The concept of agency has become widely used in learning research, especially in studies
addressing professional and workplace learning, but also in policy discussion on how to …

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical
Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the …

The article presents central ideas and future challenges of cultural-historical activity theory,
focusing specifically on the work of the so-called Helsinki school of activity theory. We first …

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a
completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical …

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector,
have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few …

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based
on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up …

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of
literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural …

This paper is an argument for systematic textual analysis as a part of discourse analysis, and
an attempt to stimulate debate on this issue between different approaches to discourse …

According to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power
relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of public decision making. For …

We must, many now argue,get back'to history. but which one? History has always been a
problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of …