Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
by Matthew Gritter, Iain MacRobert
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in some cases enhanced as a result of its inclusion in the Farm Bill, being characterized as a safety net of last resort and as a program for the deserving poor.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community – women. Whilst much of the current literature continues to focus on the issues of remittances and brain drain, there has been...
by Palash Kamruzzaman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author argues that national poverty lines should be the benchmark for future anti-poverty policies.
The Silent Revolution
How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Critically engaging, illustrative and with numerous examples, The Silent Revolution delivers a philosophically informed introduction to current debates on digital technology and calls for a more active role of humans towards technology.
Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity
A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Is the media obsession with image leading to a degeneration of politics? Are politicians more concerned with their appearances than with policy substance? Through the evidence provided by over 50 interviews with politicians across the UK and Italy - local councillors, MPs and MEPs - this book provides...
Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation
Judging More than a Book by its Cover
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text with the study of materiality of the book.
Survival Media
The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Drawing on a variety of expressive forms and acts - the movements of refugee boats, the poetics of hip-hop, narratives of atrocity and survival - this book develops the concept of 'survival media' though the stories and mobilities of the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka. Moving between the hip-hop of M.I.A....
by R. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This text explores the place to locate the cut between those inequalities for which it is fair to hold one responsible, and those for which it is not. The argument traces a thread of intellectual history, identifying a rejection of strong property rights which we inherit from Locke, and find in contemporary defenders of entitlements such as Nozick.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they confronted the intellectual challenges posed by the Great war from war from 1895 to 1907.
The Laughter of Sarah
Biblical Exegesis, Feminist Theory, and the Concept of Delight
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The laughter of delight has gone unheard in the Western tradition. This work brings new light to the notion, and has a consistent leitmotif: the delighted laughter of the matriarch Sarah in the book of Genesis, when she gives birth to her son Isaac. This laughter is "heard" through biblical commentaries and twentieth-century theorists of laughter.
Reassembling International Theory
Assemblage Thinking and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What can 'assemblage' thinking contribute to the study of international relations theory? This study seeks to investigate how the various debates on assemblages in social theory can contribute to generating critical considerations on the connections and dissociation of political agency, physical world and international dynamics.
by Thomas Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical neglect of human difference in the philosophy of Heidegger. It proceeds by applying a revised version...
The Anthropocene Lyric
An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.
by Sarah-Mai Dang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010)and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus...