A church in deep debt with attendance down by the thousands. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. A university facing lawsuits, scandal, and near-bankruptcy. Each situation involved different financial needs, differ[...]
Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable gro[...]
Updated edition of the cutting edge text which invites students to reflect on new forms of postmodern life, and the role of culture in society.[...]
The 2011 revolution in Egypt was revolutionary far beyond regime change in Cairo. It may be considered our first view of what a civil, egalitarian society in the Middle East might look like in the age of Twitter, YouTube and instant global media.
Using international news reports and translations[...]
The war on Iraq didn't begin with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe, and it didn't end with George W. Bush's made-for-TV aircraft landing. Undetected by the mainstream press, the US campaign against Iraq began many years before, featuring cruel sanctions, weekly bombardments, and assassinatio[...]
"Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be well-advised not to read this book. They may discover that they are right."--Noam Chomsky"Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank have skillfully smoked out the real Barack Obama . . . the technofascist military strategist disgui[...]
Statens avtal med Samhall slopas!
Föreslår en ny modell för stöd åt personer med nedsatt arbetsförmåga p.g.a. funktionsnedsättning, som ska riktas till alla arbetsgivare, inklusive Samhall. Dagens modell för ersättning till Samhall för merkostnader avskaffas, liksom statens år[...]
Jeffrey C. Alexander förespråkar en ?kulturell sociologi?. Utgångspunkten är att samhälleliga institutioner och sociala handlingar alltid är inbäddade i meningssammanhang. Mening är alltid där. Den finns där som en symbolisk struktur i vår yttre miljö som vi inte alltid är medvetna om. [...]