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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin on People and Planet

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin on People and Planet

Humanity's relationship to nature is central to the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin an influential priest and scientist of the twentieth century. Teilhard believed that spiritual development must be viewed alongside material development and that evolutionary theory lies at the heart of humanity's understanding of its place in the world. 'Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on People and Planet' argues that Teilhard's cosmic mysticism and intense interest in both cosmological and evolutionary sciences are highly relevant to current debates about how best to construct a meaningful spirituality. The book offers a critical revision of Teilhard's thought in the light of current debates in evolutionary science eco-theology and environmental ethics. The essays present fresh interpretations of Teilhard's work and point to the significance of his thought in the contemporary study of science and religion.

GBP 130.00
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Habitus: A Sense of Place

Habitus: A Sense of Place

Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu as a 'sense of one's place. a sense of the other's place'. It relates to our perceptions of the positions (or 'place') of ourselves and other people in the world in which we live and how these perceptions affect our actions and interactions with places and people. Habitus implies that a web of complex processes links the physical the social and the mental. Inspired by this concept this compelling book brings together leading scholars from interdisciplinary fields to examine ways in which spaces and places are constructed interpreted and used by different people. This second edition contains updated chapter material together with an entirely new introduction and revised conclusions which recognise the importance of Bourdieu's work. This publication is a tribute to Pierre Bourdieu's remarkable contribution to the fields of sociology anthropology geography political philosophy and urban planning. | Habitus: A Sense of Place

GBP 130.00
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Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

With reference to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel’s claim of “the end of art” to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms – power capital habitus field and so forth-into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature cultural studies and those with specific interests in Chinese literature literary and art theory. | Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

GBP 120.00
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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art The Black Female Fantastic

Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art The Black Female Fantastic

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States. This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality temporality and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu Sanford Biggers Alison Saar Mequitta Ahuja Robert Pruitt Renee Cox Dawolu Jabari Anderson Alma Thomas and Harriet Powers the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history visual studies American literature gender studies popular culture and African American studies. | Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art The Black Female Fantastic

GBP 130.00
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Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories Practices and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories Practices and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

Combining contextual institutional and global perspectives this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment. Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment carefully explores contemporary debates about economic institutions which were a crucial element in the race for controlling international trade. Eighteenth-century thinkers devoted much attention to the relative merits of existing institutions such as free ports grasped the dangers of economic dependence and appraised emerging conceptions of property rights. The author draws on an impressive range of sources including pamphlets and travel accounts and work from lesser-known figures such as Pierre Poivre and Ange Goudar. This volume will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of the history of economic thought economic history political economy the history of ideas and global history. | Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories Practices and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

GBP 120.00
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Frankincense – Gum Olibanum Botany Oleoresin Chemistry Extraction Utilization Propagation Biotechnology and Conservation

Frankincense – Gum Olibanum Botany Oleoresin Chemistry Extraction Utilization Propagation Biotechnology and Conservation

Frankincense also called olibanum is an aromatic resin used since ancient times for incense perfume and aromatherapy. It is readily available as an essential oil or as a supplement or extract and studies have shown that it may enhance heart health and liver health and soothe pain and inflammation. This new volume is a comprehensive desktop reference book specifically gum olibanum - frankincense. It introduces the significance of the species and covers the botany phytochemistry propagation extraction and pharmacological uses. It also discusses the species’ genetic diversity using molecular markers in vitro propagation and biotechnological aspects of Boswellia species the trade and commerce of frankincense and as well as its threats and conservation. | Frankincense – Gum Olibanum Botany Oleoresin Chemistry Extraction Utilization Propagation Biotechnology and Conservation

GBP 147.00
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Migration and Educational Policymaking in China A Critical Engagement with Policy Sociology and Bourdieu

Migration and Educational Policymaking in China A Critical Engagement with Policy Sociology and Bourdieu

By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China this book analyses the unequal power relations and structural inequalities that can appear in the context of education. The author complements current knowledge by applying theoretical resources of policy sociology in particular the thinking of Pierre Bourdieu into analysis of educational policymaking in the Chinese context. He takes a policy trajectory approach to trace the (unequal) power relations and structural inequalities invested and realised in the school enrolment policy. Rooted in rich qualitative data from five metropolises he examines both external influences of politics economy and public policy on educational policy agenda setting and discursive practices within the educational policy cycle inherent in the post-2013 restrictive school enrolment policy. Structural constraints and agency in the local context are also explored indicating that the intersectional effects of political economic and civic logic can result in differentiated modes of policy enactment. The study will be of interest to scholars students policymakers and practitioners in helping address policymaking and social justice in education for migrants and other marginalised groups. | Migration and Educational Policymaking in China A Critical Engagement with Policy Sociology and Bourdieu

GBP 130.00
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The Epistemological Development of Education Considering Bourdieu Foucault and Dewey

The Epistemological Development of Education Considering Bourdieu Foucault and Dewey

This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a science of education and what this means for classroom teachers their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical exploration of current research and policy articulations of the purposes of education with attention given to Australia the UK and the USA this book delineates the evaluative mechanisms involved in the strategic science as method adoption of accountability competitiveness and test-driven criteria used in major education policy. It brings together the disciplines of sociology and philosophy by drawing on the theoretical insights of Michel Foucault Pierre Bourdieu and John Dewey. In addition the book argues for the deliberate use of the theoretical in education and is against the contemporary unquestioning advocacy that often accompanies a narrowly defined master narrative of a science of education. This book will be of special interest to post-graduate students as source material in general education courses and is also intended for academics with an interest in educational theory/philosophy and the sociology of education. | The Epistemological Development of Education Considering Bourdieu Foucault and Dewey

GBP 120.00
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Reading Paul Howard The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Reading Paul Howard The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices satirical modes cultural context and humour in Howard’s texts. The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture and it will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu Sigmund Freud Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida to critique this division building a theoretical platform from which to examine the significance of Howard’s work as an Irish comic and satirical writer. Addressing both the style and the substance of his work this text locates him in a tradition of Irish satirical writing that dates back to the Gaelic bards and it includes writers like Swift Wilde Flann O’Brien and Joyce. Through textual and contextual analysis this book makes the case for Howard as a significant and original voice in Irish writing whose fusion of the three traditional types of satire (Horatian Juvenalian and Menippean) has created a parallel Ireland that shines a satirical light on its real counterpart. As Freud suggests humour is a way of accessing aspects of the psyche that normative discourses cannot enunciate and Howard through the confessional voice of Ross offers a fictive truth on 20 years of Irish society a truth that is not accessed by discourse in the public sphere or by what could be termed literary or high cultural fiction. | Reading Paul Howard The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

GBP 130.00
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Bourdieu and Sino–Foreign Higher Education Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change

Bourdieu and Sino–Foreign Higher Education Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change

Bourdieu’s sociology has traditionally been confined to the limits of its French national context. This edited collection seeks to challenge these boundaries applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice to Chinese education as it gains relevance and attention around the globe. This book stems from the conviction that empirical investigation and conceptual inventiveness are needed to understand the historical and contextual particularities of Sino-foreign higher education. It brings the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to the specificity of higher education in and for China and the multi-scalar complexity of higher education beyond the nation. Aggregating recent Bourdieu-informed investigations of empirical worlds of Sino-foreign higher education the volume mainly considers two problems: structures and strategies of advantage behind institutional and individual action in Sino-foreign higher education; and student participation in the practices of that higher education. The volume probes the potential of Bourdieusian theory and methodology for understanding Chinese higher education beyond the nation. This book is written to engage with the intellectual work of both established scholars and higher degree research students within China and beyond. The empirical studies provide useful insights for educational leaders in Chinese higher education sectors and in the universities of English-dominant western countries where students and researchers from China have been a growing presence. The theoretical and methodological discussions will be pertinent to scholars who are interested in Bourdieu’s sociology and sociology of higher education. | Bourdieu and Sino–Foreign Higher Education Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change

GBP 120.00
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Social Capital Theory and Research

