Search results for “[Subject: transformations]”

• Author(s): Dany-Robert Dufour • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralAfter the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: th...

• Author(s): Adam Arvidsson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is ...

• Author(s): You Ji • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: World - AsianChina?s military transformation is one of the major geo-strategic developments of the 21st Century. Billions of do...

• Author(s): Tim Bale • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - EuropeanThe Conservative Party has long laid claim to being the world's most successful political party, not least be...

• 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): David L. Brown • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: DemographyRural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urba...

• Author(s): Philipp Ther • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralWhen the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole...

• Author(s): Armin Nassehi • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWe are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything - including...

• Author(s): Gavin Barwell • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesIn recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics has fundamentally ...

• Author(s): Stuart Corbridge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: GeneralTwenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor peo...

• Author(s): Marc De Vos • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from ...

• Author(s): Kimberly Hutchings • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryHegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and ...

• Author(s): Lutz Raphael • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralIn the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. ...

• Author(s): Christoph Bluth • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralKorea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted ...

• Author(s): Alan Dowty • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GlobalizationWhat explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all th...

• Author(s): Luc Boltanski • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology...

• Author(s): Jacques Ranciere • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWhat distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thes...

• Author(s): Michael Drake • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThis accessible book addresses one of the twenty-first century's most important issues: the increasing lack of connection between politic...

• Author(s): Paul Scheffer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationThis book is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. The policies of multiculturalism that were imp...

• 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): William R. Jankowiak • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralThe family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China. It is no surprise, therefore...

• Author(s): David Held • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationIn this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of internationa...

• Author(s): Kate M. Phelan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: PoliticalFeminism has been defeated.Once a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for wo...

• Author(s): Shaun Riordan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe world of international relations has changed radically in the last few years. Technological, social and politic...

• Author(s): Oliver Ramsbotham • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyBringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those ...

• Author(s): Helga Nowotny • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: EpistemologyUncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scient...

• Author(s): Jill Walker Rettberg • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Media StudiesHumans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the inve...

• Author(s): Paul Veyne • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryThis short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of ...

• Author(s): Eric Holt-Gimaenez • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralNearly a third of the world’s population suffers from hunger or malnutrition. Feeding them – and the projected population of ...

• Author(s): Carl Schmitt • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalWritten in the early stages of the Cold War by one of the most controversial political and legal thinkers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmi...

• Author(s): Anna Cristina Pertierra • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesThe field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book,...

• 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): Bento Prado Jr • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of ...

• Author(s): Tianjie Ma • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - AsianThe world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a ...

• Author(s): Eva Illouz | Jonas Ferdinand • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralTechnology is conventionally viewed as dehumanizing. Yet, as Eva Illouz shows in this concise book, technology...