Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (Thrift Nigel)(Paperback)

Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (Thrift Nigel)(Paperback)

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on

Killer Cities (Thrift Nigel)(Paperback)

Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of

Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily

Politics of Affect (Massumi Brian)(Paperback / softback)

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured

Politics of Traffic - A Local Route to Reduced Congestion (Keohane Nigel)(Paperback / softback)

Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical (Grant Roger Mathew)(Paperback)

Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and

An Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics (Quinn Riley)(Paperback)

Kenneth Waltz's 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a 'scientific revolution' in the study of international relations - bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning carefully and critically. Good reasoning is

An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory and Practice (Fox Jonathan)(Paperback)

Space, Politics and Aesthetics (Dike Mustafa)(Paperback)

Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranci�re, Space, Politics and Aesthetics reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds

Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Wainwright Joel)(Paperback)

How climate change will affect our political theory--for better and worse Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two

Politics of Public Space Volume 2 (Georgiou Myria)(Paperback / softback)

An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics (Jones Martin)(Paperback)

Our Place In Space - (White Non-fiction Early Reader)(Paperback / softback)

Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect (Ruti Mari)(Paperback)

Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (Frye Marilyn)(Paperback)

Politics of Reality includes essays that examine sexism, the exploitation of women, the gay rights movement and other topics from a feminist perspective. 'This is radical feminist theory at its best: clear, careful and critical.'--SIGNS 'For anyone first coming to feminism, these essays serve as a

Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics (Ripsman Norrin M.)(Paperback)

Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as major theoretical approach to the study of

English Language Teaching Materials: Theory and Practice (Harwood Nigel)(Paperback)

This volume presents a union of theoretical and practical pedagogical perspectives on materials design and development. This volume provides an incisive overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design,

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect,

Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (Harvey David)(Paperback)

Understanding Eyewitness Memory: Theory and Applications (Lane Sean M.)(Paperback)

An essential overview of how perception and memory affect eyewitness testimony In 1981, sixteen-year-old Michael Williams was convicted on charges of aggravated rape based on the victim's eyewitness testimony. No other evidence was found linking him to the attack. After nearly twenty-four years,

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Adams Carol J.)(Paperback)

The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of

Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Mortimer-Sandilands Catriona)(Paperback)

Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and 'gay' ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of

General Theory of Relativity (Dirac P. A. M.)(Paperback)

Einstein's general theory of relativity requires a curved space for the description of the physical world. If one wishes to go beyond superficial discussions of the physical relations involved, one needs to set up precise equations for handling curved space. The well-established mathematical

Alliance Politics (Snyder Glenn H.)(Paperback)

Glenn H. Snyder creates a theory of alliances by deductive reasoning about the international system, by integrating ideas from neorealism, coalition formation, bargaining, and game theory, and by empirical generalization from international history. Using cases from 1879 to 1914 to present a theory