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  • Collective Principles and the Formation of the Internet

    Cultural Influences and Historical Impacts (Beginnings to 2010)

    by Suman Gupta ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book describes how distinctive socio-political commitments and cultural practices developed upon the internet in the later 20th and early 21st century and considers what lies ahead in those terms.Five decades after the internet’s technological structure began to be erected, and three decades after engagement with it started burgeoning, an active and global collective formation has grown upon ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants

    An Engineering-Humanities Conversation

    The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. The book ensures that specialist concepts in AI research are made comprehensible to a humanities researcher, while humanities theories can be easily grasped by an AI engineer.The authors establish ground rules to design an AI-Assistant, that is, an AI system ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Political Catchphrases and Contemporary History

    A Critique of New Normals

    by Suman Gupta ...
    Political Catchphrases and Contemporary History presents an historical account of the period 2001-2020 by focusing on the shifting connotations of certain political catchphrases and words. These allow for a linked-up narrative covering areas such as politics and policy, business and investing, austerity and inequality, identity, climate change, crowd protests, flexible working, and online ... Read more

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  • Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis

    A Collective Journal

    This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. Featuring contributors located in India, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us with simultaneous multiple histories of our time.The volume documents the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • What Is Artificial Intelligence?: A Conversation Between An Ai Engineer And A Humanities Researcher

    'A light-hearted, but engaging conversation about one of the key technologies of our age.I recommend this book to anyone interested in the broader issues around Artificial Intelligence.'Richard HartleyAustralian National University, AustraliaThis book engages with the title question: what is artificial intelligence (AI)? Instead of reiterating received definitions or surveying the field from a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Race and Crisis

    Edited by Suman Gupta, Satnam Virdee ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    As the European Union seemingly teetered from a financial crisis to an immigration crisis around 2015 and onwards, discourses of race appeared to congeal in various member states. In some instances, these came with familiarly essentialist constructions; in others these were refracted cautiously through concerns about security, national and cultural integrity, distribution of public resources and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Digital India and the Poor

    Policy, Technology and Society

    by Suman Gupta ...
    Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitised political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic research.This book:Interrogates the category of the poor in India and how they have come to be classified in economic and policy ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Usurping Suicide

    The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths

    Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have produced – their political, social and cultural implications. How does a particular act of suicide enable a ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Literature

    by Suman Gupta ...
    Series series Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
    This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the relationship between globalization theory and literary theory, and discusses the impact of globalization processes on the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Entrepreneurial Literary Theory

    A Debate on Research and the Future of Academia

    Across the world at present, researchers and teachers are being exhorted to become entrepreneurial. Universities are being restructured accordingly. The debate presented in this book considers what that involves and portends for academia. Literary studies are often regarded as the most resistant to – unfit for – entrepreneurial purposes. Literary research is therefore taken as a baseline for this ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education

    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment, and offers open-ended, multi-faceted and multi-vocal accounts of particular aspects of contemporary ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Cultures of Economic Migration

    International Perspectives

    by Tope Omoniyi ...
    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the contributors address the question of whether recent enquiries into modernity bring a newer and better comprehension of the nature of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD