"Some eminent nineteenth-century intellectuals such as Karl Marx and August Comte predicted the imminent demise of religion as modern science and technology transformed human consciousness. Religion has not only refused to die but, on the contrary, has staged a phenomenal resurg…
Media and social justice
by Pooley, Jefferson, Jansen, Sue Curry, Taub-Pervizpour, Lora
Preface - Craig Calhoun * Introduction - Sue Curry Jansen * Part I: Challenges * Media and Democracy: Some Missing Links - Nick Couldry * The Right to be Heard and the Urgency and Pleasure of Listening - Cees Hamelink * From 'the Means of Molding Opinion' to 'Media Justice': Shi…
Just democracy: the Rawls-Machiavelli programme
In this book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged f…
"Demokratische Systeme sind auch dann, wenn sie den grundrechtlichen Forderungen politischer Gerechtigkeit genügen, kritikwürdig und reformbedürftig, solange es ihnen nicht gelingt, allen Bürgern gerechte Anteile an den gesellschaftlich produzierten Reichtümern zu sichern." Bei …
'Critical Globalization Studies' is a comprehensive critical volume on globalisation that balances both theory and practice. It includes pieces on contemporary globalisation theory as well as accounts of globalisation on the ground.
"This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up pro…
"Presented are a series of linked cases that explore the judicial response to public demonstrations by early twentieth-century workers, and comparable legal issues surrounding anti-abortion protests today; the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley; an…
"Presented are a series of linked cases that explore the judicial response to public demonstrations by early twentieth-century workers, and comparable legal issues surrounding anti-abortion protests today; the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley; an…
