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Paul Kennedy

Vampire Capitalism

Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures

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This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions. The author explores how our cultural obsession with self-realization undermines our capacity for collective action and ability to confront threats such as climate change and the impact of the rapid advance of technology on labour. Drawing on sociology and political economy as well as worldwide case studies, the chapters interrogate how we arrived at these dilemmas and how we might escape them through est… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-349-71607-4
  • EAN: 9781349716074
  • Produktnummer: 29549912
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 372 S.
  • Masse: H21.1 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.2 cm 498 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 498

Über den Autor


Paul Kennedy is Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has taught and written widely on African and Third World studies, comparative modernization, green businesses, globalization and cosmopolitan professionals. He is the co-author of Global Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan) and took a leading role in founding the Global Studies Association. 

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