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Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth

Author : Ekaterina Chertkovskaya
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786608979
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth by : Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

Download or read book Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth written by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities. In the past decade, degrowth has gained momentum and become an umbrella term for various social movements which strive for ecologically sustainable and socially just alternatives that would transform the world we live in. How to move forward in an informed way, without reproducing the existing hierarchies and injustices? How not to end up in a situation when ecological sustainability is the prerogative of the privileged, direct democracy is ignorant of environmental issues, and localisation of production is xenophobic? These are some of the questions that have inspired this edited collection. Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.

Toward a Political Economy of the Commons

Author : Cai, Meina
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800374321
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Political Economy of the Commons written by Cai, Meina and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global environment.

Towards a Cultural Political Economy

Author : Ngai-Ling Sum
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857930710
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a Cultural Political Economy by : Ngai-Ling Sum

Download or read book Towards a Cultural Political Economy written by Ngai-Ling Sum and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can deepen critical s

Cultural Studies and Political Economy

Author : Robert E. Babe
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739131982
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Studies and Political Economy by : Robert E. Babe

Download or read book Cultural Studies and Political Economy written by Robert E. Babe and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Drawing on the works of Harold Innis, Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, and other major theorists in the two fields, Robert E. Babe shows that political economy can be reconciled to certain aspects of cultural studies, particularly with regards to cultural materialism. Uniting the two fields has proven to be a complex undertaking though it makes practical sense, given the close interaction between political economy and cultural studies. Babe examines the evolution of cultural studies over time and its changing relationship with political economy. The intersections between the two fields center around three subjects: the cultural biases of money, the time/space dialectic, and the dialectic of information.

The Political Economy of Communication

Author : Vincent Mosco
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Communication by : Vincent Mosco

Download or read book The Political Economy of Communication written by Vincent Mosco and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1996-10-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is political economy and how can it be applied to the study of media communication? The Political Economy of Communication is the definitive critical overview of the discipline for students of the social sciences. It explains in detail the analytic tools that political economy can apply to today's increasingly global and technological information society. Mosco presents an historical overview of the discipline and defines political economy by its focus on the relation between the production, distribution and consumption of communication in historical and cultural context. This comprehensive analysis of the 'commodity form' is communication includes an examination of print, broadcast and new electronic media, the role and function of the audience, and the problem of social control. It concludes by addressing the relationship of political economy to the increasingly important fields of policy studies and cultural studies.

Towards a New Political Economy of Development

Author : G. Strange
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137277378
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a New Political Economy of Development by : G. Strange

Download or read book Towards a New Political Economy of Development written by G. Strange and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines new development strategies in the context of globalisation and the crisis of the Washington Consensus. Critiquing both protectionism and the free market he points to the influence and evolution of Keynesian ideas for the management and stabilisation of development in an era marked by the unravelling of neoliberal prosperity.

Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015

Author : Marko Bojcun
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213688
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015 by : Marko Bojcun

Download or read book Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015 written by Marko Bojcun and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book explore the major developments, both domestic and international, that shaped the first quarter-century of Ukraine’s independence: the simultaneous construction of a nation-state and the privatization of its economy; a formal democratization of the political process alongside the capture of state institutions by big business oligarchs; their efforts to gain social acceptance at home while maneuvering between competing Russian, EU, and American projects to hegemonize the region; the impact of the financial crises of 1997 and 2008 on Ukrainian society and the national economy’s place in the world market; the growing inequality of society, the mass revolts in 2004 and 2014 against corruption and injustice; and the beginning of Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images

Author : Terry Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839990007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images by : Terry Smith

Download or read book Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images written by Terry Smith and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and private imaginaries, such imagery also operates according to its own logic, potentialities, and limitations. This book explores viral imagery--the iconopolitics--of the pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a "black aesthetic" in white artworlds. Having arrived at the term "iconomy" in the years just prior to 9/11, and tracking its growing relevance since then, Smith argues that its study does not require a discipline serving nation states and globalizing capitalism but, instead, a deconstructive interdiscipline that contributes to the politics of planetary world-making.

Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence

Author : Tugrul Keskin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030744229
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (442 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence by : Tugrul Keskin

Download or read book Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence written by Tugrul Keskin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-07-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to leverage academic interdisciplinarity to develop insight into how Artificial intelligence (AI), the latest GPT to emerge, may influence or radically change socio-political norms, practices, and institutions. AI may best be understood as a predictive technology. “Prediction is the process of filling in missing information. Prediction takes information you have, often called ‘data’, and uses it to generate information you don’t have” (Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb 2018, 13; also see Mayer-Schonberger and Ramge 2018). AI makes prediction cheap because the cost of information is now close to zero. Cheap prediction through AI technologies are radically altering how we govern ourselves, interact with each other, and sustain society. Contributors to this volume represent the academic disciplines of Sociology and Political Science working within a diverse set of intra-disciplinary fields that when combined, yield novel insights into the following questions guiding this volume: How might AI transform people? How might AI transform socio-political practices? How might AI transform socio-political institutions?

