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  • Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations

    Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration

    by Simone Varriale ...
    Series series Decolonization and Social Worlds
    This book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others.Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Globalization, Music and Cultures of Distinction

    The Rise of Pop Music Criticism in Italy

    by Simone Varriale ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This bookis the first comprehensive account of how Anglo-American popular music transformed Italian cultural life. Drawing on neglected archival materials, the author explores the rise of new musical tastes and social divisions in late twentieth century Italy.The book reconstructs the emergence of pop music magazines in Italy and offers the first in-depth investigation of the role of critics in ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Intersectionality

    by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another?In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins ... Read more

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  • Transnationalizing the Public Sphere

    by Nancy Fraser ...
    Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Gender and Migration

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Anastasia Christou, Eleonore Kofman ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an ... Read more

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  • Human Rights from Below

    Achieving Rights through Community Development

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    by Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Social Movements and Protest

    by Gemma Edwards ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociology
    This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology into the study of social movements, and includes contemporary case studies to engage students and encourage them to apply theories critically. A wide range of protest cases are explored, from American, European and global arenas, including contemporary examples of political violence and terrorism, alter-globalisation, social networking and ... Read more

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  • Can Democracy Be Saved?

    Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

    by Donatella della Porta ...
    Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy.In this highly articulate book, Donatella della Porta analyses diverse conceptions and practices of participatory and ... Read more

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  • Learning Activism

    The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements

    by Aziz Choudry ...
    What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and ... Read more

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  • Social Movements

    An Introduction

    by Donatella della Porta, Mario Diani ...
    A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences.Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective action in contemporary society. The text draws from theory-driven, systematic empirical research from across the social sciences to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD