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Globalization
Social Theory and Global Culture
Häftad, 1992
800 kr
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A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global …
Risk Society
Towards a New Modernity
Av Ulrich Beck
Häftad, 1992
762 kr
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This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the …
Polar Inertia
Av Paul Virilio
Häftad, 1999
1543 kr
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'If you've ever felt like we're going nowhere fast, and you'd like to know why - preferably sometime before you die - read this book' - James Der Derian, Brown University and UMASS/Amherst Examining how the 'here and now' of space, territory, the body, are being redefined by new technologies and …
Virilio Live
Selected Interviews
Av Paul Virilio, John Armitage
Häftad, 2001
2095 kr
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Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space', `chronopolitics', …
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Häftad, 2016
1764 kr
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Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end …
The Consumer Society
Myths and Structures
Häftad, 2016
709 kr
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Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass …
The Consumer Society
Myths and Structures
Inbunden, 2016
2558 kr
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Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass …
Global Modernities
Av Mike Featherstone, Scott M Lash m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
2196 kr
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Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, …
Commodifying Bodies
Av Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant
Inbunden, 2002
3516 kr
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Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant …
Commodifying Bodies
Av Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant
Häftad, 2002
1377 kr
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Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant …
Advertising in Modern and Postmodern Times
Av Pamela Odih
Inbunden, 2007
3564 kr
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How does advertising position itself in consumer culture? In what ways does it 'create' desire and wants? This richly illustrated, incisive text produces the most complete critical introduction to advertising culture. Advertising in Modern and Postmodern Times : provides a comprehensive discussion …
Five Bodies
Re-figuring Relationships
Inbunden, 2004
2765 kr
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Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology …
Five Bodies
Re-figuring Relationships
Häftad, 2004
1764 kr
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Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology …
The Sport Star
Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity
Av Barry Smart
Inbunden, 2005
3203 kr
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Why are sport stars central to celebrity culture? What are the implications of their fame? Proceeding from a broadly based discussion of heroism, fame and celebrity, Smart addresses a number of prominent modern sports and sport stars, including Michael Jordan (basketball), David Beckham (football), …
The Sport Star
Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity
Av Barry Smart
Häftad, 2005
1764 kr
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Why are sport stars central to celebrity culture? What are the implications of their fame? Proceeding from a broadly based discussion of heroism, fame and celebrity, Smart addresses a number of prominent modern sports and sport stars, including Michael Jordan (basketball), David Beckham (football), …
Bootlegging
Romanticism and Copyright in the Music Industry
Av Lee Marshall
Inbunden, 2005
3032 kr
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'A valuable and distinctive contribution to the penumbra debate, refreshingly shedding light on some of the clichés of copyright, and alerting readers to the extra-legal factors that cannot be ignored in any socially-embedded study of copyright' - Stuart Hannabuss, Aberdeen Business School ' …
Religion, Realism and Social Theory
Making Sense of Society
Häftad, 2004
1874 kr
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`Philip Mellor's ambition is to save sociology from itself…or to save society from the sociologists. He has written a brilliant polemic and theoretically rich argument against the many fashionable contemporary social theories that provide acquiescent 'post-societal' endorsements of the economic and …
French Post-War Social Theory
International Knowledge Transfer
Inbunden, 2011
2495 kr
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Derek Robbins has shown once again that he is one of the few Anglophone scholars with an exceptionally profound and impressively comprehensive knowledge of the history of modern European social thought. This book is a must for anybody interested in twentieth-century French social theory. The …
Globalization and Belonging
Av Michael Savage, Gaynor Bagnall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3309 kr
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' Globalization and Belonging' s headline message - that place matters, that locality remains vital to people, is arresting' - Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University, London Drawing on long-term empirical research into cultural practices, lifestyles and identities, Globalization and …
Globalization and Belonging
Av Michael Savage, Gaynor Bagnall m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
2122 kr
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' Globalization and Belonging' s headline message - that place matters, that locality remains vital to people, is arresting' - Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University, London Drawing on long-term empirical research into cultural practices, lifestyles and identities, Globalization and …
Recognition and Difference
Politics, Identity, Multiculture
Av Scott M Lash, Mike Featherstone
Inbunden, 2002
3516 kr
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Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, …
The Shopping Experience
Av Pasi Falk, Colin B Campbell
Inbunden, 1997
2981 kr
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This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which …
The Shopping Experience
Av Pasi Falk, Colin B Campbell
Häftad, 1997
2095 kr
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This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which …
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk
Cultures of Technological Embodiment
Av Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows
Inbunden, 1996
3819 kr
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How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body …
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk
Cultures of Technological Embodiment
Av Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows
Häftad, 1996
1902 kr
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How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body …
The Dressed Society
Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World
Inbunden, 2008
3212 kr
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It was traditionally said that 'clothes maketh the man'. But what codes and meanings are associated with dress in a society that consists of divisions between class, race, gender, family status and religion? Is social and cultural life still fundamentally themed by the clothes that we wear? If so, …
