Social and political philosophy

This book considers tourism to memorial sites from a visitor's point of view, challenging established theories in tourism and memory studies by critically appraising Germany's often celebrated memory culture.

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism.

Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective that transcends the traditional divide between the West and the East, and the Global South and Global North.

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.

Focusing on why neoliberalism gained such a unique strong hold in the United States, philosopher Bruce N.

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility.

Shoah and Torah systematically takes up the task of reading the Shoah through the lens of the Torah and the Torah through the lens of the Shoah.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective that transcends the traditional divide between the West and the East, and the Global South and Global North.

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "e;illegal markets"e; in the region.

A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world.

In many countries, movement parties have swayed large tracts of the electorate.

Across the social sciences and even in philosophy, trust is most often characterized in terms of expectations and probabilities.

Across the social sciences and even in philosophy, trust is most often characterized in terms of expectations and probabilities.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology.

First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe states that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the 'dead hand' of institutional Marxism has been eroded by revisionist Marxism, with the turn to young Marx and the philosophy of human emancipation to undermine prevailing orthodoxies.

In the twenty-first century, humanity faces both unprecedented existential threats and remarkable possibilities for development.

This book develops a unique theory of change by drawing on American philosophy and contemporary feminist thought.

"Das eigensinnige Kind" ist das kürzeste Märchen in der Sammlung der Brüder Grimm und zugleich eines der schrecklichsten.

"Das eigensinnige Kind" ist das kürzeste Märchen in der Sammlung der Brüder Grimm und zugleich eines der schrecklichsten.

This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars.

This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars.

Through empirical analysis and conceptual development, this book analyzes the political psychology of Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign and its role in the Chinese political system.

With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality.

Through empirical analysis and conceptual development, this book analyzes the political psychology of Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign and its role in the Chinese political system.

With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality.

Using Marxist and Polanyian frameworks, this book examines the structural and discursive transformation that can explain the polarization of migration debates and within the rise of nationalist anti-migrant discourses in Europe with a special attention to Eastern Europe and Hungary.

Written by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy.

«Este libro reúne textos de Joseph Ratzinger/Benedicto XVI en torno a un hilo conductor: su gran apuesta —a los creyentes y a los no creyentes— de vivir y organizar nuestra convivencia 'como si Dios existiera'.

Este libro surge de una presunta paradoja: cómo pensar desde el posfundacionalismo aquella institución –el Estado– que funciona como fundamento político par excellence en la modernidad.

La teoría de la democracia fue, y en gran medida sigue siendo, una teoría que refleja implícitamente la historia y las condiciones sociales de los países donde ha logrado mas viejas y sólidas raíces, básicamente los países de capitalismo avanzado del cuadrante Noroeste del mundo.

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself.

An explosion of flourishing black megachurches has changed the landscape of American religious life.

This book is a critical examination of the different roles of conscience and cognition in social research in China and the West, exploring how the two traditions can enrich each other and help societies navigate through the complex intellectual and moral crises of our time.

This book is a critical examination of the different roles of conscience and cognition in social research in China and the West, exploring how the two traditions can enrich each other and help societies navigate through the complex intellectual and moral crises of our time.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world.

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic.

Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architecture's contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding, and labor.

Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architecture's contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding, and labor.

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it - both in theory and in practice.

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic.

The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession explores the various debates surrounding the issues of self-determination and secession, and the legal, political, and normative implications they give rise to.

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it - both in theory and in practice.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession explores the various debates surrounding the issues of self-determination and secession, and the legal, political, and normative implications they give rise to.

This book presents an innovative exploration of the rise of political forces that have coalesced around the anti-gender movement, shaping strategies that advocate novel intersections of religion, politicization of gender and sexuality, and radical and populist rejuvenation of conservative ideologies.