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Foundations of Scenario Planning The Story of Pierre Wack

Foundations of Scenario Planning The Story of Pierre Wack

Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning. Scenarios explore a variety of possible futures for examining decisions in organizational planning. Pierre was a unique man with interests in Indian and Japanese cultures and traditions. He travelled extensively and led a unique life that involved long periods of visiting gurus in India and extended sabbaticals in Japan. His experiences with Eastern thought no doubt shaped his ability to evolve the scenario method at Shell and as a result he was able to lead a team that foresaw the oil crises of the 1970’s and 80’s. This new volume will cover the basic context of his life timeline and attach it to the development of his thinking about scenario planning over the course of his career. After his death Wack’s materials papers and documents were collected by Napier Collyns and have recently been made available at the University of Oxford where the Pierre Wack Memorial Library has been established. These documents contain a variety of clues and stories that reveal more about who Pierre Wack was how he thought and will provide details about scenario planning that have never been seen or published. They also reveal a curious man and include a timeline written by his wife Eve which details their relationship over the course of 40 years. Written for management and business historians and researchers this book will uncover unseen contributions by a scenario planning pioneer shaped by significant events in his personal life that helped him to see the world differently. | Foundations of Scenario Planning The Story of Pierre Wack

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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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Rediscovering Pierre Janet Trauma Dissociation and a New Context for Psychoanalysis

Rediscovering Pierre Janet Trauma Dissociation and a New Context for Psychoanalysis

Rediscovering Pierre Janet explores the legacy left by the pioneering French psychologist philosopher and psychotherapist (1859–1947) from the relationship of between Janet and Freud to the influence of his dissociation theory on contemporary psychotraumatology. Divided into three parts the first section places Janetian psychological analysis and psychoanalysis in context with the foundational tenets of psychoanalysis from Freud to relational theory before the book explores Janet’s work on trauma and dissociation and its influence on contemporary thinking. Part three presents several contemporary psychotherapy approaches directly influenced by Janetian theory including the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder. Rediscovering Pierre Janet draws together eminent scholars from a variety of backgrounds each of whom has developed Janetian constructs according to his or her own theoretical and clinical models. It provides an integrative approach that offers contemporary perspectives on Janet’s work and will be of significant interest to practicing psychoanalysts psychiatrists and psychotherapists especially those treating trauma-related dissociative disorders as well as researchers with an interest in psychological trauma. | Rediscovering Pierre Janet Trauma Dissociation and a New Context for Psychoanalysis

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Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora Identity Socialisation and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu

Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora Identity Socialisation and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu

Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different and sometimes competing practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being doing and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly white English-speaking societies. This raises questions of what 'Chineseness' is. The gradual transfer of power from the West to the East shuffles the relative cultural weights within these societies. How do the global power shifts and local cultural vibrancies come to shape the social dispositions and positions of the Chinese diaspora and how does the Chinese diaspora respond to these changes? How does primary pedagogic work through family upbringing and secondary pedagogic work through educational socialisation complicate obfuscate and enrich Chineseness?Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology on relative and relational sociocultural positions Mu and Pang assess how historical contemporary and ongoing changes across social spaces of family school and community come to shape the intergenerational educational cultural and social reproduction of Chinese diasporic populations. The two authors engage in an in-depth analysis of the identity work educational socialisation and resilience building of young Chinese Australians and Chinese Canadians in the ever-changing lived world. The authors look particularly at the tensions and dynamics around the participants’ life and educational choices; the meaning making out of their Chinese bodies in relation to gender race and language; and the sociological process of resilience that enculturates them into a system of dispositions and positions required to bounce back from structural constraints. | Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora Identity Socialisation and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu

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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

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International Student Mobility Exploring Identities and Engagements

International Student Mobility Exploring Identities and Engagements

International Student Mobility presents an autoethnographic study which follows a group of non-English speaking international students from Taiwan during a period of study in Australia. The study examines the ways in which the students’ sense of identity shifts over time and why this happens. Hsieh engages Pierre Bourdieu’s notions of capital habitus and field to develop an understanding of complexity of identity movements and asks to what extent the students see themselves as culturally and linguistically ‘international’ both during their time abroad and upon their return home. Perfect for researchers and advanced students interested in international higher education International Student Mobility is also an insightful read for those investigating the experiences of Chinese-speaking international students. | International Student Mobility Exploring Identities and Engagements

