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  • Commodity Activism

    Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times

    Edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser ...
    Series Book 21 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS.Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf tosupport fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. Allthese commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporaryculture: the most common way we participate in social activism is bybuying something.Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law

    Examining Legal Pathways for Sustainability in Times of Disruption

    Edited by Catherine Banet, Hanri Mostert, LeRoy Paddock, Milton Fernando Montoya, Iñigo del Guayo ...
    The number of severe and sometimes catastrophic disruptive events has been rapidly increasing. Extreme weather events including floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters have become both more frequent and more severe, whilst events such as the COVID-19 pandemic represent a global threat to public health with huge economic effects that recovery packages tried to address. These ... Read more

    $88.59 CAD

  • Racism Postrace

    Edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Herman Gray ...
    With the election of Barack Obama, the idea that American society had become postracial—that is, race was no longer a main factor in influencing and structuring people's lives—took hold in public consciousness, increasingly accepted by many. The contributors to Racism Postrace examine the concept of postrace and its powerful history and allure, showing how proclamations of a postracial society ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cable Visions

    Television Beyond Broadcasting

    Edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, Anthony Freitas ...
    Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24–hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based on demographic characteristics or interests were introduced.Cable Visions looks beyond broadcasting’s ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Authentic™

    The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture

    by Sarah Banet-Weiser ...
    Series Book 30 - Critical Cultural Communication
    A stimulating, smart book on what it means to live in a brand cultureBrands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed “greening” of institutions and merchant goods is nearly universal. But while the practice of branding is typically understood as a tool ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Empowered

    Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

    by Sarah Banet-Weiser ...
    In Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multimedia platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns. Examining feminist discourses that emphasize self-confidence, body positivity, and individual achievement alongside violent misogynist phenomena such as revenge porn, toxic ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Transnational Law of Renewable Energy

    by Edward Baldwin, Catherine Banet, Frédéric G. Sourgens ...
    Undertaken in Dubai in 2023, the 'First Global Stocktake' under the Paris Agreement called for a tripling of installed global renewable energy capacity. Achieving this goal will require significant financial, technical, and legal effort, and a key task in meeting it will be to 'derisk' global renewable energy projects by making the rules governing these projects more transparent, predictable, and ... Read more

    $185.99 CAD

  • Net Zero and Natural Resources Law

    Sovereignty, Security, and Solidarity in the Clean Energy Transition

    by Damilola S. Olawuyi, Hanri Mostert, Milton Fernando Montoya, Prof Catherine Banet, José Juan González ...
    States, corporations, and other actors worldwide have committed to measures aimed at bringing down global emissions to net zero by the year 2060 or earlier. While the need for a clean energy transition is clear, incoherently designed transition programs can pose complex environmental, social, and governance risks, including legal liability and protracted disputes. At the same time, the rush for ... Read more

    $136.49 CAD

  • Believability

    Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

    by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kathryn Claire Higgins ...
    The #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when “fake news” and “alternative facts” call into question the very nature of truth.This troubling paradox is at the heart of this compelling book. The convergence of #MeToo and the crisis of post-truth is used to explore the experiences of women and people of color whose ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Kids Rule!

    Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship

    by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Lynn Spigel ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Rugrats (and producing related movies, Web sites, and merchandise), ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Reinventing Prosperity

    Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change

    by Graeme Maxton, Jorgen Randers ...
    "An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Climate Policy Work

    by Danny Cullenward, David G. Victor ...
    For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale.Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD