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We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens' Assemblies Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis

Graham Smith

This book explains why climate assemblies have captured the imagination of governments and activists alike, exploring how they can have a meaningful impact on climate politics.

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Founding Chair of the Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA) 

£12.99   Available for pre-order here

ISBNs
Paperback: 978-1-915445-40-7  
EPub: 978-1-915445-42-1
Mobi: 978-1-915445-43-8
PDF: 978-1-915445-41-4

Digital and Social Media in Africa

Henri-Count Evans, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Tinashe Mawere (eds)

This book discusses the strategies used by African governments to monitor and control digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression. 

Dr Henri-Count Evans is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Eswatini, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli is Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Tinashe Mawere is a researcher at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

£24.99

ISBNs
PDF: 978-1-915445-02-5
EPub: 978-1-915445-03-2
Mobi: 978-1-915445-04-9
Paperback: 978-1-915445-05-6
Hardback: 978-1-915445-06-3

The Left and Digital Politics: Political Parties from Platform Neoliberalism to Platform Socialism

Marco Guglielmo

Are left-wing parties allies or foes of Platform Socialism? The Left and Digital Politics answers this question, through a Gramscian approach to (counter-)hegemony in platform societies and a study of how the ideas and practices of a sample of left-wing parties tap into this political battlefield.

Marco Guglielmo is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Valencia

ISBNs
Paperback: 978-1-915445-44-5 
EPub: 978-1-915445-46-9
Mobi: 978-1-915445-47-6
PDF: 978-1-915445-45-2

Media Pasts and Futures: Critical Reflections on ‘Power Without Responsibility’

Des Freedman and Michael Klontzas

This edited collection of short essays from leading media scholars reflects on critical issues of media history, power, ownership, influence and impact. The book uses the highly influential and acclaimed media studies title Power Without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain as a cue to reflect on the limitations of the media in different countries and to advocate solutions.

Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and Michael Klontzas is associate lecturer in media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London

ISBNs
Paperback: 978-1-915445-64-3
EPub: 978-1-915445-66-7
Mobi: 978-1-915445-67-4
PDF: 978-1-915445-65-0

Contemporary Colonialities: Kurds and Kashmiris

Nitasha Kaul and Dibyesh Anand (eds)

This book brings together scholarship on two names associated with ‘conflict’, but which the editors argue are best described as ‘stateless nations’: Kurds and Kashmiris. They both raise important questions relating to coloniality, sovereignty, statehood, self-determination and human rights and yet have never been studied together. 

Professor Nitasha Kaul holds a Chair in Politics, International Relations and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and is Director of Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster and Professor Dibyesh Anand is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement and Employability) and professor of international relations at the University of Westminster

£22.99

ISBNs
Paperback: 978-1-915445-25-4
Hardback: 978-1-915445-34-6
EPub: 978-1-915445-23-0
Mobi: 978-1-915445-24-7
PDF: 978-1-915445-22-3

Critical Communication: A Memoir

Vincent Mosco

This memoir, completed just before Vincent Mosco’s sudden death in February 2024, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective of one of its founding figures. 

Vincent Mosco was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada and Distinguished Professor, New Media Centre at Fudan University, China

ISBNs
Paperback: 978-1-915445-40-7
EPub: 978-1-915445-42-1
Mobi: 978-1-915445-43-8
PDF: 978-1-915445-41-4