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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “laura centemeri”
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  • The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

    The Future Is Now

    by Eleonora Gea Piccardi, Laura Centemeri, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Francesca Forno, Mikko Laamanen, Arturo Escobar, Jilly Traganou, Paul Raekstad, Luke Yates, Davina Cooper, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Chiara Bottici, Antonietta De Vita, Harry Pitts, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Erik Mygind du Plessis, Francesco Vittori, Stefan Wahlen, Joost De Moor, Viviana Asara, Emil Husted, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith ...
    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
    The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies.Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery

    Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments

    Edited by Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu, J. Peter Burgess ...
    Series series Routledge New Security Studies
    This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    by Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks, DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sociology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Radical Imagination

    Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

    by Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven ...
    The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

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  • Decolonising the University

    Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu ...
    In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this ... Read more

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  • Social Work and Social Theory

    Making Connections

    by Paul Michael Garrett ...
    Drawing on a range of theorists and competing perspectives, this substantially updated and expanded second edition places social theory at the heart of social work pedagogy.This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rethinking Racial Capitalism

    Questions of Reproduction and Survival

    by Gargi Bhattacharyya ...
    Series series Cultural Studies and Marxism
    How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources?Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a return to analyses of racial capitalism – the capitalism that is inextricably linked with histories of racist expropriation – and argues that it is only by ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Theories of Globalization

    by Barrie Axford ...
    Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization. Barrie Axford expertly guides readers through the full range of perspectives on the topic, from international political economy to geography, global anthropology to cultural and communication studies. In so doing he draws out the common threads between competing ... Read more

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  • Sociology

    An Introductory Textbook and Reader

    by Daniel Nehring, Ken Plummer ...
    This groundbreaking new introduction to sociology is an innovative hybrid textbook and reader. Combining seminal scholarly works, contextual narrative and in-text didactic materials, it presents a rich, layered and comprehensive introduction to the discipline. Its unique approach will help inspire a creative, critical, and analytically sophisticated sociological imagination, making sense of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Out of the Ruins

    The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces

    Edited by Robert H. Haworth, John M. Elmore ...
    Contemporary educational practices and policies across the world are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatization, and standardized accountability. There are definite shifts and movements towards more capitalist interventions of efficiency and an adherence to market fundamentalist values within the sphere of public education. In many cases, educational policies are ... Read more

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  • Why Voice Matters

    Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism

    by Nick Couldry ...
    One of the best books I have read in years about what it means to engage neoliberalism through a critical framework that highlights those narratives and stories that affirm both our humanity and our longing for justice. It should be read by everyone concerned with what it might mean to not only dream about democracy but to engage it as a lived experience and political possibility.- Henry Giroux, ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

    Edited by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary case studies and conceptual issues. From a transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective, this book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD