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  • Political Theory

    A Global and Comparative Introduction

    by Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris ...
    This groundbreaking work presents a transformative perspective on political theory. This text is not just an introduction to political theory, it′s a call to broaden the discipline′s horizons, making it more globally aware and methodologically diverse.The authors introduce a novel approach to political theory that expands the scope of the discipline beyond traditional philosophical texts and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • War for Peace

    Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought

    by Murad Idris ...
    Peace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: "peace" is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace? What does peace mean when some say that they are committed to it but that their enemies do not value it? Why is it that associating peace with other ideals, like justice, ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

    Edited by Leigh K. Jenco, Murad Idris, Megan C. Thomas ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Increased flows of people, capital, and ideas across geographic borders raise urgent challenges to the existing terms and practices of politics. Comparative political theory seeks to devise new intellectual frames for addressing these challenges by questioning the canonical (that is, Euro-American) categories that have historically shaped inquiry in political theory and other disciplines. It does ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

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  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Gender in History

    Global Perspectives

    by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ...
    GENDER IN HISTORYPraise for the first edition:“Wiesner-Hanks ... accomplishes a near-impossible feat - a review of what is known about the construction of gender and the character of women’s lives in all known cultures over the course of human history …. Theoretically sophisticated and doing justice to the historical and cross-cultural record, yet assimilable by students.”Choice<stro... ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality

    by Sayan Dey ...
    This collection of interviews fromfrom various decolonial researchersand academicians across the worldcentrally reflects upon upon twocrucial aspects - the differencesbetween the concepts of postcolonialityand decoloniality, and the multifariousforms of decolonial thinking and doingthat are taking place in thecontemporary era. ... Read more

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  • Democracy to Come

    Politics as Relational Praxis

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy. He argues that democracy is not a stable system anchored in a manifest authority (like monarchy), but is sustained by the recessed and purely potential rule of the "people". Hence, democracy has to constantly reinvent itself, resembling theologically a creatio continua. Like one of Calder's mobiles, democracy for ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Decolonizing International Relations

    Edited by Branwen Gruffydd Jones ...
    The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism. Decolonizing International Relations exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics

    Edited by Olivia U. Rutazibwa, Robbie Shilliam ...
    Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule.The Handbook introduces and develops cutting-edge analytical ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity

    The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity

    Edited by Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Bruno Martins ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    The impasse currently affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity is, to a large extent, a reflection of the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Since the global hegemony of human rights as a language for human dignity is nowadays incontrovertible, the question of whether it can be used in a counter-hegemonic sense remains open. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Comparative Political Thought

    Theorizing Practices

    Edited by Michael Freeden, Andrew Vincent ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Political Thought
    This edited book introduces students and scholars to Comparative Political Thought. Featuring contributions from an excellent international line-up of esteemed scholars it examines some of the following issues:Is political theory 'Western-centric'?What can we learn from non-Western traditions of political thought?How do we compare different strands of national and regional political thought ... Read more

    $59.99 USD