Katherine Smits – författare

This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments.It focuses on three pluralist postcolonial settler states in the cases of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, all of which are characterized by cultural pluralism stemming from colonial history and the presence of Indigenous peoples, and diverse migration. Analyzing policy and political discourse, it reveals that official cultural recognition plays a key role in building and reinforcing national identity but that the social cohesion and community it brings domestically is matched by signalling a nation-state’s modernized status as postcolonial and post-racist to the global economy. The book also explores the ways in which religious diversity poses particular challenges to these strategies of ethno-cultural recognition and appropriation.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political science, comparative politics, public policy, political theory and political sociology, political anthropology.

Fully revised and extended, the new edition of this innovative and engaging textbook introduces the central elements of political theory from an applied perspective. Focusing on 12 high-profile contemporary social and political case studies, both domestic and global, this text shows how political theory illuminates and helps makes sense of important debates in public life.This is the perfect introduction for students interested in how political theory can be used to help us solve the political questions of our time, whether at a beginner’s level, or building upon an introduction to theories and concepts.New to this Edition:- Draws on an even wider range of contemporary and historical political thinkers from different philosophical traditions- Updated to take recent important cases and controversies into account- Includes a new chapter which examines leaking classified information

Fully revised and extended, the new edition of this innovative and engaging textbook introduces the central elements of political theory from an applied perspective. Focusing on 12 high-profile contemporary social and political case studies, both domestic and global, this text shows how political theory illuminates and helps makes sense of important debates in public life.This is the perfect introduction for students interested in how political theory can be used to help us solve the political questions of our time, whether at a beginner’s level, or building upon an introduction to theories and concepts.New to this Edition:- Draws on an even wider range of contemporary and historical political thinkers from different philosophical traditions- Updated to take recent important cases and controversies into account- Includes a new chapter which examines leaking classified information

Fully revised and extended, the new edition of this innovative and engaging textbook introduces the central elements of political theory from an applied perspective. Focusing on 12 high-profile contemporary social and political case studies, both domestic and global, this text shows how political theory illuminates and helps makes sense of important debates in public life.

This is the perfect introduction for students interested in how political theory can be used to help us solve the political questions of our time, whether at a beginner’s level, or building upon an introduction to theories and concepts.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Nazira Zeineddine, Betty Friedan, Andrea Dworkin and Luisa Valenzuela. The volume is unique in offering close readings of key passages from the selected texts, making it ideal for classroom use; its original essays, all authored by specialists, will also be of interest to more advanced scholars. In juxtaposing and analysing a wide range of texts which despite their significance are rarely discussed together, Feminist Moments provides a fascinating historical narrative of feminist thought which will be highly valuable to students and scholars of the history of political thought, political philosophy and gender and literary studies.