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  • Planet Utopia

    Utopia, Dystopia, and Globalisation

    by Mark Featherstone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist utopian vision, which is most clearly expressed in theories of global finance, is no longer sustainable today.This book concerns the status of utopian ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Writing the Body Politic

    A John O’Neill Reader

    Edited by Mark Featherstone, Thomas Kemple ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O’Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal, and communal life.Beginning with an exploration of O’Neill’s work on the construction of the biobody and the ways in which corporeality is sutured ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Debt

    by Max Haiven, Nicholas Gane, Joe Deville, Rosie Walker, Leila Dawney, Samuel Kirwan, Mark Davis, Joshua Bowsher, Ole Bjerg, Lisa Adkins ...
    Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.The ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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    The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

    by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner ...
    The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

    Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center.From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Right to Stay Home

    How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration

    by David Bacon ...
    The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United StatesPeople across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Latin American Foreign Policies

    Between Ideology and Pragmatism

    by Peter Lambert ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy. The growing rejection of neo-liberalism as an ideological dogma seems to have given space to more pragmatic stances in favour of national interests. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Transition of Global Order

    Legitimacy and Contestation

    by M. Terhalle ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Japan's Strategic Challenges In A Changing Regional Environment

    by Purnendra Jain, Peng Er Lam ...
    Japan faces significant challenges in both traditional and non-traditional areas of national security policy as the economic resurgence of China and the loss of US hegemonic clout significantly transform the strategic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region. How is Japan coping with this new global and regional politico-security environment? What strategic moves has it taken to best position itself ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The International Political Economy of Work and Employability

    by P. Moore ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • China Joins Global Governance

    Cooperation and Contentions

    by Gerald Chan, Lai-Ha Chan, David Fouquet, Henry Gao, Pak K. Lee, Jieli Li, Xiaojun Li, Yawei Liu, Jianwei Wang, Zhong Xiang Zhang, Tong Zhao, Yale Ferguson, Wei Li, June Park ...
    For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. International observers have also debated whether China would be a status quo power or a revisionist power, and whether China would observe the rules and regulations of international institutions and regimes. China Joins Global Governance: Cooperation and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe

    Edited by Magdalena Nowicka, Vojin Šerbedžija ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores migrant's global social remittances and their impacts on Europe. Exploring the topic from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography and political science, the authors present empirical analyses covering a wide selection of international contexts across Europe, India, Iraq, Bolivia, Congo, Lebanon and Thailand. The book presents migrants not as Europe’s ... Read more

    $80.99 USD