Polity imprint: 1443 books
by Christina Howells
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws...
The Invention of Creativity
Modern Society and the Culture of the New
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an imperative in many parts of society.
In this...
The Eagle and the Dragon
Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.
In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route,...
Worlds of Talk
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book is about how we present our selves in everyday talk and interaction. Selves and conversations are skilful accomplishments requiring trust, dependency, and co-ordination. They are produced by multiple partners co-operating in the production of social events. The self is a 'performed character'...
Sport
A Critical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more...
Psychoanalysis and Culture
Contemporary States of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Written in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-date examples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliant introduction to key issues in the area of application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The author argues that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global issues...
China's Dream
The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for that matter, what the Party itself...
by Min Zhou, Carl L. Bankston III
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is about this new generation in...
by Jeroen de Kloet, Anthony Y. H. Fung
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
What does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure to different cultures?
This fascinating and informative book explores the lives of Chinese youth and examines...
Sex Before Sexuality
A Premodern History
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components...
by Laura Sjoberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare,...
The Subject of Anthropology
Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between anthropology and psychoanalysis, she...
by Christoph Bluth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and international security by the regime of North...
by Jerry Toner
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in a single day, to the destruction...