Tag: Contradictions

Free Download Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite"
English | ISBN: 0691232601 | 2024 | 432 pages | PDF | 22 MB
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status-without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged

Free Download The Contradictions of Media Power By Des Freedman
2014 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1849660697 | PDF | 2 MB
Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are ‘powerful’; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this ‘power’ is somehow problematic; audiences are often treated as highly susceptible to media influence and too much ‘power’ in the hands of one organization or individual is seen as risky and potentially dangerous. These concerns have been at the heart of recent controversies involving the relationships between media moguls and political elites, the consequences of phone hacking in the UK, and the emerging influence of social media as vital gatekeepers. Yet it is still not clear what we mean by media power or how effective it is. This book evaluates contrasting definitions of media power and looks at the key sites in which power is negotiated, concentrated and resisted – politically, technologically and economically. Combining an evaluation of both previous literature and new research, the book seeks to establish an understanding of media power which does justice to the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary social world. It will be important reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and activists alike.

Free Download Alessandra Jerolleman, "People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground "
English | ISBN: 3031368746 | 2024 | 268 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.

Free Download Joel Hawkes, "Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions"
English | ISBN: 1501380710 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author.

Free Download Luis Martinez Andrade, "Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America "
English | ISBN: 0745335748 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 551 KB
The world’s eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political inspiration, offering alternatives to the neoliberal model. Religion Without Redemption examines the history of religious and political ideas in Latin America, in order to show how and why the continent’s politics and economics work as they do.

Free Download Bridie Jabour, "Trivial Grievances: On the Contradictions, Myths and Misery of Your 30s"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1460759494 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.3 mb
An oddly optimistic, witty and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miserable Millennials, from Bridie Jabour, opinion editor at Guardian Australia

Free Download The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood by Sharon Hays
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0300076525 | 288 Pages | PDF | 17.0 MB
Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work.

Free Download Matt Vidal, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management"
English | ASIN: B0B3PG2933 | 2022 | M4B@64 kbps | ~16:16:00 | 474 MB
One of the central dynamics shaping organizations today is a contradiction managers face between ensuring workforce discipline and harnessing worker creativity. In manufacturing, global best practice includes lean production with substantive worker empowerment; cross-training in enlarged tasks and inclusion in problem solving and decision making. Yet, many managers instead face these conflicting pressures by training workers in narrow tasks and using them exclusively for manual labor.
In this richly evidenced study of American manufacturing, Matt Vidal presents a synthetic theory called "organizational political economy," integrating concepts from organization theory into a classical marxist framework. This theory emphasizes how contradictory developments-conflicting pressures and competing logics of labor management-lead management to be divided. Some managers adopt best practice by substantively empowering their workforce while others settle for good enough. Capitalist management is increasingly a source of organizational inefficiency. This argument is not limited to manufacturing. Managers experience contradictory pressures-for standardization versus discretion, deskilling versus upskilling-in a wide range of occupations, including education, healthcare, software development, and many more.