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  • Rethinking Latin America

    Development, Hegemony, and Social Transformation

    by R. Munck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In a subtle but powerful reading of the shifting relationships between development, hegemony, and social transformation in post-independence Latin America, Ronaldo Munck argues that Latin American subaltern knowledge makes a genuine contribution to the current search for a social order which is sustainable and equitable. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Machine Vision

    Critical Terms and Ideas

    Edited by Kathrin Maurer, Rikke Munck Petersen, Dominique Routhier, Kassandra Wellendorf, Kristin Veel ...
    An interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspectives. Edited by Kathrin Maurer, Rikke Munck Petersen, Dominique Routhier, Kassandra Wellendorf, and Kristin Veel, this glossary creates a ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Coloniality of Power and Progressive Politics in Latin America

    Development, Indigenous Politics and Buen Vivir

    by Ronaldo Munck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “A very timely book that offers a sharp, agile, and clear tour through some of the concepts-horizons in which critical thinking and Latin American social movements converge, emphasizing the tensions, richness, and scope of Buen Vivir.”— Maristella Svampa, National University of La Plata, Argentina. and recipient of the Konex Platinum Award in 2016“… In his new book, Ronaldo Munck addresses ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

    Edited by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, Michael D. Fischer ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    This new Companion traces the development of cognitive anthropology from its beginnings in the late 1950s to the present, and evaluates future directions of research in the field. In 29 contributions from leading anthropologists, there is an overview of cognitive and cultural structures, insights into how cognition works in everyday life and interacts with culture, and examples of contemporary ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • The anthropology of power, agency, and morality

    The enduring legacy of F. G. Bailey

    Edited by Victor de Munck, Elisa J. Sobo ...
    The works of F. G. Bailey (1924–2020) provide a seminal template for good ethnography. Central to this is Bailey’s ability to conceptually connect the well-described micro-contexts of individual interactions to the macro-context of culture. Bailey’s core concerns – the tension between individual and collective interests, the will to power, and the dialectics of social forces which foster both ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

    Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science

    Edited by David Collier, Gerardo L. Munck ...
    Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first coordinated effort to define this field of research, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments

    Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence

    Edited by Kyla Sankey, Steve Ellner, Ronaldo Munck ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This book examines the tensions and convergences between social movements and twenty-first century progressive Latin American governments. Focusing on feminist, indigenous, environmental, rural, and labor movements, leading scholars present a well-rounded picture on a controversial topic and argue against the accepted view that robust Latin American social movements are independent of the state. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Cognition In and Out of the Mind

    Advances in Cultural Model Theory

    Edited by Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, Stephen Chrisomalis ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This edited collection presents an agenda for the interdisciplinary study of anthropology and cognitive science. It consists of fifteen chapters written by international experts on the relationship between culture and cognition. This volume is unique in that it includes both inside (i.e., shared mental templates) and outside (i.e., extended, embedded, enactive and ecological) theories of cognition ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Politics of Urban Knowledge

    Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities

    Edited by Bert De Munck, Jens Lachmund ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.Urbanization has been accompanied, and partly shaped by, the formation of the city as a distinct domain of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795

    Edited by Karin Bowie, Thomas Munck ...
    This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers.A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Knowledge and the Early Modern City

    A History of Entanglements

    Edited by Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano ...
    Series series Knowledge Societies in History
    Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed.Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and global ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Water and Development

    Good Governance after Neoliberalism

    Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Narathius Asingwire, Honor Fagan, Consolata Kabonesa ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development. In Africa, competition among different sectors for this scarce resource remains a critical challenge to water managers and decision-makers.Water and Development examines a range of issues, from governance to solar distillation, from gender to water pumps, using a range of research methods, from participant observation to GIS and SPSS ... Read more

    $29.19 USD