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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratic Frontiers
Book SynopsisDemocratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms' effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type.Digital technologies develop at a much faster pace relative to our systems of governance which are supposed to embody democratic principles that are comparatively timeless, whether rooted in ancient Greek or Enlightenment ideas of freedom, autonomy and citizenship. Algorithms, computing millions of calculations per second, do not pause to reflect on their operations. Developments in the accumulation of vast private datasets that are used to train automated machine learning algorithms pose new challenges for upholding these values. Social media platforms, while the key driver of today's information disorder, also afford new opportunities fTable of Contents1. Algorithmic Knowledge and the Subversion of Subjectivity 2. Algorithms, Conventions and New Regulation Processes 3. From Big to Democratic Data: Why the Rise of AI Needs Data Solidarity 4. Democratic Possibilities of Digital Feminism: The Case of #IstanbulConventionSavesLives and #IstanbulSozlesmesi 5. Politics of Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Unpacking the Regime Type Debate
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South
Book SynopsisThe Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic studyadopting an interdisciplinary and international perspectiveto offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical-right movements in Global South countries in the twenty-first century.From deforestation and the anti-vaccine movement in Bolsonaro's Brazil to the massacre of religious minorities in Modi's India, the rise of the radical right in the Global South is in the news every day. Not long ago, some of these countries were globally celebrated as emerging economies that consolidated vibrant democracies. Nonetheless, they never overcame structural problems including economic inequality, social violence, cultural conservatism, and political authoritarianism. Featuring case studies from Brazil, India, the Philippines, and South Africa, and more generally from Africa and Latin America, this book analyses future scenarios anTable of ContentsIntroduction: A New Radical Right in the Global South? 1. Fascisms: A View from the South 2. India’s Fascist Democracy 3. Left, Right, Left: Moving Beyond the Binary to Think Fascism in Africa 4. Populism in Emerging Economies: Authoritarian Politics, Labour Precariousness, and Aspirational Classes in Brazil, India, and the Philippines (BIP) 5. Populist Foreign Policies in the Global South: Comparing the Far-right Identity-set Between Brazil and India 6. The Rise of the New Far Right in Latin America: Crisis of Globalization, Authoritarian Path Dependence and Civilian-Military Relations 7. Populism and Media in Duterte’s Philippines 8. Political Mobilization in an Era of ‘Post-Truth Politics’: Disinformation and the Hindu Right in India (1980s–2010s) 9. Gender and Sexuality (Still) in Dispute: Effects of the Spread of ‘Gender Ideology’ in Brazil 10. Archives of Neofascism: Charting Student Historical Debt in a Neoliberal University in South Africa 11. Denialism as Government: Trust and Truth in a Post-neoliberal Era 12. Notes on the Expressive Forms of the New Rights: A Dispute over the Subjectivity of the Majorities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Foreign Fighters in Ukraine
Book SynopsisForeign Fighters in Ukraine is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at foreigners who have chosen to fight in the conflict in Ukraine. While there has been considerable focus in policy, security and academic circles on the threat from returning jihadists so-called returnee foreign terrorist fighters the same danger from right-wing, but not essentially terrorist, extremists and others has been largely overlooked. As Westerners rushed to join the nascent Caliphate in Syria/Iraq, others simultaneously traveled to another foreign war on what many would call Europe's doorstep: the Russo-Ukrainian war. This book unmasks this largely unknown group of fighters as the author dives into the fighters' ideological and social backgrounds, their motivations for joining the conflict, their travails on the way there and their battle record in Eastern Ukraine. To a large extent based on interviews with the fighters themselves, it is a study on how and whyTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Western European Foreign Fighter Secret Society 2. Conflict: Myth and Reality in the War in Ukraine 3. Hosts of the Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Volunteer Battalions and Popular Militias 4. "Two Sides of the Same Coin"? Ideological (Non) Split on the European Far Right vis-à-vis the War in Ukraine 5. France: "To Fight American Imperialism" 6. Sweden: "Fight Them There So They Don’t Come Here" 7. Balkans: Repeating the 1990s War in Yugoslavia? 8. Other Western Europeans (and Americans): A Few Here, A Few There 9. Central-Eastern Europeans (CEE): More Red than Brown? 10. Elephant in the Room: Russian Foreign Fighters in the War in Ukraine 11. Conclusion 12. "Concerned Citizens of the World?" Foreign Volunteers for Ukraine in 2022
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The European Union and Global Development
Book SynopsisThis book systematically analyses the EU's commitment to a human rights-based approach to development through the lens of global justice theory. It identifies limits to the EU's approach and discusses how standardised policies, particularly in the case of human rights sanctions, may be perceived as neo-colonially intrusive and can come at the cost of recognizing the experiences and interests of vulnerable groups and allowing for partner countries' democratic ownership of their own development trajectory. Engaging with primary sources including official documents, reports, and 45 semi-structured interviews with EU and member state officials, the book also presents a novel explanation for why the EU, at times, steps out of its commitment to rights-based development and chooses differentiated foreign policy responses to similar situations. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU foreign policy, EU development policy human rights, and internationalTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Rights-based approaches: A framework for analysis 3. The EU’s development policy post-2020: Continuity or change? 4. Rights-based vanguards? Paradoxes in the like-minded member-states’ aid effectiveness policy 5. The EU’s human rights clause: 25 years of aid conditionality 6. Rights-based approaches and vulnerable groups: The case of LGBTI human rights 7. Norm collision in the EU’s approach to Rwanda 8. Conclusion: The EU’s development policy in a shifting global order
