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  • Advertising

    A Cultural Economy

    by Liz McFall ...
    Series series Culture, Representation and Identity series
    Advertising is often used to illustrate popular and academic debates about cultural and economic life. This book reviews cultural and sociological approaches to advertising and, using historical evidence, demonstrates that a rethink of the analysis of advertising is long overdue.Liz McFall surveys dominant and problematic tendencies within the current discourse. This book offers a thorough review ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Devising Consumption

    Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending

    by Liz Mcfall ...
    Series series CRESC
    The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and enticed poor consumers. Consumption and consumer markets depend on such devices but their role has been ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Markets and the Arts of Attachment

    Edited by Franck Cochoy, Joe Deville, Liz McFall ...
    Series series CRESC
    The collection explores how sentiment and relations are organised in consumer markets. Social studies of economies and markets have much more to offer than simply adding some ‘context’, ‘culture’ or ‘soul’ to the analysis of economic practices. As this collection showcases, studying markets socially reveals how attachments between people and products are engineered and can explain how, and why, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Limits of Performativity

    Politics of the Modern Economy

    Edited by Franck Cochoy, Martin Giraudeau, Liz McFall ...
    The economy is commonly described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination. This book scrutinizes the ways in which the economy is performed, in order to situate where precisely politics is located with regard to economic matters. Politics, the book demonstrates, thus appears at the turning point, in the place where the efficiency of economics is ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

    Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

    Edited by Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Jonas Söderlund ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Readings in Planning Theory

    Edited by Susan S. Fainstein, James DeFilippis ...
    Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory.Represents the newest edition of the leading text in planning theory that brings together the essential classic and cutting-edge readingsFeatures 20 completely ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Transforming the Future

    Anticipation in the 21st Century

    Edited by Riel Miller ...
    People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life.This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice ... Read more

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  • Cities for People, Not for Profit

    Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

    Edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer ...
    The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    by Mike Savage ...
    A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Managing Performance in the Public Sector

    by Hans de Bruijn ...
    Topical and taking a bold stance in the contentious debate surrounding performance in the public sector, this new edition shows readers how performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public organizations.Thoroughly revised and updated, this highly successful text, written by an experienced academic and practitioner is packed full with a wealth of new features. These include ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Gender and the Politics of History

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD