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  • Economization

    Markets, Platforms, and Ecologies

    by Michel Callon, Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie ...
    How should we understand economies in a moment of profound social, technological, and ecological disruption? For more than a century, three perspectives have dominated. Neoclassical economics treats the economy as a system governed by its own laws; Marxism, as a mode of production dominated by class; much of economic sociology, as a domain embedded in society. Despite their rivalries, all three ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Markets in the Making

    Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation

    by Michel Callon ...
    Translated by Olivia Custer ...
    Series Book 6 - Near Futures
    Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.If you’re convinced you know what a market is, think again. In his long-awaited study, French sociologist and engineer Michel Callon takes us to the heart of markets, to the unsung processes that allow innovations to become robust ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Between Reason and Experience

    Essays in Technology and Modernity

    by Andrew Feenberg, Michel Callon ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Posthuman

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Urban Revolution

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Beyond Learning

    Democratic Education for a Human Future

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Cultural Theory

    An Introduction

    by Philip Smith, Alexander Riley ...
    This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of studyUpdates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the fieldIncludes additional ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Design as Politics

    by Tony Fry ...
    Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future.Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    by John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

    Edited by James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus ...
    Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Making Social Science Matter

    Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again

    by Bent Flyvbjerg ...
    Translated by Steven Sampson ...
    Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. Why has social science failed in attempts to emulate natural science and produce normal theory? Bent Flyvbjerg argues that the strength of social sciences lies in its rich, reflexive analysis of values ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • McCloskey's Rhetoric

    Discourse Ethics in Economics

    by Benjamin Balak ...
    Series series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on the work of Deirdre McCloskey and other ... Read more

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