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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “birgit schippers”
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  • The Pre-Crime Society

    Crime, Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age

    by Pamela Ugwudike, Birgit Schippers, Thomas Holt, Jin Ree Lee, Natalie Deckard, Julia R Decook, Bianca C. Reisdorf, Mike Nellis, Kristen M. Budd, Terry Kupers, John Deukmedjian, Emmeline Taylor, Clare Southerton, Michael Mccahill, Marthinus Koen, Janne Gaub, Armon Tamatea, Brett Breton, Lisa Petot, Aaron Pycroft, David Polizzi, Gavin Smith, Pat O'Malley, Marc Schuilenburg, Faith Butta ...
    We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization.However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations

    by Birgit Schippers ...
    Discussing cutting-edge debates in the field of international ethics, this key volume builds on existing work in the normative study of international relations. It responds to a substantial appetite for scholarship that challenges established approaches and examines new perspectives on international ethics, and that appraises the ethical implications of problems occupying students and scholars of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Political Philosophy of Judith Butler

    by Birgit Schippers ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time. While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and feminist politics, her focus in recent years has broadened to encompass some of the most pertinent topics of interest to contemporary political philosophy.Drawing on Butler’s deconstructive reading of the key ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

    Edited by Birgit Schippers ...
    Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    by Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.Arguing that privacy ... Read more

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Predict and Surveil

    Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

    by Sarah Brayne ...
    The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, and marketing. While law enforcement's use of big data is hotly contested, very little is known about how the police actually use it in daily operations and with what consequences. In Predict and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Habermas

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Gordon Finlayson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Surveillance, Privacy and Security

    Citizens’ Perspectives

    Edited by Michael Friedewald, J. Peter Burgess, Rocco Bellanova, Walter Peissl, Johann Čas ...
    This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious reactions to these activities shows that the political will to implement them ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Biometric Future

    Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

    by Kelly Gates ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another—commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and interactive machines, businesses and states agencies view the technology ... Read more

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