Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity.
Politische Theologie erlebt derzeit ein Revival: Nachdem es eine längere Zeit lang still um die Politische Theologie geworden war, erfreut sie sich – nicht zuletzt angesichts multipler Krisenerscheinungen – aktuell wieder eines wachsenden Interesses.
The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner's publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecting upon conceptions of citizenship today.
The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner's publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecting upon conceptions of citizenship today.
In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.
This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics.
Negotiating the terrain between techno-optimism and eco-pessimism, this work establishes the political connections between technologies of the body, property, and the environment.
Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe.
The Bush-Cheney administration took office in 2001 determined to assert the preeminent authority of the executive branch and its immunity from congressional oversight and public transparency.
This book presents a comparative analysis of the struggles of Latin American indigenous peoples for effective representation in national political systems in the region.
This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War.
Unconfessed by definition, hypocrisy is one of the most used and abused polemical categories, even today, to denounce the "e;masked cynicism"e; of certain social actors, especially when they hold public office.
This book attempts to explain why despite widespread popular support (the "e;Greek Fire"e;) in the United States of America for the Greek Revolution, the promulgation in 1823 of the Monroe Doctrine led to Washington D.