Social and political philosophy

This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s.

This book considers how public diplomacy is employed as an instrument of statecraft by Middle Eastern and Asian governments to leverage soft power.

This detailed study of Chile's upward trajectory from the 1973 military coup to its accession to the OECD in 2010 shows how foreign policy elites utilise international status to build legitimacy, consolidate power, and shape collective agency in the world.

Religious and Identity-Based Roots of the War in Ukraine critically analyses the religious and identity-based roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War from a long-term historical perspective.

China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of mid- to late-eighteenth century European Enlightenment political thinkers.

This comprehensive book study comprises two volumes, and the topics covered in this second volume are a continuation of those presented in the first volume.

The concept of recognition has moved to the forefront of philosophical research in recent decades, particularly in political and social philosophy but also related areas, including philosophy of race and gender, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and aesthetics.

Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium.

This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism.

This comprehensive book study comprises two volumes, and the topics covered in this second volume are a continuation of those presented in the first volume.

Freedom With Religions offers a new interpretation of Rawls' political liberalism, aiming to reconcile this framework with the profound forms of religious pluralism that characterise contemporary democracies.

This volume provides a thorough reconsideration of libertarian theory, offering novel perspectives that challenge established assumptions and initiate new directions for philosophical, legal and economic investigation.

The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology is a comprehensive exploration of how we, as humans, interact with and perceive the natural world.

This volume charts the history of transnational and transatlantic fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, a lesser-known phenomenon that occurred throughout the twentieth century into the present.

Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.

This book provides a critically informed and interdisciplinary global examination of the instrumental role of women as resistance actors, both historically and today.

This book presents an interdisciplinary and international reevaluation of urban critical theories, bringing together key perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies.

Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders.

The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers 43 chapters-written specifically for this volume by a team of leading international scholars-that survey a wide spectrum of research on the nature, purpose, and promise of argument and the associated practice of argumentation.

Over the last two decades German political history has changed fundamentally.

Media Realities is an intellectual intervention into today's most urgent debates about truth, perception, and power.

So far this century, the most developed democratic societies have witnessed the emergence of various extremist political movements.

This book argues for an inclusive definition of the family that recognizes diverse caregiving relationships and outlines distinct familial and governmental obligations based on a taxonomy of needs.

Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp's conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride.

This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship.

This book argues that there are weaknesses in the international systems of socio-economic rights protection and that these weaknesses can be mitigated or overcome through the practice of interaction between these systems.

This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s.

This detailed study of Chile's upward trajectory from the 1973 military coup to its accession to the OECD in 2010 shows how foreign policy elites utilise international status to build legitimacy, consolidate power, and shape collective agency in the world.

The current volume, entitled Motivation and Engagement in Various Learning Environments, includes research studies from different domains related to students' motivation, engagement and learning, parents' experiences, and teachers' involvement with novel interdisciplinary programs.

Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.

The result of a deep research work sustained for more than two decades, this book studies the construction of social knowledge from a constructivist perspective inherited from Piagetian thought.

Today, there is a reform in education around the world.

"e;What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path.

Elaborating a new approach to the comparative political economy of banking, Financial Democracy presents evidence of both the recent return to traditional bank management and the resurgence of alternative banks with social and public policy missions.

In this compelling narrative, discover how Christianity-particularly through Puritanism-shaped the foundations of modern Western democracy, only to see its influence dramatically transformed by the forces of secularization.

White Christian Nationalism is "e;an ideology that seeks to idealize and advocate a fusion of American Civic life with a.

Elaborating a new approach to the comparative political economy of banking, Financial Democracy presents evidence of both the recent return to traditional bank management and the resurgence of alternative banks with social and public policy missions.

This book studies religion through the eyes of some of its most influential, exemplary, and sometimes controversial people.

China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of mid- to late-eighteenth century European Enlightenment political thinkers.

In this compelling narrative, discover how Christianity-particularly through Puritanism-shaped the foundations of modern Western democracy, only to see its influence dramatically transformed by the forces of secularization.

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences.

Becoming One With the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education responds to an urgent need to reconceptualize the fundamentals of education in light of the many social, ecological, and political challenges facing humanity today.

John Dewey's sojourn to China created a historical moment between the United States and China.

Radford University was founded as a Normal School for teachers in 1910 and has remained a leader in teacher education ever since.

The harmonizing influence of ancient Daoist philosophy is of much relevance to the world in which we live today, and this is especially so in the field of global education.

With the dawn of research into leader-behaviors, scholars differentiated between being task-oriented, which is important, and also being people-oriented.

This book is a philosophical inquiry into psychological and emotional pain—specifically, the pain experienced by those who live with mental distress and use substances to cope.