Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin (eds.): Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2002)

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media–film, television, video–are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media.

Publisher University of California Press, 2002
ISBN 0520224485, 9780520224483
413 pages

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Damian F. White: Bookchin. A Critical Appraisal (2008)

This is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Murray Bookchin, the left-libertarian social theorist and political ecologist who is widely regarded as the visionary precursor of anti-corporate politics. Bookchin’s writing spans fifty years and engages with a wide variety of issues: from ecology to urban planning, from environmental ethics to debates about radical democracy. Weaving insights from Hegel and Marx, Kropotkin and Mumford, Bookchin presents a critical theory whose central utopian message is ‘things could be other than they are’. This accessible introduction maps the evolution of Bookchin’s project. It traces his controversial engagements with Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, postmodernism and eco-centric thought. It evaluates his attempt to develop a social ecology. Finally, it considers how his thinking relates to current debates in social theory and environmentalism, critical theory and philosophy, political ecology and urban theory. Offering a clear account of Bookchin’s key themes, this book provides a critical but sympathetic account of the strengths and weaknesses of Bookchin’s writing.

Publisher Pluto Press, 2008
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Jul 17, 2009
ISBN 0745319645, 9780745319643
Length 236 pages

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Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944–) [EN, IT, CR, ES, BR-PT, LT, GR, PT, CN]

“In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the “great transformation” of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi’s seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.”

Keywords and phrases: fascism, gold standard, Concert of Europe, economic liberalism, market economy, protectionism, laissez-faire, Industrial Revolution, Statute of Artificers, nomic, commodity money, Chartist, trade unions, token money, Adam Smith, Robert Owen, labor power, economic system, outdoor relief.

English, 2nd edition
Foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
With a New Introduction by Fred Block
Publisher Beacon Press, 2001
ISBN 080705643X, 9780807056431
317 pages

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The Great Transformation (English, 2nd ed., 1944/2001, 21 MB, updated on 2021-10-30)
La grande trasformazione (Italian, trans. Roberto Vigevani, 1974, added on 2021-10-30)
Velika preobrazba (Croatian, trans. Luka Marković, 1999, added on 2021-10-30)
La gran transformación (Spanish, trans. Julia Várela and Fernando Álvarez-Uría, 2000, added on 2021-10-30)
A Grande Transformação (BR-Portuguese, trans. Fanny Wrabel, 2nd ed., 2000, added on 2021-10-30)
Didžioji transformacija (Lithuanian, trans. Jūratė Musteikytėir and Rimantas Grikienis, 2002, added on 2021-10-30)
Ο μεγάλος μετασχηματισμός (Greek, trans. Κώστας Γαγανάκης, 2007, added on 2021-10-30)
A Grande Transformação (Portuguese, trans. Miguel Serras Pereira, 2012, EPUB, added on 2021-10-30)
Ju bian (Chinese, trans. Shumin Huang, 2013, added on 2021-10-30)