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“gerard bouchard”

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  • National Myths

    Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

    Edited by Gérard Bouchard ...
    National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
    Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are in fact powerful, pervasive forces.In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Interculturalism

    A View from Quebec

    by Gerard Bouchard ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
    Accommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emerged that seeks a balance between the needs of minorities and those of the majority.In Interculturalism, sociologist and historian Gérard Bouchard presents his vision of interculturalism as a model for ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

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  • Moral Relativism

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  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

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  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

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  • Ethnosociology: The Foundations

    Ethnosociology, #1

    by Alexander Dugin ...
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    Ethnosociology: The Foundations is a systematic presentation of the main principles and analytic strategies of the discipline of ethnosociology, written by Alexander Dugin, one of the major Russian philosophers and political analysts of the present day. Through study of the main sources and schools that influenced the establishment of ethnosociology as an independent and original scientific ... Read more

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  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid ...
    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Read more

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  • State, Space, World

    Selected Essays

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
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  • Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

    Toward a Critical History

    by Monica Heller, Bonnie McElhinny ...
    Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has served, as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The authors ask how, and by ... Read more

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  • Foucault and Neoliberalism

    Edited by Daniel Zamora, Michael C. Behrent ...
    Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of liberalism ... Read more

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