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How historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. Investigates the digital signatures of the "new civil rights movement" that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter.
Drawing on empirical research, this detailed account is a vital step in understanding the links between global discourses on human mobilities, climate change and specific policy responses.
Under the guise of liberalism, a regressive men’s rights movement of transgender politics is posing a threat to the human rights of women and children. In a reversal of feminist gender critical analyses, sex and gender are redefined: identity is now called innate (a feeling located somewhere in the body) and biological sex is said to be socially constructed (and hence changeable).
Fasman journeys from the US to London — one of the most heavily surveilled cities on earth — to China and beyond, to expose the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the state uses surveillance technology.
A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous. We need to think about meat-eating in ways beyond Paleo diets and PETA protests to address the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans and animals past, present, and future.
This two-volume handbook takes stock of the state of social theory, exploring such topics as the nature, purpose, and meaning of social theory, the significance of the classics and the impact of specific individual and theory schools. It explores the contemporary relevance of theories in a manner that is historically situated and sensitive
