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From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human NatureThis book shows the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The idea is that different modes of production like capitalism and feudalism have structures -- 'relations of production' -- which shape and limit the potentials for...
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Free Internet Access as a Human RightMerten Reglitz proposes a new human right that ensures Internet access for those who cannot afford it and protects that right from arbitrary interferences by those that would exploit it for harm. The first part of the book justifies the claim for this new...
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Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four CountriesIn the tradition of Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road, Abigail Leonard's immersive, page-turning narrative follows four women from around the world as they embark on the transformative first year of motherhood. Tsukasa in Japan grapples with memories of a...
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Fifty Years of Human Rights in Chile: Essays in Honour of Alan AngellThis book examines the struggle for human rights in Chile since 1973 and celebrates the academic work and activism of Latin Americanist Alan Angell. It analyses Chileans' collective memory of the Pinochet regime and the role of contemporary opponents of the advancement of human...
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Feminist Conservation: Politics and Power in Madagascar's Marine CommonsHow access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability As marine conservation becomes an increasingly urgent issue around the world, there is an equally critical need to understand the ways different conservation interventions...
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Feminism and the Cinema of ExperienceFrom popular films like Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe-these and other affects refuse the resolution of feeling good or bad, leaving viewers questioning and disoriented. In Feminism and...
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Fake You - An Activist's Guide to Defeating Disinformation: Don't blame the people, don't blame the Internet. Blame the power - Governments, politicalThis is THE activist's guide to defeating fake news and blocking policies that use disinformation to curtail civil rights and freedoms.Power has lied to us since the beginning of time. The methods and technologies used have differed, but lying is in power's DNA. In...
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Extinction Equilibrium: Economics for Generational SurvivalGeneration Z has grown up with a global financial crisis, a pandemic, the climate emergency, growing autocracy and wars. Survival, not just equity, is at stake. As debate rages about how to ensure a fairer and sustainable society, this book challenges short-sighted economic policies,...
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Expedition Escape from the Classroom: Political Outings on the Campus and the Anxiety of Teaching IRDespite facing profound teaching anxiety stemming from the politically intense surroundings in Israel and his own writer's block, Oded Löwenheim crafted an innovative college course that breaks free from the traditional classroom setting to explore the depths of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus. He takes...
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Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare TodayRejecting much of the conventional wisdom to what makes up a modern Army, William F. Owen massacres fields of sacred cows to challenge many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted. Based on his experience...
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Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States Since 9/11An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our understanding of the politics of time in America Ancient Greek and Roman cultures have been privileged as authoritatively timeless throughout American history. American leaders capitalize on this...
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Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink EconomiesIn Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female...
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Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink EconomiesIn Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female...
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Electoral Systems: A Global PerspectiveHow do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats? What effects do they have on the political system, on political actors, and on voters? Does the choice of electoral system always involve a trade-off between strong and stable government and representation? And...
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Does Torture Work?When the Senate released its so-called "Torture Report" in December 2014 the world would learn that, for years, the CIA had used unimaginably brutal methods to interrogate its prisoners--often without yielding any useful or truthful information. The agency had long and adamantly defended its...
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Divergent Worlds: What the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Can Tell Us about the Future of International OrderA study of why the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean took different paths to peace and stability and its lessons for international order today In this book Amitav Acharya and Manjeet S. Pardesi compare the interplay of power and ideas in the ancient Mediterranean...
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Discrimination and the Foundation of JusticeDiscrimination is still not sufficiently addressed within liberal democracies. Often only some groups are protected against discrimination and merely in certain situations. This leaves many who suffer because of discrimination without recourse. And that is only one of the dilemmas with group-based approaches to...
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of CatastropheA "keenly observed and timely investigation" of how capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe--"a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world" (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine) Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan,...
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Democratic Crossroads: Transformations in Twenty First-Century PoliticsAuthor: Richard YoungsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 08/27/2024Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.20dISBN: 9780197762424About the AuthorRichard Youngs is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and professor of international relations at the University of Warwick. He was previously director...
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Democracy and the Politics of SilenceMost people equate democracy with discussion, speech, and making one's voice heard. But where does silence fit in? Democracy and the Politics of Silence investigates the largely overlooked role of silence in democratic politics. It challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that silence can support...
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