Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Public Space

This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. ...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-18
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Industries in the Digital Age

The digital communication technologies that emerged at the turn of the century have profoundly disrupted long-practiced norms of nearly every media industry. In particular, internet distribution has fundamentally changed the foundation of the media industry to enable...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Human Animal

The climate crisis has forced us to recognize that we are not separate from nature but are part of the natural world on which we depend: human beings are animals and we must understand much better our place in nature and our impact on our environment if we are to avoid...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonizing Anthropology

Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This groundbreaking volume offers not only a critical examination of approaches to decolonization, but also fresh ways of thinking about the relationship...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-13
Collection : Decolonizing the Curriculum
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Télécharger le livre :  Hubris

Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into space, cure diseases and decode the fundamentals of life, and at the same time find ourselves faced with an existential crisis that threatens to overwhelm us?...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Defending Due Process

We all feel unfairness deeply when treated in rash ways.We expect, and the law requires, government officials to take fairness seriously, giving us notice and an opportunity to be heard before taking our rights away. That is why the U.S. Constitution commands, twice,...
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Parution : 2024-11-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Magic of Silence

No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature.  He inspired Samuel Beckett to write Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney to create Bambi. Goethe,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Integrity

Public life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity. The behaviour of elected political leaders has led many to decry the deterioration in standards and the lack of integrity in public life. But what is integrity, and where does our concern with...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Health Inequality

The persistence of stark health inequalities in today’s world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can we advance our understanding of the full extent of health...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The War Against Women

Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Natural History of Silence

In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans – the kind of deep stillness you might experience in a remote mountain landscape...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  An Invitation to Social Theory

Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Subjugate the Earth

Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe through Christianity,...
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Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming a Woman

This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to gender-critical mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of becoming a woman in The Second Sex to advance and justify...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pocket Guide to Feminism

A woman’s life is different. This is clear when a stranger’s catcall makes her feel targeted in the street. When politicians make off-the-cuff sexist remarks. When media commentators wade in with their condemnation of free, unrestricted abortion. When a father is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Rumors

When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of whom were being brought to court – it was like...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Empire of AI

As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it.As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Dialogue

In these times of rising tensions between Christians and Muslims across the world, the need for harmony and peace has never been more urgent. As one of the world’s leading advocates of interfaith dialogue, Craig Considine introduces readers to the provocative idea of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Feminist Sociology?

What does it mean to say that there is a feminist sociology? And how might we engage the full potential of a “feminist sociological imagination”? These questions lie at the heart of Jo Reger’s slim guide to a powerful tool, which has a long history in US sociology and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-10-30

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