Publications
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The Cost of Free Shipping
(2021)
Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global ...
@' is for Activism
(2010)
How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?
Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation ...
Lost Worlds
(2009)
Think of Latin America and what do you see? Escape? Adventure? Chaos? Oblivion? Lost Worlds explores how these stereotypes came into being and what they tells us about ourselves.
Examining a range of texts, from Southey's ...
The Making of an African Working Class
(2014)
It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among ...
The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State
(2011)
In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neoliberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjorn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across ...