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  • The Empire of Trauma

    An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood

    by Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman ...
    Translated by Rachel Gomme ...
    Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Professionalization

    Organization of Professions, Production of Professionalities and Growth of Professionalism

    by Richard Wittorski, Didier Demazière ...
    Series series ISTE Consignment
    Professionalization has become a given in the worlds of work and education. For a wide variety of professions, public and private organizations and training and further education courses, professionalization is an inescapable reality. However, it takes on diverse, even contradictory meanings, according to what it represents: a managerial imperative imposed by public or managerial policies, or a ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • European Governance and Democracy

    Power and Protest in the EU

    by Richard Balme, Didier Chabanet ...
    Series series Governance in Europe Series
    Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union and its member states. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet analyze the influence of supranational governance on democratization through a wealth of case studies on a broad range of civil society interests, including regional policy, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Money, Morals, & Manners

    The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class

    by Michèle Lamont ...
    Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class—the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership

    To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

    by Lyse Langlois ...
    Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Accessibility and Active Offer

    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Edited by Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard ...
    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Understanding Contemporary Social Change

    by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan ...
    This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology's principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields

    Concepts and Applications

    Edited by Mathieu Hilgers, Eric Mangez ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Bourdieu’s theory of social fields is one of his key contributions to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been subjected to genuine critical examination. This book fills that gap and offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the theory. It includes a critical discussion of its methodology and relevance in different subject areas in the social sciences and humanities.Part I ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Return of Work in Critical Theory

    Self, Society, Politics

    by Jean-Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, Nicholas H. Smith, Christophe Dejours ...
    Series Book 56 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Management

    Culture and Management across the World

    Edited by Jean-François Chanlat, Eduardo Davel, Jean-Pierre Dupuis ...
    All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted, managers face serious challenges. An individual’s parsing of an experience and its meaning may vary according to several cultural scales – national, ... Read more

    $110.99 USD