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  • Mediated Governance Then and Now: How Broadcast, Biopolitics and Algorithms Control Our Conduct

    by Dipankar Sinha ...
    The book intensively explores the governance techniques of control of public behaviour in the context of mediation. It draws on Michel Foucault's historic formulations — "governmentality" and "conduct of conduct" — but expands them to the contemporary times to trace the evolution of surveillance from the pre-digital past to the digital present.The analysis covers three sequential phases: i) The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Sciences in a Global Age

    Decoding Knowledge Politics

    by Dipankar Sinha ...
    The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium. Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science stream and focuses on its ir/relevance in our times in the background of changing state-market dialectics. It specifically scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times to reveal how the neoliberal ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Human Rights and the Third World

    Issues and Discourses

    by Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Arnab Das, Marie-Luisa Frick, Clarence J. Dias, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Sayan Bhattacharya, Agus Wahyudi, Dip Kapoor, Ram Puniyani0, Debi Chatterjee1, Pranta Pratik Patnaik2, Semahgn Gashu3, Pawan Dhall4, Tushar Kanti Saha5, Francis Machingura6, Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh7, Satyabrata Chakrborty8, Dipankar Sinha9, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay0, Scott Simon1, Awi Mona2 ...
    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Information Game in Democracy

    by Dipankar Sinha ...
    This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the exclusionary informational dynamics in democracy and analyses the role of information capitalism, new technology, virtual networks, cyberspace and media.While emphasizing the foundational value of information as the ‘source code’ of modern societies the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Pandemic, Governance and Communication

    The Curious Case of COVID-19

    by Dipankar Sinha ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Series on the Humanities and the Social Sciences in a Post-COVID-19 World
    This book focuses on what is arguably the most devastating phenomenon in the history of modern civilization, the COVID-19 pandemic.It shows how, on the one hand, the pandemic has exposed governments the world over to deal with a major health crisis; and, on the other, efforts by the ruling forces to enforce surveillance on people and disciplining them by maneuvering cutting-edge digital technology ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Sociology: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by Paul Oliver ...
    Sociology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The text is split into four ... Read more

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  • The Radical Imagination

    Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

    by Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven ...
    The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Cultural Sociology

    An Introduction

    by Les Back, Andy Bennett, Laura Desfor Edles, Margaret Gibson, David Inglis, Ron Jacobs, Ian Woodward ...
    Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology.A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides ... Read more

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  • Human Rights from Below

    Achieving Rights through Community Development

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or ... Read more

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  • Sociology

    An Introductory Textbook and Reader

    by Daniel Nehring, Ken Plummer ...
    This groundbreaking new introduction to sociology is an innovative hybrid textbook and reader. Combining seminal scholarly works, contextual narrative and in-text didactic materials, it presents a rich, layered and comprehensive introduction to the discipline. Its unique approach will help inspire a creative, critical, and analytically sophisticated sociological imagination, making sense of ... Read more

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  • Resilience

    The Governance of Complexity

    by David Chandler ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional ... Read more

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