus belli for sociologists, feminists, human geneticists, and psychologists. -- Mary Ellen Curtin * Amazon.com *Table of Contents* Part I. Social Evolution *1. The Morality of the Gene *2. Elementary Concepts of Sociobiology *3. The Prime Movers of Social Evolution *4. The Relevant Principles of Population Biology *5. Group Selection and Altruism *6. Group Size, Reproduction, and Time-Energy Budgets * Part II. Social Mechanisms *7. The Development and Modification of Social Behavior *8. Communication: Basic Principles *9. Communication: Functions and Complex Systems *10. Communication: Origins and Evolution *11. Aggression *12. Social Spacing, Including Territory *13. Dominance Systems *14. Roles and Castes *15. Sex and Society *16. Paternal Care *17. Social Symbioses * Part III. The Social Species *18. The Four Pinnacles of Social Evolution *19. The Colonial Microorganisms and Invertebrates *20. The Social Insects *21. The Cold-Blooded Vertebrates *22. The Birds *23. Evolutionary Trends within the Mammals *24. The Ungulates and Elephants *25. The Carnivores *26. The Nonhuman Primates *27. Man: From Sociobiology to Sociology * Glossary * Bibliography * Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Criminological Imagination
Book SynopsisRejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. This title draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.Trade Review"Great teachers like Young translate between cultural forms and fields of knowledge." Kriminologisches Journal 'The terms "criminology" and "imagination" do not naturally belong together. Jock Young's singular achievement is to apply a fine "criminological imagination", exposing the soulless discourse of mainstream criminology and reflecting upon the alternative critical tradition in which he himself played such a central role.' Stan Cohen, London School of Economics and Political Science ‘If reading a clever and consequential book were a crime, you would get arrested and hauled straight to jail for picking up The Criminological Imagination. Adapting and deepening C.-Wright Mills's classic critique of the foibles of sociology, Young not only offers a razor-sharp diagnosis of how criminology lost its way in a funny-mirror house of methodological fetishism, empirical legerdemain, conceptual confusion and policy subservience. He also clears a path toward rescue and renewal: criminology can regain its analytic poise and civic relevance by embracing its sociological grounding and by reconnecting crime to formations of meaning and power. This book will energize all those who wish to free the craft from the clutches of the profession, and it is sure to fire up vigorous debate between and among partisans of mainstream and critical criminology.' Loïc Wacquant, author of Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality and Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills 1. Closing Down the Imagination 2. Measurement and the Sexologists 3. Amnesia and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice 4. The Bogus of Positivism 5. The Loosening of the Moorings: The Emergence of Cultural Criminology 6. Giuliani and the New York Miracle 7. Magic, Mayhem and Margaret Mead: Towards a Critical Ethnography 8. Subcultures as Magic: Problems of Urban Ethnography 9. Dangerous Knowledge and the Politics of the Imagination 10. Rescuing the Imagination
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modernity as Experience and Interpretation
Book SynopsisWe are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis. Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and free scientific institutions. This trinity used to be called modern society'. By contrast, this book is based on the idea that, under conditions of modernity, there are no stable and certain answers to these questions. There is a plurality of possible answers, every proposed answer can be criticized and contested, and every society needs to find its answer on its own. This new sociology of modernity proposes Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 Ways of Understanding Modernity 1 Part I: Interpretations of Political Modernity: Liberty and its Discontents 19 Overture: Multiple Interpretations of Political Modernity 21 2 Modernity and the Question of Freedom 24 3 The Political Forms of Modernity 39 4 Modernity as a Project of Emancipation and the Possibility of Politics 62 Part II: Interpretations of Economic Modernity: The Endgame and After 75 Overture: Capitalism and Modernity as Social Formations and as Imaginary Signifi cations 77 5 The Critique of Capitalism and its Impasse 83 6 Towards a Historical-Comparative Sociology of Capitalism 103 7 The Exit from Organized Economic Modernity 123 Part III: Interpretations of Epistemic Modernity: Distance and Involvement 143 Overture: The Quest for Knowledge beyond Experience and Interpretation 145 8 The Critique of Science and its Prospects 149 9 Varieties of Socio-political Interpretations of Modernity 165 Part IV: The European Experience and Interpretation of Modernity 189 Overture: European Integration as an Interpretation of Modernity 191 10 Logics of European History 196 11 Regionalizing European Modernity 215 Part V: The Analysis of Modernity and the Need for a New Sociology 231 Overture: When the Light of the Cultural Problems has Moved On 233 12 The Social Theory and Political Philosophy of Modernity 235 13 The Conceptual History and Historical Sociology of Modernity 247 Notes 265 References 282 Index 297
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Liquid Times
Book SynopsisThe passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.Trade Review"Liquid Times and Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."Satyajit Das, Willmot.comTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1 1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5 2 Humanity on the Move 27 3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55 4 Out of Touch Together 71 5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94 Notes 111
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Time of Transitions
Book SynopsisWe live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Foreword. Part I From Bonn to Berlin. 1 There are Alternatives!. Part II Interventions. 2 From Power Politics to Cosmopolitan Society. 3 A Sort of Logo of the Free West. 4 The Finger of Blame: The Germans and Their Memorial. Part III Public Reeprsentation and Cultural Memory. 5 Symbolic Expression and Ritual Behavior: Ernst Cassirer and Arnold Gehlen Revisited. Part IV Europe in Transition. 6 Euroskepticism, Market Europe, or a Europe of (World) Citizens?. 7 Does Europe need a Constitution?. Part V A Question of Political Theory. 8 Constitutional Democracy - A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?. Part VI American Pragmatism and German Philosophy: Three Reviews. 9 John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty. 10 Richard Rorty, Achieving our Country. 11 Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit. Part VII Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. 12 A Conversation about God and The World. Notes. Index.
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Oxford University Press Criminology
Book SynopsisCrime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisingly, crime has been pushed high up the public policy agenda across the world. But how can we measure crime, or evaluate the effectiveness of preventative measures? Does the threat of prison reduce someone''s likelihood of reoffending, or would rehabilitation be more constructive?In this Very Short Introduction Tim Newburn considers how we can study trends in crime, and use them to inform preventative policy and criminal justice. Analysing the history of the subject, he reflects on our understanding of crime and responses to crime in earlier historical periods. Considering trends in crime in the developed world, Newburn discusses its causes, exploring the relationship between drugs and crime, analysing what we know about why people stop offending, and looking at both formal and informal responses to crime. Newburn concludes by discussing what role criminology can plausibly be anticipated to have in crime control and politics, and what its limits are. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewWhat is crime? Who is a criminal? These are big questions, tackled adroitly and insightfully in this short but weighty book. * Shadd Maruna, Co-Editor, Oxford Handbook of Criminology *Tim Newburn presents the fundamental concepts, concerns, and findings of criminology with a clarity and wit that make it fully accessible to the beginner without ever sacrificing the depth and originality needed to hold the attention of the expert. This is a wonderfully concise and engaging book! * David Garland, Professor of Law and Sociology, New York University *Table of ContentsIntroducing criminologyWhat is crime?Who commits crime?How do we measure crime?Understanding recent trends in crimeUnderstanding the crime dropHow do we control crime?How do we prevent crime?Where next for criminology?Sources and Further ReadingIndex
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Grundlagen des Small Talk für Dummies Das
Book SynopsisSmall Talk ist der gekonnte Start, um erfolgreiche Verbindungen zu Menschen zu knüpfen. Egal ob privat, auf Messen, beim Geschäftsessen, auf der Reise oder beim Vorstellungsgespräch: Wenn andere Sie mögen, öffnen sich Ihnen viele neue Möglichkeiten. Worüber aber reden, wenn es eigentlich nichts zu sagen gibt? Wie an Menschen anknüpfen, über die man nichts weiß? Wie überwindet man die Sprachlosigkeit, zeigt sich spontaner und gesprächsbereiter? Gero Teufert zeigt Ihnen in diesem Buch Techniken und Strategien, geht auf Themen und verschiedene Gesprächssituationen ein und verrät die Tricks guter Small Talker, mit denen Sie bei Ihrem Gesprächspartner Sympathien erzeugen.Table of ContentsÜber den Autor 7 Einführung 11 Teil I: Small Talk – Sinnloses Geplauder? 15 Kapitel 1: Was ist Small Talk? 17 Kapitel 2: Tipps und Tricks gegen Sprachlosigkeit 27 Teil II: Mit Basistechniken raus aus der Sprachlosigkeit 39 Kapitel 3: Die wichtigsten Grundeinstellungen 41 Kapitel 4: Einfache Strategien – das kann jeder! 51 Teil III: Small Talk starten und aufrecht erhalten 61 Kapitel 5: So finden Sie ein Thema 63 Kapitel 6: Small Talk in verschiedenen Situationen 73 Teil IV: Die Geheimnisse erfolgreicher Small Talker 83 Kapitel 7: Wie Sie Small Talk in Gang halten 85 Kapitel 8: So erreichen Sie unterbewusste Zustimmung 99 Teil V: Der Top-Ten-Teil 109 Kapitel 9: Die zehn besten Themen für Small Talk 111 Stichwortverzeichnis 123
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Critical Pedagogy Primer
Book SynopsisThe second edition of the Critical Pedagogy Primer not only introduces the topic but also provides a vision for the future of the critical pedagogy. Kincheloe's notion of an evolving criticality makes sure that critical pedagogy will continue to be a vibrant and creative force that makes a powerful difference in education and in the world in general. As it prepares readers for the challenges of the future, it focuses on the traditions and individuals who have helped construct the discipline. This attention to the past and the future provides readers with an introduction unlike most initiations into academic disciplines. In a richly textured but direct manner, Kincheloe captures the spirit of critical pedagogy in a language accessible to diverse audiences. Both the uninitiated and those with experience in critical pedagogy can learn from this unique and compelling perspective on the field.
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Clear Light Publishers Pueblo Profiles
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Moral Rights and Political Freedom Studies in
Book SynopsisSeeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith offers here a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book shows what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights.
