Социология
5875 кн.
What we talk about when we talk about gentrification Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston’s South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the...
| Автор | Sylvie Tissot |
Crisis, what crisis? How governments and corporations profit from disaster Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. ...
| Автор | Antony Loewenstein |
“A landmark manifesto” – Susan Faludi, New Yorker. An international bestseller, originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the expansion of the franchise in...
| Автор | Shulamith Firestone |
Tackling the myth of a post-racial society. Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history,...
| Автор | Karen Fields |
Abarca el desarrollo histórico del trabajo social, bases conceptuales y estrategias de intervención, que en la experiencia de las autoras han sido relevantes en su práctica profesional, tanto desde el punto de vista del trabajo social como de otras disciplinas cuyo interés o foco es la familia.
| Автор | Nidia Aylwin |
En este Análisis Plural convergen varias perspectivas que aportan elementos para desentrañar el acontecer social y para valorar la pertinencia y viabilidad de las decisiones tomadas desde la llamada 4T.
| Автор | Diego Arredondo Ortiz |
The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains. From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A founding text of transnational feminism For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against...
| Автор | Kumari Jayawardena |
The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance. In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis – input mechanisms, processes of transformation, output flows – to advance a substantive Marxist analysis of state power and...
| Автор | Göran Therborn |
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory. Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life’s work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a socialist future. This book brings together important early writings including “Culture is Ordinary,”...
| Автор | Raymond Williams |
Eine wahre Geschichte über eine junge Frau, wie sie aus einem depressiven Menschen, der sich fast selbst aufgab eine Optimistin wurde, die Angst nicht als Feind ansieht, voll auf Weisheitssprüche und Barbie steht und lernte sich selbst so zu akzeptieren, wie sie ist und bis heute ihr eigenes Ding durchzieht, egal was andere darüber sagen. Sie zeigt, dass ein Kampf niemals vergeblich ist und dass man an sich glauben soll. Paula erzählt, wie sie das Leben sieht.
| Автор | Paula Krueger |
Los dirigentes peronistas fueron elaborando un discurso en el que las dimensiones simbólicas del Estado se articularon con la búsqueda de una mayor igualdad social, pero la primacía no dejó de recaer en ningún momento en la construcción del Estado. Este libro analiza exhaustivamente tales recorridos y sus contradicciones
| Автор | Horacio Gaggero |
A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the US Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In this invigorating collection, he challenges us to rethink the ordinary world and take life seriously – in short, to stay honest in dishonest times. In a series of coruscating set pieces he...
| Автор | Mark Greif |
A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations. The idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Alberto Toscano’s compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted interpretation in exploring the critical role fanaticism played in forming modern politics and the liberal...
| Автор | Alberto Toscano |
“Marvelously drawn tribute to free thinkers … Engaging, informative, and inspiring.” – Joe Sacco The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here revisit the...
| Автор | David Berger |
We are living in an age with unprecedented levels of poverty. Who are the new poor? And what can we do about it? Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest. They are more often than not in work, living precariously and betrayed by austerity policies that make affordable good quality housing, good health and secure employment...
| Автор | Stephen Armstrong |
Narradores del caos es un juicioso seguimiento de la crónica periodística latinoamericana que permite conocer cómo se la concibe, cuáles son los temas que trata y aquellos que no, cuál es el papel del cronista y su importancia dentro de la historia que narra, aspectos que la han revelado como un género vigoroso y la han convertido en un gran crisol donde bulle la memoria de la humanidad narrada, desde México hasta la Patagonia.
| Автор | Carlos Mario Correa Soto |
Mit spitzer Feder geißelt der Autor in diesem Buch die systematische Panikmache in unserer Gesellschaft und die Praktiken der berufsmäßig «Besorgten», die uns eine Null-Risiko-Gesellschaft vorgaukeln wollen. Eine solche aber kann und wird es nie geben.Angst hat man nicht, Angst wird einem gemacht. Wie, von wem und wozu, das steht in diesem Buch.
| Автор | Leopold Stummer |
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed Forty thousand people have died trying to cross between countries in the past decade, and yet international borders only continue to harden. The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union; the United States elected a president who campaigned on building a wall; while elsewhere, the popularity of right-wing antimigrant nationalist political parties is surging. Reece Jones argues that the West...
| Автор | Reece Jones |