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  • The Contours of Eurocentrism

    Race, History, and Political Texts

    by Marta Araújo, Silvia Rodríguez Maeso ...
    This book proposes an approach to Eurocentrism as a paradigm of knowledge production and interpretation rooted in the Western narrative of modernity and its racial governmentalities. Accordingly, it interrogates the relationship between knowledge, race, and power at the heart of debates on the making and circulation of history, opening up a tension, not so much with other histories, but with ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Changing Disability Policy System

    Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1

    Edited by Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri, Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    Being an ‘active citizen’ involves exercising social rights and duties, enjoying choice and autonomy, and participating in political decision-making processes which are of importance for one’s life. Amid the new challenges facing contemporary welfare states, debate over just how ‘active’ citizens can and ought to be has redoubled. Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Information Visualization in The Era of Innovative Journalism

    Edited by Carlos Toural-Bran, Ángel Vizoso, Sara Pérez-Seijo, Marta Rodríguez-Castro, María-Cruz Negreira-Rey ...
    Information Visualization in the Era of Innovative Journalism brings together over 30 authors from countries around the world to synthesize how recent technological innovations have impacted the development, practice and consumption of contemporary journalism.As technology rapidly progresses, shifts, and innovates, there have been immense changes in the way we communicate. This book collects ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • The Values of Public Service Media in the Internet Society

    Edited by Miguel Túñez-López, Francisco Campos-Freire, Marta Rodríguez-Castro ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a global overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by Public Service Media (PSM) organizations, including the increasing power of digital platforms, changing consumption habits, and reforms on funding models. In order to survive in the new, transforming media ecosystem, PSM organizations need to retain their core values whilst also embracing new values stemming from ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Platform Socialism

    How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

    by James Muldoon ...
    'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these ... Read more

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  • Epistemologies of the South

    Justice Against Epistemicide

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom ... Read more

    Was $55.99 USD Now $49.99 USD

  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    by Michael J. Prince ...
    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    A Global Commentary

    Edited by Laura Spence, Mollie Painter-Morland ...
    Series Book 2 - The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series
    This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care

    by John Harris, Vicky White ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1,800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on social work as a significant area within this field. Covering social work theories, methods, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms from interdisciplinary topics overlapping with health and education, this is the most up-to-date ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • E-government in Europe

    Re-booting the State

    Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes.Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe:the degree to which e-government translates into genuine reform of government and public administrationthe dual role of the EU as ... Read more

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