Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Activism, NGOs and the State
Multilevel Responses to Immigration Politics in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Many NGOs are mobilizing transnationally in order to form new social networks that enable them to better interact with nation-state policies on migrant and refugee inclusion.
This book empirically investigates the rich varieties of cooperative cross-border activity, and compares how the same...
The Neoliberal Subject
Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt to the ‘realities’ of an endemic condition of global insecurity and to the practice of so-called sustainable...
Meanings of Bandung
Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
The Bandung Conference was the seminal event of the twentieth century that announced, envisaged and mobilized for the prospect of a decolonial global order. It was the first meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation...
States of Discipline
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world. What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? How does neoliberalism effectively...
The Radicalization of Pedagogy
Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
How do activists learn radical politics? Does the increasing neoliberalisation of education limit the possibilities of transgressive pedagogies? And in what contexts have anarchist geographers successfully shaped alternative pedagogic practices?
Pedagogy is central to geographical knowledge...
The Future of Europe
Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice After the Euro Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis. In this major new book, a group of fifteen international philosophers, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and legal experts compare the economic, political, constitutional, social,...
Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean
Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Have efforts to advance women’s and men’s commitments to democratic governance, women’s rights and gender equality been successful in the Caribbean? Do they reflect local as well as international concerns and visions of gender equality?
This edited collection answers these questions by...
Exploring Complicity
Concept, Cases and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Questions of complicity emerge within a range of academic disciplines and everyday practices. Using a wide range of case studies, this book explores the concept of and cases of complicity in an interdisciplinary context. It expands orthodox understandings of the concept by including the notion of...
Just Liberal Violence
Sweatshops, Torture, War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
'This book critically examines "just liberal violence": forms of direct and structural violence that others may be "justly" subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour, respectively, and argues that e**ach of these defences fails...
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very European, and modern, ideal.
This book...
by Tanya B. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy? How is the political role of such organizations informed by their religious ideas and practices?
This book investigates this set of questions by examining how three transnational...
The Ethics of Technology
Methods and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Our daily lives are affected by new technologies at an ever increasing rate. It is becoming more and more important to assess future technologies from an ethical point of view, and to do this before they are introduced on a massive scale. Such assessments require systematic use of many different kinds...
Gender and Mobility
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Our world is characterized by mobility. The number of refugees on the global scale has increased considerably. Meanwhile border control measures and legal avenues for mobility have been severely curbed, and the political climate has become all the more violent against racialized and gendered “Others”....
Neoliberal Moral Economy
Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate: what explains the rise in economic fraud in so many societies around the world? The author argues that the current age of fraud is an outcome of not only political-economic but also moral transformations that have taken place in societies...