Télécharger le livre :  Planetary Gentrification
This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-21
Collection : Urban Futures PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Queer Wars
The claim that ?LGBT rights are human rights? encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to ?LGBT rights? to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Phenomenal Woman
This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self. Using a diverse range of theories - from Kant to chaos theory, from Kierkegaard to Deleuze, Irigaray,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Parallax of Growth
Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent ?debt drive?, whereby the creation of money through the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Derrida Now
For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may be difficult to evaluate what forms his legacy will take in the future but Derrida Now provides some provocative suggestions....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-11
Collection : Theory Now PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  China's Future
China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Peacebuilding
Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN?s attempts to mainstream gender into...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-11
Collection : Gender and Global Politics PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  East Asia's Reemergence
East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of world GDP has risen from less than 10 to 30 percent, a ratio that is set to rise to 40 percent by 2030. What has madeEast...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Privacy
Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-02-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Agamben
Until recently, "continental" philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Giorgio Agamben draws upon and departs from both these lines of thought by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-02-04
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Mediating Migration
Media practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-02-04
Collection : Global Media and Communication PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Education in Britain
In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme. By 2015, this programme had fragmented: the patterns of schooling and higher education in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England resembled each other less and less. This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-27
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Télécharger le livre :  What Is To Be Done?
The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, things look a little different. New questions are arising about capitalism and democracy,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-27
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Military Transformation
China?s military transformation is one of the major geo-strategic developments of the 21st Century. Billions of dollars are being spent modernizing The People?s Liberation Army (PLA) as China seeks to upgrade and expand its military capabilities to rival the US. In...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-25
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Choice
We make decisions every day. Yet we are sometimes perplexed by these decisions and the decisions of others. To complicate things further, we live in an age where there are more things to choose from than ever before ? the Internet is transforming our choices and making...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Responsibility
Most people would agree that a small child, or a cognitively impaired adult, is less responsible for their actions, good or bad, than an unimpaired adult. But how do we explain that difference, and how far can anyone be praised or blamed for what they have done? In...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-21
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Spirit of Revolution
In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both “the human” and revolutionary politics.In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind and “the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Be Creative
In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the ‘euphoric’ moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Practice of Eating
This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings. Leading...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Infinite Distraction
It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same motions or moments, but rather dispersed into countless...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-01-11
Collection : Theory Redux PDF, ePub

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