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Peer to peer and the music industry : the criminalization of sharing
Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading? This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing. The book carefully situates the reader in a field of relevant approaches including network society theory, post-structuralism and ethnographic research. It uses this to launch into a fascinating enquiry into: the rise of file-sharing the challenge to intellectual property law posed by new technologies of communication the social psychology of cyber crime the response of the mass media and multi-national corporations. Matthew David concludes with a balanced, eye-opening assessment of alternative cultural modes of participation and their relationship to cultural capitalism. This is a landmark work in the sociology of popular culture and cultural criminology. It fuses a deep knowledge of the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations seek to monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both.
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On the Rural
A collection of previously untranslated writings by
Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in
relation to wider Marxist work On the Rural is
the first English collection to translate Lefebvre's crucial but
lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy,
presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical
and rural sociology of precapitalist social forms, their endurance
today, and conditions of dispossession and uneven development.
In On the Rural , Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton
present Lefebvre's key works on rural questions, including the
first half of his book Du rural à l'urbain and
supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference
presentations published outside France. On the Rural
offers methodological orientations for addressing questions of
economy, sociology, and geography by deploying insights from
spatial political economy to decipher the rural as a terrain and
stake of capitalist transformation. By doing so, it reveals the
production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and
as a space of struggle.
This volume delivers a careful translation-supplemented with
extensive notes and a substantive introduction-to cement Lefebvre's
central contribution to the political economy of rural sociology
and geography.
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A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election
Examines the religious affiliations of voters and party elites and evaluates the claim that moral values were decisive in the 2004 election. Analyzes strategies used to mobilize religious conservatives and examines the voting behavior of a broad range of groups, including evangelicals, African Americans, and the religious left.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion in action : planning, leadership, and programming
With this volume's model programs to guide them, academic libraries and their staff can successfully strengthen their own DEI initiatives.
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Phenomenology and the arts
Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music, and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in phenomenology—Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. But there is also a good deal of work on art itself—Warhol, Klee, jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks. Edited by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich, groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to describe.
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Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas
This volume fits within the contemporary reappropriation of St. Thomas Aquinas, which emphasizes his use of Scripture and the teachings of the church fathers without neglecting his philosophical insight.
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