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  • Agency without Actors?

    New Approaches to Collective Action

    Edited by Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Birgit Peuker, Michael Schillmeier ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency. Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Reassembling the Social:An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Anthropology

    Why It Matters

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Key Concepts

    Edited by Michael Grenfell ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout these studies, Bourdieu developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he referred to as his "thinking tools" ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Anthropology in Theory

    Issues in Epistemology

    Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...
    This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

    $68.00 USD

  • Posthuman Glossary

    Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki, Eike von Savigny ...
    This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Between Reason and Experience

    Essays in Technology and Modernity

    by Andrew Feenberg, Michel Callon ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Timewatch

    The Social Analysis of Time

    by Barbara Adam ...
    In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common-sense and social science understanding. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Technosystem

    The Social Life of Reason

    by Andrew Feenberg ...
    We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization that largely determines our way of life, but the actions of individuals and social protest still play a role in developing and purposing these rational systems. In Technosystem, Andrew Feenberg builds a theory ... Read more

    $34.49 USD