Politics category: 19839 books
The Rediscovery of America
Essays by Harry V. Jaffa on the New Birth of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015), one of the profoundest political thinkers of his time, is known most prominently for his pathbreaking work on Abraham Lincoln. Jaffa, who taught for 50 years at the Claremont Colleges and was a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, sought to produce a revolution...
Politics Of The Mind
Marxism and Mental Distress
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, depression currently affects 350 million people. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we...
by Marc Askew (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Intense political polarization, confrontation and violence have rocked Thailand recently, much of it a divisive legacy of the 2006 coup. Conflicts centre on the legitimacy of institutions and the uses and abuses of power alongside the parallel crisis of state legitimacy posed by the ongoing violence...
Aesthetic Labour
Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This volume approaches questions about gender and the politics of appearance from a new perspective by developing the notion of aesthetic labour. Bringing together feminist writing regarding the ‘beauty myth’ with recent scholarship about new forms of work, the book suggests that in this moment...
Vulnerability Politics
The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
A new understanding of vulnerability in contemporary political culture
Progressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious...
The Fixer
My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The famed political advisor to Uber, FanDuel, Lemonade, Tesla and other startups reveals what really happens at the intersection of politics, tech and business
Most new startups today are in highly regulated industries with strong incumbents - transportation, hotels, drones, energy, gaming,...
by Motoshi Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan illuminates Japan’s contemporary and historical struggle to adjust policy and the institutional architecture of government to an evolving global order. This focused and scholarly study identifies that key to this difficulty is a structural...
Just Ordinary Citizens?
Towards a Comparative Portrait of the Political Immigrant
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in liberal democracies has been steadily rising. Despite the existence of numerous studies on social, economic, and geographic integration, few books have addressed the integration of immigrants into the politics of their host countries. When it comes...
Choreographies of Resistance
Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the...
Postcolonial Developments
Agriculture in the Making of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1998
This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Focusing on local-level agricultural practices in India since the “green revolution” of the 1960s, Akhil...
Democracy Inside
Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In our current era of deep distrust in our politics and political institutions, there is also a pervasive sense that social problems are so overwhelmingly complex that it is virtually impossible to solve them. In Democracy Inside, Albert W. Dzur looks at recent instances of effective citizen action...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Polls suggest up to twenty percent of Americans describe their beliefs as 'libertarian', but libertarians are often derided as heartless Social Darwinists or naïve idealists. This illuminating handbook brings together scholars from a range of fields (from law to philosophy to politics to economics)...
Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation
Cross-currents in Indian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Maoism, democracy and globalization are three distinct but inseparable currents marking Indian politics today. They are distinct in terms of their goals, direction, and modalities of forging social, political, economic and even cultural change, while mutually influencing each other in the emergent...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
There are important changes in regional and global demographics ahead of us. A profound rise in the number of citizens in the Indian Ocean Region in the next fifty years will have significant impacts on the state, on the nature and operation of markets and the neo-liberal framework they operate in,...