Power Beyond Scrutiny

Author : Justin Schlosberg
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849648700

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Power Beyond Scrutiny by Justin Schlosberg Pdf

Power Beyond Scrutiny uncovers the forces which distort and limit public debate in the media. From the misuse of politician's expenses to recent phone hacking scandals, establishment corruption has never been more in the headlines. Yet amidst the din of scandal, there have been seismic silences. Justin Schlosberg interrogates these silences - why did a plea bargain which allowed Britain's biggest arms company to escape bribery prosecution, go almost entirely unchallenged in television news? Why did journalists routinely endorse the official explanation of how intelligence analyst David Kelly died, while all but ignoring mounting evidence which undermined it? Why, in 2010, did broadcasters offer an unchallenged platform to critics of Wikileaks but not its supporters? These are some of the questions and imbalances that Schlosberg seeks to address as he explains the nature of public debate in the digital age. In doing so he uncovers a range of news blockages that are more than just accidents of a fragmented, chaotic mediascape. They are ultimately ideological forces which ensure that contestability and dissent remain within definable limits.

Author : James Curran,Natalie Fenton,Des Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781317443513

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Misunderstanding the Internet by James Curran,Natalie Fenton,Des Freedman Pdf

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on and, with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political contexts. Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. This expanded and updated second edition is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed guide to the key claims that have been made about the online world. It aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies that surround the internet.

Author : Carol A. Wilson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781846947551

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Healing Power Beyond Medicine by Carol A. Wilson Pdf

Successful healing has been wished and hoped for - until now. Dr Carol A Wilson offers a new biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective on disease illness health and healing. In an approach to healing that includes the removal of eight common barriers to healing and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Healing Power Beyond Medicine inspires and provides tools that produce efficacious and positive outcomes.

Author : Piers Robinson,Philip Seib,Romy Frohlich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317914303

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Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security by Piers Robinson,Philip Seib,Romy Frohlich Pdf

This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies. The academic sub-field of media and conflict has developed and expanded greatly over the past two decades. Operating across a diverse range of academic disciplines, academics are studying the impact the media has on governments pursuing war, responses to humanitarian crises and violent political struggles, and the role of the media as a facilitator of, and a threat to, both peace building and conflict prevention. This handbook seeks to consolidate existing knowledge by linking the body of conflict and media studies with work in security studies. The handbook is arranged into five parts: Theory and Principles. Media, the State and War Media and Human Security Media and Policymaking within the Security State New Issues in Security and Conflict and Future Directions For scholars of security studies, this handbook will provide a key point of reference for state of the art scholarship concerning the media-security nexus; for scholars of communication and media studies, the handbook will provide a comprehensive mapping of the media-conflict field.

Author : Geneviève Nootens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000520859

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Constituent Power Beyond the State by Geneviève Nootens Pdf

The concept of constituent power plays a major part in modern political and legal theory— in how we think about the political. This book tackles the twofold issue of public authority and public autonomy in the modern conception of the political by analysing the notion of constituent power, its function in the modern political apparatus, and debates about its meaning and function in our own context. Focusing on contemporary debates on constitutionalism "beyond" the state, Geneviève Nootens assesses the prospects for recasting the notion of constituent power in a polycentric setting that challenges state sovereignty as embodying the autonomy of the political. She argues that constituent power belongs with the conceptual apparatus of a theory of government peculiar to a statist way of knowing, and being into, the world, and that it is too much dependent upon the statist framework for it to have critical purchase on the new mappings of public authority. Nootens stresses the critical need to frame public authority appropriately if we are to conceptualize a conception of collective political agency that can sustain public autonomy in the current era. Constituent Power Beyond the State will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, democratic theory, law, and constitutionalism.

Author : Pauline Stafford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118499474

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A Companion to the Early Middle Ages by Pauline Stafford Pdf

Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415073308

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Interpreting Archaeology by Ian Hodder Pdf

Covers the ways in which material culture is understood and preserved in museums and how the nature of history is itself in flux.

Author : Laura Macgregor,Tony Prosser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351727914

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Regulation and Markets Beyond 2000 by Laura Macgregor,Tony Prosser Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation. It will concentrate on regulation as a precondition of successfully operating markets - by opening up markets and establishing conditions of trust. It will cover a broad range of varied forms of regulation. The book will respond to recent developments, for example, the shift from deregulation to better regulation will be explored. Most chapters will be written jointly by an academic and a legal practitioner (from the commercial solicitors firm of Shepherd and Wedderburn), thus ensuring an integration of theoretical analysis with practical problems.

Author : Stephen Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134086597

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Race and Ethnicity by Stephen Spencer Pdf

Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this completely revised and updated textbook is a critical guide to issues and theories of ‘race’ and ethnicity. It shows how these concepts came into being during colonial domination and how they became central – and until recently, unquestioned – aspects of social identity and division. This book provides students with a detailed understanding of colonial and post-colonial constructions, changes and challenges to race as a source of social division and inequality. Drawing upon rich international case studies from Australia, Guyana, Canada, Malaysia, the Caribbean, Mexico, Ireland and the UK, the book clearly explains the different strands of theory which have been used to explain the dynamics of race. These are critically scrutinised, from biological-based ideas to those of critical race theory. This key text includes new material on changing multiculturalism, immigration and fears about terrorism, all of which are critically assessed. Incorporating summaries, chapter-by-chapter questions, illustrations, exercises and a glossary of terms, this student-friendly text also puts forward suggestions for further project work. Broad in scope, interactive and accessible, this book is a key resource for undergraduate students of 'race' and ethnicity across the social sciences.

Author : Michael Lobban
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402049501

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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence by Michael Lobban Pdf

This comprehensive treatment of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence is designed for jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. The treatise is presented in two sections: The 5-volume Theoretical part (2005) covers topics of contemporary debate; The 6-volume Historical part (2006-2007) traces the development of legal thought from ancient Greece through the twentieth century. This release incorporates Vol. 6: A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics; Vol. 7: The Jurists' Philosophy of Law from Rome to the Seventeenth Century; and Vol 8: A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062864702

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The English Reports: King's Bench (1378-1865) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112203949195

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain. Courts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858046267500

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Integrity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Gluck Mezey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442248632

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Beyond Marriage by Susan Gluck Mezey Pdf

In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community. With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the struggles for LGBT rights in the United States and abroad. The chapters focus on employment discrimination, transgender rights, marriage equality, and the ongoing battles over discrimination against same-sex couples and transgender persons in education, employment, and public accommodations. It also adds a global perspective by appraising issues affecting LGBT rights in other parts of the world, discussing claims of discrimination in the Canadian and South African courts as well as in the European Court of Human Rights. Mezey provides a succinct and accessible guide to the debates over sexual orientation and gender identity, evaluating the roles played by state and federal courts, legislatures, and chief executives in formulating and implementing LGBT policy. Suitable as an up-to-date resource for anyone interested in LGBT rights, Beyond Marriage will also help students in upper-level classes focusing on judicial politics, public policymaking, family law, civil rights, gender policy, and minority group politics understand ways forward for the LGBT community in the political realm.

Author : University of Puget Sound. School of Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5112584

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University of Puget Sound Law Review by University of Puget Sound. School of Law Pdf