A Theory of Catastrophe

Bryan S Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 19
• Sociology has developed theories of social change in the fields of evolution, conflict and modernization, viewing modern society as essentially unstab... Lees meer

Energy Futures

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 10
• Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analyti... Lees meer

A Deal They Can't Resist

Rodney Loeppky

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 7
• This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation , a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public program... Lees meer

Navigating the News

Stina Bengtsson, Sofia Johansson

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 46
• News today is a genre "in flux". New kinds of news producers and novel means of distributing, sharing and using news align with alternative ways of un... Lees meer

Peace in the Name of Allah

Ofir Winter

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 3
• From Anwar al-Sadat's dramatic gambit in 1977 to the surprising declaration of the Abraham Accords in 2020, making peace with Israel was always a toug... Lees meer

The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary

Andrew Ryder

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 6
• The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authorit... Lees meer

Digitalization in Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 14
• Digitalization in Practice: Intersections, Implications and Interventions shows that as welfare is increasingly digitalized, an investigation of the s... Lees meer

Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders

Louis Everuss

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 5
• From smart gates and drone patrols to e-visas and mobile GPS apps, digital technologies are becoming a ubiquitous feature of state borders and travel.... Lees meer

Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR

José A Tapia

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 11
• Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to... Lees meer

Neoliberalism Reloaded

Matías Saidel

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 13
• Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality... Lees meer

Monocratic Government

Fortunato Musella

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 8
• Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of structural and ideological foundations of Western democrac... Lees meer

Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Alexei Anisin

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 25
• From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is ... Lees meer

The Affective Agency of Public Space

Asma Mehan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 22
• The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within var... Lees meer

A Deal They Can't Resist

Rodney Loeppky

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 7
• This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation , a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public program... Lees meer

The Tragedy of Ukraine

Nicolai N Petro

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 9
• The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity... Lees meer

Memory as Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 39
• Featuring a collection of works by scholars from across a variety of disciplines, this book outlines the principles of a critical historical criminolo... Lees meer

An Intimate Relationship

Jaume Castan Pinos

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 48
• This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducted b... Lees meer

Mass Protests in Iran

Masoud Kazemzadeh

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 38
• Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, con... Lees meer

Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Alexei Anisin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 25
• From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is ... Lees meer

Multidimensional Inequalities

Bent Greve

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 4
• Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structu... Lees meer

Academic Writing for Geographers

James A Tyner

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 29
• There are many 'how-to' books on writing for academics; none of these, however, relate specifically to the discipline of geography. In this book, the ... Lees meer

Making Truth

Eva Lilja, Mona Lilja

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 41
• The pursuit of truth is of crucial importance in environmentalism. How can we establish shared realities that encompass biodiversity loss, climate cha... Lees meer

Asynchronicity

Philip Pond

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 42
• Asynchronicity is a study of the information stress and its genesis in the accelerative dynamics of computation and automation. In simple terms, this ... Lees meer

Energy Futures

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 10
• Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analyti... Lees meer