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  • - On Decolonising Practices and Discourses
    af Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
    144,95 - 468,95 kr.

  • - How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives
    af Eva Illouz & Edgar Cabanas
    181,95 - 586,95 kr.

  • af Tobie Nathan
    183,95 - 586,95 kr.

    In September 2014 the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalized young people who had been drawn to jihadism. In this book he recounts his experiences, and shows that the history of radicalizations is not the history of 'natures' but of metamorphoses.

  • af James K. Boyce
    136,95 - 409,95 kr.

  • af Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss & Kathryn Cassidy
    209,95 - 645,95 kr.

    "This book is a richly document account, based on original research, of how bordering has become dispersed into the interstices of everyday life. Controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries: it now comprises a multitude of practices and processes in local contexts of everyday life"--

  • - A Modern History
    af David W. Lesch
    166,95 - 348,95 kr.

    David Lesch takes the reader on an illuminating journey through the last hundred years of Syrian history - from the end of the Ottoman Empire through to the current civil war. Only through understanding the complexities and challenges of Syria's history can this pivotal country in the Middle East begin to rebuild and heal.

  • af Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
    198,95 - 645,95 kr.

    Emotion has long been neglected in media research. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen makes the case for researching the role of emotion in mediated politics. Drawing on a series of studies, she explores the complex relationship between emotions, politics and media.

  • - On the Quantification of the Social
    af Steffen Mau
    183,95 - 586,95 kr.

    Star ratings, scores and likes: today data is collected on almost every aspect of our lives. In this new book, Steffen Mau shows that though the intention may have been to build trust, metrics have become a form of social conditioning. Ultimately, the ubiquitous language of ranking and comparison is shaping life chances and deepening inequality.

  • - A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages
    af Damien Boquet & Piroska Nagy
    221,95 - 645,95 kr.

  • af Byung-Chul Han
    138,95 - 409,95 kr.

    Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.

  • - The Birth of Power
    af Professor Stuart Elden
    265,95 - 618,95 kr.

    Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms.

  • af Ghassan Hage
    174,94 - 409,95 kr.

    The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism.

  • af Michael Freeman
    208,95 - 738,95 kr.

    Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and rigorously about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time.

  • af Nick Couldry & Andreas Hepp
    209,95 - 704,95 kr.

    Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes.

  • af Nick Srnicek
    153,95 - 527,95 kr.

    What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on.

  • af Loch K. Johnson
    232,95 - 704,95 kr.

    National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. In the second edition of his definitive introduction to the field, leading intelligence expert Loch K.

  • af Natalie Fenton
    197,95 - 645,95 kr.

    Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.

  • af Tim Highfield
    197,95 - 586,95 kr.

    From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage of politics reflects the social mediation of everyday life, where individual experiences and thoughts are documented and shared online.

  • af Mikhail Gorbachev
    146,95 - 246,95 kr.

    After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev.

  • af J. Donald Hughes
    197,95 - 586,95 kr.

    What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J.

  • - A Critical Sociology
    af Richard Giulianotti
    223,95 - 645,95 kr.

    In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football s World Cup demonstrate, sport s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more apparent across the world.

  • af Will Atkinson
    209,95 - 645,95 kr.

    Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public, too.

  • af Alexa Robertson
    291,95 - 645,95 kr.

    Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without taking the other into account.

  • af Keith Grint & Darren Nixon
    821,95 kr.

    This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work. The fourth edition has been transformed to combine unrivalled explanations of classic theories with the most cutting-edge research, data and debates.

  • - The 1944 Prison Diary
    af Hans Fallada
    196,95 - 280,95 kr.

    I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of inward emigration .

  • - Hegel with Lacan
    af Slavoj Zizek
    209,95 - 645,95 kr.

    * Slavoj Zizek is one of the most widely-read and controversial philosophers writing today.

  • - The Hyperindustrial Epoch
    af Bernard Stiegler
    174,94 - 527,95 kr.

    In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age.

  • - Sociological Perspectives
    af Steph Lawler
    185,95 - 645,95 kr.

    * New edition of a popular and highly readable examination of debates surrounding identity. * Shows how identity is part of the fabric of society, and integral to social relations - critical to how we understand the social world.

  • af Ian Smillie
    168,95 - 527,95 kr.

    Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector.

  • - An Ethnography of Urban Policing
    af Didier Fassin
    223,95 - 704,95 kr.

    Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities.

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