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Change and the politics of certainty

Author : Jenny Edkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119048
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Change and the politics of certainty written by Jenny Edkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. How do we transform the world when we are ourselves inescapably part of it? If we cannot know what makes the world the way it is, or what impact our actions will have, where do we begin? Renowned politics scholar Jenny Edkins explores the imperative for change in a world filled with inequality, violence, persecution, and injustice - and the difficulties faced in bringing it about. Over the course of ten chapters Change and the politics of certainty examines our varied responses to questions such as aid in times of famine; opposition to the Iraq War; humanitarian intervention; the memorialisation of 9/11; enforced disappearance; and calls for justice after the Grenfell Tower fire. Drawing on insights from the author’s life and on the work of playwrights and filmmakers, the book interrogates the ideas of thinkers including Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Eric Santner, Elaine Scarry, Carolyn Steedman and Slavoj Žižek. Tackling themes such as the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time and space, and ideas of humanity and sentience, this accessible book is essential reading for all who strive for a better world.

The End of Certainty

Author : Paul Kelly
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741754984
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The End of Certainty written by Paul Kelly and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, invigorating analysis of the decade that revolutionised Australian politics - the 1980s.

Apostles of Certainty

Author : C.W. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190492368
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Apostles of Certainty written by C.W. Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From data-rich infographics to 140 character tweets and activist cell phone photos taken at political protests, 21st century journalism is awash in new ways to report, display, and distribute the news. Computational journalism, in particular, has been the object of recent scholarly and industry attention as large datasets, powerful algorithms, and growing technological capacity at news organizations seemingly empower journalists and editors to report the news in creative ways. Can journalists use data--along with other forms of quantified information such as paper documents of figures, data visualizations, and charts and graphs--in order to produce better journalism? In this book, C.W. Anderson traces the genealogy of data journalism and its material and technological underpinnings, arguing that the use of data in news reporting is inevitably intertwined with national politics, the evolution of computable databases, and the history of professional scientific fields. It is impossible to understand journalistic uses of data, Anderson argues, without understanding the oft-contentious relationship between social science and journalism. It is also impossible to disentangle empirical forms of public truth telling without first understanding the remarkably persistent Progressive belief that the publication of empirically verifiable information will lead to a more just and prosperous world. Anderson considers various types of evidence (documents, interviews, informational graphics, surveys, databases, variables, and algorithms) and the ways these objects have been used through four different eras in American journalism (the Progressive Era, the interpretive journalism movement of the 1930s, the invention of so-called "precision journalism," and today's computational journalistic moment) to pinpoint what counts as empirical knowledge in news reporting. Ultimately the book shows how the changes in these specifically journalistic understandings of evidence can help us think through the current "digital data moment" in ways that go beyond simply journalism.

The Pursuit of Certainty

Author : Shirley Robin Letwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865971943
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Certainty written by Shirley Robin Letwin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the thought of four seminal thinkers, Shirley Robin Letwin in The Pursuit of Certainty provides a brilliant record of the gradual change in the English-speaking peoples' understanding of "what sort of activity politics is." As Letwin writes, "the distinctive political issue since the eighteenth century has been whether government should do more or less." Nor, as many historians argue, did this issue arise because of the Industrial Revolution or "new social conditions [that] aggravated the problem of poverty" but, Letwin believes, because of the "profoundly personal reflection" of major thinkers, including Hume, Bentham, Mill, and Webb. David Hume, for example, believed that to "reach for perfection, to seek an ideal, is noble, but dangerous, and is therefore an activity that individuals or voluntary groups may pursue, but governments certainly should not." By the end of the nineteenth century, as Letwin observes, Beatrice Webb came to "equate the triumph of reason over passion with the rule of science over human life." Thus did the "pursuit of certainty" displace the traditional English understanding of the limitations of human nature--hence the necessity of limits to governmental power and programs. Consequently, in our time, "Politics was no longer one of several human activities and at that not a very noble one; it encompassed all of human life" in quest of philosophical "certainty" and social perfection. The Liberty Fund edition is a reprint of the original work published by Oxford in 1965. Shirley Robin Letwin (1924-1993) was a Professor of Political and Legal Philosophy at Harvard, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

The End of Certainty

Author : Ilya Prigogine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684837056
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The End of Certainty written by Ilya Prigogine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-08-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine discusses the irreversibility of time and his findings impact on the laws of physics.

The Certainty of Uncertainty

Author : Mark A. Schaefer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153265345X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Certainty of Uncertainty written by Mark A. Schaefer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life's problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty explores the question of certainty by looking at the reasons human beings crave certainty and the religious responses we frequently fashion to help meet that need. The book takes an in-depth view of religion, language, our senses, our science, and our world to explore the inescapable uncertainties they reveal. We find that the certainty we crave does not exist. As we reflect on the unavoidable uncertainties in our world, we come to understand that letting go of certainty is not only necessary, it's beneficial. For, in embracing doubt and uncertainty, we find a more meaningful and courageous religious faith, a deeper encounter with mystery, and a way to build strong relationships across religious and philosophical lines. In The Certainty of Uncertainty, we see that embracing our belief systems with humility and uncertainty can be transformative for ourselves and for our world.

