Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth

With a new investigative epilogue by a prominent Washington journalist and a new foreword by the author. Ambassador Joseph Wilson recounts more tha...

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on land-based commons, the political and social perspectives they offer, how the commons are appropriated by cap...

Reducere. In this prequel to the bestselling Murder in Samarkand, Craig Murray describes how he discovered the dark heart at the centre of Tony Blair's shiny...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

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This book presents a unique investigation into the meaning of the commons. Unlike academic literature on the subject, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi-foun...

How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contest...

The majority of developing countries in the Global South are evidently rich in natural resources, but paradoxically blighted by excruciating povert...

Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience i...

Reducere. Examine what it means to be a global citizen, and learn about the rights and responsibilities that we all have. The right to grow and thrive in a s...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Foc...

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

Reducere. The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and...

Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are foun...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Philip (The Open University, UK) SeargeantNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

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Offering a vivid account of the revolutionary times through which they lived, this book revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes and Locke. Focus...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Seyed Hadi (University of Tehran, Iran) BorhaniNumber of pages: 264Collection: Unsettling Colonialism in o...

Savigny examines how the prevalence of sexism and misogyny across the media, entertainment and cultural industries keeps sexist values firmly withi...

This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority t...

'Capitalist realism' implies that, ever since the fall of Soviet communism in 1989, capitalism has been the only realistic system of production and...

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and R...

Why Noncompliance traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU), focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU ...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a pas...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

Reducere. Taking as its premise that the proposed epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this collection explores the relationship betw...

Telling a neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi, Aidan Russell examines the political language of truth that drove extraordin...

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who ch...

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DescriptionAdvances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experimen...

At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his ...

Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses...

Writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan's comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking up' - to the realities of cl...

This book critiques existing literature on the response of Western states to asylum seeking 'others' and outlines an alternative perspective to ack...

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Reducere. Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual fo...

Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys...

DescriptionThere is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. Truthteller is an essential guide to how governments and corporations cover up murde...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Daniel (University of Michigan, USA) HerwitzNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 15...

In bold and intelligently written essays, historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of th...

This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the role of politics in policy development and implementation. It introduces...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): WacquantNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 177 x 216 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters in order to understand the ways in which it ...