Harvey seeks to breathe life into the idea and practicability of Utopia. He unites the discourses of the body and globalization to explain how and why the notion that there is no alternative to inequality and injustice now dominates politics and ideology.
This new edition of this classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology includes an introduction published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community study of tense relations between an established group and outsiders becomes a micr…
Breaking away from traditional analyses of social evolution as a response to ecological constraints, this book shows that social systems are maintained and transformed through self-interest. It draws on a range of ethnographic case studies to show how language and increased cogn…
"Rethinking Social Evolution is a wide-ranging exploration of how language and increased cognitive abilities constitute the motor of social evolution. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic case studies, Jerome Rousseau offers a better understanding of how modern societies cont…
"Rethinking Social Evolution is a wide-ranging exploration of how language and increased cognitive abilities constitute the motor of social evolution. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic case studies, Jerome Rousseau offers a better understanding of how modern societies cont…
This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international …