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The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. Yet migration studies has been slow to engage with colonial histories.
@Lucymayblin
& Joe Turner explore the histories & continuities of colonialism to understand the present
*Migration Studies & Colonialism* OUT NOW!
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In re-focusing the discussion on violence against women and girls,
@K_IngalaSmith
’s new book disrupts current orthodoxies in feminism and explains why biological sex is still relevant to us all.
Out today in the UK ↓
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Gurminder K. Bhambra
@GKBhambra
& John Holmwood’s special issue of The Journal of Classical Sociology – a symposium on their recent book Colonialism and Modern Social Theory – is out now
LINK ↓
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Michel Foucault is widely regarded as one of the most influential French thinkers.
If you want to learn more about him and his work,
@StuartElden
's ground-breaking four-part intellectual history of Foucault’s career is all you need.
All four books are out now.
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Political science has been framed by colonial legacies that influence its study to this day. It is time to decolonize politics.
Robbie Shilliam has done it in this crisp and refreshing text.
READ
@robbieshilliam
’s guide to theory and practice in *Decolonizing Politics* OUT NOW!
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In this new book, Wacquant presents Bourdieu as an urban theorist and demonstrates the value of Bourdieu’s theoretical approach for understanding the social life of the city.
Out now.
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"Most books on inequality are about what other people ought to do about it – How to Fight Inequality is about what you can do about it, and is written to help you do it as effectively as possible." - Ben Phillips on why he wrote his latest book
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"a well-reasoned roar of rage at the failure of many western governments to follow the emerging scientific evidence about the pandemic potential of the novel coronavirus."
—
@FinancialTimes
on the 1st edition of
@richardhorton1
's 'COVID-19 Catastrophe'
The new edition is out now!
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One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating costs of job insecurity. It is also false.
"The Case for a Job Guarantee" by
@ptcherneva
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You’ve been reading Hegel wrong, say Slavoj Zizek, Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda in their new book.
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Is money precious and scarce, necessitating iron fiscal discipline?
Must the government always balance the books or risk ruin?
Or is money a flexible tool that can be used to mobilize our collective resources to serve those who need them?
L. Randall Wray's book is out now ↓
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The Labour Party used to be an alliance between Hartlepool and Hampstead – between the working-class heartlands and the ‘progressive’ middle classes. In his coruscating new book, out today,
@PaulEmbery
shows how Hartlepool got elbowed out and Hampstead came to rule supreme.
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The fifth and final volume of books based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu in the early 1980s under the title ‘General Sociology’ is out now.
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The UK economy is in dire shape. We face a cost of living crisis and we are sleepwalking into a recession.
What can we do?
@John_Mills_JML
has a solution.
Watch the video below, and click here to learn more:
#CostOfLivingCrisis
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Bruno Latour was one of the leading environmental thinkers of our time.
In this book, based on interviews conducted shortly before his death, Latour explains why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life and how we must rethink our life on Earth to survive.
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"When I reveal my body, I reveal much more about other people than I do of myself"
@vnbateman
discusses her new book 'Naked Feminism' with
@stoya
in
@reason
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The World According to China by
@LizEconomy
is out in the UK today!
This brilliant analysis of
#China
’s ambitious plans to reform the international system is not to be missed!
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The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. 'Just Deserts' brings together two philosophers –
@danieldennett
and
@GreggDCaruso
– to debate their respective views on free will.
Out now!
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If we live in an urban world, we must understand that urbanization undermines dominant forms of politics built on nation, state & its institutions. Urbanites across the globe are transforming democracy in new distinctly urban ways: working together for the common good.
OUT NOW ↓
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“This book is sorely needed. If your students ‒ or you yourself ‒ need to navigate the complex terrain of global violence, expropriation and the movement of people, let them read this.”
@Gargi_at_home
on
@Lucymayblin
& Joe Turner’s *Migration Studies & Colonialism*
OUT NOW!
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Published TODAY - Richard Tuck's searing analysis of how the Left sold its soul to an undemocratic constitutional and neoliberal economic order - the EU - and thereby fluffed its biggest opportunity in decades: Brexit.
