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Politics of Difference
Epistemologies of Peace
Av Hartmut Behr
Inbunden, 2014
2510 kr
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This book develops a notion of differences and 'otherness' beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought.In doing so, it relates to the phenomenological discourse of the twentieth century, especially to Georg Simmel, Alfred …
Colonial Art of Demonizing Others
A Global Perspective
Av Esther Lezra
Inbunden, 2014
1566 kr
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The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation –roughly from 1750 to 1848.This book argues that Europe’s archives of self-understanding are haunted …
Cinematic Geopolitics
Inbunden, 2008
2664 kr
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In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" …
Cinematic Geopolitics
Häftad, 2008
764 kr
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In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" …
After the Globe, Before the World
Av RBJ Walker
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where and therefore what we take politics to be. It does so by examining the relationship between modern forms of politics (centred simultaneously within …
After the Globe, Before the World
Av RBJ Walker
Häftad, 2009
909 kr
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This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where and therefore what we take politics to be. It does so by examining the relationship between modern forms of politics (centred simultaneously within …
Ideas to Die For
The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Av Giles Gunn
Inbunden, 2013
2510 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often …
Ideas to Die For
The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2013
749 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often …
Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars
Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century
Av Richard Falk
Inbunden, 2014
2309 kr
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In the aftermath of the Cold War there has been a dramatic shift in thinking about the maintenance of peace and security on a global level. This shift is away from a preoccupation with how to prevent major wars between sovereign states to a preoccupation about non-state transnational warfare and …
Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars
Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century
Av Richard Falk
Häftad, 2014
662 kr
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In the aftermath of the Cold War there has been a dramatic shift in thinking about the maintenance of peace and security on a global level. This shift is away from a preoccupation with how to prevent major wars between sovereign states to a preoccupation about non-state transnational warfare and …
(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance
Av Richard Falk
Inbunden, 2013
2510 kr
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In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane. Divided into three parts, this book firstly scrutinizes the main aspects of Global Governance including, …
(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance
Av Richard Falk
Häftad, 2013
647 kr
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In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane. Divided into three parts, this book firstly scrutinizes the main aspects of Global Governance including, …
Human Rights and Private Wrongs
Constructing Global Civil Society
Av Alison Brysk
Inbunden, 2004
2510 kr
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Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial …
Human Rights and Private Wrongs
Constructing Global Civil Society
Av Alison Brysk
Häftad, 2004
793 kr
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Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial …
Methods and Nations
Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject
Inbunden, 2004
2510 kr
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Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, …
Methods and Nations
Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject
Häftad, 2004
749 kr
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Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, …
International Relations and the Problem of Difference
Av Naeem Inayatullah, David L. Blaney
Inbunden, 2003
3063 kr
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International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. In this work, the authors re-imagine IR …
International Relations and the Problem of Difference
Av Naeem Inayatullah, David L. Blaney
Häftad, 2003
749 kr
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International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. In this work, the authors re-imagine IR …
Declining World Order
America's Imperial Geopolitics
Av Richard Falk
Inbunden, 2004
3063 kr
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This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of …
Declining World Order
America's Imperial Geopolitics
Av Richard Falk
Häftad, 2004
764 kr
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This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of …
Rethinking Refugees
Beyond State of Emergency
Av Peter Nyers
Inbunden, 2005
3063 kr
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Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency examines the ways in which refugees have been made objects of the complex discourse, practices, and strategies of humanitarianism making visible the link between our knowledge of refugees and questions about the changing status of political power, …
Rethinking Refugees
Beyond State of Emergency
Av Peter Nyers
Häftad, 2005
851 kr
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Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency examines the ways in which refugees have been made objects of the complex discourse, practices, and strategies of humanitarianism making visible the link between our knowledge of refugees and questions about the changing status of political power, …
Liberal Way of War
Killing to Make Life Live
Av Michael Dillon, Julian Reid
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of …
Liberal Way of War
Killing to Make Life Live
Av Michael Dillon, Julian Reid
Häftad, 2009
822 kr
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The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of …
Beyond the Global Culture War
Av Adam K. Webb
Inbunden, 2006
2743 kr
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"Beyond the Global Culture War" presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely …
Beyond the Global Culture War
Av Adam K. Webb
Häftad, 2006
909 kr
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"Beyond the Global Culture War" presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely …
Colonial Art of Demonizing Others
A Global Perspective
Av Esther Lezra
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation –roughly from 1750 to 1848.This book argues that Europe’s archives of self-understanding are haunted …
Out of Line
Essays on the Politics of Boundaries and the Limits of Modern Politics
Inbunden, 2015
2510 kr
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A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range of cases, some geographical, some legal, and some involving less tangible practices of inclusion and exclusion. The book begins by exploring the boundary between modern Western forms of international relations …
Out of Line
Essays on the Politics of Boundaries and the Limits of Modern Politics
Häftad, 2015
764 kr
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A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range of cases, some geographical, some legal, and some involving less tangible practices of inclusion and exclusion. The book begins by exploring the boundary between modern Western forms of international relations …
Politics of Difference
Epistemologies of Peace
Av Hartmut Behr
Häftad, 2015
749 kr
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This book develops a notion of differences and 'otherness' beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought.In doing so, it relates to the phenomenological discourse of the twentieth century, especially to Georg Simmel, Alfred …
