Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books

Critical Theories of Crisis in Europe

From Weimar to the Euro

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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016

What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This book analyses and explains the recurrent emergence of crises in European societies. It asks how previous crises can...

Superpositions

Laruelle and the Humanities

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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

One of the most important French philosophers working today, François Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts across an oeuvre spanning four decades and more than twenty books. His work—termed non-philosophy or, more recently, non-standard philosophy—has garnered...
by Werner Bonefeld
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

German ordoliberalism originated at the end of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) in a context of hyper-inflation, depression, mass unemployment and social unrest. For ordoliberalism, a free economy is premised on a sound political, legal, social and moral framework to secure its cohesion. The role of...

Exploring Nightlife

Space, Society and Governance

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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018

While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades ‘nightlife’ has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration. Debates about anti-social behaviour, morality, and safety continue to shape our...

Landscapes of Liminality

Between Space and Place

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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016

Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of “liminality” as a space of “in-between-ness” that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises on the extensive research that has already...

Re-Imagining a Politics of Life

From Governance of Order to Politics of Movement

by Leonie Ansems de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

The prominence and variety of global movements of resistance indicates that the idea of politics as governance is contested. However, the political canon continues to reinforce a narrow definition of politics according to liberal principles and practices. This book develops a new theory of political...

The Politics of Virtue

Post-Liberalism and the Human Future

by John Milbank, Adrian Pabst
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016

Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions ‘negative liberty’ and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left – free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life. The triumph of liberalism has had the...
by Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016

Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia (including...

Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe

Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics

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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Postcolonial intellectuals have engaged with and deeply impacted upon European society since the figure of the intellectual emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Yet a critical assessment and overview of their influential roles is long overdue, particularly in the light of contemporary...

The Politics of Transnational Peasant Struggle

Resistance, Rights and Democracy

by Robin Dunford
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North. But peasants are fighting back. They have come together to contest dispossession through place-based and transnational forms of activism. In so doing, they have articulated a demand for food...

Italy beyond Gomorrah

Roberto Saviano and Transmedia Disruption

by Floriana Bernardi
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

When Roberto Saviano published Gomorrah in 2006 he exposed the Camorra, an organized crime network with global reach emanating from Naples. This ground-breaking work became an international best seller, inspired a film, and a new TV series. The author received so many death threats from the Camorra...

EU, Europe Unfinished

Mediating Europe and the Balkans in a Time of Crisis

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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016

What is the meaning of the Balkans in the early 21st century? Former Yugoslav countries seek a self-flattering alliance with ‘the West’ via EU membership, while the Union’s citizens increasingly declare to be ‘Eurosceptic’. At the same time, economic turmoil in countries like Greece confronts...
by Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was a prominent Russian intellectual and theorist. This book presents a new reading of his semiotic and philosophical legacy. The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a series of temporal contexts, starting with the rigidity of Soviet-era ideologies, through to the...

The Politics of Eurasianism

Identity, Popular Culture and Russia's Foreign Policy

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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

In the course of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, many of the doctrines and ideas associated with Eurasianism have moved to the center of public political discourses in Russia. Eurasianism, both Russian and non-Russian, is politically active —influential and contested— in debates about...
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