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Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
How “drowned town” literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and “death train” narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as …
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- 9780262358736
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- 320.01
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications
Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain's telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the ris…
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- 9780262375528
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- 384
Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Sp…
Environmental management; marine; freshwater sciences
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781493934560
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- 891
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- 333.71 HER h
Justice and the Meritocratic State
Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve. Mulligan sets forth a theory of economic j…
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- 9781351980777, 9781315270005
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- 238
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- Political Philosophy for the Real World
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- 335 MUL j
Essays on Political Elites and Violence in Changing Political Orders of Middl…
"This research project addresses the question of how political elites’ behaviour varies when competition among them is heightened. Focusing on changing political orders across Africa and the Middle East, it seeks to understand how political elites facing internal and external challenges manipulate local power structures for political survival purposes, resulting in distinct political trajecto…
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- 221
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- 320 CAR e
Heathen Earth: Trumpism and Political Ecology
Heathen Earth: Trumpism and Political Ecology looks beyond the rising fortunes of authoritarian nationalism in a fossil-fueled late capitalist world to encounter its conditions. Trumpism represents an alternative to the forces undermining the very cosmology of the modern West from two opposing directions. The global economy, the pinnacle of modernization, has brought along a dark side of massiv…
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- 9780998531885
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- 158
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- 338.9 MCG h
Collective Actions in Europe: A Comparative, Economic and Transsystemic Analysis
This open access book offers an analytical presentation of how Europe has created its own version of collective actions. In the last three decades, Europe has seen a remarkable proliferation of collective action legislation, making class actions the most successful export product of the American legal scholarship. While its spread has been surrounded by distrust and suspiciousness, today more t…
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- 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Law
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- 346 NAG c
Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods: How to Protect the Global Civic B…
This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a …
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- 9783031135514, 9783031135514
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- 280
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- 320 BAK o
Africa and the North
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of ke…
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- 9780415333917; 9780415498869
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- New International Relations
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- 327 AFR a
Menneskelige(re) møter: om samhandling, fellesskap og empati mellom beboere …
"Humanizing Encounters is about the sense of community that exists between persons with dementia. This book is the outcome of a year of ethnographic fieldwork at the specialized dementia care units of two different long-term nursing facilities. Through participatory observation in these units, the author discerned the various ways residents interacted, collaborated and expressed care for each o…
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- 9788202727826, 9788202731533
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- 362.29 HIL m
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