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Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

This book explores the social political and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language practices and school underperformance. He takes Haiti as the focus of study finding that students and teachers experience difficulty constructing knowledge in a setting in which the language they speak at home (Creole) differs from the language of instruction (French). The research is based on ethnographic data collected in classrooms in both private and public school settings in addition to different sectors of the society (e. g. state and private institutions). | Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

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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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Binders for Durable and Sustainable Concrete

Binders for Durable and Sustainable Concrete

Linking theory to practice this book provides a better fundamental understanding of Portland cement and hydraulic binders which is necessary to make better concrete. It has been clearly demonstrated that concrete durability is closely linked to its water/binder ratio and proper curing during the first week after casting. In this rigorously presented work Pierre-Claude Aïtcin explains the complexity of the hydration reaction and how to make use and cure durable and sustainable concrete. This book also details the problems with Portland cement composition at present and outlines the concept of an ideal hydraulic binder which is technically and ecologically efficient as well as being long-lasting and robust. Binders for Durable and Sustainable Concrete is a practical and innovative reference text which will be particularly relevant to engineers and chemists working in the Portland cement concrete and admixture industries. This book will also be of interest to academics and graduate-level students in Civil Engineering departments who specialize in Portland cement and concrete technology.

GBP 59.99
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Trauma Psychoanalysis and History

Trauma Psychoanalysis and History

Located at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and history this book investigates the ambiguous concept of trauma and the changes to its formulation and use between the years 1866 and 1939. Luis Sanfelippo introduces the original conceptions of trauma outlined by Sigmund Freud Pierre Janet and their contemporaries before investigating how the meaning of this concept was influenced and informed by large-scale historical events like the First World War. Trauma Psychoanalysis and History investigates the multiple problems linked to this fetishised category and how it has developed over time. Sanfelippo also considers the historiographical and conceptual problems raised by the application of trauma to collective memory and contemporary history reflecting on what this means for historiography. Trauma Psychoanalysis and History will be of great interest to students in training for psychotherapy and mental health practice trained psychoanalysts as well as academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies the history of psychology trauma studies and modern history.

GBP 31.99
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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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Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory: Key Figures Concepts and Developments broadens the theoretical scope of public relations studies by applying the work of a group of prominent social theorists to make sense of the practice. The volume focuses on the work of key social theorists including Max Weber Karl Marx John Dewey Jürgen Habermas Niklas Luhmann Michel Foucault Ulrich Beck Pierre Bourdieu Anthony Giddens Robert Putnam Erving Goffman Peter L. Berger Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Bruno Latour Dorothy Smith Zygmunt Bauman Harrison White John W. Meyer Luc Boltanski and Chantal Mouffe. Each chapter is devoted to an individual theorist providing an overview of that theorist’s key concepts and contributions and exploring how these can be applied to public relations as a practice. Each chapter also includes a box giving a short and concise presentation of the theorist along with recommendation of key works and secondary literature. | Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

GBP 51.99
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Essentials of Soft Matter Science

