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How to run a government: so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don\'t go c…
Michael Barber.
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- 9780141979588
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- XXvI, 336 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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- LEN 351 BAR
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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- 9781911534426
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- vi, 154 p.
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- 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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- 9781526101020
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- xii, 192 p.
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- 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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- 9781478005346
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- ix, 280 p. ; 23,4cm
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- 333.79 BIR C
Bordering intimacy : Postcolonial governance and the policing of family
Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected history between contemporary border regimes and the policing of family with the role of borders under European and British empires. Building upon postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the …
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- 9781526146946
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- xii, 312 p. ; 23,4cm
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- 320.12 BOR J
The Spectacle 2.0 : Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism
Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour…
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- 9781911534464
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- xi, 252 p. ; 23,4cm
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- 303.484 SPE E
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