Sociology
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Solidarity Bodies: A Storytelling on Workfare and Volunteering Policies [Paperback]
Anna D’Ascenzio (Editor); Stefania Ferraro (Editor)
£14.00ISBN: 9788869772290
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This book aims to investigate the phenomenon of volunteering as a workfare event, as a synchronous rewriting of territorial policy and advocacy, according to the principles of risk and border. The two terms, as a solid sociological category, shed ... .... Learn More -
Caporalato: An Authentic Agromafia [Paperback]
Fiammetta Fanizza (Author); Marco Omizzolo (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9788869772191
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
The essay investigates the effects produced by criminal networks involved in the production and harvest of agricultural products. Focused on the analysis of caporalato , it explores the enslavement of immigrant agricultural labourers and territori... .... Learn More -
Understanding Social Conflict: The Relationship between Sociology and History [Paperback]
Liana M. Daher (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9788869771613
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Since the beginning of the last century Weber argued the indissoluble link between sociology and history. His approach saw the relationship between history and sociology as based on (a) mutual and essential support, and (b) logical priority, accor... .... Learn More -
Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism: A Sociological Essay: On Avant-Garde Art And Society [Paperback]
Ilaria Riccioni (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869772313
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
The first Manifesto of Futurism was published in Le Figaro on February 20th, 1909. It was to become the first avant-garde movement in art – it aimed to change the function of art within society, foster Italian culture beyond its provincial domains... .... Learn More -
The New Media Epidemic: The Undermining of Society, Family, and Our Own Soul [Paperback]
Jean-Claude Larchet (Author); Archibald Andrew Torrance (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9780884654711
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
Dr Jean-Claude Larchet, renowned for his examinations of the causes and consequences of spiritual and physical illness, here tackles the pressing question of the societal and personal effects of our societal use of new media. The definition of new... .... Learn More -
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Paperback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577092
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to ... .... Learn More -
Sociological Imagination: Horizons of Contemporary Society [Paperback]
Fiammetta Fanizza (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771521
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
How can we restore fundamental values on a political and cultural level? Taking this question as a starting point, the book identifies the notion of sociological imagination as a suitable method to address the widespread disorientation within the ... .... Learn More -
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Hardback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819577085
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to ... .... Learn More -
Concerning Astonishing Atmospheres: Aisthesis, Aura, and Atmospheric Portfolio [Paperback]
Andreas Rauh (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771033
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Atmospheres are omnipresent and they are frequently used in everyday language. Yet, when do we perceive atmospheres and how can we explore them? The concept of atmosphere extends aesthetics to aisthesis and comprehends perception as a relation bou... .... Learn More -
The Public Sphere And The Populist Challenge [Paperback]
Walter Privitera (Author)
£10.00ISBN: 9788869771118
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
In the sixties and seventies, the public sphere in Western countries was a place of critique. Through their activism in the public sphere, various kinds of social movements democratised institutions and political culture. Today, neoliberal politic... .... Learn More