Essentials of Soft Matter Science

‘Choice Outstanding Title’ Authored by world-leading physicists this introductory textbook explores the basic principles of polymers colloids liquid crystals wetting and foams. It is a practical ‘toolbox’ for readers to acquire basic knowledge in the field and facilitate further reading and advanced courses. Undergraduate students in physics biology and the medical sciences will learn the basics of soft matter physics in addition to scaling approaches in the spirit of the Nobel prize laureate in physics in 1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes the inventor of soft matter physics and close collaborator to author Françoise Brochard-Wyart. Features: Accessible and compact approach Contains interesting examples from everyday life (including the Paris Metro a water spider a gecko and duck feathers) Accompanied by additional exercises to enhance understanding available for download from the CRC Press website Three physicists (one theoretician; two experimentalists one in biophysics) adopt an intuitive and practical style to present the fundamentals of soft matter physics. Make no mistake: the style is accessible and revealing but the underlying science is profound. Brochard-Wyart (Sorbonne Univ. ) was a collaborator and former student of the late Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (originator of soft matter physics 1991 Nobel laureate in physics). The authors lay claim to the style of de Gennes (and reference their class notes) in their method of presentation including its organization and range of topics. There are two broad groupings: chapters 1–7 cover definition and characterization of soft matter then interfaces phase transitions liquid crystals surfactants and polymers offering simple calculations (order of magnitude estimates) and scaling law arguments. Part 2 (chapters 8–10) covers a range of applications: self-cleaning surfaces biomimetic adhesion optical applications and biological applications from DNA to tissue engineering. Many examples are based on everyday household phenomena. Each chapter provides a short bibliography. Any student (primarily in physics biology chemistry and engineering) or researcher will enjoy reading this unique book. To benefit fully readers need some background in electricity and magnetism chemistry fluid mechanics statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. This reader has rarely encountered a book so accessible yet so thought provoking. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals. —J. Lambropoulos University of Rochester in CHOICE October 2020). | Essentials of Soft Matter Science

GBP 77.99
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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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France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the broad range of the extra-parliamentary right in interwar France. Organisations such as Action Française and the militant ligues are examined as well as prominent extreme-right intellectuals such as Lucien Rebatet Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The various forms of French anti-Semitism are assessed and the book also situates the French extreme right within a broader context by assessing its impact on other European countries including the UK. It concludes by exploring the complicated politics of wartime France where some extreme-right activists collaborated with the Nazis while others opposed them and where few generalisations prove possible. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of French history the extreme right and interwar politics. | France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

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Contemporary Social Theory An Introduction

Contemporary Social Theory An Introduction

Now in its third edition Anthony Elliott’s comprehensive stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory. Fully revised and updated the book examines the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to posthumanism and from feminism and post-structuralism to globalization theory and beyond. Classical debates in social theory are given careful appraisal as are the major contemporary theorists – including Jurgen Habermas Judith Butler Anthony Giddens Pierre Bourdieu Julia Kristeva Slavoj Žižek Manuel Castells Ulrich Beck Zygmunt Bauman Shoshana Zuboff and Bernard Stiegler. This edition includes a new chapter on the digital revolution with consideration of how digital technologies in general and artificial intelligence in particular are reshaping societies. Like its predecessors the third edition of Contemporary Social Theory combines stylish exposition with reflective social critique and original insights. This volume will prove a superb textbook with which to navigate the twists and turns of contemporary social theory as taught in the disciplines of sociology politics cultural and media studies and many more. | Contemporary Social Theory An Introduction

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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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Toward a Social Psychoanalysis Culture Character and Normative Unconscious Processes

Toward a Social Psychoanalysis Culture Character and Normative Unconscious Processes

Frantz Fanon Erich Fromm Pierre Bourdieu and Marie Langer are among those activists clinicians and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. For over thirty years Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the clinic. In this volume of Layton’s most important papers she expands on earlier theorists’ ideas of social character by exploring how dominant ideologies and culturally mandated hierarchical identity prescriptions are lived in individual and relational conflict. Through clinical and cultural examples Layton describes how enactments of what she calls ‘normative unconscious processes’ reinforce cultural inequalities of race sex gender and class both inside and outside the clinic and at individual interpersonal and institutional levels. Clinicians academics and activists alike will find here a deeper understanding of the power of unconscious process and are called on to envision and enact a progressive future in which vulnerability and interdependency are honored and systemic inequalities dismantled. | Toward a Social Psychoanalysis Culture Character and Normative Unconscious Processes

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A Marxist Theory of Ideology Praxis Thought and the Social World

A Marxist Theory of Ideology Praxis Thought and the Social World

This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective. Advancing beyond the schemas of discussion presented in current Marxist literature the author offers an account of how the concept of ideology should be defined and what role it plays within historical materialism. Through a close reading of Karl Marx’s relevant writings this volume demonstrates that while there is no coherent single account of ideology in Marx’s work his materialist framework can be reconstructed in a defensible and ‘non-deterministic’ way. The definition of ideology presented is then articulated through a close reading of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Efforts are also made to demonstrate that Gramsci’s interpretation of historical materialism is indeed consistent and compatible with Marx’s. A systematic articulation of a theory of ideology that combines the works of Marx and Gramsci as well as adding elements of Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory and William James’s psychology this volume will appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in political economy and Marxist thought. | A Marxist Theory of Ideology Praxis Thought and the Social World

