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Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy : Between Legitimation and Inte…
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core n…
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- -
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- 9783030803025
- Collation
- xxii, 158 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 306.8743 SOC D
ANTHROPOCENE CHILDHOODS : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis
This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and fi…
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- 2
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- 9781350262409
- Collation
- ix, 208p.; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 372.21 ANT a
Economic diversification in Nigeria : the politics of building a post-oil eco…
Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the ‘curse’ of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria’s major development challenge is not the ‘oil curse’, but rather one of achieving economic diversification be…
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- 4
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- 9781786993977
- Collation
- xiii, 313p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.9669 ECO u
Educational perspectives on mediality and subjectivation : discourse, power a…
This open access book examines the complex relationship between education, media and power. Exploring the entanglement of education media and power structures, the contributions use various examples and case studies to demonstrate how subjectivation processes and digital structures interact with one another. The book asks which modes of subjectivation can be identified with current media cultur…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030843434
- Collation
- xiii; 136p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 371.33 EDU P
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms : Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- -
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 370.9481 POL
Cultural representations of gender vulnerability and resistance : a Mediterra…
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030955083
- Collation
- xvi; 233p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.3 CUL P
AI FOR EVERYONE? CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences. Urgently needed is debate that asks and answers fundamental questi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781914386169
- Collation
- 310p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 006.3 FOR v
Politicizing Digital Space : Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy
"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781911534426
- Collation
- vi, 154 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 324.7 POL T
John Dewey : The Global Public and its Problems
"This book argues that John Dewey should be read as a philosopher of globalization rather than as a 'local' American philosopher. Although Dewey's political philosophy was rooted in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, it was more importantly about the role of America in a globalized world. In returning to, and recovering the neglected global dimensions of Dewey's political phil…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526101020
- Collation
- xii, 192 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.01 JOH J
The Birth of Energy : Fossil fuels, thermodynamics and the politics of work
In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of indust…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478005346
- Collation
- ix, 280 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.79 BIR C
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