Social Capital Theory and Research

Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support help and information from other people. Expanding on concepts originally formulated by Pierre Bourdieu and James Coleman this seminal work will find an essential place with educators and students in the fields of social networks rational choice theory institutions and the socioeconomics of poverty labor markets social psychology and race. The volume is divided into three parts. The first segment clarifies social capital as a concept and explores its theoretical and operational bases. Additional segments provide brief accounts that place the development of social capital in the context of the family of capital theorists and identify some critical but controversial perspectives and statements regarding social capital in the literature. The editors then make the argument for the network perspective why and how such a perspective can clarify controversies and advance our understanding of a whole range of instrumental and expressive outcomes. Social Capital further provides a forum for ongoing research programs initiated by social scientists working at the crossroads of formal theory and new methods. These scholars and programs share certain understandings and approaches in their analyses of social capital. They argue that social networks are the foundation of social capital. Social networks simultaneously capture individuals and social structure thus serving as a vital conceptual link between actions and structural constraints between micro- and macro-level analyses and between relational and collective dynamic processes. They are further cognizant of the dual significance of the structural features of the social networks and the resources embedded in the networks as defining elements of social capital. | Social Capital Theory and Research

GBP 170.00
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Anarchism as Political Philosophy

Anarchism as Political Philosophy

Reports of people rejecting political authority assaulting it with words and often violent acts are actions that are part of modern life. Anarchism has been considered a dead movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth century but it assumed a renewed and substantial relevance in the late twentieth century. Robert Hoffman points out in his incisive Introduction that anarchists have always been viewed either as foolish idealists or at the other extreme as serious threats to justice and social tranquility. But the editor argues most anarchists have been ordinary people who have shared a singular passion for what they believe to be a just society. To clarify widespread misconceptions about anarchism this volume offers a lively debate on the subject consisting of works by both advocates of anarchism and people who take it seriously but reject it. Represented here in the writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Leo Tolstoy George Bernard Shaw Bertrand Russell and others are different types styles and periods of anarchist writing reflecting a rich variety of thought arising from the anarchist perspective. The essays deal with many of the different strands of anarchists including anarchist attacks on democracy patriotism and military conscription and provide an outline of the movement's tumultuous history. Against these are set pieces that argue anarchism's impossibility and estimate its relevance to social change. The debate format of Anarchism introduces the reader to a fresh perspective and understanding of vital issues of political and social theory and provokes him to examine his own thinking. Looking at both sides of the controversy this volume discourages unquestioning or over-confident opinions. Although the anarchist credo that man can live without government is difficult or impossible for most people to accept as long as we find it difficult to live within the framework of government control the influence and potential appeal of anarchist thought will continue to be felt. | Anarchism as Political Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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A History of Islamic Spain

A History of Islamic Spain

The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from the collapse of the Visigoths in the eighth century to the fall of Granada in the fifteenth and considers Spain's importance as a part of the Islamic empire. Particular attention is given to the golden period of economic and political stability achieved under the Umayyads. Without losing themselves in detail and without sacrificing complexity the authors discuss the political social and economic continuity in Islamic Spain or al-Andalus in light of its cultural and intellectual effects upon the rest of Europe. Medieval Christianity Watt points out found models of scholarship in the Islamic philosophers and adapted the idea of holy war to its own purposes while the final reunification of Spain under the aegis of the Reconquista played a significant role in bringing Europe out of the Middle Ages. A survey essential to anyone seeking a more complete knowledge of European or Islamic history the volume also includes sections on literature and philology by Pierre Cachia. This series of Islamic surveys is designed to give the educated reader something more than can be found in the usual popular books. Each work undertakes to survey a special part of the field and to show the present stage of scholarship here. Where there is a clear picture this will be given; but where there are gaps obscurities and differences of opinion these will also be indicated. Full and annotated bibliographies will afford guidance to those who want to pursue their studies further. There will also be some account of the nature and extent of the source material. The series is addressed in the first place to the educated reader with little or no previous knowledge of the subject; its character is such that it should be of value also to university students and others whose interest is of a more professional kind. | A History of Islamic Spain

GBP 130.00
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