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“herbert gottweis”

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  • The Argumentative Turn Revisited

    Public Policy as Communicative Practice

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis ...
    Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Biobanks

    Governance in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Herbert Gottweis, Alan Petersen ...
    In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks – genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy – have been set up in order to study the interface between disease, and genetic and environmental factors. Unsurprisingly, these studies have sparked a good deal of controversy and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    by Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

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  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

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  • The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)

    A Feminist Critique of Political Economy

    by J.K. Gibson-Graham ...
    In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of Capitalism and outline the economic research and activism they have been ... Read more

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  • Fortunes of Feminism

    From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

    by Nancy Fraser ...
    Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s ... Read more

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  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology

    Edited by George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan ...
    This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the disciplineDistilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topicsGlobal in scope, both in terms of topics ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • The Limits of Neoliberalism

    Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition

    by William Davies ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence."- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to ... Read more

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  • Governing the Present

    Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

    by Nikolas Rose, Peter Miller ...
    The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and the ... Read more

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  • Resilience

    The Governance of Complexity

    by David Chandler ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Why Voice Matters

    Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism

    by Nick Couldry ...
    One of the best books I have read in years about what it means to engage neoliberalism through a critical framework that highlights those narratives and stories that affirm both our humanity and our longing for justice. It should be read by everyone concerned with what it might mean to not only dream about democracy but to engage it as a lived experience and political possibility.- Henry Giroux, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD