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Free Download Cenk Tan, "Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought "
English | ISBN: 1666923486 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 2 MB
Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought offers an intellectual journey through the ever-evolving landscapes of environmental discourse. This thought-provoking volume brings together contributors from international scholarship to scrutinize and illuminate the contemporary trends reshaping our understanding of the natural environment. From the intricate interplay of rising ecocritical theories like restoration and empirical ecocriticism to the nuanced shifts in the reimagining of ecological concepts, this book unravels the complexities of our relationship with the natural sphere. This scholarly collection serves as a compass, guiding readers through the uncharted territories of environmental scholarship or revisiting existing study through fresh critical perspectives. Eco-Concepts strives to become an essential source of reference for academics, students, and individuals seeking an in-depth exploration of the innovative notions influencing the trajectory of discussions on ecology.

Free Download Zawawi Ibrahim, "Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia: Critical Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 9813345705 | 2021 | 588 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ that dominates explanations of conflicts and cleavages in the Malaysian context. The contributions are organised in three broad themes. ‘Identities in Contestation: Borders, Complexities and Hybridities’ takes a range of empirical studies―literary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity and sexual orientation―to break down preconceived notions of fixed identities. This then opens up an examination of ‘Identities and Movements: Agency and Alternative Discourses’, in which contributors deal with counter-hegemonic social movements―of anti-racism, young people, environmentalism and independent publishing―that explicitly seek to open up greater critical, democratic space within the Malaysian polity. The third section, ‘Identities and Narratives: Culture and the Media’, then provides a close textual reading of some exemplars of new cultural and media practices found in oral testimonies, popular music, film, radio programming and storytelling who have consciously created bodies of work that question the dominant national narrative. This book is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of identity and nationhood in Malaysia, and for those with wider interests in the fields of critical cultural studies and discourse analysis.

Free Download Cybertext poetics : the critical landscape of new media literary theory By Eskelinen, Markku
2012 | 462 Pages | ISBN: 1441124381 | PDF | 2 MB
Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital literature within a more comprehensive theory capable of coming to terms with the ever-widening media varieties of literary expression, and then expands narratology far beyond its current confines resulting in multiple new possibilities for both interactive and non-interactive narratives. By focusing on a cultural mode of expression that is formally, cognitively, affectively, socially, aesthetically, ethically and rhetorically different from narratives and stories, Cybertext Poetics constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows the importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies

Free Download Critical theory and the critique of political economy : on subversion and negative reason By Bonefeld, Werner
2014 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1441161392 | PDF | 6 MB
Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx’s critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Free Download Critical Thinking in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment: CRIT-RE-BUILT. Proceedings of the International Conference, Iași, Romania, November 7-9, 2019 by Ancuța Rotaru
English | PDF | 2021 | 603 Pages | ISBN : 3030611175 | 150 MB
This proceedings book presents contributions to the International Conference on Critical Thinking in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment – CRIT-RE-BUILT – held in Iași, Romania, November 7-9, 2019.

Free Download Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction
by Elisa Magrì, Paddy McQueen
English | 2023 | ISBN: 150954111X | 269 Pages | PDF | 7.58 MB

Free Download David Collier, "Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science"
English | ISBN: 1538166143 | 2022 | 496 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 practices as a basis for guiding its future. Contributors include stars in this field who have written some of the classic works on critical junctures, as well as the rising stars of the next generation who will continue to shape historical comparative analysis for years to come. Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies will be an indispensable resource for social science research methods scholars and students.

Free Download Critical Care Obstetrics
by Luis D. Pacheco, Jeffrey P. Phelan, Torre L. Halscott, Leslie A. Moroz, Arthur J. Vaught, Antonio F. Saad, Amir A. Shamshirsaz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1119820235 | 1213 pages | True PDF EPUB | 38.8 MB

Free Download Roger Sabin, Ronald Wilson, "Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0786448199 | PDF | pages: 229 | 66.1 mb
From cops who are paragons of virtue, to cops who are as bad as the bad guys…from surly loners, to upbeat partners…from detectives who pursue painstaking investigation, to loose cannons who just want to kick down the door, the heroes and anti-heroes of TV police dramas are part of who we are. They enter our living rooms and tell us tall tales about the social contract that exists between the citizen and the police. Love them or loathe them-according to the ratings, we love them-they serve a function. They’ve entertained, informed and sometimes infuriated audiences for more than 60 years.

Free Download Sanjay Chaturvedi, "Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change "
English | ISBN: 0230249612 | 2015 | 263 pages | EPUB | 453 KB
Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised ‘climate security’.