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The Public Sphere

An Introduction

2004 || Paperback || Alan McKee || Cambridge University Press

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the pu...

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The Culture of Connectivity

A Critical History of Social Media

2013 || Paperback || Jose van Dijck || Oxford University Press

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

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Moroccan Households in the World Economy / 1st edition

Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village

2008 || Paperback || David Crawford || Louisiana State Univ Press

In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible from the surrounding landscape. Yet a closer look reveals a carefully planned community of homes nestled above the trees, where rock slides are least frequent, and steep terraces of barley fields situated just above spring flood level. The Berber-speaking Muslims who live and farm on these precipitous mountainsides work together at the arduous task of...

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Warrior Nation

2002 || Paperback || Michael Paris || Reaktion Books

War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for po...

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Moral Boundaries

A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

2023 || Paperback || Joan Tronto || Taylor & Francis

Contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

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Food and Place

A Critical Exploration

2020 || Paperback || Pascale Joassart-Marcelli e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield

This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don't we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appeari...

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A History of Archaeological Thought

2006 || Paperback || Bruce G. Trigger || Cambridge University Press

In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns.

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Someone To Talk To / 1st edition

How Networks Matter in Practice

2019 || Paperback || Mario Luis Small || Oxford University Press

Winner of the James Coleman Award for Best Book from the Rationality and Society section of the American Sociological Society Winner of the Outstanding Recent Contribution from the Social Psychology section of the American Sociological Association. Winner of the Best Publication Award from the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, PROSE Book Award, Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, from the Association of American Publishers. When people are faci...

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Outsiders

Studies in the Sociology of Deviance

2018 || Paperback || Howard S. Becker || Simon & Schuster

One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance. Howard S.

Becker's Outsiders broke new ground in the early 1960s-and the ideas it proposed and problems it raised are still argued about and inspiring research internationally. In this new edition, Becker includes two lengthy essays, unpublished until now, that add fresh material for thought and discussion. "Why Was Outsiders a Hit? Why Is It Still a Hi...

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Island at the Edge of the World

The Forgotten History of Easter Island

2025 || Paperback || Mike Pitts || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

A brilliant new account of one of the world's most remote, mysterious and misunderstood places: Easter Island.