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Harvard University Press Republicanism in Russia
Book SynopsisMarxism was the loser in the Cold War, but Oleg Kharkhordin is not surprised that liberal democracy failed to take root after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. He suggests that Russians find a path to freedom by looking to the classical tradition of republican self-government and civic engagement already familiar from their history and literature.Trade ReviewA fascinating study, empirically informed but normatively oriented, of Russia’s republican prospects. It is imaginatively shaped by political theory, the history of ideas, and a multiply-documented belief in the power of words to change things. -- Philip Pettit, Princeton University and Australian National UniversityKharkhordin argues that Russia has a tradition of ‘republican thought’ of a distinct genealogy, not that of the French Revolution but originating in the ancient world (especially Cicero) and then charting its own line through the Russian Decembrists of the early nineteenth century up to the present. These ideas were frequently submerged in the Russian history of authoritarianism, but survived through the medium of literature throughout the later nineteenth century and during the Soviet era. Recouped, they could form the basis for a new politics in Russia. This is original thinking of the first order, and enjoyable reading too. -- Caroline Humphrey, University of CambridgeThis is a brilliant, highly original, and ambitious book. Kharkhordin sets out an agenda for the creation in Russia of a meaningful social order constituted around res publica, cleverly anchoring this vision in a deeply historically grounded analysis that marries multiple Russian intellectual traditions with classical elements of republican thought. The result is a philosophical foundation for an alternative way forward in Russian politics. Breaking new ground amidst rigid analytical paradigms and highly politicized debates, this is a remarkable achievement. -- Jessica Pisano, The New School for Social ResearchA startling synthesis of empirical data, conceptual and social history, and political theory. Most commentators examine Russian transformation through the prism of western models of liberalism. Kharkhordin, in contrast, derives a novel theory of Russian republicanism from observation of the practices, language, and histories of Russian activists, poets, politicians, thinkers, and entrepreneurs. This leads him to cautious optimism that new spheres of liberty and public life may yet emerge from areas in Russian society that typically escape our attention: practices of friendship, institutions of the commons, cultures of scientific innovation, and shared desires to remake the world. -- Kevin M. F. Platt, University of PennsylvaniaKharkhordin’s argument is novel and deeply grounded in the history of ideas and community in Russia…Sews together a set of complex ideas to demonstrate that liberal democracy is not the only option for Russian society to have representative governance. -- Kathryn Stoner * Russian Review *
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Liberty Fund Inc Politics as Public Choice 13 Collected Works of
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MIT Press Ltd Discriminating Data Correlation Neighborhoods and
Book SynopsisHow big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data’s predictive potential, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. Chun, who has a background in systems design engineering as well as media studies and cultural theory, explains that although machine learning algori
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Vintage Publishing The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties
Book SynopsisRobert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself.This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.Trade ReviewMore than any other writer, Conquest has been responsible for bringing to the attention of the West the extent of the crimes committed against humanity in the name of Soviet Communism * Sunday Times *Stalin was not only the master criminal; he was the master concealer. It took a master detective, and a poet, like Mr Conquest, to unmask him completely * New York Times *Monumental * Washington Post *A very important book. No one has written about Stalin's terror so deeply -- Milovan Djilas
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University of California Press Mediums and Magical Things Statues Paintings and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mediums and Magical Things makes a valuable contribution to the study of material religion, anthropology of religion, and religion in modernity. It is a timely volume that will no doubt fulfill Kendall’s hope that it ‘propel others down similar paths’." * Nova Religio *"Mediums and Magic Things contributes to the study of material religion and the anthropology of religion in a very readable and easily accessible way." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Conventions 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things 2. Ensoulments 3. Materiality, Making, and Magic 4. Agency and Assemblage 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred 6. Afterlives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Inside the Olympic Industry Power Politics and
Book SynopsisAnalysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games. In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global Games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olympic impacts from recent host cities, bribery investigations and their outcomes, grassroots resistance movements, and the role of the mass media in the controversy. A highly accessible book about a complex subject that touches the hearts of sports fans everywhere, Inside the Olympic Industry is a must-read, behind-the-scenes look at the politics surrounding the choice of Sydney, Australia as host city for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
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MIT Press Ltd You Are Here A Field Guide for Navigating
Book SynopsisHow to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to
Book SynopsisWe live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just want to get fit. Why this modern preoccupation with fitness? In this new book, Jürgen Martschukat traces the roots of our modern preoccupation with fitness back to the birth of modern societies in the eighteenth century, showing how the idea of fitness was interwoven with modernity’s emphasis on perpetual optimization and renewal. But it is only in the period since the 1970s, he argues, that the age of fitness truly emerged, as part and parcel of our contemporary neoliberal era. Neoliberalism enjoins individuals to work on themselves, to cultivate themselves in body and mind. Fitness becomes a guiding principle of social life, an era-defining network of discourses and practices that shape individuals’ actions and self-conceptions. The pursuit of fitness becomes a cultural repertoire that is deeply ingrained in our institutions and way of life. This wide-ranging book shows how deeply fitness is inscribed in modern societies, and how important fitness has become to success or failure, recognition or exclusion, in a society that sets great store by self-responsibility, performance, market, and competition. It will be of great value not only to those interested in sport and fitness, but also to anyone concerned with the conditions of success and failure in our societies today.Trade Review‘fascinating’ The Guardian‘convincing’New Statesman“Jürgen Martschukat uncovers fitness as a regulating force deeply inscribed in liberal societies; it is a state of productivity, social responsibility, and self-worth for which individuals relentlessly strive. An absorbing account of ‘proactive relationships’ with our bodies, The Age of Fitness is also a benchmark history of biopolitics.”Douglas Booth, Thompson Rivers University “This extremely clear and well-argued book is indispensable for those who wish to reflect upon the social and political conditions by which we have become concerned with our ‘fitness’ and the historical development of such an endeavor within a comparative North American and European context. Of particular note is the relation it establishes between the work we undertake on ourselves, our bodies, our vitality, and our potency, and the neoliberal models of society that emphasize individualized performance and competition.”Mitchell Dean, Copenhagen Business School“Bodies, and ideas about bodies, have a powerful history. Martschukat’s The Age of Fitness tracks the current preoccupation with ‘being fit’ across over 200 years and multiple sites within the West. Propelled to consume, yet also to maintain an ideally svelte frame, we are caught within a deeply ambivalent regime. Martschukat’s lively discussion provides clarity and depth to this most vexing of contemporary conditions.”Charlotte Macdonald, Victoria University of Wellington “In this meticulous analysis of contemporary society, Martschukat lays bare the cultural and historical roots of the modern fitness boom.”WOZ–Die Wochenzeitung “This original and engaging book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: critical social history at its best.”SWR 2“The Age of Fitness is an evocative and persuasive big picture explanation of fitness... it is a masterful piece of rich, detailed and nuanced contextualisation.” Sport, Education and Society“The book provides an excellent framework for the fat studies researcher/activist to understand fitness as a means of creating self-regulated workers required in the neoliberal epoch and for reinforcing social class privilege.”Fat StudiesTable of ContentsTable of contents:Acknowledgements Introduction: The Age of Fitness 1. “Fit or Fat”? Fitness in Recent History and the Present Day 2. Fitness. Trajectories of a Concept since the Eighteenth Century 3. Working 4. Having Sex 5. Fighting 6. Productive, Potent, and Ready to Fight? Notes Bibliography Index
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Beacon Press Radicalizing Her Why Women Choose Violence
Book SynopsisAn urgent corrective to the erasure of the female fighter from narratives on gender and power, demanding that we see all women as political actors.“Violence, for me, and for the women I chronicle in this book, is simply a political reality.”Though the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly, women make up nearly 30% of militant movements worldwide. Historically, these women—viewed as victims, weak-willed wives, and prey to Stockholm Syndrome—have been deeply misunderstood. Radicalizing Her holds the female fighter up in all her complexity as a kind of mirror to contemporary conversations on gender, violence, and power. The narratives at the heart of the book are centered in the Global South, and extend to a criticism of the West’s response to the female fighter, revealing the arrayed forces that have driven women into battle and the personal and political elements of these decisions.Gowrinathan, whose own fam
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University of California Press The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga
Book SynopsisA dynamic translation of the timeless African epic. The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the social structure, values, and cosmology of this African people.Trade Review“This book is a must for students of literature about Africa.” -- Jan Vansina, * American Anthropologist *“A work of art in its own right, in which the Africanist, the literary critic, and the general reader will all find pleasure and profit.” * Africa *"The richness of content and the variety of literary forms of this epic are quite amazing. . . . It is a macrocosm of Nyanga life and culture. . . . A classic of African oral literature." * Research in African Literature *"...Biebuyck's deep understanding of Nyanga society and his sensitivity to poetic form are constantly in evidence. The work will therefore be of interest to the anthropologist and historian as well as the specialist in folklore." * Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Nyanga Nyanga Oral Literature The Narrator, Mr. Shé-Kári¸si¸ Candi Rureke The Mwindo Epic The System of Transcription Notes About the Translation The Mwindo Epic Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Great Regression
Book SynopsisWe are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ago, a world that seems to many to be a move backwards. How can we make sense of these dramatic developments and how should we respond to them? Are we witnessing a worldwide rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement by some kind of populist authoritarianism? This timely volume brings together some of the world's greatest minds to analyse and seek to understand the forces behind this 'great regression'. Writers from across disciplines and countries, including Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Slavoj Zizek, Zygmunt Bauman, Arjun Appadurai, Wolfgang Streeck and Eva Illouz, grapple with our current predicament, framing it in a broader historical context, discussing possible future trajectories and considering ways that we might combat this reactionary turn. The Great Regression is a key intervention that will be of great value to all those concerned about recent developments and wondering how best to respond to this unprecedented challenge to the very core of liberal democracy and internationalism across the world today. For more information, see: www.thegreatregression.euTrade Review"With 15 fresh, riveting essays by notable political analysts and international studies scholars from nearly as many different countries, The Great Regression, Heinrich Geiselberger's new volume addressing the many perilous aspects of global interdependence, is a must-read for anyone curious to know more about the deeper structures at play in contemporary international politics."HyperallergicTable of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Heinrich Geiselberger 1. Democracy Fatigue Arjun Appadurai 2. Symptoms in Search of an Object and a Name Zygmunt Bauman 3. Progressive and Regressive Politics in Late Neoliberalism Donatella della Porta 4. Progressive Neoliberalism versus Reactionary Populism: A Hobson�s Choice Nancy Fraser 5. Populism or the Crisis of Liberal Elites: The Case of Israel Eva Illouz 6. Majoritarian Futures Ivan Krastev 7. Europe as refuge Bruno Latour 8. Overcoming the Fear of Freedom Paul Mason 9. Politics in the Age of Resentment. The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment Pankaj Mishra 10. The Courage to be Audacious Robert Misik 11. Decivilisation. On regressive tendencies in Western democracies Oliver Nachtwey 12. From Global Regression to Post-Capitalist Counter-Movements César Rendueles 13. The Return of the Repressed as the Beginning of the End of Neoliberal Capitalism Wolfgang Streeck 14. Dear President Juncker David Van Reybrouck 15. The Populist Temptation Slavoj Zizek
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Comfort of People
Book SynopsisAt the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and kinship, but also loneliness and isolation. This is a book about people's lives, not their deaths: about the hospice patients rather than the hospice. It focuses on the comfort given by friends, carers and relatives through both face-to-face relations and, increasingly, online communication. Miller asks whether the loneliness and isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of English patterns of socialising, or their continuation. This moving and deeply humane book combines warmth and sharp observation with anthropological insight and practical suggestions for the use of media by the hospice. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, social policy and media and cultural studies, but also to healthcare professionals and, indeed, to anyone who would like to know more about the role of relationships in the final stage of our lives.Trade Review'The Comfort of People reveals, in both technicolour and shades of grey, the ordinariness, the drama, the simplicity and the complexity of networks as people live out lives in the shadow of a serious diagnosis... These stories need to be read by all those working with dying people.' —Dr Ros Taylor, Clinical Director, Hospice UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Story 1) Sarah Story 2) Champneys for the Terminal Story 3) The Curse Of Confidentiality Story 4) Parkinson�s Story 5) Four Friends Story 6) Betty and Gloria Story 7) Tom, Dick and Robin Rigby Story 8) My Fair Lady Story 9) Maypole Story 10) Control Centre Story 11) Our Forum Story 12) Depression Story 13) Community Story 14) Bluebells Story 15) The Intimacy Of Strangers Story 16) The Silent Community Story 17) In This Room Story 18) Matt Conclusions Recommendations for Hospice Use of New Media Bibliography
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New World Library Ecstasy of Being The
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Frog Ltd Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the
Book SynopsisIn this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as scientists, activists, and scholars, they are dedicated to renewing a food system that is better aligned with ecological processes as well as human health and global social justice. Seed Sovereignty, Food Security is an argument for just that--a reclaiming of traditional methods of agricultural practice in order to secure a healthy, nourishing future for all of us. Whether tackling the thorny question of GMO safety or criticizing the impact of big agribusiness on traditional communities, these women are in the vanguard of defending the right of people everywhere to practice local, biodiverse, and organic farming as an alternative to industrial agriculture.Contents• Seed Sovereignty, Food Security VANDANA SHIVA • Fields of Hope and Power FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ & ANNA LAPPÉ • The Ethics of Agricultural Biotechnology BETH BURROWS • Food Politics, the Food Movement and Public Health MARION NESTLE • Autism and Glyphosate: Connecting the Dots STEPHANIE SENEFF • The New Genetics and Dangers of GMOs MAE-WAN HO • Seed Emergency: Germany SUSANNE GURA • GM Soy as Feed for Animals Affects Posterity IRINA ERMAKOVA & ALEXANDER BARANOFF • Seeds in France TIPHAINE BURBAN • Kokopelli vs. Graines Baumaux BLANCHE MAGARINOS-REY • If People Are Asked, They Say NO to GMOs FLORIANNE KOECHLIN • The Italian Context MARIA GRAZIA MAMMUCINI • The Untold American Revolution: Seed in the US DEBBIE BARKER • Reviving Native Sioux Agriculture Systems SUZANNE FOOTE • In Praise of the Leadership of Indigenous Women WINONA LADUKE • Moms Across America: Shaking up the System ZEN HONEYCUTT • Seed Freedom and Seed Sovereignty: Bangladesh Today FARIDA AKHTER • Monsanto and Biosafety in Nepal KUSUM HACHHETHU • Sowing Seeds of Freedom VANDANA SHIVA • The Loss of Crop Genetic Diversity in the Changing World TEWOLDE BERHAN GEBRE EGZIABHER & SUE EDWARDS • Seed Sovereignty and Ecological Integrity in Africa MARIAM MAYET • Conserving the Diversity of Peasant Seeds ANA DE ITA • Celebrating the Chile Nativo ISAURA ANDALUZ • Seed Saving and Women in Peru PATRICIA FLORES • The Seeds of Liberation in Latin America SANDRA BAQUEDANO & SARA LARRAÍN • The Other Mothers and the Fight against GMOs in Argentina ANA BROCCOLI • Seeding Knowledge: Australia SUSAN HAWTHORNE
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Random House USA Inc Beneath the Moon
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Wallflower Press Popular Music and Film
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NewAct Publishing Surviving the Tsunami of Grief: For the Bereaved
Book SynopsisAre you grieving? Would you like to have a better understanding of grief? Are you wanting to support someone who is grieving but don’t know how? This beautifully illustrated book written by two experienced Bereavement Practitioners is unlike any other book about grief. Each page takes you on a thought-provoking journey, each image echoed by the voiced of bereaved people. As thoughts, feelings and experiences are shared, you may recognise your own voice creating a new image to add to these powerful images. It can be read in one go or dipped into chapter by chapter as needed, either way it offers understanding, wisdom and hope during this time of mourning.Trade Review'This, by Wendelien McNicoll and Katrina Taee with illustrations by Ruth Thorp is a wonderful, wonderful book to have by your side when you need it.' Jo Unwin 'I’ve just received & poured over Katrina and Wendelien’s Surviving the Tsunami of Grief. Absolutely stunning. Illustrations that speak to the gut of grief, normalised reflections from all kinds of death, doesn’t require concentration and heavy reading. Properly beautiful.' Cass HM
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Goodfellow Publishers Limited Indigenous Tourism: Cases from Australia and New
Book SynopsisAustralia and New Zealand are arguably two of the world’s leading Indigenous tourism destinations. This volume presents a collection of unique case studies focusing on issues pertaining to Indigenous tourism planning and development. Issues covered include: • Strategies for sustainable development; • Diversifying economies through Indigenous tourism; • Preparing for tourism and developing capacity ; • Successful Indigenous tourism entrepreneurship The research papers in this volume introduce some of the most interesting entrepreneurial Indigenous tourism ventures and associated research in the world, providing inspiration and information to readers (i.e., students, researchers and industry) around the world. With contributions from experts in the field Indigenous Tourism: cases from Australia and New Zealand is the first edited volume to specifically focus on the Indigenous tourism sector in Australia and New Zealand. This collection represents the first volume to specifically highlight the culture, traditions, and knowledges of the First Peoples of Australia and New Zealand and provides important reading for researchers, students and practitioners around the globe as awareness of, and interest in the diversity of Indigenous cultures, traditions, histories and knowledges continues to grow.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to Indigenous tourism in Australia and New Zealand (Michelle Whitford, Lisa Ruhanen, Anna Carr) Australia chapters: Chapter 2 Indigenous tourism in Australia: history, trends and future directions (Michelle Whitford, Lisa Ruhanen) Chapter 3 Achieving Aboriginal development aspirations through educational tourism: Learning on country with Bana Yarralji Bubu (Helen Murphy) Chapter 4 Aboriginal Tourism in Western Australia: A Case Study of Yawuru Nagulagun Roebuck Bay Marine Park (Lori-Ann Shibish1, Ross Dowling, Greg Willson) Chapter 5 Preparing for Tourism: developing capacity in an Aboriginal Corporation (Gabrielle Russell-Mundine) Chapter 6 Indigenous native foods (Freya Higgins Desboilles) Chapter 7 Indigenous Free Prior Informed Consent in Tourism (Rob Hales) New Zealand: Chapter 8 Indigenous tourism in New Zealand: history, trends and future directions (Anna Carr) Chapter 9 The Economic Value of Identity :(re)Thinking Maori Tourism (Maria Amoamo) Chapter 10 Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: inclusion, empowerment and self determination – a case study of the Chatham Islands of New Zealand/Aotearoa (Peter Wiltshier & Andrew Cardow) Chapter 11 Understanding tourism through an Indigenous lens of New Zealand and Aboriginal Australian cultures (Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Sharleen Howison, Zexuan Sun) Chapter 12 Mana versus Money: An indigenous perspective on the tribal tourism destination of Whakarewarewa (Keri-Anne Wikitera, Hamish Bremner) Chapter 13 Conclusions (Michelle Whitford, Lisa Ruhanen, Anna Carr)
