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  • Co-opting Culture

    Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies

    by Lindsay Anderson, Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino, Ryan Caldwell, Pablo Castagno, Xi Chen, Jesse Garcia, B Garrick Harden, Keith Kerr, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Christopher M. Sutch, Marcus Aldredge ...
    Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of "cultural studies". Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable toolkits for understanding culture, the editors have brought together a collection of essays ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
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    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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  • Anthropology and Social Theory

    Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of ... Read more

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  • Designs for the Pluriverse

    Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
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  • Critical Education in the New Information Age

    by Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, Paul Willis ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more ... Read more

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  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Anarchist Pedagogies

    Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education

    by Allan Antliff ...
    Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as “saboteurs” within ... Read more

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  • New Keywords

    A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris ...
    Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised ... Read more

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  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

    re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

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