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  • New Public Spheres

    Recontextualizing the Intellectual

    by Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns, Sara Mels ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate. Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction

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    Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to understand his most complex ideas with ease; it will also demonstrate the practical impact of those ideas on life today. Covering everything from Foucault's views on the philosophy and ... Read more

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  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer ... Read more

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  • Media and Morality

    On the Rise of the Mediapolis

    by Roger Silverstone ...
    Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. It also argues that without a clear understanding of that significance, ... Read more

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  • Multicultiphobia

    by Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Read more

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  • Edward Said

    A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

    Edited by Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom ...
    Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said’s life and work, spans his ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Read more

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  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies

    Edited by Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent, Marc Stears ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field, combined with an appreciation of the changing complexity of concrete ideologies and the emergence of new ones. Ideologies, ... Read more

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  • The Toronto School of Communication Theory

    Interpretations, Extensions, Applications

    Edited by Rita Watson, Menahem Blondheim ...
    While never formally recognized as a school of thought in its time, the work of a number of University of Toronto scholars over several decades – most notably Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan – formulated a number of original attempts to conceptualize communication as a phenomenon, and launched radical and innovative conjectures about its consequences. This landmark collection of essays re ... Read more

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