Books and journals, open access & print www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Welcome to the latest catalogue of the University of Westminster Press, an academic open access publisher since 2015. Our logo, an open laptop and an open book forming a W, was intended as a succinct comment and a visual representation of our mission. For UWP the most signficant development in the last year has been the addition of three new journal titles: the first, Anthropocenes -Human, Inhuman, Posthuman (p.34) an interdisciplinary title of great range tackling some of the big questions of our age including climate change, species extinction and latterly Covid-19. Likewise we are delighted to welcome the Journal of Deliberative Democracy (p.32). As populism surges across the world, the need for democratic legitimacy and real engagement continues to grow. JDD's August 2020 relaunch with UWP highlights key debates in participative democracy and public deliberation and considers how new insights might assist politics grapple with mounting challenges. We also look forward, later in the year to the first issue of Active Travel Studies (p.31). Healthier and more environmentally conscious transport is the focus of the journal's parent research body, the Active Travel Academy at the University of Westminster. Also during this period two of our existing journals Silk Road (p.36) and Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (p.38) are now presented in a new research environment that of ScienceOpen. We welcome ScienceOpen and other new channels assisting readers in discovering our publications. UWP book titles remain available via JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and OAPEN (www.oapen.org), as MARC-21 records for libraries are also now available to download from our home page. Book trade orders and customers can also be set up via an account with Ingrams at www.ingramcontent.com/publishers/lp/introducingipage. This 2020 catalogue features three forthcoming books in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series (pp.4-17) -two focusing on the 'Commons' -in Autumn on top of a total of 30 published book titles, 7 CAMRI Policy Briefs (pp.21-23] and the distributed titles in the the History of the 'University of Westminster' series. One undoubted highlight in 2020 will be Can Music Make You Sick? (p. 18) Sadly the answer to this question appears to be 'yes' for musicians, whose mental health is facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of the gig economy, streaming and currently a cessation of the festival season and most live events. Spreadheading a new wave of publications challenging some of the benign assumptions of previous creative industries literature, this title is sure to contribute to an urgent debate in the field. So we hope there's plenty to engage you in the following pages!.

This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.

Entrevista com Michel Onfray coordenada por Felipe Ziotti Narita (Unesp). Onfray, filósofo francês, é autor de inúmeras obras sobre filosofia,política etc. Fundador, em um projeto coletivo, da Universidade Popular de Caen em 2002, na França, tendo participado também da fundação da Universidade Popular do Gosto em Argentan (2006).Entretien avec Michel Onfray dirigé par Felipe Ziotti Narita (Université de l'État de São Paulo - Unesp). Onfray, philosophe français, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur philosophie, politique, etc. Il a crée, dans un projet collectif, l’Université Populaire de Caen en 2002. Il a participé aussi à la création de l’Université Populaire du goût à Argentan en 2006. Dans cet entretien, Onfray revient sur l’expérience à la fois théorique et pratique de la formation de l’Université populaire.

RESUMO:Este artigo discute proposições e possibilidades de entendimento da educação popular a partir de formulações teóricas do campo das ciências sociais. Tratase de situar a discussão da educação popular no conjunto mais amplo de problemas lançados pelas ciências sociais, analisando as práticas educativas à luz de processos sociopolíticos, sobretudo, a partir de referenciais sociológicos e históricos (democratização política, cidadania, modernização). Por meio da exposição e da discussão de alguns dos conceitos e abordagens que vinculam a educação popular a temas mais amplos das ciências sociais, o texto argumenta que o entendimento da educação popular, para além das discussões curriculares e de conteúdo, deve ser teoricamente inserido na investigação dos próprios impasses sociais, políticos e econômicos que acompanham a América Latina nas últimas cinco décadas.Palavras-chave: Educação popular; Modernização; Democracia; Ciências Sociais; Políticas públicas.ABSTRACT: This paper discusses propositions and possibilities of understanding popular education in dialogue with theoretical formulations from social sciences. This topic suggests a constelation of problems and concepts in order do think a close association between educational practices and themes dealing with historical and sociological references (democratization, citizenship, modernization). The paper argues that popular education must be situated in theoretical terms in the very core of the social and political impasses throughtout the last 50 years in Latin America.

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In this article, we offer a critical social analysis of crisis in light of capitalist development and, above all, in the post-2008 world. We discuss five approaches in the social sciences that deal with the problem of crisis and develop some theore­tical lines for a critical approach to the theme. We argue that precarity can be an important topic for grasping the current crises via critical approaches. The text also presents the six articles that are part of the issue we edited for Praktyka Teoretyczna entitled “Latency of the crisis.”

This introduction highlights the meaning of the digital in contemporary capitalism with the pervasive presence of digital interactions and the collapse of the dualism between ‘the real’ and ‘the virtual’. The chapter also discusses the methodological guidelines and the book’s commitment with a critical theory of the society of the selfie.

Oscar Jara Holliday, sociólogo y educador peruano-costarricense, es uno de los más destacados investigadores latinoamericanos en educación popular. Director general del Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones Alforja en Costa Rica y coordinador del Programa Latinoamericano de Apoyo a la Sistematización de Experiencias del Consejo de Educación Popular de América Latina y El Caribe (CEAAL). La entrevista fué organizada por Felipe Ziotti Narita.