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Free Download Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment
by Christos Memos
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1350073326 | 215 Pages | True PDF | 2.3 MB

Free Download Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion
by Paul Kincaid
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031715667 | 92 Pages | True PDF | 1.3 MB

Free Download Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, "Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1442646845, 1442614668 | PDF | pages: 624 | 3.6 mb
Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of the relationship between humanity and technology. The reader offers a study of our digital future, a means of understanding the world with new analytic tools and means of communication that are defining the twenty-first century.

Free Download A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises By Ali Meghji
2023 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1439922063 | EPUB | 1 MB
Practitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the two theories in tandem rather than attempting to hierarchize or synthesize them. Doing so allows for the study of social phenomena in a way that captures their global and historical roots, while acknowledging their local, national, and contemporary particularities. The differences between decolonial thought and CRT, Meghji insists, does not necessarily imply one approach is stronger. Rather, he asserts, they often provide alternative but not incompatible viewpoints of the same social problem. Meghji presents case studies of capitalism, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, and twenty-first-century far-right populism to show that with both theories, we can understand more, as insights may be lost by using only one. Meghji is not calling for a universal theoretical synthesis in A Critical Synergy, but rather a practice that can help open sociology and social science to the tradition of pluriversality much more broadly.

Free Download Desmond McNeill, "Multilateral Institutions: A Critical Introduction"
English | 2003 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 0745319203, 0745319211 | PDF | 0,7 mb
In recent years, a great deal of public attention has been focussed on multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, IMF and WTO. This book offers students, practitioners and activists a critical guide to these and other major institutions – the Regional Development Banks and UNDP – that make up the multilateral development system. It analyses how they operate with respect to financing and lending, the various roles that they play, and related changes in their policy concerns – such as structural adjustment, sustainable development, and governance. The emphasis is on politics within and also between multilateral institutions, analysing the relations – both competitive and collaborative – between, for example, the World Bank and UNDP. NGOs are also shown to be important actors, and the role they have played in recent years is critically assessed. The book concludes with some emerging trends: the ‘privatisation’ of the system, regionalisation, and ‘the politics of protest’. Bøås and McNeill do not simply take the policies of multilateral institutions at face value, but ask how and why these policies came into existence. They seek to promote critical, but informed, engagement both with the member states of multilateral institutions and the institutions themselves.

Free Download Barbara Perry, Shahid Alvi, "Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 073911252X, 0739112538 | PDF | pages: 282 | 14.9 mb
Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship. DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime. Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social scientific work in this field.

Free Download Risk And The Politics Of Public Health: A Critical Review
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9814689521 | 192 Pages | PDF (True) | 26 MB
Twentieth century public health initiatives have been crucially informed by perceptions and constructions of risk. Notions of risk identification, assessment and mitigation have guided political and institutional actions even before these concepts became an explicit part of the language of public administration and policy making. Past analyses investigating the link between risk perceptions and public health are relatively rare, and where researchers have investigated this nexus, it has typically been assumed that the collective identification of health risks has led to progressive improvements in public health activities.Risk and the Politics of Public Health addresses this gap by presenting a detailed critical historical analysis of the evolution of risk thinking within medical and health related discourses. Grouped around the four core themes of ‘immigration’, ‘race’, ‘armed conflict’ and ‘detention and prevention’ this book highlights the innovative capacity of risk related concepts as well as their vulnerability to the dysfunctional effects of dominant social ideologies. Risk and the Politics of Public Health is an essential reference for those who seek to understand the interplay of concepts of risk and public health throughout history as well as those who wish to gain a critical understanding of the social dynamics which have underpinned, and continue to underpin, this complex interaction.

Free Download Elie Wiesel, Saint of the Holocaust: A Critical Biography, 3rd updated edition
Warren B. Routledge
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1591482453 | 461 Pages | True ePUB | 21 MB

Free Download Elie Wiesel, Saint of the Holocaust: A Critical Biography, 3rd updated edition
Warren B. Routledge
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1591482453 | 461 Pages | True PDF | 11.3 MB

Free Download Chris Beasley, "Gender and Sexuality: Critical Theories, Critical Thinkers"
English | 2005 | pages: 303 | ISBN: 0761969799 | PDF | 0,9 mb
This accessible introduction to gender and sexuality theory offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the key contemporary literature and debates in feminism, sexuality studies and men′s studies.