{"title":"Rogers Brubaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eRogers Brubaker's work delves into complex social phenomena, exploring themes such as \u003cstrong\u003egender identity\u003c\/strong\u003e, digital culture, and contemporary social theory. His books provide insightful analysis on how identity and society intersect in a rapidly changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending rigorous scholarship with accessible prose, Brubaker's writing is essential for readers interested in \u003cem\u003escience, social studies,\u003c\/em\u003e and the dynamics of modern human experience. His studies challenge readers to reconsider notions of community, technology, and personal identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hyperconnectivity-and-its-discontents-by-rogers-brubaker-9781509554539","title":"Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes brought about by hyperconnectivity. He traces transformations of the self, social relations, culture, economics, and politics, giving special attention to underexplored themes of abundance, miniaturisation, convenience, quantification, and discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe shows how hyperconnectivity prepared us for the pandemic and how the pandemic, in turn, has prepared us for an even more fully digitally mediated future. Throughout, Brubaker underscores the ambivalence of digital hyperconnectivity, which opens up many new and exciting possibilities, yet at the same time threatens human freedom and flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyperconnectivity and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e will be essential reading for everyone interested in the constellation of socio-technical forces that are profoundly remaking our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383863066860,"sku":"9781509554539","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12567643482725.jpg?v=1773384504"},{"product_id":"hyperconnectivity-and-its-discontents-by-rogers-brubaker-9781509554522","title":"Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. 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If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking the controversial pairing of \"transgender\" and \"transracial\" as his starting point, Rogers Brubaker shows how gender and race, long understood as stable, inborn, and unambiguous, have in the past few decades opened up—in different ways and to different degrees—to the forces of change and choice. Transgender identities have moved from the margins to the mainstream with dizzying speed, and ethnoracial boundaries have blurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eParadoxically, while sex has a much deeper biological basis than race, choosing or changing one's sex or gender is more widely accepted than choosing or changing one's race. 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The category has been enacted in laws and regulations, encoded in organisational policies and routines, and embedded in everyday ways of thinking and talking. It has introduced a novel principle of social classification, created new possibilities for personhood, and come to rival or redefine the category of sex itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese developments have provoked intense controversy. Disputes rage about the legitimacy of medical interventions for gender-dysphoric youth, the meaning and limits of gender self-determination, and the terms governing access to women's spaces and activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRogers Brubaker treats this hot topic in a cool manner, bringing much-needed analytical distance and conceptual clarity to a discussion dominated by polemics. 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