South Africa's Insurgent Citizens. On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics, Paperback - Julian Brown

A lively and argumentative analysis of contemporary South African politics that shows how the dream of a 'rainbow nation' consensus has fractured, ...

This unique set of essays explores the thought of Georg Lukacs, specifically his attempt to ground an ethical Marxism in his conception of social o...

Drawing on classical natural law to bridge the gaps between human and divine law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom ...

Reducere. Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a rela...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a preconditi...

DescriptionHow rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were acti...

DescriptionThe McCall family should be thrilled to be back in California, after what happened to them in Africa. Forced to flee their home in Niger...

The Possibility of Practical Reason explores the foundational questions of moral psychology: How can any of our behavior qualify as acting for a re...

From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield f...

Both informative and entertaining, Peacocks & Picathartes is a celebration of Africa's diverse birdlife and examines not only the continent's endem...

One of the world's leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreecePublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Alain Badio...

Responding to widespread disenchantment with electoral politics, this book gives a practical examination of the possibilities offered by a generali...

DescriptionExpanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily li...

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Presents the notes that Maurice Merleau Ponty prepared for three courses he taught at the College de France: 'The Possibility of Philosophy Today',...

An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understa...

There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jos Esteban Mu oz looks at how those outside the raci...

Reducere. Everyone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it. But writer, political entrepr...

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Reducere. DescriptionMEET DAISY DE MELKER, who 'lovingly' prepared a flask of strychnine-laced coffee for her son. She is very different from Najwa Petersen,...

Reducere. The companion to Allister Sparks's award-winning The Mind of South Africa, this book is an extraordinary account from South Africa's premier journa...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): Richard C. MarbackNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2012Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jean HalleyIllustration(s): 30 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Polis: Fordham Seri...

From the author of the viral Teen Vogue article 'Donald Trump is Gaslighting America' comes this powerful examination of fourth wave feminism, and ...

From the author of the viral Teen Vogue article 'Donald Trump is Gaslighting America' comes this powerful examination of fourth wave feminism, and ...

When Chelsea Manning was arrested in May 2010 for leaking massive amounts of classified Army and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, she was almost ...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Kim LawrenceNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 107 x 172 x 26Cover type: Paperback...

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

Offers an account of development in action. Focusing on experts' attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, this title exposes th...

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Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

DescriptionWhat are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen a...

In April 2019, Lord Ashcroft published the results of his year-long investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry. Over eleven pages...

Reducere. A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and Trump's America -- and how a new settleme...

In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Traci...

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is ...

Reducere. With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemiso...

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

Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie...

Silicon Valley has long been at the forefront of innovation, but it is renowned for its archaic sexist culture. Alpha Girls is the inspiring story ...

The powerful and timely story of Peter Hain's political life fighting South African apartheid and modern-day corruption.Publisher: Icon Books LtdAu...

Through the lens of his own family's history, Peter Gumbel explores issues of identity, nationality and belonging after Brexit.

A groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault.

Reducere. This vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad by the Fox News contributor and decorated Ira...

Reducere. A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the e...

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

Reducere. In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that ...

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

Reducere. A classic B-format paperback guide to more than 60 of the most important political ideas and movements, and the people behind them. Packed with inf...