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  • Oppenheimer

    The Tragic Intellect

    de Charles Thorpe ...
    At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Sociology in Post-Normal Times

    de Charles Thorpe ...
    The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science

    Edición de David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, Charles Thorpe ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century. ‘Science’ and ‘innovation’ are increasingly tasked with driving and reshaping a troubled global economy while also tackling multiple, overlapping global challenges, such as climate change or food security, global pandemics or energy security. But responding to these demands is ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Necroculture

    de Charles Thorpe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx’s writings on alienation and Erich Fromm’s conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the ideological reflection and material manifestation of this basic feature of capitalism: the rule of dead capital over living labor ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    de Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

    de Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg ...
    Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    de Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

    The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus

    de G. Bruce Doern, David Castle, Peter Phillips ...
    Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information.The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edición de Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Universities, Innovation and the Economy

    de Helen Lawton-Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is recent is their role as territorial actors. It is government policy in many countries that ... Leer más

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  • Transgovernance

    Advancing Sustainability Governance

    Edición de Louis Meuleman ...
    ‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on ... Leer más

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  • Knowledge for Sale

    The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

    de Lawrence Busch ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD