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This book offers an historical account of the period 2001-2020 by focusing on the shifting connotations of certain political catchphrases and words.

The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. The book ensures that specialist concepts in AI research are made comprehensible to a humanities researcher, while humanities theories can be easily grasped by an AI engineer. The authors establish ground rules to design an AI-Assistant, that is, an AI system that could act as a personal friend, consulta...

Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitized political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic research.

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features first-hand accounts of the pandemic from around the world, which explore the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. In doing so, the book also presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time.

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features first-hand accounts of the pandemic from around the world, which explore the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. In doing so, the book also presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time.

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This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level.

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Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features? This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have produced - their political, social and cultural implications. How does a particular act of suicide enable a collective significance to be attached to it...

This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level.

This critical reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: *a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century *insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century*closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critic...

... a good starting point for those who are concerned about the colonisation of the political state by corporate capitalism ...' --Millennium

Provocative and challenging.' --Middle East International. A meditation on the over-simplied definition of terrorism given by western media.

... a good starting point for those who are concerned about the colonisation of the political state by corporate capitalism ...' Millennium

This is a study of conceptualizations and applications of democracy in international and transnational politics using a politically realist methodology. Ultimately it focuses on the confusions and obfuscations that follow from conflating the normative connotations of democracy with the oligarchic multi-party elective arrangements that are denoted as democratic. The book is divided: initially examining prevailing conceptual positions on democra...

Palgrave Critical Universities StudiesSeries Editor: John Smyth, University of Hudderfield, UKThis book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher educ...

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This book discusses that area of socialist political philosophy that is devoted to conceiving and allocating a role to the intellectual and a reconceptualization of transformative socialism. It examines constructions of intellectuals in different socialist philosophies, with their distinct notions of history. Finally, it offers reflections on the role of intellectuals after the 1960s, ponders the potential and pragmatics of transformative soci...

In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.

In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.