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Hannah Arendt is one of the most famous political theorists of the twentieth century, yet in the social sciences her work has rarely been given the attention it deserves. This careful and comprehensive study introduces Arendt to a wider audience.
Finn Bowring shows how Arendt's writings have engaged with and influenced prominent figures in the sociological canon, and how her ideas may shed light on some of the most pressing social and political...
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In this bold and innovative book, Massimo Modonesi weaves together theory and political practice by relating the concepts of subalternity, antagonism and autonomy to contemporary movements in Latin America and elsewhere.
In a sophisticated account, Modonesi reconstructs the debates between Marxist authors and schools of thought in order to sketch out informed strategies of resistance. He reviews the works of Gramsci, Negri, Castoriadis and Lefort,...
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This book revisits the classic anthropology study - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s.
The original studies revealed that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's African locations, one embracing Westernisation, European values and Christianity and another opposed to it. Leslie Bank returned to the areas of East London studied in the 1950s...
24) Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis
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Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as-or even more-effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health...
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As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective...
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Get the Summary of Coleman Hughes's The End of Race Politics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "The End of Race Politics," Coleman Hughes explores the complexities of racial identity and the arbitrary nature of racial categories, drawing from personal experiences and historical analysis. He challenges the notion that race is a natural concept, arguing that it is a socially constructed hybrid based on genetic...
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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Get the Summary of Frances Gies & Joseph Gies's Women in the Middle Ages in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Women in the Middle Ages" by Frances Gies and Joseph Gies offers a comprehensive examination of the lives of women during the high Middle Ages, specifically from 1100 to 1500. The book utilizes authentic historical sources to explore the societal, technological, and economic factors that shaped the experiences...
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Le 13 mars 2020 a marqué un tournant au Québec avec l'instauration de l'urgence sanitaire liée à la COVID-19, qui a contraint le gouvernement à faire de la gestion de la pandémie une priorité. En promulguant des décrets stricts, qui restreignent les libertés individuelles, l'État a dû mobiliser la police et ses patrouilleurs afin que les règles soient respectées. Ces mesures régulatoires ont toutefois entraîné des situations inédites...
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Para algunos el ser humano es una especie más entre tantas otras. Reducido a la condición de animal, evolucionado cuando no máximamente dañino, sólo sería otro eslabón en el proceso evolutivo, sin trascendencia. Defender su superioridad sería caer en especismo, un modo insidioso de creerse superior. La moral, la dignidad, solo serían superestructuras culturales, ficciones.
Para otros lo despreciable es justamente la condición biológica....
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La diferencia parece obvia, pero en ocasiones se confunden las experiencias del envejecimiento y de la vejez; y aunque están estrechamente ligadas, comprender por qué no son lo mismo es fundamental para llevar una vida de calidad, independientemente de los años que se tengan. Este libro aborda las comprensiones y representaciones que tienen las mismas personas viejas, desde una perspectiva teórica, interdisciplinaria y fenomenológica, sobre la...
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The famous Franchthi Cave excavations in Greece brought to light an exceptionally long sequence of ornaments, spanning from the earliest Upper Palaeolithic to the end of the Neolithic. This volume focuses on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ornaments and ornamental species, which constitute one of the largest collections in Europe for these periods combined. Franchthi is one of the few identified production centers for ornaments, which are overwhelmingly...
33) Ciudadanía digital y desarrollo local: Experiencias y procesos de participación en la Unión Europea
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Hoy las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación ofrecen múltiples herramientas para la gobernabilidad y el desarrollo de las ciudades. Con la irrupción de estas tecnologías se han roto las formas tradicionales de articulación ciudadana, proliferando distintas iniciativas de apropiación tecnológica y autonomía por parte de los movimientos sociales, además de más o menos acertadas políticas públicas que persiguen la integración...
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Este libro tiene la finalidad de resumir y presentar algunos de los hitos más relevantes que ha tenido el IV Congreso Uruguayo de Sociología desarrollado entre el 24 y el 26 de julio de 20 19 y que llevó como nombre "El oficio del sociólogo/a en tiempos de cambio". Este libro se basa en los cuatro pilares principales que impulsaron el Congreso:
1) la práctica del oficio o profesión de la sociología desde la perspectiva de sus propios actores,...
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Esta Breve historia de la arqueología nos narra los asombrosos descubrimientos de los mayores arqueólogos del mundo: tumbas egipcias, ruinas mayas, las primeras colonias europeas en Norteamérica, los misterios de Stonehenge, los sobrecogedores eventos de Pompeya y muchos otros. A lo largo de cuarenta breves capítulos, Brian Fagan cuenta la evolución de la arqueología desde sus orígenes en el siglo XVIII hasta sus mayores avances tecnológicos...
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En apretada síntesis, Pilar Arcidiácono sostiene que la dinámica de los programas sociales después de la crisis se caracterizó por la participación protagónica de la esfera de la "sociedad civil" en las diferentes etapas de la política pública; una mayor tendencia a la familiarización de las responsabilidades en materia de bienestar; un énfasis en la "mercantilización" de la fuerza de trabajo, a partir de fortalecer los mecanismos para...
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La Ciudad de la Llama Azul. Luces y sombras sobre el cerro Uritorco es el primer libro que narra la verdadera historia de Ángel Cristo Acoglanis ("Saruma"), un personaje esquivo que desde 1983 hasta su muerte contactó a centenares de personas para instruirlas en su particular doctrina esotérica. Sus discípulos eran posteriormente invitados a solitarias alturas montañosas, desde las cuales podían verse luces nocturnas que parecían responder...
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An "utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing" book on the origins of the world's oldest known system of writing (American Journal of Archaeology).
One of American Scientist's Top 100 Books on Science, 2001
In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat...
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Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing it as a social construct. Challenging this tradition, Peter Wade proposes that anthropologists can in fact play an important role in the study of race.
Wade is critical of contemporary theoretical studies of race formulated within the contexts of colonial history, sociology and cultural studies....
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On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider...
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