Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta (eds.): The Anthropology of the State: A Reader (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, bureaucracy, democracy, economy, feminism, governmentality, ideology, immigration, labour, neoliberalism, politics, power, production, society, state
This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of “the state”.
– Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the “state”.
– Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.
– Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.
Publisher Blackwell Publishing, 2006
ISBN 1405114681, 9781405114684
424 pages
Mary Joyce (ed.): Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, internet, labour, media activism, politics, social movements, society, technology, web
Citizens around the world are using digital technologies to push for social and political change. Yet, while stories have been published, discussed, extolled, and derided, the underlying mechanics of digital activism are little understood. This new field, its dynamics, practices, misconceptions, and possible futures are presented together for the first time in Digital Activism Decoded.
With contributions by Trebor Scholz, Dan Schultz and Andreas Jungherr, Brannon Cullum, Katharine Brodock, Tom Glaisyer, Anastasia Kavada, Tim Hwang, Steven Murdoch, Dave Karpf, Simon Columbus, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Sem Devillart, Brian Waniewski
Preface and Introduction by Mary Joyce
Published by International Debate Education Association, New York & Amsterdam, 2010
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License US 3.0
ISBN 9781932716603
240 pages
interview (Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb)
Comment (0)Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968/2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical consciousness, critical pedagogy, democracy, education, pedagogy, society
“The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire’s work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire’s life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.”
Originally published in Portuguese in 1968; First English edition in 1970
Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos
With an Introduction by Donaldo Macedo
30th Anniversary Edition
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, 2000
ISBN 0826412769, 9780826412768
183 pages
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