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Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch. Written for a broad audience, this accessib...

Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch. Written for a broad audience, this accessib...

Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to t...

Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to t...

This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse understanding of se...

This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse understanding of se...

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. ...

Navalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel – in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state – has enthralled readers and writers fo...

Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to ...

Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to ...

Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have been reversing into the future. Introduction. 1. From the Social State to the Capital Stat...

A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern s...

A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern s...

The desire to be recognized is a basic human trait. In contemporary society, social media platforms play a key role in defining how processes of re...

The desire to be recognized is a basic human trait. In contemporary society, social media platforms play a key role in defining how processes of re...

In this volume leading feminist theorists re-think the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and concerns regar...

In this volume leading feminist theorists re-think the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and concerns regar...

What experiences do women have when they come to identify themselves as lesbian? What happens when they consider telling family and friends about t...

Refiguring in Black is a meditation on black life, and a meditation on the questions and concerns with which black life is confronted. It takes the...

Refiguring in Black is a meditation on black life, and a meditation on the questions and concerns with which black life is confronted. It takes the...

This book provides a valuable insight into the work and life of Norber Elias - one of the most important social thinkers of the twentieth century. ...

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of ‘the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scien...

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of ‘the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scien...

This new book from Antonio Negri, one of the most influential political thinkers writing today, provides a concise and accessible introduction to t...