Tag: Politics

Free Download Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Carol Monda, Hachette Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B089X54X6X | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 15 hours and 2 minutes + EPUB | 428 Mb
Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative audiobook, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.

Free Download The Politics of Modelling
by Saltelli, Andrea;Di Fiore, Monica;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0198872410 | 273 pages | True PDF | 14.69 MB
Chapter 2, ‘Pay no attention to the model behind the curtain’, Chapter 4, ‘Mind the hubris: Complexity can misfire’, and Chapter 8, ‘ Sensitivity auditing: A practical checklist for auditing decision-relevant models’ are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic

Free Download The Politics of Language
by David Beaver and Jason Stanley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691181985 | 521 pages | True PDF EPUB | 57.55 MB
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language

Free Download The Climate Debt: Combining the Science, Politics and Economics of Climate Change (167 Pages)
by Guy Deutscher
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811274002 | 168 pages | True PDF | 21.31 MB
Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction between economists and scientists, long separated from an academic standpoint. The separation is artificial. This book shows that the free trade concept of David Ricardo and that of the Sadi Carnot thermodynamic cycle, both developed at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, are amazingly close to each other. The analogy between the two cycles helps understand the fundamental mechanism of free trade. Irreversible processes, such as the release of CO₂ by fossil fuel burning, have increased the Boltzmann entropy level. It has generated climate warming and disorder, a phenomenon accelerated by a growth model largely based on delocalization of industrial production to low wage countries. Major irreversible phenomena such as melting of all arctic ice including the Greenland ice sheets can be expected within 1000 years that can only be avoided by active removal of atmospheric CO₂, whose cost can be calculated based on the entropy laws of Clausius and Boltzmann.

Free Download Shame
by David Keen
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691183759 | 361 pages | True PDF EPUB | 27.23 MB
The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violence

Free Download Food Politics
by Paarlberg, Robert;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0199322384 | 313 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.53 MB
Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today’s global food landscape.

Free Download China Incorporated
by Brown, Kerry;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350267244 | 209 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.32 MB
Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?

Free Download Animal Suffering
by Florence Burgat, Emilie Dardenne
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1789451213 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 6.55 MB
This interdisciplinary volume deals with the most painful situations encountered by animals in the wild or under human guardianship. It seeks to illustrate some remarkable cases and present a general picture of the commodification of animals.

Free Download Algorithms; Technology, Culture, Politics; 1
by Matzner Tobias
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032290595 | 193 pages | True PDF | 7.33 MB
Technology, Culture, Politics develops a relational, situated approach to algorithms. It takes a middle ground between theories that give the algorithm a singular and stable meaning in using it as a central analytic category for contemporary society and theories that dissolve the term into the details of empirical studies. The book discusses algorithms in relation to hardware and material conditions, code, data, and subjects such as users, programmers, but also "data doubles". The individual chapters bridge critical discussions on bias, exclusion, or responsibility with the necessary detail on the contemporary state of information technology. The examples include state-of-the-art applications of machine learning, such as self-driving cars, and large language models such as GPT. The book will be of interest for everyone engaging critically with algorithms, particularly in the social sciences, media studies, STS, political theory, or philosophy. With its broad scope it can serve as a high-level introduction that picks up and builds on more than two decades of critical research on algorithms.

Free Download The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson, Recorded Books
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01AGRRWD4 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | MP3@64 kbps + EPUB | 137 Mb
A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America’s first black presidency, from one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today). Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama’s identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race-as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have played out during his tenure? What can we learn from Obama’s major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?
Dyson explores whether Obama’s use of his own biracialism as a radiant symbol has been driven by the president’s desire to avoid a painful moral reckoning on race. And he sheds light on identity issues within the black power structure, telling the fascinating story of how Obama has spurned traditional black power brokers, significantly reducing their leverage. President Obama’s own voice-from an Oval Office interview granted to Dyson for this book-along with those of Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Maxine Waters, among others, add unique depth to this profound tour of the nation’s first black presidency.