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  • Codes of Corruption

    A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions

    by Karin Zotzmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    Corruption is expanding internationally and so are strategic accusations of others being corrupt. It has become quite common for some politicians and their supporters to make false accusations of corruption against opponents in order to win power. A precise understanding of the phenomenon is therefore urgently needed for economic and political governance. The phenomenon has so far been ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics

    Edited by Jérémie Bouchard, Karin Zotzmann ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Linguistics
    Through conceptual and empirical means, this timely volume looks at how critical realism, a specific approach to the philosophy of science, helps uncover and refine assumptions about what constitutes valid knowledge in applied linguistics, how scholars can create it, and how applied linguistics can improve as an interdisciplinary strand of the social sciences. With contributions from leading and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Gore Capitalism

    by Sayak Valencia ...
    Translated by John Pluecker ...
    Series Book 24 - Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
    An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.“Death has become the most profitable business in existence.”—from Gore CapitalismWritten by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Patients of the State

    The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

    by Javier Auyero ...
    Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Mobile Secrets

    Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

    by Julie Soleil Archambault ...
    Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecommunication would enhance everything from entrepreneurialism to democratization to service delivery, ushering in socio-economic development.With Mobile ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consumers And Citizens

    Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the Americas
    An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Anatomy of Disintegration

    What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right

    by Rodrigo Nunes ...
    A leading political philosopher dissects the global far right’s appeal through the lens of Bolsonarismo, tracing its roots to the social disintegration caused by the crisis of neoliberalism and looming climate changeFor four years, Jair Bolsonaro led Brazil and the popular, far-right movement that bore his name. His rise, defeat, and the chaos he left in his wake reflect patterns that are playing ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Literacy

    An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language

    by David Barton ...
    This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.An introductory textbook on the growing field of literacy studies, fully ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Spanish So White

    Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a ‘Foreign’ Language Education

    by Adam Schwartz ...
    Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

    Tracing the Socio-Material

    by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk ...
    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variously found their way ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • The Home as Laboratory

    Finance, Housing, and Feminist Struggle

    by Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, Liz Mason-Deese ...
    The home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience.It has become increasingly clear that home is not a site of private life and isolation, but a battleground where the conflict over the reorganization of working days, over what even counts as labor, is waged. In the very spaces that capital historically sought to portray as an “unproductive” and apolitical ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language, Migration and Social Inequalities

    A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work

    Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Dr. Celia Roberts, Melissa Moyer Greer ...
    Series Book 2 - Language, Mobility and Institutions
    Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. A new social order resulting from neoliberal economic practices, globalisation and outsourcing also challenges traditional ways the nation ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD