Social Science

In an awesome meeting of minds cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wideranging conversations on what Hall sums up as life love death sex From the trivial to the profound across boundaries of age sexualities and genders hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance including…

Im not homeless this is my homeNick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning rain On one of the lower branches sits a robin joining our conversation It seems to be saying Why should anyone want to leave this place

How bitches trainwrecks shrews and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale Today unlikeable female characters are…

Presentation of the objectives of the book and the proposal to offer an alternative perspective to The Power of HabitWelcome to the book Unveiling Habits An Alternative Approach to The Power of Habit Book In this work we embark on a journey of exploring and questioning traditional theories about habits presenting an alternative perspective to…

Have you ever wondered about the hidden motivations and complexities behind human behavior Are you eager to unravel the enigmatic world of dark psychology and gain a deeper understanding of the human psyche If you answered yes to any of the questions above then keep reading

Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in a southern plantation He was a son of a black slave woman and unknown white man His mother worked as a cook in a house of plantation owners In childhood he idnt have a surname as other slaves but after the American Civil War that set the black slaves…

The weather governs our lives It fills gaps in conversations determines our dress and influences our architecture No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors no matter how much we may rely on technology we still monitor the weather Wait Five Minutes Weatherlore in the TwentyFirst Century draws from folkloric literary and scientific…

From the start the War on Drugs targeted Black Brown and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them Even now as white Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the legalization movement and a booming cannabis industry their less fortunate peers continue to suffer the consequences of the systemic racism in…

Kennen Sie das auch Jemand den Sie gut kennen glaubt pltzlich an Theorien welche Sie nur schwer nachvollziehen knnen Die offizielle Version der Medien oder Regierung wird angezweifelt Dieser Zweifel wird mit teils skurrilen teils aber auch schlssigen Geschichten belegt Wie soll man hierbei diskutieren ohne dass es im Streit endetWie entstehen solche Theorien berhaupt…

Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners correctional officers and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily intimate interactions between those locked up twentyfour hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care custody and control produce and reproduce hegemonic…