Market Killing: What the Free Market Does and What Social Scientists Can Do about It

ISBN-13: 9781138467033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Greg Philo

Opis

This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the 20th century produced a rise in inequality and violence, the development of a huge criminal economy and the degradation of social and cultural life. It questions the silence of academics in the face of these changes.

Spis treści

Cultural Compliance: Media: Cultural Studies and Social Science Greg Philo and David Miller Contributions and Commentaries: Disciplinary dead-ends and alternative theory 1. What is wrong with science and rationality? Noam Chomsky 2. Life after the science wars? Hilary Rose 3. Film Theory and bogus theory Derek Bouse 4. Free market feminism, New Labour and the cultural meaning of the TV blonde Angela McRobbie 5. The 'Public', the 'Popular' and media studies John Corner 6. The emperor's new theoretical clothes, or geography without origami Chris Hamnett 7. Political economy Andrew Gamble Theory and practice 8. Media research and the audit culture Philip Schlesinger 9. Corporate culture and the academic left Barbara Epstein 10. Privatisation: Claims, outcomes and explanations Jean Shaoul 11. Media regulation in the era of market liberalism James Curran 12. Alternatives in the media age Danny Schechter 13. Political frustrations in the post-modern fog Hilary Wainwright Index

O autorze

Greg Philo