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“gill jagger”

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  • Judith Butler

    Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative

    by Gill Jagger ...
    Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Changing Family Values

    Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order

    Edited by Gill Jagger, Caroline Wright ...
    Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Dispossession

    The Performative in the Political

    by Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou ...
    Series series Conversations
    Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the ... Read more

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  • Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Understanding Law and Society

    by Max Travers ...
    This textbook on the sociology of law is organised according to the theoretical traditions of sociology, and oriented towards providing an accessible, but sophisticated, introduction to, and overview of, the central themes, problems and debates in this field. The book employs an international range of examples - including the state, minority rights, terrorism, family violence, the legal profession ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Public Criminology?

    by Ian Loader, Richard Sparks ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas and public discourse? What collective good do we want criminological enquiry to promote?In addressing ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Thinking About Criminology

    Edited by Simon Holdaway, Paul Rock ...
    First published in 1998. Thinking about criminology draws together the expertise of respected criminologists from the principle contemporary schools of thought. The book aims to provide a clear analysis of the relationship between sociological theory and contemporary empirical criminological research, discussing the ways in which theoretical perspectives have contributed to the understanding of ... Read more

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  • Anthropology of Policy

    Perspectives on Governance and Power

    Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Culture Crisis

    Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia

    Edited by Jon Altman, Melinda Hinkson ...
    Written by Australia's leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government's intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation's remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference and probing the idea of indigenous disadvantage and autonomy, this record questions the role of ... Read more

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  • International Criminology

    A Critical Introduction

    by Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Richard Hil ...
    International Criminology is an easy-access critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the international arena think about and research crime. By using examples from the US, UK and Australia, the authors outline key ideas, vocabulary, assumptions and findings of the discipline while opening up a set of critical underlying issues and problems.From theoretical traditions to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • (Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice

    Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu

    Edited by Terry Lovell ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Nancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, including an extended critical exchange with Axel Honneth that touches importantly upon the work of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Welfare

    by Mary Daly ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Welfare is an important concept in the social sciences. It is also challenged and contested not only by alternative concepts but also as a political goal in itself. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book takes a fresh look at the continuing relevance of welfare in the context of public policy, recent scholarly developments and changes in popular attitudes and behaviour.The book connects ... Read more

    $21.00 USD