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  • Weaponizing Anthropology

    Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

    Serier serie Counterpunch
    The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. ... Læs mere

    108,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • The Violence of Organized Forgetting

    Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine

    Serier serie City Lights Open Media
    "Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is ... Læs mere

    106,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth

    Reform Beyond Electoral Politics

    Americas latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as “four fundamentalisms”: market deregulation, ... Læs mere

    80,74 kr.

  • Disposable Futures

    The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

    Serier serie City Lights Open Media
    "This is a must-read book for anyone ready to transcend fear and imagine a new reality."--TikkunDisposable Futures makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to violence, but rather, that we are being taught to desire it.From movies and other commercial entertainment to "extreme" weather and acts of terror, authors Brad Evans and Henry Giroux examine how a contemporary politics of ... Læs mere

    111,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Unfriendly Fire

    How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America

    When the "don't ask, don't tell" policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military's policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that "don't ask, don't tell" ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr.

  • International Security

    The Contemporary Agenda

    International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today.The ... Læs mere

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  • Gender, War, and Conflict

    af Laura Sjoberg ...
    Serier serie Gender and Global Politics
    From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare, but only recently have they been allowed to join state militaries, insurgent groups, and terrorist ... Læs mere

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  • Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism

    Giroux probes the depth and range of forces pushing the United States into a new form of authoritarianism, one that connects the Orwellian surveillance state with the forms of ideological control made famous by Aldous Huxley. Addressing how neoliberalism, or the new market fundamentalism, is shaping a range of registers from language and memory to youth and higher education, Giroux explores how ... Læs mere

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  • Shutting Down the Streets

    Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era

    Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace ... Læs mere

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  • The Imperial University

    Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

    Redigeret af Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira ...
    At colleges and universities throughout the United States, political protest and intellectual dissent are increasingly being met with repressive tactics by administrators, politicians, and the police—from the use of SWAT teams to disperse student protestors and the profiling of Muslim and Arab American students to the denial of tenure and dismissal of politically engaged faculty. The Imperial ... Læs mere

    170,99 kr.

  • Bring 'Em On

    Media and Politics in the Iraq War

    Serier serie Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... Læs mere

    357,24 kr.

  • Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change

    Redigeret af Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang ...
    Serier serie Critical Youth Studies
    Youth resistance has become a pressing global phenomenon, to which many educators and researchers have looked for inspiration and/or with chagrin. Although the topic of much discussion and debate, it remains dramatically under-theorized, particularly in terms of theories of change. Resistance has been a prominent concern of educational research for several decades, yet understandings of youth ... Læs mere

    599,14 kr.