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  • Eco-Rational Education

    An Educational Response to Environmental Crisis

    by Simone Thornton ...
    Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and desctructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education.The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of environmental education ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty

    Place-Responsive Learning

    by Gilbert Burgh, Simone Thornton ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts – humanitarian, financial, and environmental – is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for democratic education, Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty begins a dialogue with education ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Philosophical Inquiry with Children

    The Development of an Inquiring Society in Australia

    Edited by Gilbert Burgh, Simone Thornton ...
    Philosophy in schools in Australia dates back to the 1980s and is rooted in the Philosophy for Children curriculum and pedagogy. Seeing potential for educational change, Australian advocates were quick to develop new classroom resources and innovative programs that have proved influential in educational practice throughout Australia and internationally. Behind their contributions lie key ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

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  • What is Anthropology?

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological ... Read more

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  • New Keywords

    A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris ...
    Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society.Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory

    by Alex Law ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This book's individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise the key topics within classical social theory. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes.</p... ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Sociological Theory

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk ...
    The new edition of the definitive undergraduate guide to contemporary sociological theory, with updated reading selections throughoutThe fourth edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory offers a thorough introduction to current perspectives and approaches in sociology and social science. Covering a broad range of essential topics, this comprehensive volume provides students with the foundation ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Existentialist Criminology

    Edited by Ronnie Lippens, Don Crewe ...
    Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice.This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their theoretical consideration - that are oriented around contingency and unpredictability. But whilst these ... Read more

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  • Recovering Bookchin

    Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time

    by Andy Price ...
    Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the first intellectual responses to the ecological crisis. However, over the last two decades of his life Bookchin’s ideas slipped from focus, obscured by the emergence of a crude caricature that portrayed him as a dogmatic sectarian who intended to dominate the ... Read more

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  • Against Ecological Sovereignty

    Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World

    by Mick Smith ...
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    Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of Bataille, Arendt, Levinas, Nancy, and Agamben, among others, Mick Smith reconnects the political critique of sovereign power with ecological considerations, arguing that ethical and political responsibilities ... Read more

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