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The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change
ISBN: 9780761970620 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Congratulations to Dr. McRobbie This book has been named to the list of books for the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).
These essays show Angela McRobbie reflecting on a range of issues which have political consequence for women, particularly young women, in a context where it is frequently assumed that progress has been made in the last 30 years, and that with gender issues now 'mainstreamed' in cultural and social life, the moment of feminism per se is now passed. McRobbie trenchantly... Congratulations to Dr. McRobbie This book has been named to the list of books for the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educ...
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Gulf Women Anthology
ISBN: 9780815633099 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world and is of relevance to Muslim women everywhere.
This collection of essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world and is of relevance to Muslim women everywher...
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Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
ISBN: 9780822338642 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Anthropology and Social Theory" the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of culture. Similarly, they all suggest that a theory which depends on the interested action of social beings--specifically practice theory, associated especially with the work of Pierre Bourdieu--requires...
In "Anthropology and Social Theory" the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural pract...
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Questioning Qualitative Inquiry
ISBN: 9781412935159 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is qualitative research in crisis?
In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martin Hammersley argues that the move away from natural science as a model for social inquiry involves a rejection of key principles that are essential for any commitment to research. Discussing fifty years of change in qualitative social research, Martyn Hammersley's argument is pursued in concrete terms through discussion of specific issues, such as: - how to learn from the history of qualitative inquiry - can qualitative methodology be taught - the significance of... Is qualitative research in crisis?
In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martin Hammersley argues that the move away from natural... |
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Valuing Care Work: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9781442610927 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are many forms of paid and unpaid labour encompassed in health care systems, including home care for the elderly or disabled, community health services, and the care family members provide for loved ones. Valuing Care Work is an international comparative study that examines economic organizations as well as intimate settings to show how personal service work is shaped by broader welfare state developments. To trace the relationships between gender, labour, and equity in health care, the essays in this volume analyse the rules and practices that shape care work. The... There are many forms of paid and unpaid labour encompassed in health care systems, including home care for the elderly or disabled, community healt... |
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Indigenous Experience Today
ISBN: 9781845205195 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by... A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies eve... |
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Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9781845454487 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being--defined as "the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society"--and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common humanity, well-being is intimately linked to the idea of happiness and its pursuits. Noted anthropological researchers have come together in this volume...
Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic ...
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Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9781845457082 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being-defined as "the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society"-and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common humanity, well-being is intimately linked to the idea of happiness and its pursuits. Noted anthropological researchers have come together in this volume to...
Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic ...
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Thinking Through Tourism
ISBN: 9781847885302 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes. An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as monastic hospitality, sex and tourism, concepts of enchantment, colonial consumers, boundaries created by gender and ethnicity, as well as issues like consumerism, modernism, and nationalism. The book also covers to practical and policy issues related to urban, rural, and coastal planning and... The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, ex... |
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Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry
ISBN: 9781848134348 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sex Work Matters" brings sex workers, scholars and activists together to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers theoretical discussions as well empirical case studies, providing new ways to link theory with lived experiences. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights. The book will equip any reader with new theoretical frameworks for...
"Sex Work Matters" brings sex workers, scholars and activists together to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From i...
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Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
ISBN: 9781850438472 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geography and Vision is a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer, Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. Ranging historically from the sixteenth century to the present day, the essays include reflections upon discovery and the role of imagination in giving it meaning; colonisation and sixteenth century gardening; the shaping of American landscapes; wilderness, imperial mappings and masculinity; urban cartography and utopian visions; conceptions of the Pacific; the cartography of John Ruskin;...
Geography and Vision is a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer, Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connections between see...
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Future Primitive Revisited
ISBN: 9781936239290 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." Derrick Jensen "John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. "Future Primitive Revisited" is one more precious gift for us all." Enrico Manicardi, author of "Liberi dalla Civilta" ("Free from Civilization") "Anyone who travels with his eyes open understands the sense of much of what you have written, and... "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." Derrick Jensen "John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant inte... |
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
ISBN: 9783037781265 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication.
While Fuller wrote the works in the 1960's and 1970's, they could not be more timely: like... Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, an...
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Nobel Laureates in Search of Identity and Integrity: Voices of Different Cultures
ISBN: 9789812560742 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book on self-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge and cultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, these studies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written by leading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries,...
In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on curr...
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Six Authors in Search of Justice: Engaging with Political Transitions
ISBN: 9780190495749 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book makes an original and readable contribution to defining the nature of justice in the aftermath of a repressive regime. While considering transitional justice as conventionally defined, this work explores broader conceptions of justice and is distinct in approaching the subject through a discussion of the lives and works of six writers: Victor Serge in Stalinist Russia, Albert Camus in Vichy France, Jorge Semprun in Spain under Franco, Ngugi wa Thiong'o in colonial and post-colonial Kenya, Ariel Dorfman in Chile under Pinochet, and Nadine Gordimer in apartheid South Africa. Each...
This book makes an original and readable contribution to defining the nature of justice in the aftermath of a repressive regime. While considering tra...
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Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide
ISBN: 9781438452098 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of widespread popular discontent. This fully revised and expanded edition comes at an equally crucial juncture. The period of relative stability and prosperity in the world economy that followed the release of the first edition ended abruptly in 2008 with a worldwide economic crisis that illustrated in dramatic fashion the enduring problems with our...
Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governan...
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American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
ISBN: 9780142181003 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers powerful messages for both the head and heart ("Entertainment Weekly")
From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics political or otherwise. Now, he addresses issues ranging from parenting and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and health care. Among them: Why straight people should have straight pride parades, tooWhy Obamacare, as good as it is, is still kinda evil Why what passes for... On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers powerful messages for both the head and heart ("Entertainment Weekly") <...
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The Last Midnight: Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media
ISBN: 9781476663234 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you find yourself contemplating the imminent end of the world? Do you wonder how society might reorganize itself to cope with global cataclysm? (Have you begun hoarding canned goods and ammunition?
Visions of an apocalypse began to dominate mass media well before the year 2000. Yet narratives since then present decidedly different spins on cultural anxieties about terrorism, disease, environmental collapse, worldwide conflict and millennial technologies.
Many of these concerns have been made metaphorical: zombie hordes embody fear of out-of-control appetites and encroaching...
Do you find yourself contemplating the imminent end of the world? Do you wonder how society might reorganize itself to cope with global cataclysm? (Ha...
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de la Emigración Al Transtierro
ISBN: 9781940075327 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an innovative approach to the study of Caribbean diaspora in the United States. It includes: a historical overview of the immigration process from the Caribbean countries to the US; an analysis of common trends and divergent experiences among the different Caribbean groups in the US; and the personal story of the author's "transtierro."
This book is an innovative approach to the study of Caribbean diaspora in the United States. It includes: a historical overview of the immigration pro...
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Progress and History
ISBN: 9781473310360 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Francis Sydney Marvin was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Progress and History is a work on the developments in civilisation that founded the modern world. Francis Sidney Marvin was born in 1863, in London, son of Francis Bentham Marvin and his wife Julia Chase. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School in London and went on to study lassics and modern history at St. Johns College, Oxford. Marvin retained a keen interest in history throughout his life and organised many courses and lectures on the subject...
This early work by Francis Sydney Marvin was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Prog...
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