Of interest to:
@tfbrexit
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"Ignoring race and denying that it matters or reaching for euphemisms that comfort white anxieties will not make race matter any less than it does."
"Why Race Still Matters" by
@alanalentin
. Out now!
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Out on 25th September, we are publishing a remarkable piece of scholarship, a new single volume historical introduction to republicanism from
@rhammersley99
.
From Aristotle to Skinner, via Machiavelli, Rousseau, Harrington and more, it's a tour-de-force
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Most books on inequality are about what other people ought to do about it – this book is about what you can do about it, and is written to help you do it as effectively as possible.
"How to Fight Inequality" by
@benphillips76
is OUT TODAY!
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Embracing pluralism and recognizing the limits of universalism does not mean the end of ‘Sociology’. Rather it’s where it always should have begun.
Ali Meghji’s
@alim1213
*Decolonizing Sociology* OUT NOW!
#decolonize
#decolonizenow
#decolonizecurriculum
#decolonizethecurriculum
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“Maurice Glasman was prescient in warning of the rupture between labour and its working-class base. Had the movement paid heed, it may have avoided the morass in which it now finds itself. It is vital that it listens to him now.”
@PaulEmbery
on Maurice Glasman's new book
Out now
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‘Brilliant. Revolutionary. Revealing’
- Kate Lister, author of A Curious History of Sex (
@WhoresofYore
) on
@vnbateman
's
#NakedFeminism
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Whereas most academic commentators associate populism with reactionary political forces, Paula Biglieri and
@lucianacadahia
, see it as a potentially progressive force and advocate a left-wing populism.
Their book, “Seven Essays on Populism,” is out now!
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“If ever there was a dream of a post-racial capitalism, that dream seems long ago.”
@Gargi_at_home
critically dissects contemporary mobilizations of racialized divisions in their new book OUT NOW ↓
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HOT OFF THE PRESS TODAY! 'The Case for Degrowth" by
@g_kallis
Susan Paulson
@F_Demaria
and Giacomo D'Alisa.
Its bold vision for a richer society and a better economy could not be more timely.
@R_Degrowth
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“Challenging the modesty cult helps all women – whether they are modest or immodest.”
#NakedFeminism
Victoria Bateman's (
@vnbateman
) Naked Feminism OUT NOW!
#NakedFeminism
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Today on
@BBCPolitics
Live, Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP (
@lloyd_rm
) stated that
@PaulEmbery
uses the phrase 'rootless cosmopolitan' in his book published by us, 'Despised'.
Just did a search in the ebook. 'Rootless Cosmopolitan'. Results = 0.
'Rootless'. Results = 0.
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'This is it. This is the reminder, handbook and call that everyone on the frontline of defending women's rights, voices and single-sex services has been waiting for.... this book does what Karen has always done: it places women first.'
@OnjaliRauf
on
@K_IngalaSmith
’s new book ↓
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Technologies are not, and cannot be, morally and politically neutral.
Find out why in The Political Philosophy of AI by
@MCoeckelbergh
, out now!
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In public accusations of sexual violence, the “benefit of the doubt” is a benefit disproportionately enjoyed by men. A little bit of uncertainty is often enough to sink the believability of a woman, while men are able to capitalize on doubt to maintain their innocence.
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Want to understand why the Red Wall fell and Labour lost millions of working-class voters?
The authentic voice of the ‘non-woke’ working classes,
@PaulEmbery
, gives a devastating account of how the Labour Party went from beer and sandwiches to sneer and ciabattas.
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#Poverty
is not just a disadvantaged & insecure economic condition – it is a shameful & corrosive social relation. A human rights culture of respect for human dignity & equal citizenship can, experience suggests, be transformative.
Ruth Lister’s indispensable guide OUT NOW!
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What really went on behind the scenes of
#Brexit
negotiations? As the EU’s chief negotiator,
@MichelBarnier
had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what ‘Brexit’ would really mean.
He kept a secret diary. It pulls no punches.
