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  • The Politics of Adoption

    Gender and the Making of French Citizenship

    av Bruno Perreau ...
    Översatt av Deke Dusinberre ...
    Serie serie Basic Bioethics
    An argument that French adoption policies reflect and enforce the state's notions of gender, parenthood, and citizenship.In May 2013, after months of controversy, France legalized same-sex marriage and adoption by homosexual couples. Obstacles to adoption and parenting equality remain, however—many of them in the form of cultural and political norms reflected and expressed in French adoption ... Läs mer

    230,86 kr

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  • On Critique

    A Sociology of Emancipation

    av Luc Boltanski ...
    The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in ... Läs mer

    169,38 kr

  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    Serie Bok 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Läs mer

    327,21 kr

  • The Making of Law

    An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat

    av Bruno Latour ...
    In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case study is the daily practice of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d’Etat, specialized in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords ... Läs mer

    232,77 kr

  • Gender and the Politics of History

    Serie serie Gender and Culture Series
    This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to ... Läs mer

    271,35 kr

  • Democratic Legitimacy

    Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity

    Översatt av Arthur Goldhammer ...
    It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied ... Läs mer

    409,57 kr

  • The Society of Equals

    Översatt av Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Läs mer

    369,08 kr

  • From Revolution to Ethics

    May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought

    av Julian Bourg ...
    The French revolts of May 1968, the largest general strike in twentieth-century Europe, were among the most famous and colourful episodes of the twentieth century. Julian Bourg argues that during the subsequent decade the revolts led to a remarkable paradigm shift in French thought - the concern for revolution in the 1960s was transformed into a fascination with ethics. Challenging the prevalent ... Läs mer

    256,51 kr

  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    Översatt av Gregory Elliott ...
    In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism ... Läs mer

    114,58 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Free and French in the Caribbean

    Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition

    Serie serie Blacks in the Diaspora
    "All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature."—Daniel Desormeaux, University of ChicagoIn Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the ... Läs mer

    97,09 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Good Government

    Democracy beyond Elections

    Översatt av Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the ... Läs mer

    377,46 kr

  • The Bureaucrat and the Poor

    Encounters in French Welfare Offices

    Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration, The Bureaucrat and the Poor provides a realistic view of French welfare policies, institutions and reforms and, in doing so, dispels both of ... Läs mer

    681,67 kr