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Critical Political Theory
Interrogating Contemporary Politics
Häftad, 2025
632 kr
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How can political theory strengthen democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations? How can it confront populist movements that claim to defend democracy but in fact advance authoritarian agendas? Oliver Flügel-Martinsen engages with key thinkers …
Convivial Futures
Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow
Häftad, 2022
540 kr
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What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also …
Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces
Häftad, 2022
1154 kr
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Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation – it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's …
Living with an Infected Planet
COVID-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care
Av Elke Krasny
Häftad, 2023
617 kr
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»We must declare war on the virus,« stated UN chief António Guterres on March 13, 2020, just two days after the WHO had characterized the outbreak of the novel Covid-19 virus as a pandemic. Elke Krasny introduces feminist worry in order then to develop a feminist cultural theory on pandemic …
Update Liberalism
Liberal Answers to the Challenges of Our Time
Häftad, 2023
617 kr
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Liberal democracy is under pressure worldwide. It is challenged by anti-liberal movements and parties as well as by authoritarian regimes. Liberalism as a cross-party movement and a broad way of thinking has fallen into the defensive and is often associated with market radicalism, social coldness, …
Youth Climate Uprising
Greta Thunberg's School Strike, Fridays For Future, and the Democratic Challenges of Our Time
Av David Fopp, Isabelle Axelsson m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
521 kr
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Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent …
Last Invasion
The War in Ukraine - A Sociological Account, Based on Kant's Theory of Peace
Av Max Haller
Häftad, 2025
1412 kr
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Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022 was called a watershed in postwar European history. The West sees Putin’s Russia on the way to restoring the former Soviet Union. But Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance was also a reaction to Western politics. The real possibility of a new security and peace …
Adaptation
Freedom, Hope and Politics after Modernity
Häftad, 2026
320 kr
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Modernity was characterised by a belief that progress would automatically lead to a better future. Today, that optimism has evaporated. In its place we have global heating, multiple wars, economic austerity and a prevailing sense of malaise. Now the primary concern is to limit the damage and avert …
