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  • Disrupting the university

    The stifling of academic freedom in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

    by Heike Egner, Anke Uhlenwinkel ...
    Translated by Zachary Gallant ...
    At universities, professors are increasingly being dismissed or demoted from high positions for allegedly disruptive behaviors. But when is a professor disruptive? In the media, you read about unpopular statements, false attitudes, bullying or abuse of power. But that is only part of the story. This book looks at the structures behind the cases and shows that the dismissals repeatedly affect ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning and Calamities

    Practices, Interpretations, Patterns

    Edited by Heike Egner, Marén Schorch, Martin Voss ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society
    It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The End of Illusions

    Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

    by Andreas Reckwitz ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Offended Freedom

    The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism

    by Carolin Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey ...
    Translated by Jan-Peter Herrmann ...
    Today, a new kind of freedom fighter has emerged in our midst: liberal and open-minded, these individuals champion liberty and resent the imposition of more and more rules and exhortations that constrain their freedom. They are angry, disgruntled, offended. Why should they have to wear a face mask, get vaccinated or follow new rules on diversity and equality? They should be free to choose. They do ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Entrepreneurial Self

    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

    by Ulrich Bröckling ...
    "This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Society of Fear

    Translated by Jessica Spengler ...
    by Heinz Bude ...
    From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopardy. We are overwhelmed by a sense of having been catapulted into a world to which we no longer belong.Tracing this ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Make Capitalism History

    A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society

    by Simon Sutterlütti, Stefan Meretz ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce ... Read more

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  • The Working Sovereign

    Labour and Democratic Citizenship

    by Axel Honneth ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a transparent and fairly regulated division of labour.The social world of work – where we spend so much of our time – is almost unique in being ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Individualization

    Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences

    by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible.Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Backstage of the Care Economy

    Transnational Perspectives on the Commercialisation of Care

    by Helma Lutz ...
    ***Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2025***‘Reveals the causes and consequences behind the explosion of migrant care work. A remarkable contribution from one of the leading social scientists of gender, care and migration in Europe’ Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University‘A tour-de-force distillation of radical social thought on domestic labour grounded in critiques of global ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Geographies of Schooling

    Edited by Holger Jahnke, Caroline Kramer, Peter Meusburger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, pedagogy, educational and social sciences in Germany, the United ... Read more

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  • Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems

    Between the National and the Global

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Thomas Lenz ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD