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Free Download Maziyar Ghiabi, "Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South "
English | ISBN: 0367585189 | 2020 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1280 KB
More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had a tendency to look at the issue mostly in the Western hemisphere of the globe or to privilege Western narratives of drugs and drugs policy. This volume instead turns this approach upside down and makes an intellectual attempt to redefine the subject of drugs in the Global South. Opium, heroin, cannabis, hashish, methamphetamines and khat are among the drugs discussed in the contributions to the volume, which spans from Sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, including the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America and the Indian Subcontinent. The volume also makes a powerful case for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of drugs by juxtaposing the work of historians, political scientists, geographers, anthropologists and criminologists. Ultimately, this edited volume is a rich and diverse collection of new case studies, which opens up venues for further research.

Free Download Anthony Owen, "Power Interconnection in Southeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 1138388564 | 2019 | 148 pages | EPUB | 1076 KB
Providing an analysis of multilateral power markets, this book examines power interconnection in Southeast Asia, especially among the ASEAN countries.

Free Download Valencia Fonseca, "Power In Modern Societies"
English | ISBN: 0367284073 | 2019 | 328 pages | EPUB | 1258 KB
An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsen's Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state.

Free Download Donald W. Attwood, "Power And Poverty: Development And Development Projects In The Third World"
English | ISBN: 0367284065 | 2019 | 186 pages | EPUB | 656 KB
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved.

Free Download Ian Cummins, "Poverty, Inequality and Social Work: The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision"
English | ISBN: 1447334825 | 2018 | 200 pages | EPUB | 793 KB
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community approaches as the cornerstone of practice. Applying theoretical frameworks to practice, including those of Bourdieu and the recent work of Wacquant, the book examines the development of neoliberal ideas and their impact on social welfare. It explores the implications of this across a range of areas of social work practice, including work with children and families, working with asylum seekers and refugees and mental health social work.

Free Download David L. Harvey, "Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community"
English | ISBN: 1138530557 | 2017 | 336 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight with an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter Addition." The community consists of some 100 families and is located on the rural-urban fringe of a medium-sized Midwestern city.

Free Download Jerome C Branche, "Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic "
English | ISBN: 1138061476 | 2018 | 294 pages | EPUB | 1496 KB
Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery.

Free Download Arpad Szakolczai, "Post-Truth Society "
English | ISBN: 1032126450 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB | 468 KB
It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land - an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.

Free Download Post-Subjectivity By Christoph Schmidt, Merav Mack, Andy R. German
2014 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 1443856746 | PDF | 2 MB
Modern thinkers have often declared the end, or even the death, of the subject and have been searching for new ways of being a self. Indeed, many contemporary scholars regard this search as one of the most significant effects of the general crisis of secularity. Post-Subjectivity is a contribution to that search, conducted with a renewed attention to the centrality of religion, in a pluralistic and global context. This volume of essays guides the reader through, but also beyond, the crises of modernity and postmodernity, toward an attempt to resurrect the subject in new forms. The volume resonates with voices from across the humanistic disciplines: the theological turn in recent phenomenology, new directions in Christian and Jewish theology, and reappraisals of figures in the history of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the study of sexuality all are represented in an attempt to rethink, from the beginning, what it is to be a self.

Free Download Lin Xiang, "Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism: Seeking Radical Change in America"
English | ISBN: 0367355558 | 2020 | 194 pages | EPUB | 883 KB
This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public culture. With a focus on essays that appeared in Dissent magazine―one of the most important journals of the New York intellectuals―from the year of its launch in 1954 to its most recent issue, as well as representative books on American culture by Daniel Bell and Russell Jacoby, the author contends that post-Sixties narratives constitute a special paradigm of cultural criticism that seek radical possibilities for societal change in the US, based on a use of the 1960s as an index for understanding American cultural and political life. A study of the ways in which narratives can move beyond story-telling to have interpretative and ideological functions as a form of criticism, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural studies and sociology, as well as those working in the fields of linguistics and literary theory.