This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics.
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.
Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.
Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.
Philosophical thinking allows itself to be nourished by seemingly non-committal exercises of thought but at the same time seeks forms of irrefutable knowledge.
There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field - particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature.
This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena extend beyond the scope of traditional scientific methods.
This book examines the aftermath of eSwatini's fiftieth anniversary of independence and the COVID-19 pandemic, when many citizens of this last absolute monarchy in Africa took to their communities in unprecedented protests for democratic reform.
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.
Since the 1960s, liberal values such as nondiscrimination, equal participation of all in social, political, and cultural spheres, and individual freedom have driven processes of democratization in Western societies - a trend that has recently been countered by the resurgence of illiberal forces, right-wing populism, and authoritarianism.
Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' over time, and the rules governing the conversation.
Amid countless prescriptive self-help manuals, The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine emerges as a refreshing intellectual cornerstone in contemporary psychology and personal development literature.
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country.
Holocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity.
In Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist's work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking.
Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Homilien zu Samuel I, zum Hohelied und zu den Propheten Kommentar zum Hohelied in Rufins und Hieronymus' Ubersetzungen"e; verfugbar.
Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific.
Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.
Libertarianism: The Basics is an up-to-date and accessible introduction to libertarianism that breaks down abstract philosophical ideas in a fresh way.
This book examines how national and international regional courts in Europe and Latin America address justice for serious human rights violations, comparing approaches across these distinct regions.
Libertarianism: The Basics is an up-to-date and accessible introduction to libertarianism that breaks down abstract philosophical ideas in a fresh way.
This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the "e;workman"e; or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins - in the form of symbolic misery, the Anthropocene and a process of refeudalisation - that the homo faber has been piling up around himself as a result.
Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independence-and its implications-by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke.
