wyszukanych pozycji: 20
The Globalization of Diversity: Information, Mobility and the Politics of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781412935234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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104,49 zł |
The Globalization of Diversity: Information, Mobility and the Politics of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781412935227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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313,61 zł |
Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World
ISBN: 9780761961215 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis?
They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. The contributors go on to analyze the public sphere, questioning the reductive... In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship betw...
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1014,02 zł |
Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity
ISBN: 9780803983229 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system.
In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are ...
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297,89 zł |
Body Modification
ISBN: 9780761967958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West. It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'modern primitives', or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties?
Contributors address the question of the permanence of body transformation through fitness... This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting imp...
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1097,65 zł |
Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity
ISBN: 9780803976061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization.
Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultur...
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313,61 zł |
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment
ISBN: 9780761950851 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations.
This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human bod...
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292,71 zł |
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment
ISBN: 9780761950844 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations.
This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human bod...
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972,21 zł |
Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World
ISBN: 9780761961222 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city.
What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes ...
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329,29 zł |
The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory
ISBN: 9780803984134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies.
This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between natur...
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329,29 zł |
Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life
ISBN: 9780415112598 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. The contributors discuss images of ageing which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity on old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly;...
We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almo...
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287,43 zł |
Love & Eroticism
ISBN: 9780761962526 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A collection that explores the nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, it contains contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism.
A collection that explores the nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary c...
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256,06 zł |
Body Modification
ISBN: 9780761967965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West. It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'modern primitives', or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties?
Contributors address the question of the permanence of body transformation through fitness... This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting imp...
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329,29 zł |
Images of Aging : Cultural Representations of Later Life
ISBN: 9780415112581 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. This work examines this topic.
We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almos...
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705,63 zł |
Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City
ISBN: 9781531612856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On July 24, 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his band of about 50 soldiers and fur trappers landed on the banks of the Detroit River and built Fort Pontchartrain. The village of Detroit became the fur trading capital of North America, tempting thousands of immigrants from around the globe. Showcased in nearly 200 photographs is the continued legacy of working class struggle in the Midwest's "Union Town."
Detroit has always been a haven for the working class. Headquartering the most powerful industrial union in American history, the UAW, the city's labor movements have had the power to... On July 24, 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his band of about 50 soldiers and fur trappers landed on the banks of the Detroit River and built F...
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173,84 zł |
Automobilities
ISBN: 9781412910897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. Edited by three leading social analysts, Automobilities presents one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the important of the car in French cultural theory, the contributions demonstrate just how significant have been the economic, technological,...
Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, au...
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763,13 zł |
Global Modernities
ISBN: 9780803979482 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the nation-state' and national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.
Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasi...
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355,43 zł |
Global Modernities
ISBN: 9780803979475 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the nation-state' and national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.
Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasi...
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972,21 zł |