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Anticapitalism and Culture
What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century? Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Anticapitalism needs to develop a coherent and cohering philosophy, something which cultural theory and the intellectual legacy of the New Left ca…
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- 9781845202309
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- 303.482 GIL a
Passionate amateurs - theatre, communism and love
Beginning with Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the stor…
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- 9780472029594
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- 216 p.; 22 cm
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- 792 RID p
Drones and the creative industry: innovative strategies for European SMEs
This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative industry. Specially aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the book offers valuable insights from the fields of marketing, engineering, arts and management. With contributions from experts representing varied interests throughout the creative industry, inc…
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- 9783319952611
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- 246p.: ill.
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- 658.514 DRO d
Media, migration, integration: Europe and North American perspective
Following economists and scientists, politicians of various European countries have realized that a modern society with a declining birthrate is in need of immigrants. What can journalists contribute, in order to enable migrants to feel at home in their receiving country? What can be missed and ruined by journalists and media with regard to the integration of ethnic minorities? Scholars from Au…
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- 9783837610321
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- 246p.: ill.
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- 302.23 MED m
International relations a self-study guide to theory
The book is written for active learners ñ those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an exte…
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- 9783847400059
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Transformative Communication Technologies: the accountability challenge (36th…
"This booklet documents the 36th Boehm-Bawerk Lecture, presented by Prof. Robin Mansell on October 31, 2017 as a ceremonial opening ceremony for the Institute of Media, Society and Communication at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. "
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- 9783903187146
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- 96p.: ill.
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- 070.4 MAN t
Tweets and the streets
Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspa…
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- 9781849648004
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- vii, 195p.: ill.
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- 302.231 GER t
Internet health report 2019
This annual report is a call to action to recognize the things that are having an impact on the internet today, and to embrace the notion that we as humans can change how we make money, govern societies, and interact with one another online. We invite you to participate in setting an agenda for how we can work together to create an internet that truly puts people first. This book is neither a c…
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- 9783839449462
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- 122p.: ill.
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- 302.231
Gendered rural spaces
Rural spaces are connected with different cultural, economic, social and political codes and meanings. In this book these meanings are analysed trough gender. The articles concretely show the process of producing gender and the ways in which accepted gender-based behaviour has been constructed at different times and in different groups. Discussion of gendered spaces leads to wider questions suc…
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- 9789522221544
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- 158 p.; 22 cm
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Ageing, diversity and equality: social justice perspectives
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagemen…
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- 9780415786690
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- xvi, 376 pages ; 25 cm.
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- Routledge advances in sociology
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- 305.26 WES a
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