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Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Springborg, Robert
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509535606
- Páginas: 270
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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"Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. In this book leading Middle East scholar Robert Springborg discusses the economic future of this region by examining the national and regional ...
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Populism
Moffitt, Benjamin
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509534333
- Páginas: 170
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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19,95 €En la web:14,96 €
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Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who disrupt the ...
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Instagram
Abidin, Crystal Highfield, Tim Leaver, Tama
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509534395
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.21,95 €
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Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010.
In the first book-length examination of ... -
The New Environmental Economics
Laurent, Eloi
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509533817
- Páginas: 230
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of ...
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The Uncounted
Cobham, Alex
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536023
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if youre not counted, you dont count.
Alex Cobham argues that systematic ... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan
Medveded, Sergei
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536054
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Russias relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putins leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in East Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the ...
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Data Selves
Lupton, Deborah
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536429
- Páginas: 154
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.22,45 €
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As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties.
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Riding for Deliveroo "Resistance in the New Economy"
Cant, Callum
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509535514
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one ...
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Failure
Alexander, Neta Appadurai, Arjun
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509504725
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.17,95 €
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley'the two worlds this book examines'promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless 'flow.' Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and ...
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Socialism has made a dramatic comeback in the 21st century. In the wake of financial crisis, mounting inequality and social decay, it seems more relevant than ever. Nobody who seeks to understand contemporary politics can ...
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Austerity
Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Marc
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509534876
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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21,00 €En la web:15,75 €
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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, ...
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Defending Freedom "How We Can Win the Fight for an Open Society"
Fücks, Ralf
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536245
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigration have culminated in a prevailing mood of hostility towards the established order. Confidence in democratic institutions ...
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In Defence of Democracy
Fuller, Roslyn
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509533138
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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22,45 €En la web:16,84 €
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Should Brexit or Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy? Are 'the people too ignorant or stupid to rule? Numerous commentators are seriously arguing that the answer to these questions might be 'yes.
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For a Politics of the Common Good
Badiou, Alain Engelman, P.
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509535057
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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13,95 €En la web:10,46 €
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This volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the validity and applicability of Badious ideas are tested in relation to the ...
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The Age of Disruption "Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism"
Stiegler, Bernard
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509529278
- Páginas: 380
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.34,95 €
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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the ...
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The Political Economy of Inequality
Stilwell, Frank
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509528653
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age.
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Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber
Giddens, Anthony
Polity Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780745670966
- Páginas: 66
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber's work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings. Weber's sociological studies have often been treated as if they were completely ...
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Globalization. The Hidden Agenda.
Smith, Dennis.
Polity Press (2006)
- EAN: 9780745617039
- Páginas: 271
- Fecha de edición: 2006
pvp.31,00 €
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In this exciting new book, Dennis Smith argues that we need to look afresh at globalization. So far, he argues, analysts have not properly explained religious extremism, the War on Terror, and the dynamics of ...