The Politics of Certainty

Author : Phillip Voight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Certainty written by Phillip Voight and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pursuit of Certainty in Modern Politics ...

Author : James Minor Nickell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Certainty in Modern Politics ... written by James Minor Nickell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Formal Models of Domestic Politics

Author : Scott Gehlbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482066
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Formal Models of Domestic Politics written by Scott Gehlbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible treatment of important formal models of domestic politics, fully updated and now including a chapter on nondemocracy.

Absolute Certainty

Author : Rose Connors
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743233662
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Absolute Certainty written by Rose Connors and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Connors's Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning legal thriller follows Assistant DA Marty Nickerson as she investigates a serial murder in a small Cape Cod town. As an assistant D for Massachusetts's Barnstable County, Marty Nickerson sees her job as a means for doing right. When a jury finds Manuel Rodriguez guilty of a brutal murder committed on a Cape Cod beach at the beginning of last year's tourist season, Marty feels vindicated. But then another body turns up as this year's vacationers begin to arrive and Marty has to wonder: Did they target the wrong man? The DA refuses to reopen the high-profile case, but Marty fears that the real killer will strike again. With her career on the line and lives at stake, she must rely on her own moral compass, legal savvy, and gut instinct as she matches wits with a twisted killer.

Dead Certainty

Author : Jennifer Louise Culbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Certainty written by Jennifer Louise Culbert and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death penalty. Instead, Dead Certainty contributes to a larger project in contemporary political and legal philosophy: re-imagining how people in today's world give coherence and meaning to their shared experience. Culbert's work will be of interest to scholars of political theory, jurisprudence, law and society, rhetoric, continental philosophy, and ethics.

The Politics of Uncertainty

Author : Ian Scoones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000163407
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Uncertainty written by Ian Scoones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion. The book argues that uncertainties must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge, materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. Examining in particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability and development are not just technical issues, but depend deeply on political values and choices. What burgeoning uncertainties require lies less in escalating efforts at control, but more in a new – more collective, mutualistic and convivial – politics of responsibility and care. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformation are to be realised, then currently blinkered understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed democratic struggle. Written in an accessible style and illustrated by multiple case studies from across the world, this book will appeal to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in fields ranging from economics to law to science studies to sociology to anthropology and geography, as well as professionals working in risk management, disaster risk reduction, emergencies and wider public policy fields.

The Feeling of Certainty

Author : Nikolay Mintchev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319577174
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Feeling of Certainty written by Nikolay Mintchev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of certainty, a term which is widely used in everyday language to designate a psychological experience or feeling but is rarely considered controversial or politically charged. The Feeling of Certainty argues that conversely this most ordinary of feelings plays a key role in shaping identity formation, social exclusion, prejudice, and commitment to political causes. The authors question what it means for the subject to feel certainty about her or his relationships to self and others. From where does the feeling of certainty originate, and how does it differ from modes of thought that are open to scepticism about the order of things? They draw on a wide range of theories, including those of Freud, Klein, Lacan, Wittgenstein, Bion, and Jung, challenging readers to consider the world of ideologies, symbols, and stereotypes in which certainty is entrenched, as well as the inter- and intra-psychic processes and defence mechanisms which form the unconscious foundation of the experience of certainty. This collection will offer valuable insight to scholars of psychology, politics, social science and history.

QUARTERLY ESSAY 79 THE END OF CERTAINTY

Author : KATHARINE. MURPHY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369354648
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book QUARTERLY ESSAY 79 THE END OF CERTAINTY written by KATHARINE. MURPHY and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pursuit of Certainty

Author : Wendy James
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415107907
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Certainty written by Wendy James and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.

A Modest Certainty

Author : Frank D. Schubert
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761858989
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A Modest Certainty written by Frank D. Schubert and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central problem of philosophy is the problem of certainty. What does it mean to be sure? Are there ideas beyond the possibility of error or refutation? What does it mean for a notion to be incorrigible? In this book, Frank D. Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. Schubert proposes a common standard for assessing certainty — the certainty of knowing one’s own personal proper name — as a standard that can establish common ground within each widely disparate area. The result is a new “philosophy in a grand manner” and a powerful ethical proposal for our time.

Requiem for the Politics of Certainty

Author : Colin Koopman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780494282335
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Requiem for the Politics of Certainty written by Colin Koopman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning to contemporary political theory, Requiem argues that liberal theory and practice is the upshot of purification while a fuller and deeper conception of democracy is the upshot of experimentation. It is shown that quintessential liberal theorists (J.S. Mill, Richard Rorty, F.A. Hayek, John Rawls) and practitioners (Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson) rely heavily on the purifying strategies of a politics of certainty. Locating the quest for certainty and the longing for purity at the heart of these liberalisms, Requiem argues that a liberal framework is increasingly ineffectual toward resolving contemporary political problems. Instead, a more ethical conception of democratic practice is required. Discerning the lineaments of this conception in feminist theory and practice, it is developed in greater detail on the basis of the thought and life of the American pragmatists William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.