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Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After YugoslaviaThis volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical "democracies." The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than...
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State of Insecurity: Government of the PrecariousYears of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the...
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The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, A Greater TaskCritical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for society. The Critical Legal Studies Movement...
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Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against AusterityThe Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century--and perhaps for the last forty years--and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized...
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Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of ResistanceA new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.Author: Simon CritchleyPublisher: VersoPublished: 01/16/2013Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 7.78h x 5.09w x 0.47dISBN: 9781781680179About the AuthorSimon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, and a part-time professor of...
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Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and CivillThroughout his long life Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) associated with some of the most celebrated thinkers of the age and witnessed some of its most dramatic events; it is therefore no wonder that his philosophy is regarded as among the most original and influential in...
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All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max StirnerMax Stirner's The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806-1856), a figure that strongly influenced--for better or worse--Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche,...
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Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present DayThe Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world's most vibrant and vital commercial centres and for centuries the region's cities and ports have been at the heart of East-West trade. Taking a full and comprehensive look at the region as a whole rather than...
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Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of DisclosureThe media today, and especially the national press, are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye, particularly politicians and celebrities, over the disclosure of private information and behaviour. Historically, journalists have argued that 'naming and shaming' serious wrong-doing and behaviour on the...
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The Biafran War: The Struggle for Modern NigeriaThe Biafran War was truly a 'brother's war', which saw family and friends on opposing sides. When the breakaway province of Biafra tried to secede from Nigeria in 1967, the result was a civil war of terrifying intensity. The minority Igbo people stood little...
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The Making of the German Post-War Economy Political Communication and Public Reception of the Social Market Economy After World War TwoThe years following the end of World War II in Germany were a significant period of change and upheaval. This book on the economic reconstruction of post-war West Germany traces the development of economic and socio-political ideas, and their gradual absorption by mainstream politicians,...
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Socialising Transgender: Support for TransitionThe author seeks to counterbalance the prevailing medicalised approach to statutory support for transgender people which tends to focus on the physical processes of transition rather than on subsequent social role adjustment.Kate Norman relates her own research findings to additional data and publications within...
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Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of PleasureThis pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over-emphasizing...
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Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the CommonsToday, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we...
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A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance WorksIn this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973. Employing a rich collection of historical and contemporary social movements from various...
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Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary SocietySamir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following...
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Business, Politics, and the State in Africa: Challenging the Orthodoxies on Growth and TransformationIn recent years Africa appears to have turned a corner economically. It is posting increased growth rates and is no longer the world's slowest growing region. Commentators are beginning to ask whether emerging from Africa is a new generation of 'lion' economies to challenge...
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Ngoization: Complicity, Contradictions and ProspectsThe growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has...
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Capitalism: A Structural GenocideIn the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence. Drawing on a number of fascinating...
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Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social FuturesWhat would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world? As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak...
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