Télécharger le livre :  The Case for a Four Day Week
Not so long ago, people thought that a ten-hour, six-day week was normal; now, it’s the eight-hour, five-day week. Will that soon be history too? In this book, three leading experts argue why it should be. They map out a pragmatic pathway to a shorter working week that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Value
'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we understand our lives, from discussions about the economic contribution of different kinds of work and productive activity, to the prices we pay for the things we consume....

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Collection : What is Political Economy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Planetary Politics
The global crisis of our time involves a complex of ecological, economic, technological and migratory challenges that no state is able to control.The result is a provincialisation of our democracies with respect to the new planetary powers confronting humanity. It is...

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Collection : Theory Redux ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Communicating the Future
We are facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. How can we communicate and act more effectively to make the political and economic changes required to survive and even thrive within the life-support capacities of our planet? This is the question at the heart of W....

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Télécharger le livre :  The Meaning of Thought
From populist propaganda attacking knowledge as ‘fake news’ to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, human thought is under unprecedented attack today. If computers can do what humans can do and they can do it much faster, what’s so special about human...

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Télécharger le livre :  Wealth
The pursuit of wealth has captivated people’s attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to...

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Collection : Economy and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Consumption
Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in...

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Collection : What is Political Economy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Migration Studies and Colonialism
The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage...

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Télécharger le livre :  Another End of the World is Possible
The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it. As individuals,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Setting the Agenda
News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the...

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Télécharger le livre :  After Law
Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might...

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Télécharger le livre :  Property
Few political ideas are as divisive and controversial for some – and yet taken for granted by others – as the ownership of private property. For its defenders, private ownership is a fundamental right that protects individual freedom and ensures wider economic benefits...

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Collection : Key Concepts in Political Theory ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Despised
The typical contemporary Labour MP is almost certain to be a university-educated Europhile who is more comfortable in the leafy enclaves of north London than the party’s historic heartlands. As a result, Labour has become radically out of step with the culture and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender
How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men?How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn Connell – one of the...

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Collection : Short Introductions ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociology of Health and Illness
Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths, the fourth edition integrates fresh insights from the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory?
The secrecy of the ballot, a crucial basic element of representative democracy, is under threat. Attempts to make voting more convenient in the face of declining turnout – and the rise of the “ballot selfie” – are making it harder to guarantee secrecy. Leading scholars...

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Collection : Political Theory Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What Times Are We Living In?
In this short book, Jacques Rancière takes stock of the state of contemporary politics and examines current developments in the light of his writings. Rancière takes issue with what he sees as the consolidation in recent years of an increasingly oligarchic class of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Planetary Social Thought
The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of the Institutional Press
As polarized factions in society pull apart from economic dislocation, tribalism, and fear, and as strident attacks on the press make its survival more precarious, the need for an institutionally organized forum in civic life has become increasingly important. Populist...

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