Now available to pre-order in English.
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“Feminism will only have succeeded, and women will only be truly free, once we confront and challenge the cult of female modesty.”
VICTORIA BATEMAN’S Naked Feminism OUT NOW!
(By the wonderful
@vnbateman
. Gorgeous cover photo by
@eyefarrell
)
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OUT TODAY! Lisa Adkins, Martijn Konings and Melinda Cooper’s ‘The Asset Economy’.
A penetrating critique of asset-led inequality that is limiting the life-chances of so many.
@AdkinsProf
@martin_konings
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For Hegel, philosophy only has to think about what is (and not what should be)
Reading Hegel by Slavoj Zizek,
@Agonhamza
and Frank Ruda. Out now!
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"A must-read for anyone interested to see how Wacquant eloquently combines Bourdieu’s work with an urban perspective as well as draws on his own influential work from over the years to sharpen our theoretical and methodological lenses on urban inequality.”
-
@TaljaBlokland
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“The most impressive and illuminating research yet published on how digital platforms are reshaping the cultural industries.”
-
@hesmondthing
David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
@tpoell
,
@gamespacenl
&
@brookeerinduffy
Platforms and Cultural Production is out now!
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If you think Facebook is not for you, that it has lost its cool, or doesn’t affect how you live your life, think again.
@tainab
's Facebook is out now!
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"Ruha Benjamin’s (
@ruha9
) Race After Technology explores how automation can deepen discrimination while appearing neutral—the sinister myth of algorithmic objectivity."
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From Ricardo and Smith to Hardt and Negri,
@fhpitts
’ new book Value examines the history of value theory before concluding that Marx may have been right all along on value - just not in the way we all thought.
Buy it here:
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This is Russia’s war – not Putin’s alone.
“Timely, original and highly readable… essential for anyone wishing to understand the past, present and future difficulties we face in dealing with Russia”
-
@edwardlucas
on
@DrJadeMcGlynn
's 'Russia's War'.
Out today!
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To celebrate the publication of Rachel Hammersley's new introduction to republicanism, we ask you: what is your favourite republic, historical or fictional? Venice's stable, aristocratic system? Roman tumult? James Harrington's Oceana? Best answer by 5pm today wins a free copy
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Hello
#aoir2021
! Discover our recent, new and forthcoming titles in
#digitalmedia
studies, our latest catalogue and a promo offer at Wishing you a great conference!!
@AoIR_org
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The first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy is out today.
#Philosophy
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“After the cultural revolution of the 60s, the crisis of democracy brought on by neoliberalism, and the digital revolution: socialism today must be multicoloured, libertarian, democratic & strategic.”
Twenty-First Century Socialism by
@jemgilbert
. Out soon
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OUT NOW, the definitive book on
#surveillance
in
#pandemic
times.
Pandemic Surveillance by David Lyon highlights the magnitude of
#COVID
-19-related surveillance expansion. Order your copy:
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"Normalization of Russia was a massive and high-profile endeavor, an intellectual equivalent to the Marshall Plan. Only the genocidal War with Ukraine changed this understanding."
@Sasha_Etkind
's new book 'Russia Against Modernity' is out now.
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On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. This book examines what he did between those dates.
The final book in
@stuartelden
's four-volume series is out now.
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One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating costs of job insecurity. It is also false.
"The Case for a Job Guarantee" by
@ptcherneva
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“A vital text for anyone committed to teaching Politics with honesty and rigour.”
-Lisa Tilley (
@Tilley101
), Birkbeck, University of London
Robbie Shilliam’s (
@robbieshilliam
) *Decolonizing Politics* OUT NOW!
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We know we’re changing the planet in deep ways. But turn that around and you see social life and the planet even more closely entwined.
Social life is formed *with* this planet. It’s time to take the Earth seriously as more than a backdrop to our lives.
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Corporations are fuelling the ecological crisis through unlimited plastics growth – and they’re getting away with it.
Get the inside scoop in Plastic Unlimited.
