The Theory of Political Culture

Reducere. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlig...

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory-steeped in philosophical, theoretical and polit...

DescriptionHow streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture. Television, once a broadcast medium, now al...

Reducere. Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the...

Reducere. An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.I...

Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrant...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass m...

Reducere. Bradley C. S. Watson has devoted a significant part of his career to studying the nature of American progressivism as it formed in the twentieth ce...

Reducere. This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orie...

Reducere. Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, An Anatomy of Influence contains a wealth of texts and ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more rac...

Reducere. At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a ...

Reducere. During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat...

Reducere. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlig...

Reducere. What happens when a democratic theory professor gets involved with the Democratic Party? In this political memoir, Claire Snyder-Hall shares lesson...

DescriptionSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory, " and today's most controve...

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action - covers a broad range of approaches...

Reducere. Plato's "The Republic" is a Socratic dialogue written sometime around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of th...

Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning an...

Reducere. DescriptionChristina N. Baker's Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations ...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

Anamik Saha has taken an integrative approach, combining both cultural studies and political economy perspectives in a cutting-edge book that cover...

Long considered "the noblest of the senses, " vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dom...

With a newly written preface relating his theology to the current global situation, The Future of Love contains revised versions of eighteen of Joh...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David ForgacsEditor: Eric J. Hobsbawmwith a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM "Very usefully pulls the key passages from...

DescriptionThroughout his life, Niccol Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overri...

Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of "the woman question" in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categ...

Reducere. The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and desi...

DescriptionSocial Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers, " historical and contemporary, and also the authors o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent PernotTranslator: W. E. HigginsOriginally published as La Rhetorique dans l'Antiquite (2000), this new English edit...

... provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." --Iris... a very...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: R. W. ConnellSexual politics--from economic equality to anti-gay violence--is a vast area of debate. This exceptional book ...

Reducere. An intersectional take on design history and the design discourse, with feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, activist, non-Western and indigenous per...

Reducere. This book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available and develops an independent philosophical account of the gen...

DescriptionLiterary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approac...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert McRuerContends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentiv...

Contributor(s): Editor: Catriona Mortimer-SandilandsEditor: Bruce EricksonTreating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justi...

Contributor(s): Author: Jasbir K. PuarTenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Annamarie JagoseThe political and academic appropriation of the term queer over the last several years has marked a shift i...

Reducere. Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science ...

Contributor(s): Author: Audra SimpsonMohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. ...

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology....

Reducere. An innovative outlook on the most ancient "category" of human action. A comprehensive, well-structured, and coherent approach to the phenomenon of ...

Reducere. In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermine...

Contributor(s): Author: Alexander G. WeheliyeHabeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheli...

Reducere. This book presents an impressive synthesis of an important and influential school of thought, derived from Foucault's writings on governmentality, ...

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory-steeped in philosophical, theoretical and polit...

A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ag...

Reducere. In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art ...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Second Amendment is among the most recognized provisions of the Constitution. It is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Common misc...

DescriptionThis is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present continues to provide the reader an in-depth look at the country's cu...

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity...

Contributor(s): Author: Lee EdelmanIn this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main ta...

DescriptionHow streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture. Television, once a broadcast medium, now al...

This book describes Trumpism: the strong allegiance to former President Donald Trump that is in evidence among a sizable portion of the US populati...

Although in recent years the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are few truly reliable sourc...

Reducere. In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to sub...

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary peo...

Reducere. 'Religion and politics', as the old saying goes, 'should never be discussed in mixed company.'And yet fostering discussions that cross lines of pol...

Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biase...

Contributor(s): Author: Caroline LevineForms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultu...

Reducere. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication a...

The ultimate question is no longer "who am I" or "why am I here." These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and p...

Reducere. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is...

Reducere. Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set...

Reducere. DescriptionThis groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and res...