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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Face Politics

    by Jenny Edkins ...
    Series series Interventions
    The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari’s work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics.This book explores the politics of such diverse issues as images and faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces; psychology and neuroscience; face recognition; face blindness; facial injury, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • International Politics and Performance

    Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice

    Edited by Jenny Edkins, Adrian Kear ...
    Series series Interventions
    In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics. Whilst examination of political aesthetics, aesthetic politics, and politics of aesthetic practice has been central to research in both disciplines for some time, the emergence of a distinctive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Critical Theorists and International Relations

    Edited by Jenny Edkins, Nick Vaughan-Williams ...
    Series series Interventions
    A wide range of critical theorists is used in the study of international politics, and until now there has been no text that gives concise and accessible introductions to these figures. Critical Theorists and International Relations provides a wide-ranging introduction to thirty-two important theorists whose work has been influential in thinking about global politics.Each chapter is written by an ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Human Voice

    The Story of a Remarkable Talent

    by Anne Karpf ...
    Why has the female voice deepened over the last fifty years? Who talks more, men or women? How can a baby in the womb distinguish between different voices?The human voice is the personal and social glue that binds us, and the most important sound in our lives. The moment we open our mouth we leak information about our biological, psychological and social status. Babies use it to establish ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Revisualising Intersectionality

    by Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is ... Read more

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  • Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences

    by Catherine Kohler Riessman ...
    "Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight. Covering basic issues of transcription and research credibility as well as visual data and engagingly written, it is a goldmine for students and researchers alike. If we want to make narrative research serious and revealing, it is to this book that we should turn."—David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The Intellectual Roots of Grounded Theory

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Grounded theory is an open-ended approach to research that can be adapted to many uses. This article shows how adaptable grounded theory is and was meant to be. Originating in the Chicago school of Sociology about 100 years ago, GT does not have to be about technicalities, but researchers can use it as an adaptable and open-ended approach to developing understandings of human situations.When ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Visual Studies

    A Skeptical Introduction

    by James Elkins ...
    In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where visual studies can become a more interesting place. Why look only at the same handful of theorists? Why ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research

    by David Silverman ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.Conceived by Chris Grey as an ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    by Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Book 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Read more

    $13.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus