Search results for “[Subject: performance]”

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryPerformativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural s...

• Author(s): Thomas Cartelli • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in ‘staging’ Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakes...

• Author(s): Linda Weiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis book addresses the role of political institutions in economic performance, examining the changing state-economy r...

• Author(s): Judith Lorber • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesToday, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and on...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is underst...

• Author(s): Susan J. Hekman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, “What does it mean to be a woman?” Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the ...

• Author(s): Molly Anne Rothenberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social chan...

• Author(s): Anthony Giddens • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone ...