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  • Information, Power, and Politics

    Technological and Institutional Mediations

    by César Bolaño, Yann Moulier Boutang, Giuseppe Cocco, Maria Eduarda da Mota Rocha, Jonatas Ferreira, Alain Herscovici, Maria Nélida González de Gómez, Sandra Braman, Dan Schiller ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies
    With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge, while at the same time new institutional frameworks can limit one's ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Sociability

    Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks

    Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller, Sandra Gruner-Domic ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    This book approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations.Cosmopolitan Sociability critiques definitions of cosmopolitanism as a tolerance for cultural difference or a universalist morality that arise from contemporary experiences of mobility and globalization. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Sociology Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks, DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sociology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Nationalism

    Theory, Ideology, History

    by Anthony D. Smith ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and symbolic forms.Seeking to do justice to these ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Nation-States and Nationalisms

    Organization, Ideology and Solidarity

    by Sinisa Malesevic ...
    Series series Political Sociology
    Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation-state the only legitimate mode of territorial rule.This innovative and concise book ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Political Ideologies

    An Introduction

    by Andrew Heywood ...
    Offering an unparalleled, sweeping survey of the political ideologies that have shaped our world, the seventh edition of Andrew Heywood's seminal undergraduate textbook continues to lead the way in guiding students through the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated politics past and present. Covering an impressive array of topics, the first half of the book focusses on traditional ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • An Analysis of Janet L. Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony

    The World System A.D. 1250-1350

    by William Day ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers.Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile city-states that ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture

    by Stephen Fay, Liam Haydon ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations across the globe that they colonized. Colonization was not just an economic, military or political ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era

    by Anthony Smith ...
    In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces. Is this due to the advance of modernity? Will a global culture supersede nationalism? In fact, the revolution of modernity has revitalized ethnic memories and communities, as people look for stability and meaning in an age of unprecedented change and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Distant Love

    by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ...
    Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother.In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD