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  • Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory

    Critical Investigations

    by Bridget Fowler ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu′s theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu′s work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of `cultural capital′ in the production and consumption of symbolic goods.Bridget Fowler outlines the key critical debates that inform Bourdieu′s work. She introduces his ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason

    Essays in Honour of Hermínio Martins

    Edited by José Esteban Castro, Bridget Fowler, Luís Gomes ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This festschrift commemorates the legacy of UK-based Portuguese sociologist Hermínio Martins (1934-2015). It introduces Martins’ wide-ranging contributions to the social sciences, encompassing seminal works in the fields of philosophy and social theory, historical and political sociology, studies of science and technology, and Luso-Brazilian studies, among others. The book features an in-depth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Stretching the Sociological Imagination

    Essays in Honour of John Eldridge

    Edited by Andrew Smith, Matt Dawson, Bridget Fowler, David Miller ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired by the eminent Glasgow-based sociologist, John Eldridge, it re-engages with the concept and shows how it can be applied to analyzing society today. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Obituary as Collective Memory

    by Bridget Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Epistemologies of the South

    Justice Against Epistemicide

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Student Guide to Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

    by Professor Antonia Darder ...
    Now in its 2nd edition, this book serves as companion to Freire's seminal work, supporting the application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today. The new edition includes a new chapter called Teaching Pedagogy of the Oppressed with additional dialogue questions and activities designed to support students and instructors. It also includes an updated ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. D. Mignolo ...
    This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Hybrid Cultures

    Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari, Silvia L. Lopez ...
    When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade.Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America

    by Jose Joaquin Brunner, Fernando Calderón, Enrique Dussel ...
    Series series a boundary 2 book
    Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate in Latin America.This collection explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism, less to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How Not to Be Governed

    Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left

    by Katherine Gordy, Elena Loizidou, Jacqueline Stevens, Banu Bargu, Vanessa Lemm, George Ciccariello-Maher, Todd May, Keally McBride ...
    How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as ... Read more

    $46.99 USD