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Berghahn Books The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and
Book Synopsis Focusing on different forms of agency in North Ambrym social life, the author demonstrates the potency of outsiders at different times and in different situations in Ambrym society. This model challenges the premises of much Western thinking about reciprocity, and suggests new directions in the analysis of Melanesian societiesTrade Review “Readers interested in Pacific kinship and exchange will find much to value in The Power of the Perspective. This is also a book that can be useful for scholars who want an ethnographic example of how to approach analyzing society as a universal, albeit locally produced, concept.” · Pacific Affairs "As the first ethnographic monograph of Ambrym to find its way to publication, The Power of Perspective is to be highly recommended, particularly to students and scholars of Melanesian anthropology and to theoreticians of ritual agency and exchange. Rio's treatment of exchange, ritual process and social form are highly sophisticated, and I have no doubt that his development of the theory of 'thirdness' will prove to be of enduring value to the discipline.” · Oceania "Rio's ethnography effectively documents Vanuatu's enduring abundance of culture and the power of its perspective - the uses of looking at our world through Islander eyes." · The Contemporary Pacific "La lecture de cet ouvrage trés savant, aux abondantes références autant classique que contemporaines, anthropologiques, sociologiques ou philosophiques, demand une attention soutenue, mais n'en témoigne pas moins d'une pensée novatrice, clairement exprimé." · Moussons "What Rio does do well is to encourage the reader to understand how peoples' actions, especially with regards to exchange, are situated within larger webs of social interactions to create order and meaning for the people involved. Further, he does do this with theoretical vigour and ample ethnographic examples. As such, the book is a useful, if not essential, addition to the wealth of ethnographic material on Ambrym Island" · Journal of the Polynesian Society "A number of theoretical issues that he raises in this slender book would be useful to anyone interested in the comparative studies of the region." · AnthroposTable of Contents List of maps and illustrations Foreword: ”Putting people first” Acknowledgements Note on language Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Kinship and sand-drawing Chapter 3. The totalising third party Chapter 4. The circles of marriage Chapter 5. Of yams and men Chapter 6. The intentionality of ceremonial agency Chapter 7. Displaying life after Death Chapter 8. The phenomenology of Ambrym exchange Chapter 9. Conclusions: Denying the gift Appendices Bibliography Index
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Hermits United Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238
Book SynopsisA radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be meritorious, protecting the people. This makes Xunzi a Confucianist, though Han Fei and Li Si, his students, were to subvert Confucian principles. From Xunzi, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates three treatises, illustrating his argument. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.Table of ContentsMen Are Naturally Evil, Their Goodness a Matter of Cultivation Human Demeanour, All Too Human Demeanour, Not at All Becoming Water Carries the Boat; Water Overturns the Boat
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Yale University Press Artists Remake the World
Book SynopsisAn original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activismTrade Review“In this complex world of upheaval, emergency and displacement, such a treatise on the power of art is a welcome one.”—ALMANAC,INIGO“Simoniti is one of the most exciting writers on art today. This book is a masterpiece: moving effortlessly between history, criticism and philosophy, it’s a gripping account of art’s ongoing ability to shake up the world.”—James Fox, author of The World According to Colour“Vid Simoniti elegantly, skilfully unpicks the interfaces where art meets politics. A process that stirs up substantive new material for contemplation.”—Cornelia Parker, artist“An original thinker and masterful prose stylist with a huge, generous mind, Simoniti has written a subtle, courageous meditation on contemporary political art. This book offers us a profound critical reconsideration of the aesthetic resources we bring to the urgent human issues it addresses.”—Adrian Piper, artist and philosopher
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls
Book SynopsisIn this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from earth system science – that of a world in which the myriad of beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet. This new image of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the sciences, on politics, and on religion, just as, in earlier centuries, the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo upset the old order. Latour sees the ecological crisis, and the cosmological mutation that it entails, as an opportunity to convey anew, to the largest possible audience, the tradition of Christianity as it has never been appreciated before, by bringing to bear the lessons of eschatology on the great crisis that looms before us all.Table of ContentsForeword by Frédéric Louzeau1. The Great Clamor: Conversation with Antonio Spadaro, SJ2. Ecological Mutation and Christian Cosmology3. On a Decisive Overturning of the Schema of the End Times4. If You Lose the Earth, What Good Will It Do You to Have Saved Your Soul?Notes
