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161 produkter
Spirit of Luc Boltanski
Essays on the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’
Av Simon Susen, Bryan S. Turner
Inbunden, 2014
2866 kr
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What is the relevance of Luc Boltanski’s ‘pragmatic sociology of critique’ to central issues in contemporary social and political analysis? In seeking to respond to this question, this book contains critical commentaries from prominent social theorists attempting to map out the influence and broad …
Vulnerability and Human Rights
Häftad, 2006
403 kr
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The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of …
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
Volume 1: Theories and Concepts
Av Bryan S. Turner, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2515 kr
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Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the world’s population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple economic and political …
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
Volume 2: Urban Neo-liberalisation
Av Bryan S. Turner, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2515 kr
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The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments, such as intensified economic investment and exposure to aggressive strategies of banks, hedge- funds and investors, …
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
Volume 3: Figurations of Conflict and Resistance
Av Bryan S. Turner, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2515 kr
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At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation. Formally, social and political rights might not be abolished, yet factually they have become inaccessible for large parts of the population. The contributions gathered in this volume shed light on the …
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy
3 volume set
Av Gregor Fitzi, Bryan S Turner m. fl.
2020
2427 kr
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Today, there is no comparable threat to Western democracies as the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given its break that led to UK’s ‘Brexit’ and the election of …
Condition of Democracy
Volume 1: Neoliberal Politics and Sociological Perspectives
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2515 kr
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Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic exclusion, but also of radical and …
Condition of Democracy
Volume 1: Neoliberal Politics and Sociological Perspectives
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic exclusion, but also of radical and …
Condition of Democracy
Volume 2: Contesting Citizenship
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2515 kr
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Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond national borders and boundaries. Democracy’s crucial …
Condition of Democracy
Volume 2: Contesting Citizenship
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond national borders and boundaries. Democracy’s crucial …
Condition of Democracy
Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2515 kr
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Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western …
Condition of Democracy
Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western …
Condition of Democracy
Volumes 1,2,3
Av Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf m. fl.
2021
8005 kr
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Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic exclusion, but also of radical and …
Borderland Religion
Ambiguous practices of difference, hope and beyond
Av Daisy L. Machado, Bryan S. Turner m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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Borderland Religion narrates, presents and interprets the fascinating and significant practices when borders, migrants and religion intersect. This collection of original essays combines theology, philosophy and sociology to examine diverse religious issues surrounding external national borders and …
Rise and Fall of Citizenship
Inbunden, 2023
2515 kr
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The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner’s publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecting upon conceptions of citizenship today.The collection begins with a newly written overview of the rise of social citizenship (with particular …
Regulating Bodies
Essays in Medical Sociology
Av Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner
Inbunden, 1992
2590 kr
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Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard
Justice and Political Theory
Av Chris Rojek, Bryan S Turner m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
3070 kr
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Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference, …
Weber & Islam V 7
Inbunden, 1998
3070 kr
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This volume contributes to the modern study of Islam and provides a full-length review of Weber's sociology of Islam. It examines modern scholarship which questions the relevance of Weber to the contemporary role of Islam in global politics. It is useful for students of the sociology of religion.
Max Weber: Critical Responses
1999
13165 kr
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This three volume collection gathers together responses to Weber's sociology in the period 1920-1945. Bryan Turner provides an extensive analysis of the reception of Weber.
Readings Orient:Orientalsm V 1
Av Bryan S. Turner, Bryan S. Turner
Inbunden, 1999
4738 kr
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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Citizenship between Past and Future
Av Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2515 kr
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Citizenship between Past and Future brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field of citizenship studies to assess, critically and contextually, the ongoing significance of citizenship as an object of study.The authors reflect on the major issues and debates that have emerged in …
Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education
Av Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner
Inbunden, 2009
3912 kr
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The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century. Beginning …
Muslims in Singapore
Piety, politics and policies
Av Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius A. Pereira m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2749 kr
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This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. …
Citizenship between Past and Future
Av Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
911 kr
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Citizenship between Past and Future brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field of citizenship studies to assess, critically and contextually, the ongoing significance of citizenship as an object of study.The authors reflect on the major issues and debates that have emerged in …
Readings Orient:Orientalsm V 1
Av Bryan S. Turner, Bryan S. Turner
Häftad, 2011
503 kr
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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Regulating Bodies
Essays in Medical Sociology
Av Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner
Häftad, 2011
938 kr
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Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education
Av Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner
Häftad, 2012
773 kr
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The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century. Beginning …
Muslims in Singapore
Piety, politics and policies
Av Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius A. Pereira m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1019 kr
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This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. …
Future of Singapore
Population, Society and the Nature of the State
Av Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Bryan S. Turner
Inbunden, 2014
2515 kr
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Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines …
Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard
Justice and Political Theory
Av Chris Rojek, Bryan S Turner m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
751 kr
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Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference, …