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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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ResponsAbility Law and Governance for Living Well with the Earth

ResponsAbility Law and Governance for Living Well with the Earth

ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance and legal frameworks. The cross-currents of persisting established worldviews knowledge systems institutions law and forms of governance are now at odds with future-facing innovations designed to help societies transition to both low-carbon economies and social equity. This book explores the ways in which we can move to new governance and legal structures that more effectively reflect our changed relationship with the Earth in the Anthropocene. The book is written by a group of eminent scholars and leading experts from a diverse range of backgrounds all of whom bring new knowledge and analysis from across oceanic and continental regions. Many are from the discipline of law whilst others bring expertise on indigenous knowledge climate water governance and philosophy to engage with law. Contributors include His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi Head of State of Samoa Judge Sir E. Taikakurei Durie Dame Anne Salmond Pierre Calame and Adrian Macey. A number of scenarios are presented throughout the book for the realignment of global and local law to institutionalise responsibility for social environmental and earth-centered equity. | ResponsAbility Law and Governance for Living Well with the Earth

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Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault Habermas Bourdieu and Derrida

Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault Habermas Bourdieu and Derrida

Social Theory and Education Research is an advanced and accessible text that illustrates the diverse ways in which social theories can be applied to educational research methodologies. It provides in-depth overviews of the various theories by well-known and much-debated thinkers – Michel Foucault Jürgen Habermas Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida – and their applications in educational research. Updated throughout and with new extended introductions to each theorist and a new chapter on the application of socio-theoretical concepts in education research methodologies and the how-to of research practice this second edition assists education practitioners and researchers in their acquisition and application of social theory. This book contextualizes the various theories within the broader context of social philosophy and the historical development of different forms of thought. Social Theory and Education Research will be incredibly useful to postgraduate students and early career researchers who wish to develop their capacity to engage with these debates at an advanced level. It will also prove of great interest to anyone involved in education policy and theory. | Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault Habermas Bourdieu and Derrida

GBP 27.99
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Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond. Fully revised and updated this second edition has been expanded to consider the most recent developments in social theory including a new chapter on the digital revolution and the increasingly significant impact of technological developments (such as artificial intelligence machine learning and robotics) on society culture and politics. Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory provides the reader with a superb overview of key developments in social theory including the Frankfurt School American pragmatism structuralism post-structuralism feminism globalization and world-systems theory. In doing so the textbook explores the ideas of a wide range of social theorists including Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse Talcott Parsons Erving Goffman Harold Garfinkel Michel Foucault Jacques Lacan Jacques Derrida C. Wright Mills Anthony Giddens Pierre Bourdieu Julia Kristeva Jürgen Habermas Judith Butler Slavoj Žižek Manuel Castells Cornel West Immanuel Wallerstein and Zygmunt Bauman. This textbook provides stylish exposition with powerful social critique and original insights. It will be indispensable to students and academics alike.

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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

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Fictional Translators Rethinking Translation through Literature

Fictional Translators Rethinking Translation through Literature

Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations. Rosemary Arrojo shines a light on the transformative character of the translator’s role and the relationships that can be established between originals and their reproductions building her arguments on the basis of texts such as the following: Cortázar’s Letter to a Young Lady in Paris Walsh’s Footnote Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Poe’s The Oval Portrait Borges’s Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote Funes His Memory and Death and the Compass Kafka’s The Burrow and Kosztolányi’s Kornél Esti Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon and Babel’s Guy de Maupassant Scliar’s Footnotes and Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Cervantes’s Don Quixote Fictional Translators provides stimulating material for reflection not only on the processes associated with translation as an activity that inevitably transforms meaning but also on the common prejudices that have underestimated its productive role in the shaping of identities. This book is key reading for students and researchers of literary translation comparative literature and translation theory. | Fictional Translators Rethinking Translation through Literature

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