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11 produkter
Politics of Dissent
Av Martin Bak Jørgensen, Óscar García Agustín
Inbunden, 2015
862 kr
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There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth. This study highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political agendas. It discusses the multiple manifestations of dissent …
Congestion
Rationalising Automobility in the Face of Climate Change
Inbunden, 2015
676 kr
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The book investigates the negotiation of governmental rationalities of car-dependent life in the face of climate change. It appears that current forms of governing are bound up with a specific utilisation of the freedom of the governed. Accordingly, the book demonstrates how the governing of …
Dissent! Refracted
Histories, Aesthetics and Cultures of Dissent
Av Ben Dorfman
Inbunden, 2016
682 kr
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This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past. Taking a global perspective, the volume …
Reimagineering the Nation
Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden
Av Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
972 kr
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This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider …
Women in post-revolutionary Egypt
Can Behaviour Be Controlled?
Av Mette Toft Nielsen, Peter Hervik m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
696 kr
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This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyse the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups …
13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights
Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics
Av Ben Dorfman, Óscar García Agustín
Inbunden, 2017
751 kr
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Constituted of a range of essays, the present volume addresses a variety of contemporary and historical events from human rights perspectives. Taking on issues from the American presidential election to North Korean missile tests to terrorism and «civilizational» conflict to Cold War history, the …
On the Justice and Justification of Just War
How Does Life Dwell in the State?
Av Maren Lytje, Óscar García Agustín
Inbunden, 2018
649 kr
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This book sets out to explore the questions how democracies decide which lives should be protected, how these lives are defended, and how they are distinguished from the lives that can be lost without mourning. The author analyzes through a range of political and philosophical issues the …
Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections
13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights
Av Ben Dorfman, Óscar García Agustín m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
743 kr
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As the second decade of the twenty-first century closes, challenges to human rights have deepened. Democracy is under stress, cultural battles within states have become heightened, and strongman politics are on the rise. Contemporary and historical reflections on rights are perhaps more pressing …
Changes and Challenges of Cross-border Mobility within the European Union
Inbunden, 2020
676 kr
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This book presents the results of the MIDA-project – the impact of labour migra-tion from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to the Danish labour market. In addition, it includes chapters that focus on labour mobility in other EU countries. The project stems from collaboration between …
Situating Displacement
Explorations of Global (Im)Mobility
Av Steffen Bo Jensen, Rieke Schröder m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
422 kr
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This anthology offers a fresh look at the theme of forced mobility and displace¬ment. By situating displacement and creating a dialogue with disciplines and analytical perspectives from other academic fields, we broaden the scope of thinking about displacement with different chapters taking …
consequences of rights
History, Politics, Writing
Av Ben Dorfman, Óscar García Agustín m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
473 kr
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Written in an style intended to speak to both academics and a general audience, The Consequences of Rights addresses what it means to encounter the human rights concept and advocate for rights from the position of the university academic but in the face of the reality that rights are the ultimate …