Out now 👇
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“A generous examination of an all too rare form of online sociality. It is a sharp reminder that, though platforms can protect their communities, they can just as easily cut them off at the knees.”
@TarletonG
, Microsoft Research
@kkatot
@projectnat
&
@wishcrys
tumblr is out now!
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Bruno Latour was one of the most influential figures throughout the social sciences in the past twenty years.
We at Polity are deeply sad to hear of his death and proud to have published many of his great works in English.
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'Moneymen think of wars, earthquakes and pandemics as opportunities for exorbitant profiteering.
@HorvatSrecko
has detected their new predilection: commodification of the Apocalypse, which they fear less than the end of capitalism.’
-
@yanisvaroufakis
on "After the Apocalypse"
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New in, anthropologist Tim Ingold's letters to a world in crisis,
#correspondences
, writing on nature, creativity, art and our shared planet
@Pascal_Polity
@HansObrist
@anandspandian
@Anthrofuentes
@news4anthros
@SAPIENS_org
@aberdeenuni
@AmericanAnthro
@BritishAcademy_
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“Aesthetics is first philosophy because aesthetics relies on the nonliteral character of its objects, by which I mean that they are unparaphraseable in terms of qualities."
"Art and Objects" by Graham Harman (
@DrZamalek
). Publishing this week:
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CONGRATULATIONS to
@ruha9
as the sensational *Race After Technology* wins the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction 2020!
@BKLYNLibrary
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How do refugees decide to leave, where to go, & whether to keep moving? What conditions & gov't policies shape their limited options?
Departing from isolated siloed knowledge,
@RawanArar
&
@FitzGeraldUCSD
’s sociological approach explains the breadth of the
#refugee
system OUT NOW
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Out v soon from
@benphillips76
, a man who has spent many years fighting injustices, is a book on inequality with a twist. Rather than another tome telling us what is wrong with inequality, this shows us what YOU can actually do about it✊
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“Like the addict that continues to be drawn to their substance or activity of addiction, growth continues to exert a pull on society even while being recognized for its destructive tendencies.”
Environmental Political Theory by
@SteveVanderhei1
.
Out now!
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This first book-length examination of Instagram traces how the app has developed as a platform and a culture. It considers new social media aesthetics, the rise of Influencers, and the complex politics of the platform.
"Instagram" is out today!
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Calling all Philosophy professors, teachers, and lecturers - don't miss these essential textbooks 👇
#philosophy
#booktwt
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The cover art for Just Deserts, our new book with
@GreggDCaruso
and
@danieldennett
coming soon!
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Another book we have out is of course
@ptcherneva
's 'The Case for a Job Guarantee'. The beauty of the idea is, of course, that it destroys the power of the reserve army of unemployed and the 'whip of hunger' at a stroke. UBI isn't the only game in town
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The refugee phenomenon goes well beyond those who manage to cross a border. What of those who consider the option, try & fail, or flee internally?
Challenging taken-for-granted starting points,
@RawanArar
&
@FitzGeraldUCSD
map the social world of the refugee system: OUT NOW
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As we cut through the knotty problems of sociology's Eurocentrism, how can we avoid the loose ends simply becoming a tangle of trip hazards as we strive for a way forward?
READ Ali Meghji's
@alim1213
guide to theory & practice *Decolonizing Sociology* OUT NOW in North America!
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Larry Elliott: 'The social democratic left used to do things for people. Now parts of it want to do things to people. If there's a 2nd referendum, the Leave slogan should be a very simple one. Tell them again.'
#LeftAgainstEU
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A new chapter in the long history of fortification has begun. It’s ingenious, pervasive, and mostly hidden in plain sight. David Betz has eyes on this invisible world of fortification. Read his book and you’ll never see the world in the same way again!
The Guarded Age – OUT NOW
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One of the world’s leading philosophers reflects on democracy in the age of the internet.
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas is out now.
