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De grote vlucht inwaarts : essays over cultuur in een onoverzichtelijke wereld
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ISBN: 9789023497493 902349749X 9789023497691 9023497694 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij,

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Cultuurfilosofische essays waarin de schijnbare neutraliteit van het neoliberalisme wordt bestreden. De wereld lijkt steeds complexer en onoverzichtelijker te worden. In de hedendaagse ‘netwerksamenleving’ kun je geen kop koffie drinken zonder je medeschuldig te maken aan uitbuiting en slavernij, en staat je baan op het spel omdat aan de andere kant van de wereld een bank omvalt. Hierdoor beschouwen we de wereld steeds vaker als iets gevaarlijks waarover we geen controle hebben en dus keren we de blik naar binnen en klampen we ons vast aan de dingen die we nog wél in de hand hebben. Het resultaat: collectief narcisme en een publieke sfeer waarin een scherpe mening meer waard is dan een weloverwogen oordeel.Met soepele pen en scherpe analyses biedt filosoof Thijs Lijster een caleidoscopische blik op de meest uiteenlopende culturele en maatschappelijke fenomenen, zoals design, de versnelling van het leven, de alomtegenwoordigheid van opiniepeilingen en de positie van illegale immigranten.De grote vlucht inwaarts is een pleidooi voor tegendraads denken waarbij zelfs het meest onbeduidende detail beschouwd kan worden als betekenisvol.


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Progress : ten reasons to look forward to the future
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ISBN: 9781780749501 1780749503 1780749511 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Oneworld Publications

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Its on the televisions, in the papers and in our minds. Every day were bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that the economic and social progress of the past few decades has been unprecedented and that by almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive. Examining official data from the worlds most trusted institutions like the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the greatest global problems. None of them have been eradicated, but as Norberg shows we now have a good idea of the solutions and have started to implement them in most areas. We know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting and sure to be divisive,Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.


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Cosmopolitanism in practice
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ISBN: 9780754670490 075467049X 9781138262300 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group


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Thinking futures : strategy at the edge of complexity and uncertainty
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ISBN: 9401426686 9789401426688 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leuven LannooCampus

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Engelse versie van hét boek over toekomstverkenning.In de onzekere en turbulente omgeving waarin we ons bevinden, is toekomstdenken onmisbaar. Het vormt de basis van een duurzaam beleid.Met inzichten in besluitvorming bij grote onzekerheid, met inzichten rond leiderschap om proactief te handelen en met tips om toekomstdenken in het beleid of organisaties te introduceren.Geschreven door internationale experts.Voor beleidsmakers, bedrijfsleiders, opiniemakers en iedereen die de toekomst vorm wil én kan geven.Bron : http://www.lannoo.be


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The ethics of invention : technology and the human future
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ISBN: 9780393078992 039307899X Year: 2016 Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton,

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We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end ? Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. In The Ethics of Invention, renowned scholar Sheila Jasanoff dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights. Inventions like pesticides or GMOs can reduce hunger but can also cause unexpected harm to people and the environment. Often, as in the case of CFCs creating a hole in the ozone layer, it takes decades before we even realize that any damage has been done. Advances in biotechnology, from GMOs to gene editing, have given us tools to tinker with life itself, leading some to worry that human dignity and even human nature are under threat. But despite many reasons for caution, we continue to march heedlessly into ethically troubled waters. As Jasanoff ranges across these and other themes, she challenges the common assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force. Technology, she masterfully demonstrates, can warp the meaning of democracy and citizenship unless we carefully consider how to direct its power rather than let ourselves be shaped by it. The Ethics of Invention makes a bold argument for a future in which societies work together—in open, democratic dialogue—to debate not only the perils but even more the promises of technology.


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Understanding globalization : the social consequences of political, economic, and environmental change
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ISBN: 9781442215269 9781442215276 1442215267 1442215275 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield,


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Common space : the city as commons
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ISBN: 9781783603275 9781783603305 9781783603312 9781783603282 1783603275 1783603283 Year: 2016 Publisher: London: Zed books,

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A partir des écrits de penseurs de la ville comme Foucault, Benjamin, De Certeau ou encore Negri, cet ouvrage questionne la production sociale et politique de l'espace. La ville est ici entendue comme un "commun" ; un projet négocié et produit collectivement. Ce faisant ce livre remet en cause la position monopolistique de l’État et du marché dans la production de l'espace.


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Theory of the border
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ISBN: 9780190618650 9780190618643 9780190618667 9780190618674 0190618647 0190618663 0190618671 0190618655 019061868X Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Theory of the Border offers a new and unique theoretical framework for understanding one of the most central social phenomena of our time: borders. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework, Thomas Nail pioneers a new methodology of ""critical limology,"" that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.


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The metamorphosis of the world
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ISBN: 9780745690216 0745690211 9780745690223 074569022X Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,

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We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures and norms in the turmoil of the present. Take climate change: much of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world, think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it. The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a cosmopolitan outlook

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Social change --- Climatic changes --- Risk --- Environmental sociology. --- Social evolution. --- 316.42 --- 316.32 --- 316.2 BECK, ULRICH --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Environmental sciences --- Environmentalism --- Sociology --- Sociology of risk --- Sociology of uncertainty --- Uncertainty --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Sociologische richtingen. Sociologische scholen. Sociologen--BECK, ULRICH --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Environmental sociology --- Environmental aspects --- 316.2 BECK, ULRICH Sociologische richtingen. Sociologische scholen. Sociologen--BECK, ULRICH --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- 316.42 Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- 203 --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie). --- Développement social --- Climat --- Risque --- Sociologie de l'environnement --- Evolution sociale --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Changements --- Aspect social --- Aspect sociologique --- Développement social --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie) --- Social change - Environmental aspects --- Climatic changes - Social aspects --- Risk - Sociological aspects

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