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  • Everyday Ethics

    Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life

    by Michael Lamb, Brian A. Williams, Molly Farneth, Stephanie Mota Thurston, Morgan Clarke, Brian Brock, Jennifer Herdt, Eric Gregory, Craig M. Gay0, Philip Lorish1, Justin Welby2, Rachel Muers3, Luke Bretherton4, Charles T. Mathewes5, Michael Banner6, Patrick McKearney7 ...
    What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of moral theology (including some GUP authors) to explore that question in dialogue with anthropology and the social sciences. Inspired by the work of Michael Banner, these ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Kind of Upside-Downness

    Learning Disabilities and Transformational Community

    by Judith Gardom, E.S. Kempson, Daniel Smith, Suzanna R. Millar, Philip S. Powell, Patrick McKearney, Theresia Paquet ...
    One of the great prophetic figures of our time was Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, where those with and without disabilities share life together. This book tells the story of a new, practical development, inspired by Vanier, and taking further both his thought and the practice of L'Arche. Lyn's House is a small Christian house of hospitality and friendship in Cambridge, set in an ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Against Better Judgment

    Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Patrick McKearney, Nicholas H. A. Evans ...
    Series Book 14 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Against Better Judgment

    Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Nicholas H. A. Evans, Patrick McKearney ...
    Series Book 14 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Side Affects

    On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

    by Hil Malatino ...
    How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishingSome days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Abductive Analysis

    Theorizing Qualitative Research

    by Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans ...
    "A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward theorizing in qualitative research." —Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern TurnIn Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication

    Paradigms, Principles, and Practices

    by Milton J. Bennett ...
    In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective. In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic readings on the topic of intercultural communication, including:"Science and Linguistics," by Benjamin Lee Whorf"The Power of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Learning Self

    Understanding the Potential for Transformation

    by Mark Tennant ...
    The Learning SelfThis new book from the award-winning author of Psychology and Adult Learning puts the spotlight on the kind of learning that brings about significant personal change. Tennant explores the techniques, processes, and practices educators can use to promote learning that leads to change and examines assumptions about self and identity, how we are formed, and our capacity for change ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

    Working with Everyday Life Materials

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    This book is a ′survival guide′ for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.As living human beings in cultural worlds, we are constantly surrounded by ′data′ ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

    by Philip Manning ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve.This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging in its scope from his very earliest work right up to the projects upon which he was engaged at the time of his death. Goffman's ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • How to Do Things with Emotions

    The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we witness political leaders and others who lack any sense of shame, even as they display ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Immaterial Bodies

    Affect, Embodiment, Mediation

    by Lisa Blackman ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    In this unique contribution, Blackman focuses upon the affective capacities of bodies, human and non-human as well as addressing the challenges of the affective turn within the social sciences. Fresh and convincing, this book uncovers the paradoxes and tensions in work in affect studies by focusing on practices and experiences, including voice hearing, suggestion, hypnosis, telepathy, the placebo ... Read more

    $98.99 USD