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Migration is perhaps the most important topic being studied in political theory in the 21st century. The most comprehensive guide to where the field stands today, by leading scholar Gillian Brock, is OUT NOW:
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Colonialism & empire weren't central to classical social theory but nor were they entirely missing. Secondary interpretations have erased them from the conceptual legacies bequeathed to sociology. Uncover the past, present & future of social theory w/
@gkbhambra
& John Holmwood
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During the pandemic, people helped their neighbours & realised we need posties, nurses, and shelf-stackers more than we need CEOS & financiers. In his new book, out today,
@AdrianPabst1
argues that this community spirit is key to the post-pandemic, postliberal politics we need:
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“A must-read for scholars and students seeking to address contemporary challenges in information and technology.”
Andrea L. Guzman
@TeachGuz
, Northern Illinois University
@andrewiliadis
’ ‘Semantic Media’ is out now!
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‘The sharp distinction between philosophy and psychology is a modern development—this book shows why philosophers and psychologists both stand to gain from looking at the empirical data and the theories’
'Philosophy of Psychology' by
@miyazono_kengo
and
@lisabortolotti
.
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“Noticing
#gender
is easy; understanding it is a challenge. A great deal of prejudice, myth, and falsehood about gender issues circulate. Yet we have a better basis for understanding them than any previous generation.”
New edition of
@raewynconnell
indispensable guide OUT NOW!
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The Global South sends far more workers abroad than do rich countries, yet they receive only a fraction of all global remittances – unequal exchange on a global scale.
@ImmanuelNess
’s critique is OUT NOW ↓
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Introducing
#sociology
from the classics (established & rediscovered) to new work from the likes of
@sally_hines
@raewynconnell
@Neil_Selwyn
@NoortjeMarres
@lukemartell
@VanessaLKMay
@JoshBullock
@AlphiaPossamai
@GraemeHayes
@SSBullivant
@anthfletch
@sjsprof
@pablogracia_twi
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We are pleased to announce that we are publishing the first biography in English of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Originally written in Ukrainian by political analyst Serhii Rudenko, the English edition will be released worldwide on 1st July.
More details here:
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Hello
#ANZCA2021
! Discover our new and recent media & communication studies titles, our 2021 catalogue and a promo offer at
@AnzcAorg
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Sociology has been missing a beat. The macro level is meaningless if it doesn’t impact how communities of people interact; individuals become sociological dynamite only through local interactions.
Gary Alan Fine &
@TimHallett1
remind us sociology must take sociality seriously ↓
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‘Debates’ abt Critical Race Theory are a distraction. CRT is poorly understood.
"The violent rejection of the ‘strawman’ CRT displays the roles of racialized emotions (white rage) & organizations (support from media) in reproducing the racial order."
@alim1213
in his new book ↓
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Woke Left politics is anti-politics. It rejects the idea of common interest. It sees no allies, and it seeks no allies. But the Left can find its way back from woke -
@UOzkirimli
explains how in his new book.
#Cancelled
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As we cut through the knotty problems of sociology’s Eurocentrism, how can we avoid the loose ends simply becoming a tangle of trip hazards as we strive for a way forward?
READ Ali Meghji’s
@alim1213
guide to theory and practice in *Decolonizing Sociology* OUT NOW!
2
12
30
Just to be clear, Polity is not taking any view on the argument made by Paul Embery in his book. We are merely correcting an objectively erroneous statement made about it. We do not endorse or disavow the arguments made by any of our books. That is for our readers to decide
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It’s Friday afternoon, so the benefits of a 4-day week are probably very clear to all of us – but if you need better reasons than ‘I’ve lost the will to live, bring on the weekend’, take a look at this from Anna Coote,
@Aidan_Harper_
&
@alfie_stirling
- OUT TODAY
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How do you decolonize a canon? The task for decolonial sociology isn't to just focus on provincial individual thinkers, but to put them into conversation with wider circulations of ideas.
@alim1213
*Decolonizing Sociology* OUT NOW!
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The world of colonialism & empires was not merely background noise to the formation of sociology. Over a century later, this colonial style of knowledge production still shapes sociological practice. We in sociology need to choose the decolonial option.
@alim1213
OUT NOW!
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