Télécharger le livre :  Why Global Justice Matters
While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major influence on our opportunities. In this accessible book, leading...

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Parution : 2019-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Troublemakers
The political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in power wanted to keep...

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Digital Sociology?
The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology. Neil Selwyn examines the...

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Collection : What is Sociology? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis...

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Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Politics
Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politics today. Yet in this lively dialogue with journalist Aude Lancelin, leading French thinker Alain Badiou argues that it is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis
Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Race After Technology
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist...

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Parution : 2019-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  What's the Point of Political Philosophy?
Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them – they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, not to mention the hundreds of articles published every year? In part because they are interesting, but also because they are influential....

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Télécharger le livre :  Plebeian Prose
Plebeian Prose is a key work by the pioneering Argentine Brazilian anthropologist, sociologist and poet Néstor Perlongher. Perlongher, whose work has been highly influential in the development of Latin American cultural theory and literature, represents an original...

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Parution : 2019-07-09
Collection : Critical South PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Citizenship
Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are asserting their sovereignty over who gets to become members of their polities with renewed ferocity. Citizenship matters more than ever. In...

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Parution : 2019-07-09
Collection : Key Concepts in Political Theory ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Why Do People Sing?
In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Transitional Justice
What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines reconciliation with accountability? In this book, Michael Newman accessibly introduces these debates, outlining the key ideas and giving...

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Parution : 2019-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sex Factor
Why did the West become so rich?Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lineages of Modernity
In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Terror and Modernity
We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to the fundamental features of modern societies. But does this view misconstrue the relationship between terror and modernity?   In this book,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is one of the world’s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has also contributed almost without peer to the study of economics, philosophy and politics,...

Editeur : Polity
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Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Bordering
Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries at the edges of states: it now...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Will the gig economy prevail?
Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-06-07
Collection : The Future of Capitalism ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Generation Left
Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing ideas and supporting figures such as Corbyn and Sanders. Where has this ‘Generation Left’ come from? How can it change the world? This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-06-07
Collection : Radical Futures ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Scramble for Europe
From the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mass migration is one of the most urgent issues facing our societies today. At the same time, viable solutions seem ever more remote,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-06-04
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