Global Communications

Author : Paula Chakravartty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780742540446
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Communications by : Paula Chakravartty

Download or read book Global Communications written by Paula Chakravartty and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwidge Danticat's short story from Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special," was included in Ms. Magazine's Fall 2013 issue. Praise for the original Haiti Noir: "Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture and resilience that is cause for celebration." —Publishers Weekly "This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait of the real Haiti not seen on the evening news and introduce them to some original and wonderful writers." —Library Journal "While the publisher defines the term 'noir' broadly—requiring sinister tales or crime stories that evoke a strong sense of place and do not have happy endings—the Haiti book offers its own spin with plenty of grisly crime, dire poverty, and references to magic and religion. There is also some tenderness." —The New York Times Classic stories by: Danielle Legros Georges, Jacques Roumain, Ida Faubert, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Jan J. Dominique, Paulette Poujol Oriol, Lyonel Trouillot, Emmelie Prophète, Ben Fountain, Dany Laferrière, Georges Anglade, Edwidge Danticat, Michèle Voltaire Marcelin, Èzili Dantò, Marie-Hélène Laforest, Nick Stone, Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, Myriam J.A. Chancey, and Roxane Gay. The original best-selling Haiti Noir comprised all-new stories by today's best Haitian authors. This new volume collects the true classics of Haitian literature—both short stories and excerpts from longer works—and will be an integral piece of understanding how Haitian culture has evolved over the past fifty years. Editor Edwidge Danticat, one of the most respected Haitian writers, has a well-deserved sterling reputation, and here she follows on the success of the original first volume.

A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism

Author : Peter Doran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317743415
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism by : Peter Doran

Download or read book A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism written by Peter Doran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices. This has far-reaching implications for our psychological, physical and spiritual well-being, and ultimately for our global ecology. In this consumer age, the underlying teachings of Buddhist mindfulness offer more than individual well-being and resilience. They also offer new sources of critical inquiry into our collective condition, and may point, in time, to regulatory initiatives in the field of well-being. This book draws together lively debates from the new economics of transition, commons and well-being, consumerism, and the emerging role of mindfulness in popular culture. Engaged Buddhist practices and teachings correspond closely to insights in contemporary political philosophical investigations into the nature of power, notably by Michel Foucault. The 'attention economy' can be understood as a new arena of struggle in our age of neoliberal governmentality; as the forces of enclosure – having colonized forests, land and the bodies of workers – are now extended to the realm of our minds and subjectivity. This poses questions about the recovery of the 'mindful commons': the practices we must cultivate to reclaim our attention, time and lives from the forces of capitalization. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental philosophy, environmental psychology, environmental sociology, well-being and new economics, political economy, environmental politics, the commons and law, as well as Buddhist theory and philosophy.

Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture

Author : William H Friedland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000009459
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture written by William H Friedland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture. The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture. Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward a basis for reassessing and restating the intellectual framework of agriculture.

Dimensions of Prejudice

Author : Zak Cope
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039114238
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Prejudice written by Zak Cope and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that unreasonable dogmatic beliefs are expressions of socially structured patterns of prejudice. Specifically, prejudice is explained as being produced and dispersed within the confines of the political structures governing the manner in which material human needs are created and met. Classifying various dimensions of prejudice (philosophical, epistemological, psychological, sociological, political, and cultural), the book conceptualises the relation between dogmatic thinking and these facets of human existence. Criticising and comparing a wide range of theories and factual data relating to the growth and expression of prejudice, the book is a theoretical discussion of problems surrounding the production of cultural norms, the psychological effects of filial systems and relations between the sexes, the constitution of modern capitalist society, and elementary principles of political democracy. Drawing on feminism, whiteness studies, Marxist theories of racism and imperialism, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and cultural studies, the author examines the constraints placed upon individuals', groups', and nations' propensity for scientific and rational thinking.

Political Economy of Media Industries

Author : Randy Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429890443
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Political Economy of Media Industries written by Randy Nichols and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical political economic examination of the impact of increasingly concentrated global media industries. It addresses different media and communication industries from around the globe, including film, television, music, journalism, telecommunication, and information industries. The authors use case studies to examine how changing methods of production and distribution are impacting a variety of issues including globalization, environmental devastation, and the shifting role of the State. This collection finds communication at a historical moment in which capitalist control of media and communication is the default status and, so, because of the increasing levels of concentration globally allows those in control to define the default ideological status. In turn, these concentrated media forces are deployed under the guise of entertainment but with a mind towards further concentration and control of the media apparatuses many times in convergence with others

Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory

Author : Petr Špecián
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000598543
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory by : Petr Špecián

Download or read book Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory written by Petr Špecián and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality. With the ongoing transition of democracy’s underlying information economy into the digital space, threats of disinformation and runaway political polarization have been gaining prominence. Employing the economic approach informed by behavioral sciences’ findings, the book’s chief concern is how these challenges can be addressed while preserving a commitment to democratic values and maximizing the epistemic benefits of democratic decision-making. The book has two key strands: it provides a systematic argument for building a behaviorally informed theory of democracy; and it examines how scientific knowledge on quirks and bounds of human rationality can inform the design of resilient democratic institutions. Drawing these together, the book explores the centrality of the rationality assumption in the methodological debates surrounding behavioral sciences as exemplified by the dispute between neoclassical and behavioral economics; the role of (ir)rationality in democratic social choice; behaviorally informed paternalism as a response to the challenge of irrationality; and non-paternalistic avenues to increase the resilience of the democratic institutions toward political irrationality. This book is invaluable reading for anyone interested in behavioral economics and sciences, political philosophy, and the future of democracy.

Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour

Author : Dr Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317827368
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour written by Dr Tom Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is greater than supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce.

Reconstructing Urban Economics

Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783606622
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Urban Economics by : Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Download or read book Reconstructing Urban Economics written by Franklin Obeng-Odoom and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities and regions in built-environment economics. In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom draws on institutional, Georgist and Marxist economics to clearly but comprehensively show what the key issues are today in thinking about urban economics. In doing so, he demonstrates the widespread tensions and contradictions in the status quo, showing how to reconstruct urban economics in order to create a more just society and environment.