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Free Download jessie l. beier, "Sound Research for Troubling Times: Hope In Crisis"
English | ISBN: 303169404X | 2024 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 16 MB + 12 MB
This edited collection takes the prompt "hope in crisis" as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times. The book brings together thinkers from numerous scholarly domains (i.e. communication studies, art education, creative art therapy, psychology and philosophy) to explore the question of hope as it relates to sonic research-creation practices in/and times of crisis. Some of the prompts and provocations explored by the authors within the collection include, but are not limited to: explorations of sonic research-creation practices as they are situated within contemporary convergence of crises; theoretical investigations of the concept of hope as it relates to sonic temporalities, ontologies, and epistemologies; articulations of experimental sonic pedagogies; examinations of hope as it plays out in institutional settings and/or sound and music scenes (i.e. music education, artistic communities, activist communities); investigations of experimental listening practices as they relate to contemporary crises; explorations of post-human, non-human, and inhuman sonic resonances in research-creation practices; and experimental practices that deploy sound and sonic approaches for emergent, collective research both within, but also outside of, academic institutions. Positioned as a material that holds the potential to frustrate common approaches to research, whether through its refusal of occularcentric perspectives, its leaky data protocols or its distortion of future horizons, sound is explored here as that which might counter the default refrains that have pushed hope itself into crisis. Importantly, while sound research is explored in this book in relation to hope, it is not offered up as a better way forward, nor is it presented as a solution. Sound research is instead

Free Download Michael Hart, "Hubris: The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics of Climate Change"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0994903804 | EPUB | pages: 614 | 3.8 mb
This book explores problems and issues that have emerged in national and international discussion of policies to address climate change. It concludes that every solution put forward by the UN and activists poses more problems than might ever emerge from the marginal human impact on natural climate change. Rather than mitigation, governments should focus on adaptation. As is, climate change discussions have become captive of a utopian agenda that is using climate change as a stalking horse to drive alarm in the hope that it will convince governments to act.

Free Download The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights by Joshua A. Douglas
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 0807010936 | 240 pages | PDF | 2.63 Mb
An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions-and the next looming case

Free Download The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHGLFZ1K | 2024 | 7 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 203 MB
Author: Joshua A. Douglas
Narrator: Chris Baetens
An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions-and the next looming case. In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights-some surprising and unknown, some familiar-to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in producing a broken electoral system. The Court v. The Voters powerfully reminds us of the tangible, real-world effects from the Court’s voting rights decisions. While we can-and should-lament the democracy that might have been, Douglas argues that we can-and should-double down in our efforts to protect the right to vote.

Free Download The People You Meet in Hell: A Troubling Almanac of the Very Worst Humans in History by Brian Boone, Pipi Sposito
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1250287790 | 192 pages | PDF | 77 Mb
True crime monsters, historic jerks, and Earth’s lowest of the low get their due

Free Download Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education by Charlie Eaton
English | February 25, 2022 | ISBN: 022672042X | True EPUB | 232 pages | 1.4 MB
Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.

Free Download Troubling Sociological Concepts: An Interrogation By Martyn Hammersley
2020 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 303051644X | EPUB | 2 MB
Sociology addresses challenging social issues and seeks new ways to understand them. However, much sociological terminology suffers from multiple, vague, or uncertain meanings. This is true of many of the central terms that sociologists use, such as ‘power’, ‘ideology’, ‘culture’, ‘social class’, and even ‘society’. The result is that the conclusions reached by sociological investigations are frequently subject to discrepant interpretations, and their validity is difficult to assess. The chapters in this book address several of the key terms employed by sociologists, examining the concepts associated with them in depth – from both an historical and an analytical perspective. The aim is not to develop an entirely new framework but rather to document the various meanings associated with these terms, and to suggest ways in which they could be refined or developed for the purposes of sociological analysis. Since the concepts addressed are of wide relevance, Troubling Sociological Concepts will be of interest and use to researchers and students across the social sciences.

Free Download Jione Havea, "Troubling (Public) Theologies: Spaces, Bodies, Technologies "
English | ISBN: 1978714408 | 2023 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 10 MB
Theologies, no matter their designations, are public measures-they disclose as well as gauge the publics (near and far) on which they stand, sit, lie, or fall. Because publics shift and mingle, theologies require reimagining, relocating, and embracing fresh insights and energies. The insights and energies embraced in this work are in three clusters: spaces, bodies, and technologies. The spotlighted spaces are in Africa, Asia, Black America, the Caribbean, and Pasifika-beyond the eyes of mainline theologies; the privileged bodies have survived, with scars from empire and missionary positionings; and the welcomed technologies include Dalit, indigenous, art, poetry, cyborg, and the novel. This collection is troubling in several ways: first, reimagining and relocating are troubling acts upon their subject matter-here, public theologies. On that note, what theology is not public? Second, this work takes theologies in general, and not just the theologies that carry the "public" designation, to be public theologies. Third, this work takes theologies in general to be inherently troubling. In other words, theologies that are not troubling are not public enough.