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No Local
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

No Local

Can making things smaller make the world a better place? No Local takes a critical look at localism, an ideology that says small businesses, ethical shopping and community initiatives like gardens and farmers’ markets can stop corporate globalization. These small acts might make life better for some, but they don’t challenge the drive for profit that’s damaging our communities and the earth. No Local shows how localism’s fixation on small comes from an outdated economic model. Growth is built into capitalism. Small firms must play by the same rules as large ones, cutting costs, exploiting workers and damaging the environment. Localism doesn’t ask who controls production, allowing it to be co-opted by governments offloading social services onto the poor. At worst, localism becomes a strategy for neoliberal politics, not an alternative to it. No Local draws on political theory, history, philosophy and empirical evidence to argue that small isn’t always beautiful. Building a better world means creating local social movements that grow to challenge, not avoid, market priorities.

Actor Networks of Planning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Actor Networks of Planning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Planning is centrally focused on places which are significant to people, including both the built and natural environments. In making changes to these places, planning outcomes inevitably benefit some and disadvantage others. It is perhaps surprising that Actor Network Theory (ANT) has only recently been considered as an appropriate lens through which to understand planning practice. This book brings together an international range of contributors to explore such potential of ANT in more detail. While it can be thought of as a subset of complexity theory, given its appreciation for non-linear processes and responses, ANT has its roots in the sociology of scientific and technology studies. AN...

Dead Man’s Grave (DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 1)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Dead Man’s Grave (DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 1)

‘The best police procedural I’ve read in years’ Jane Casey ‘Grabbed me from the first page’ Ian Rankin

Black Rights/white Wrongs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Black Rights/white Wrongs

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons, yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as black sub-persons. In Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, political philosopher Charles Mills challenges mainstream accounts that ignore this history and its current legacy in the United States today.

American Atrocity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

American Atrocity

"Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, historian Guy Lancaster argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence"--

Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Race

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: Polity

Blending metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience, this text outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, engaging with the ideas of the leading figures in the field.

The Third Person
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

The Third Person

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-16
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  • Publisher: Polity

Roberto Esposito is one of leading figures in a new generation of Italian philosophers. This book criticizes the notion of the person and develops an original account of the concept of the impersonal - what he calls the third person

Neighborhood Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Neighborhood Secrets

Growing up in east Harlem In the 1950's was an experience unlike any other. The city blocks formed natural barriers- dividing space into what were affectionately known as "neighborhoods"- each with its own flavor and characters. Growing up in the neighborhood meant you knew everyone and everything that went on there. Loyalties were divided by what block you lived on and your education came from the street, where the "wise guys" were in charge of everything and outsiders were neither trusted no

Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife

Ever since Yvonne Frey married Henry Lancaster, she alone stayed in an empty house for three years.Just when she was on the verge of giving up, this man suddenly came back and said that he wanted to live together with her!“Mr. Lancaster… Should I prepare a guest room for you?”“What? So I’m only a guest to you?!” Henry gritted his teeth. Now, who was the dismissive one here?

Justice Perverted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Justice Perverted

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-14
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In 1975, Dr. Richard Charles Haefner had it all--a Ph.D. from Penn State University, a prestigious job offer with UCLA and a thriving family business. Then it all came crashing down. Two boys who worked for Haefner accused him of sexual molestation, but allegations of police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, bribery and corruption soon overshadowed what seemed like an "open-and-shut-case," ultimately resulting in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's amending state law. Drawing on interviews and recently discovered documents, the author revisits the case and explores a number of open questions--including whether Haefner was set up by police as he claimed.