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  • City Is Ours

    Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present

    Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent.Through the compilation of the local movement histories of eight different cities—including Amsterdam, Berlin ... Read more

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  • Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • A European Youth Revolt

    European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    During the early 1980s, large parts of Europe were swept with riots and youth revolts. Radicalised young people occupied buildings and clashed with the police in cities such as Zurich, Berlin and Amsterdam, while in Great Britain and France, 'migrant' youths protested fiercely against their underprivileged position and police brutality. Was there a link between the youth revolts in different ... Read more

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    Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes

    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Next Revolution

    Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

    From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.With a foreword by the best-selling author of The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe

    Rules and Practices of Relatedness

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin. ... Read more

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  • Advertising to Children

    New Directions, New Media

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This important source for students, researchers, advertisers and parents reviews the debates and presents new research about advertising to children. Chapters cover food and alcohol advertising, the effects of product placement and new media advertising, and the role of parents and teachers in helping children to learn more about advertising. ... Read more

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  • Socialising Children

    by A. James ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Childhood and Tween Girl Culture

    Family, Media and Locality

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century. It has been argued that new stages of childhood are being created and defined by children’s role as consumers. The concept of ‘tween’, girls aged between 9 and 14, has generated the greatest debate. While the fantasy world of ‘tween’ offers girls a space ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Realizing Hope

    Life Beyond Capitalism

    Series series Critique Influence Change
    Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree.Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of all for the benefit of the few. Participatory economics - parecon for ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Childhood and Biopolitics

    Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures

    by N. Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Why Hope?

    The Stand Against Civilization

    by John Zerzan ...
    The infamous eco-anarchist John Zerzan whose books have resulted in recent interviews by Vice and Believer magazines, checks in with further provocative articles about the chaotic results of civilization and technology.Says novelist Lang Gore in his introduction:"The present collection of essays continues the overarching thrust of John's scholarship, unveiling the post-apocalyptic nature of our ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus