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355 produkter
Counterterrorism and Colonialism
Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt
Av Alice Finden
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised. The book investigates the historical development …
Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society
Fostering Cultural Pluralism through Citizenship Politics
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.The …
Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society
Fostering Cultural Pluralism through Citizenship Politics
Häftad, 2024
520 kr
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This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.The …
Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Security
The Case of Frontex
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Examining the relationship between humanitarianism, human rights, and security in the governance of borders and migration, this book analyses the case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), challenging the common assumption that humanitarianism and human rights provide a critical …
Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality
Writing Civilisational Difference in Early Modern International Relations
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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This book asks whether sovereignty can guarantee international equality by exploring the discourses of sovereignty and their reliance on the notions of civilisation and savagery in two historical colonial encounters: the French explorations of Canada in the 16th century and the domestic troubles …
Colonial Citizenship and Everyday Transnationalism
An Immigrant’s Story
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present.It takes up the story of …
Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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To what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through aesthetic perceptions, and aspirations? This book approaches experiences of urban aesthetics not as an established framework, defined by imposed norms or legislations, but as the result of a continuous reflexive …
Nation-branding in Practice
The Politics of Promoting Sports, Cities and Universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book investigates the political implications of country promotion through practices of ‘nation-branding’ by drawing on contemporary examples from the sports, urban development and higher education sector in Kazakhstan and Qatar. Nation-branding has emerged as a central practice of …
Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age
Imagining Alternatives
Av Cami Rowe
Inbunden, 2022
2208 kr
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This book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. As political communications are increasingly conducted in online environments,‘post-truth’ performances become evermore central to democratic processes. …
Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil
The Politics of Life and Death
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of …
New Political Imagination
Making the Case
Av Tony Fry, Madina Tlostanova
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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The book presents the case for the making of a new political imagination by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of specific locales and the world at …
Nation-branding in Practice
The Politics of Promoting Sports, Cities and Universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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This book investigates the political implications of country promotion through practices of ‘nation-branding’ by drawing on contemporary examples from the sports, urban development and higher education sector in Kazakhstan and Qatar. Nation-branding has emerged as a central practice of …
Cultures of Violence
Visual Arts and Political Violence
Av Ruth Kinna, Gillian Whiteley
Häftad, 2022
384 kr
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Investigating art practitioners’ responses to violence, this book considers how artists have used art practices to rethink concepts of violence and non-violence. It explores the strategies that artists have deployed to expose physical and symbolic violence through representational, performative and …
Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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Over the past few years, increased ‘unauthorised’ migrations into the territories of Europe have resulted in one of the most severe crises in the history of the European Union. Stierl explores migration and border struggles in contemporary Europe and the ways in which they animate, problematise, …
Everyday Border Struggles
Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais
Av Thom Tyerman
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.In an age of mobility, borders appear to be everywhere. Encountered more and more in our everyday lives, borders locally enact global divisions and inequalities of …
Everyday Border Struggles
Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais
Av Thom Tyerman
Häftad, 2022
651 kr
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This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.In an age of mobility, borders appear to be everywhere. Encountered more and more in our everyday lives, borders locally enact global divisions and inequalities of …
On the Persistence of the Japanese History Problem
Historicism and the International Politics of History
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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In Japan, people often refer to August 15, 1945 as the end of "that war." But the duration of "that war" remains vague. At times, it refers to the fifteen years of war in the Asia-Pacific. At others, it refers to an imagination of the century long struggle between the East and the West that …
Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics
Av Marysia Zalewski, Paula Drumond m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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Sexual violence against men is an under-theorised and under-noticed topic, though it is becoming increasingly apparent that this form of violence is widespread. Yet despite emerging evidence documenting its incidence, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones, efforts to understand its causes …
Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing
On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence
Av Kyle Grayson
Häftad, 2020
639 kr
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The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at …
Europe Anti-Power
Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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The EU seeks to define a role for itself in power politics while remaining firm in its rejection of power politics. In order to make power compatible with the European project, EU debate has appended a number of progressive adjectives to the word "power," adjectives like "civilian" and "normative," …
Global Making of Policing
Postcolonial Perspectives
Av Jana Hönke, Markus-Michael Müller
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This edited volume analyses the global making of security institutions and practices in our postcolonial world. The volume will offer readers the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the global making of how security is thought of and practiced, from US urban policing, diaspora politics …
New Political Imagination
Making the Case
Av Tony Fry, Madina Tlostanova
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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The book presents the case for the making of a new political imagination by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of specific locales and the world at …
Targeting in International Law
Counterinsurgency and the Legal Materiality of the Principle of Distinction
Av Amin Parsa
Inbunden, 2023
2323 kr
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This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians.The author demonstrates that technologies of …
Targeting in International Law
Counterinsurgency and the Legal Materiality of the Principle of Distinction
Av Amin Parsa
Häftad, 2025
653 kr
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This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians.The author demonstrates that technologies of …
Writing the Self and Transforming Knowledge in International Relations
Towards a Politics of Liminality
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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This book emerges from within the everyday knowledge practices of International Relations (IR) scholarship and explores the potential of experimental writing as an alternative source of ‘knowledge’ and political imagination within the modern university and the contemporary structures of neoliberal …
Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Security
The Case of Frontex
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Examining the relationship between humanitarianism, human rights, and security in the governance of borders and migration, this book analyses the case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), challenging the common assumption that humanitarianism and human rights provide a critical …
Rethinking the Body in Global Politics
Bodies, Body Politics, and the Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic
Häftad, 2023
520 kr
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This book rethinks the body in global politics and the particular roles bodies play in our international system, foregrounding processes and practices involved in the continually contested (re/dis)embodiment of both human bodies and collective bodies politic.Purnell provides a new, innovative, and …
Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11
Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller.Memorial Museums are evocative spaces. Drawing on aesthetic practices deeply rooted in representing the ‘unrepresentability’ of cultural trauma, …
Colonial Politics of Hope
Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations
Av Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and circumscribe political processes of recognising the rights of indigenous peoples.The book examines hope in indigenous–state relations today. Engaging …
