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"This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx's ideas in media, communication and cultural studies. Karl Marx's ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing fifteen of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in 21st century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles. Students taking courses in Media, Culture and Society; Communication Theory; Media Economics; Political Communication and Cultural Studies will find Fuchs' concise introduction an essential guide to Marx"--

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Dialectical materialism. --- Social conflict. --- Marxian economics. --- Alienation (Philosophy) --- Estrangement (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Marxist economics --- Communism --- Schools of economics --- Socialism --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Materialism, Dialectical --- Philosophy, Marxist

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The years following the 2008 financial crisis produced a surge of political discontent with populism, conspiracism, and Far Right extremism rising across the world. Despite this timing, many of these movements coalesced around cultural issues rather than economic grievances. But if culture, and not economics, is the primary driver of political discontent, why did these developments emerge after a financial collapse, a pattern that repeats throughout the history of the democratic world? Using the framework of 'Affective Political Economy', The Age of Discontent demonstrates that emotions borne of economic crises produce cultural discontent, thus enflaming conflicts over values and identities. The book uses this framework to explain the rise of populism and the radical right in the US, UK, Spain, and Brazil, and the social uprising in Chile. It argues that states must fulfill their roles as providers of social insurance and channels for citizen voices if they wish to turn back the tide of political discontent.

Financial crises --- Social conflict. --- Radicalism. --- Political psychology. --- Emotions. --- Conspiracy theories. --- Psychological aspects. --- Political aspects. --- History --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Social psychology --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Sociology --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Errors, inventions, etc. --- Psychological aspects

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The Politics of Crisis in Europe explores the resilience of the European Union in the face of repeated crises perceived to threaten its very existence. While it is often observed after the fact that these crises serve as opportunities for integration, this is the first critical analysis to suggest that we cannot fully understand the nature and severity of these crises without recognising the role of societal reaction to events and the nature of social narratives about crisis, especially those advanced by the media. Through a close examination of the 2003 Iraq crisis, the 2005 constitutional crisis, and the 2010-12 Eurozone crisis, this book identifies a pattern across these episodes, demonstrating how narratives about crises provide the means to openly air underlying societal tensions that would otherwise remain under the surface, impeding further integration.

Crisis management in government --- Crises --- Social conflict --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Eurozone --- Euro area --- Euro zone --- Monetary unions --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Change --- Government crisis management --- Public administration --- History --- Social aspects --- Influence. --- Political aspects. --- European Union --- E.U. --- Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe --- EU Constitutional Treaty --- TECE --- Traité de Rome de 2004 --- Traité établissant une constitution pour l'Europe --- Tratado por el que se establece una constitución para Europa --- Trattato che adotta una costituzione per l'Europa --- Vertrag über eine Verfassung für Europa --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Politics and government --- Social conditions

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Mao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Land Wars, Brian DeMare draws on new archival research to offer an updated and comprehensive history of this attempt to fundamentally transform the countryside. Across this vast terrain loyal Maoists dispersed, intending to categorize poor farmers into prescribed social classes, and instigate a revolution that would redistribute the land. To achieve socialist utopia, the Communists imposed and performed a harsh script of peasant liberation through fierce class struggle. While many accounts of the campaigns give false credence to this narrative, DeMare argues that the reality was much more complex and brutal than is commonly understood—while many villagers prospered, there were families torn apart and countless deaths. Uniquely weaving narrative and historical accounts, DeMare powerfully highlights the often devastating role of fiction in determining history. This corrective retelling ultimately sheds new light on the contemporary legacy of land reform, a legacy fraught with inequality and resentment, but also hope.

Land reform --- Social conflict --- Propaganda, Communist --- Communism and agriculture --- Collectivization of agriculture --- Agriculture and communism --- Agriculture --- Communist propaganda --- Communism --- Propaganda, Anti-American --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Agrarian reform --- Economic policy --- Land use, Rural --- Social policy --- Agriculture and state --- Agricultural collectivization --- Collective farming --- Collectivisation of agriculture --- Land, Nationalization of --- Collective farms --- History --- Mao, Zedong, --- Mao, Zedong --- Mao Tse-Toung --- Mao Tsetoeng --- Mao Tsetoung --- Mao Tsetung --- Mao, Tse-Toung --- Mao, Tsé toung --- Mao, Tse-Tung --- Mau Tse-Toeng --- Mao, Ze dong --- 毛泽东 --- 毛澤東 --- Political and social views. --- China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Rural conditions --- Civil War (China : 1945-1949) --- E-books --- China. --- Chinese Communist Party. --- Mao Zedong. --- class. --- land reform. --- narrative. --- peasants. --- revolution.