Télécharger le livre :  Naked Feminism
Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women’s bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully covered woman, or a chaste one? Are being sexy and being smart really...

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Parution : 2023-02-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Governance
Governance is an easy-to read introduction to an increasingly important concept in political science. It provides a clear overview of how the concept has been used in the sub-fields of public administration and public policy, international relations, European studies...

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Parution : 2023-02-13
Collection : Key Concepts ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  World Poverty and Human Rights
Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million...

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Parution : 2023-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Intergenerational Justice?
Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap? In...

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Parution : 2023-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Israel / Palestine
What explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all the ""hot spots"" in the world today, the apparently endless clash between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East seems unique in its longevity and resistance to...

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Parution : 2023-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Timescapes
Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Sorting Machines
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful sorting machines....

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Parution : 2023-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Making the Heavens Speak
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bourdieu in the City
Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  To Write the Africa World
In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-12-01
Collection : Critical South PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Economic Sociology of Development
Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to development and underdevelopment. In doing so, it places various approaches to the definition, measurement, and understanding of...

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Parution : 2022-12-01
Collection : Economy and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Pandemic Urbanism
Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced...

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Parution : 2022-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  International Development
Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how the world works and how problems should be solved. In this compelling book,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fugitive, Where Are You Running?
Hunting stories will usually glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. In this book, Dénètem Touam Bona takes up the perspective of the hunted, using the concept of marronage to highlight the lives and creativity of colonized and subjugated...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Archaeology of Foucault
On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Time
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this:...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Superstates
In this century, the world will conduct an extraordinary experiment in government.In 2050, forty percent of the planet's population will live in just four places: India, China, the European Union, and the United States. These are superstates – polities that are...

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Télécharger le livre :  How To Think About Cities
Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities’ intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art
The texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s – a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole.  Following Germany’s...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphysics and Nihilism
The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The Essence of Nihilism (1946–1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different...

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