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“michael d kennedy”

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  • Envisioning Eastern Europe

    Postcommunist Cultural Studies

    Edited by Michael D. Kennedy ...
    How does one envision the sequel to communist rule in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? In this volume of postcommunist cultural studies, artists, activists, and experts capture the complexity of ideological transformations and identities in formation in this region. The contributors reach beyond the discourses of civil society and nationalism, which usually structure our imagination of ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Globalizations and Social Movements

    Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere

    Edited by John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, Mayer Zald ...
    Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization not only spurs the creation of social movements, but affects the way many social movements are ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Globalizing Knowledge

    Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation

    by Michael D. Kennedy ...
    Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however, are rarely considered critically. In this groundbreaking cultural-political sociology of knowledge and change, Michael D. Kennedy rearticulates ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS

    A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS

    by Michael D. Kennedy, Michael F. Goodchild ...
    An integrated approach that combines essential GIS background with a practical workbook on applying the principles in ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGISintegrates a broad introduction to GIS with a software-specific workbook for Esri's ArcGIS. Where most courses make do using two separate texts, one covering GIS and another the software, this book enables ... Read more

    $89.00 USD

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    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Populism and the European Culture Wars

    The Conflict of Values between Hungary and the EU

    by Frank Furedi ...
    Concern and hostility towards populism has become a distinctive feature of contemporary political culture. In Europe such concerns are frequently directed at Eurosceptics, whose opposition to the European Union is often portrayed as a cultural crime. Ancient anti-democratic claims about the gullibility, ignorance and irrationality of the masses are frequently recycled through the anti-populist ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Power of Identity

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Conversations with Gorbachev

    On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism

    by Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar ...
    Translated by George Shriver ...
    Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics.In 1993 they decided that ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • State Capitalism and World Revolution

    by C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs, Martin Glaberman ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Over sixty years ago, C.L.R. James and a small circle of collaborators making up the radical left Johnson-Forest Tendency reached the conclusion that there was no true socialist society existing anywhere in the world. Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee Boggs, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Reinventing Politics

    by Vladimir Tismaneanu ...
    Reinventing Politics gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the rest of Europe.“Using primary materials from Eastern European democratic movements, Tismaneanu ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD