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Queer Lovers and Hateful Others

Regenerating Violent Times and Places

by Jin Haritaworn
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015

Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others, Jin Haritaworn argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil,...
by Yakov M. Rabkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state...

Sound System

The Political Power of Music

by Dave Randall
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and social order - and to prop up the status quo.*BR**BR*Sound System is the story of...

Microeconomics

A Critical Companion

by Ben Fine
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both...

Macroeconomics

A Critical Companion

by Ben Fine, Ourania Dimakou
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. This distinctive book draws upon years of critical questioning and teaching and exposes how macroeconomic theory has evolved from its origins...

Beyond the Developmental State

Industrial Policy into the Twenty-first Century

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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013

Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes. *BR**BR*Through this approach, the contributors show the close interrelation...

Theories of Social Capital

Researchers Behaving Badly

by Ben Fine, Ben Fine
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept. Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by...

Development Against Democracy - New Edition

Manipulating Political Change in the Third World

by Irene L. Gendzier
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017

This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global...

The Birth of Capitalism

A 21st Century Perspective

by Henry Heller
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011

In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.*BR**BR*Focusing on arguments about the origin, nature and sustainability of capitalism,...

Social Reproduction Theory

Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and...

What's Wrong with Rights?

Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

by Radha D'Souza
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018

Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World,...

Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals

Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States

by Derek Wall
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and opening the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives, yet, many radicals know little about her. This book redresses this, revealing the indispensability...

The Mythology of Work

How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself

by Peter Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015

There was once a time when 'work' was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of life has slowly morphed into a painful and meaningless...

Delirium and Resistance

Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

by Gregory Sholette
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. And though capitalist crisis does not begin within art, art...
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