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Princeton University Press One Quarter of the Nation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A succinct, positive look at the great benefits, both historically and currently, of embracing immigration." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"A timely and important work. . . . Each chapter can stand alone in its analytic and empirical acumen; taken holistically, the book provides a primer on the state of immigration since 1965. . . . Rarely has the big picture about American immigration been communicated in such a straightforward and enlightening way."---Robert Adelman, Contemporary Sociology"One Quarter of the Nation . . . explains how [immigrants and their children] have changed local economies, communities, and politics for the better."---Alison Beard, Harvard Business Review"Packed with compelling data about how immigrants are transforming the American cultural and economic landscape, the book is a fast and engaging read."---Maileen Hamto, Seattle Book Review"A far-ranging look at how immigrants and their children—nearly 86 million people in all—have transformed America." * University of Chicago Magazine *"This well-written and highly accessible book is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on immigration. Its deep historical standpoint and its impressive synthesis of research on current patterns and trends provides an insightful analysis of how immigration is transforming America."---John Iceland, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Foner sketches the landscape of American society since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act abolished national-origins quotas in the US immigration system, leading to increased diversity." * Christian Century *"Foner's synthetic account . . . sift[s] through and make[s] sense of the vast body of research that has been produced in recent decades. . . . A richly documented and engaging overview."---Peter Kivisto, Sociological Forum"A succinct, accessible overview of how immigrants have transformed the country since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act." * Choice Reviews *"A remarkable book. . . . A tour d’horizon of the twenty-first-century influences of immigration on American society."---Richard Alba, Patterns of Prejudice"One Quarter of the Nation is a timely and important work. . . . Rarely has the big picture about American immigration been communicated in such a straightforward and enlightening way."---Robert M. Adelman, Contemporary Sociology
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American University in Cairo Press On Friendship between the No Longer and the Not
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young EgyptiansThere is a great deal to be said about ideas and imaginations of the “future” when one does not have the luxury of maintaining a slot in the present. In the midst of acute conditions of precarity and structural violences and vulnerabilities of different forms (political, economic, social, infrastructural) and magnitudes, Egyptians find ways to adapt and adjust, even experiment, with different arrangements and forms of connectedness.By following, tracing, and accompanying friends and networks of friendship in and across Egypt’s two biggest cities, Cairo and Alexandria, this ethnographic account aims to highlight some of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians with the aim of renewing and reviving the question, “What can friendships do?”Against a backdrop of conditions of precarity and the ruins of finance capitalism, this study examines the manifestations of how the relationship of friendship manages to re-invent and re-define itself. Moreover, it asks whether new modes of relationality, companionship, and intimacy can be cultivated and practiced given the current neoliberal conditions of living. The questions that this study attempts to open up are focused on the re-workings, reconfigurations, and re-makings of practices of sociality and intimacy between friends.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prelude1 IntroductionInheritances, Traces, and Trails of Intimacy Situating Friendship: Atmospheres, Pockets, and Infrastructures of SocialityTo Attune, to Attend, to Accompany: Learning by Being With, Within, Without Plan of the Work2 While We’re Here, Pass This with Me: On the Project of Friendship in a Present of RuinsMy State of Being Is Walking: Mashy al-hal/MashyaI Don’t Feel at Home in This World Any More, or, How Predictable Is Precarity?You Can Count on Me: Economies and Labors of IntimacyModes of Sociality/Intimacy: How Deep Is Your Love? Friends as Polyphonic Assemblages: From Scattered Individual Melodies to Rhythmic Collective Harmonies3 Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train: On the Becoming of Friends and the Making of CitiesVignette: Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, and Other Ordinary AffectsNadia 53Urban Intimacy and Talking about Cities: Recuperation, Remembrances, RecompositionsIn Friendship We Dwell: On Movement and Stillness4 That It Is from Your Eye that I Find Myself: The Making of Friendship, the Making of SelvesOn Naked Personalities and Difficult TruthsJumana and Yasmine: We Hide and We Seek (Each Other)Friendship Makes and Friendship Breaks: Archives of Flesh and BloodTo Be Answerable, One Has to Be Able to Answer5 Mafish Sahib Yetsahib . . . O My Friends, There Is No Friend: An Ode to Friendship, an Ode to the Loss of ItVignette: O My Friends, There Is No FriendFriendship: A Suspension between the No Longer and the Not Yet“But the Knot Remembers Everything”: On Growing Out of FriendshipReferences About the Author
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Columbia University Press Challenging Modernity
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Princeton University Press Code Work Hacking across the USM233xico
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Habitus and Field: General Sociology, Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach. In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on two of his most important and influential concepts: habitus and field. For the social scientist, the object of study is neither the individual nor the group but the relation between these two manifestations of the social in bodies and in things: that is, the obscure, dual relation between the habitus – as a system of schemas of perception, appreciation and action – and the field as a system of objective relations and a space of possible actions and struggles aimed at preserving or transforming the field. The relation between the habitus and the field is a two-way process: it is a relation of conditioning, where the field structures the habitus, and it is also a relation of knowledge, with the habitus helping to constitute the field as a world that is endowed with meaning and value. The specificity of social science lies in the fact that it takes as its object of knowledge a reality that encompasses agents who take this same reality as the object of their own knowledge. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most important concepts and ideas, this volume will be of great interest to the many students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu's work across the social sciences and humanities, and to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the 20th century.Table of ContentsContents Lecture of 5 October 1982The retrospective illusion and the unreality of theory in research -- A work of axiomatisation -- Scientific concepts -- The fundamental questions -- Realist definition and interactionist definition -- Metaphysical requirements for sociology -- Iron Filings Lecture of 12 October 1982The double life of the social -- The process of objectification and incorporation of the social -- Moving beyond the opposition between subjectivism and objectivism. -- Scholarly understanding and practical understanding -- The examples of reading and the work of art -- Programme of future lectures and questions from the audience Lecture of 19 October 1982Sense without consciousness -- The mechanistic error and the intellectualist error -- The temptation of the sociologist as king -- Intellectual obstacles to the knowledge of the gnoseologia inferior -- The habitus as orthe doxa Lecture of 2 November 1982Positions and dispositions -- The two states of history -- A feel for the game -- Practical knowledge -- Investment in the game and illusio -- Affective transference of the domestic libido, and conformism -- Critique of the economic discourse -- The economic conditions of economic practices Lecture of 9 November 1982Habituality in Husserl -- Decision theory in economics -- Avoiding mechanism and purposiveness -- The theory of the machine -- The ontological power of language -- Popular culture and popular language -- Marxist teleology -- The reification and personification of the collective. -- The solution of the habitus Lecture of 16 November 1982The adaptation of expectation to opportunity -- Avoiding purposiveness-- Interiorising the social -- Incorporating necessity -- Rites of institution -- The call to order: the example of the relation of the family to the school -- Social relations in the enquiry relationship -- Surreptitious persuasion, symbolic violence -- The paradox of continuity -- Critique of the scholarly relation Lecture of 23 November 1982A double--voiced discourse -- Looking scholarly -- Where is the sociologist coming from? -- Sociology in the space of disciplines -- The unconscious structures of the hierarchy of disciplines -- Philosophy / sociology / history -- Epistemological struggles, social struggles -- Finding out what sociology does Lecture of 30 November 1982Sociology as taking liberty/ies -- Positions, dispositions and stances -- Sociological bodies and academic styles -- Positions attained and positions to attain -- Mental structures and objective structures -- Transformations of the field: the case of the university system -- The refraction of external constraints -- Strategies of struggle -- The boundaries of the field -- The intellectual field Lecture of 7 December 1982The structural mode of thinking -- From symbolic systems to social relations -- Parenthesis on the genesis of a corpus of knowledge -- The field of forces and the field of struggles -- Thinking a social position -- How to construct a relational space? -- The distribution of capital and the different structures -- The inter--fields -- Return to the structure of the distribution of capital -- The interdependence of field and capital -- The major kinds of capital -- Conversion of the kinds of capital Lecture of 14 December 1982A manner of thinking -- The field and the statistical aggregate -- The concept of the field (1): theoretical itinerary -- The concept of the field (2): practical itinerary Field and milieu -- Field and interaction -- Field and network -- Field and positions -- Field and representation of the situation -- The space of objective relations and the space of interactions -- Field, group, population, individual -- Representations and practical sense -- Homologies between fields Lecture of 11 January 1983Physicalism and semiologism -- Structure as crystallised history -- Roulette and poker -- The alternatives of income or trade -- Amor fati. -- The fertile terrain of the literary field -- Art versus method: charismatic ideology and ‘sociology of literature’ -- The field as mediation -- Literary field and intertextuality -- A chiasmatic structure -- Automation, hierarchisation, institutionalisation -- The intellectual in the field of cultural production Lecture of 18 January 1983The world upside--down -- Field of power and field of cultural production -- Conservative intellectual -- The law of symbolic legitimation -- Return to the struggles within the field of cultural production -- The genesis of the invariants -- The adaptation of offer to demand through homology of structure -- The conquest of autonomy -- The hierarchy of productions and the hierarchy of publics Lecture of 25 January 1983The economic logic of cultural enterprises -- The truth of practice -- The deferred profits of disinterestedness -- The ambivalent profits of the market -- The subversion of the rules of the field -- Time--scales and ‘personalities’ -- Clients and rivals: the mediation of the education system -- Generations and revolutions -- Modes of ageing and eternalisation -- Overthrowing for the sake of overthrowing -- Orientating the self in the space of possibilities -- Trajectory / career and habitus -- The impious dismantling of the fiction Appendix Summary of lectures, published in the Annuaire du Collège de France Notes Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Political Change through Social Innovation
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SAGE Publications Inc The Sociology of Childhood
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nations States and Empires
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in
Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date. In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping personal relationships today. From Facebook friends and therapy chatbots to dating apps and quantified sex lives, Elliott explores how machine intelligence is working within us, amplifying our desires and steering our personal preferences. He argues that intimate relationships today are threatened not by the digital revolution as such, but by the orientation of various life strategies unthinkingly aligned with automated machine intelligence. Our reliance on algorithmic recommendations, he suggests, reflects a growing emergency in personal agency and human bonds. We need alternatives, innovation and experimentation for the interpersonal, intimate effort of ongoing translation back and forth between the discourses of human and machine intelligence. Accessible and compelling, this book sheds fresh light on the impact of artificial intelligence on the most intimate aspects of our lives. It will appeal to students in the social sciences and humanities and to a wide range of general readers.Trade Review"Algorithms impact today all aspects of everyday life, and what is most personal in it. Anthony Elliott masterfully shows us what is at stake in this curve of digital life, where our intimate being-with-others is built and transformed."Massimo Durante, University of Turin "Anthony Elliott offers intriguing insights into how the algorithms embedded in digital technologies contribute to people's closest relationships. Drawing on popular culture for examples, Elliott's lucid writing and expansive focus help the reader make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape of digitized love, sex and friendship."Deborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney"[This book] provides the reader with a distinctly critical understanding of how automation and prediction engage users in personal digital intimacy projects: working on the self, consuming digital relationships, optimizing the psyche... Algorithmic Intimacy is not a simple warning of a dystopian future of out-of-control machine intelligence. Instead, it is about the one-dimen-sionality of today’s industrial AI products and their promises of simplicity and conformism in social relationships. It is therefore also an emphatic call to delve deeper into the multiple ways in which algorithms will shape the interior self, create new digital identities, and define our being-with-others."Science and Technology Studies“Anthony Elliott’s books on the social and cultural consequences of the development of artificial intelligence… form a comprehensive, multidimensional picture of the contemporary digital revolution.”Dariusz Brzeziński, Thesis Eleven“Algorithmic Intimacy is a wake-up call to consider our own and our children’s responses to algorithmic intimacy, its reward-based enchantments, and the data webs it weaves.”Australian Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface1 What is Algorithmic Intimacy?2 Togetherness Transformed3 Relationship Tech4 Therapy Tech5 Friendship Tech6 Versions of Algorithmic IntimacyNotes
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