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Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
FEAR OF A QUEER PLANET
MPN: 9e425d83f69998ead8e2bde251632fbf
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The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945
Paperback, Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995, ISBN13 9780820317281, ISBN10 0820317284
MPN: fae6e4a76a23d3ae792cb5912dbdbb8d
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The Politics of Shopping: What Consumers Learn about Identity, Globalization, and Social Change
This revised version of Kaela Jubas award winning dissertation focuses on contemporary shopping practices, analyzing the ways concerned shoppers think about globalization, consumption, and their personal effect on the status quo. By using numerous example...
MPN: 37ff9458ce75f05ce65a1d5158472f90
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Food For Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements
Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat. Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced. Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford and other contributors explore the key political and economic questions of food through ...
MPN: eb30e7c3a0a1fa6c528024026ad33a1a
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Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era
In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy...
MPN: 37aeae3d2fcfcd099b30b270593dc11a
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Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world. News reports proclaim "epidemics" of crime, while politicians denounce terrorism as a lethal pathological threat. Recent years have even witnessed the development of a new subfield, "epidemiological criminology," which merges public health with criminal justice to provide analytical tools for criminal justice practitioners and health care professionals. Little attention, however, has been paid to the historical contexts of these disease...
MPN: a91078f5a6db5badee810d0eedd1158f
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Health Citizenship: Essays in Social Medicine and Biomedical Politics
The rights and responsibilities of health citizenship are increasingly at the forefront of public policy debates concerning disease prevention and health management. These debates have global implications for prosperity, equality, and stability in dramati...
MPN: 7f992eedaf9c65ff66d6f3439bc15544
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A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649
In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set'. David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion' was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past. A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links and chains of collective memory in a unique, vernacular, popu...
MPN: b86933727244cdfb65c39c270cc0cf2e
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The Politics of European Citizenship: Deepening Contradictions in Social Rights and Migration Policy
The authors') analysis is thought-provoking, . offers thoughtful reading and is well-written and engaging." Open Citizenship "In contrast to most books on EU citizenship this book is a page-turner until the end. I found myself varyingly intrigued, annoyed, and challenged. This is what a book should be. It is provocative, almost polemical, and should get noticed. Above all, I believe that there is room-indeed an overwhelming need for-a variety of books on these topics that challenge rather than replicate eac...
MPN: f9cc03d0fba6434960dd5e5cb8a4256d
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Beyond Technocracy: Science, Politics and Citizens
Will the ordinary man become a scientist? Bucchi exposes the inadequacy of the technochratic model but also the weaknesses of contemporary bioethics when facing the increasing dilemmas posed by science and technology to contemporary society." -Il Corriere della Sera Italian leading newspaper) "Bucchi provides a clear, rigorous and accessible discussion often enriched by a subtle irony of complex and ambiguous issues, showing that science and innovation are not neutral terrains, but rather among the key conf...
MPN: 3972e006f72239eccd722dc1aaf830f5
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Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action: Complexities of Climate and Governance
In the late 19th century, the Progressive Era laid the foundations for "scientific management" of lands and natural resources. Yet scientific management, often lauded in concept, is elusive. Land and resource management occurs in a social, economic, and political context in which different values, priorities, and interests influence goals, funding, and management choices. Complexities and uncertainties abound. At least three decades ago, critics of these decision processes began arguing that the complexitie...
MPN: ba538b21067d4196d288ae8c5145ce68
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The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate
The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change. Aimed at the educated non-specialist, and at courses in environmental policy or climate change, the book clearly lays out the scientific foundations of climate change, the issues in current policy debates, and the interactions between science and politics that make the climate change debate so contentious and confusing. This new edition is ...
MPN: 3d9bd8ee326f6733096b378308dd95e0
$30.54