878 títulos para "Manchester University Press"

Debating Civilizations

Smith, Jeremy C A

In Debating civilisations, Jeremy Smith offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. He suggests that civilisational analysis o...

Critical Theory and Epistemology

Marinopoulou, Anastasia

In this book, Anastasia Marinopoulou conducts a systematic comparison of modern epistemology and the epistemological concerns of the Frankfurt School, addressing phenomenology, structuralism and poststructuralism, modernism and postmodernism, systems theory and critical realism. Beginning with an e...

Security/Mobility

Security/Mobility brings together research that examines the political regulation of movement with research that engages the material enablers of and constraints on such movement. It bridges theoretical perspectives from critical security studies and political geography in order to provide a mo...

The Bbc's Irish Troubles

Savage, Robert J

This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. It focuses on the BBC and considers how its broadcasts complicated ‘the Troubles’ by challenging decisions, pol...

Critical Theory and Feeling

Mussell, Simon

In this book, Simon Mussell explores the crucial role played by feeling and affect within the early work of the Frankfurt School. Engaging with recent developments in the field of affect theory, he argues that critical theory has always had an affective politics at its heart. While one of the leadi...

Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university

Imaginatively educate. Theatrically investigate. Visually animate. Creatively resonate. Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa wh...

Enduring violence

Walker, Rebecca

Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author’s two-year close interaction with...

Living displacement

Celestina, Mateja

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their plight and how it shapes their everyday lives. It is based on ten months of fieldwork employing ethnographic methods working, living and sharing with the displaced and t...

Florence Nightingale

Goldie, Sue M.

The Black Death

HORROX, ROSE MARY

This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.

Tolerance, Regulation and Rescue

Pullan, Brian

Tolerance, regulation and rescue concerns the experiences of women and children living on the margins of mainstream society in the old Italian states. Both groups were deemed 'disreputable' - the women (including prostitutes and concubines) due to their being caught up in sexual relationships outsid...

Medicine, patients and the law

Brazier, Margaret / Cave, Emma

From embryo research, cloning and assisted conception to neonatal care, saviour siblings and organ transplants, the advancements of modern medicine have transformed the field almost beyond recognition. As the law struggles to keep up with the rate of change, legal claims against doctors and the NHS...