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resurgence of Global Populism
Book SynopsisResurgence of Global Populism provides a psychoanalytic perspective to the global implications of the populist movement in the U.S. and its relationship to other parts of the world, particularly focusing on the presidency and legacy of Donald Trump. The book explores Trump's use of psychological form of manipulation known as projective identification and how his use of this defense mechanism has influenced global institutions, political discourse, and quality of life in the long term. Messina explores the correlation between Trump's rhetoric and an increase in reported racism and prejudiced violence worldwide, disintegration of global values, and a radicalized political climate. She analyzes the dynamics between Trump and his supporters, political opponents, and successors, considers the COVID-19 pandemic as a study of Trump's views of the world, and considers the roles of social and television media. The book concludes with an explanation of antidotes to projective Trade Review "This important book cogently applies psychoanalytic thinking to a host of serious dangers that threaten democracy and even our very survival in the United States and in the rest of the globe. Starting with Donald Trump’s unscrupulous rise to power and deeply damaging presidency, Messina studies the regressive dynamics of his supporters. She then broadens her discussion to include 15 additional countries being weakened by authoritarian leaders. Messina is a role model for psychoanalysts who want to apply their understanding of individual and group dynamics beyond the consulting room." - Richard M. Waugaman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA"In the fascinating Resurgence of Global Populism, Messina helps us understand the workings of the Populist-Authoritarian powermongers and how they con us and end up destroying everything in their path. This book is important and should be required reading in schools as a safeguard of true democracy." - Robert M. Gordon, Ph.D. ABPP, Forensic Psychologist"Karyne E. Messina takes us on a global tour to explore how the fragile state of democracy has enabled the rise of authoritarian populist leaders - from Trump to Modi to Bolsonaro - who see themselves as heroes amidst a world of villains. Messina describes how the vitriolic blame game that these leaders employ is leading to immense human suffering and environmental damage. This important book stands as a stark warning that the mental health of elected leaders is a vital issue that impacts us all." - Ian Hughes, author, Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy"Karyne Messina has her psychoanalytic hand on the pulse of growing authoritarianism throughout the world. This book takes us on a guided world tour of corrosive trends from the United States to South America, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania to analyze the causes and effects of populist and authoritarian governments. What sets this book apart is her sure-handed use of a psychoanalytic lens to examine the developmental causes of threats to democracy and good governance, the invasive effects of social media, and the erosion of good governance worldwide. Students of international relations and all who care about the health of our planet will benefit from sharing her examination." - David Scharff, MD; Winner of the 2021 Sigourney Award in Psychoanalysis; Co-Founder, The International Psychotherapy Institute"Messina brilliantly and eloquently applies the psychoanalytic defenses of splitting and projection to explain the appeal of populism and its powerful threat to democracies throughout the world. Her mastery of history, politics, authoritarian governments and their leaders makes for an exciting as well as invaluable read." - Maurine Kelber Kelly, Ph.D., Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst, Contemporary Freudian Society; Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Private Practice in North Bethesda, Maryland, USA"Dr Messina offers a psychological explanation for current world politics. Narcissistic, charismatic leaders use projection to color complex situations black and white and tap into our unconscious desires to do the same. The world-wide rise of populist regimes, the hold on us of social media, and the sapping of political will to combat climate change are covered here in detail. If there is a fix, it rests in our discovering an ability to hear how the other is right." - Christopher Keats, M.D., Psychoanalyst"Resurgence of Global Populism is one of the most important books that has been written in recent years because it illustrates the devastating effect of the Trump presidency that has reverberated around the world. While modern populists existed around the globe, the 45th president of the United States legitimized autocratic ways of thinking. Through the mechanism of projective identification, Messina explains how this way of shifting blame is destroying freedom as we know it. This is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how social media is also contributing to the erosion of representative government; a phenomenon that could lead to irreparable damage to democracy in America." - Harry Gill, MD, PhD; Medical Director, Embark at Cabin John; Medical Director, J Snyder Therapeutic Services; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University, USA"While it is uncommon for psychoanalysts to venture into the realm of the political, Karyne Messina has done so with an astute eye, a deep well of social, historical and theoretical knowledge, and a willingness to face head-on the question on everyone’s mind: "How did we get here?" Dr. Messina provides a framework for understanding how profoundly the psychological defense mechanisms of individuals in positions of power can reverberate on a global scale. Drawing on her understanding of the mechanisms of splitting and projective identification, Dr. Messina offers a comprehensive investigation into the dynamics that can precipitate a populist’s rise to power." - Anne Adelman, Ph.D., Teaching and Training Analyst, Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis; Teaching Analyst, Contemporary Freudian Society; Co-Chair, New Directions in Psychoanalysis, WBCP"Karyne E. Messina considers the driving forces for the emergence and propagation of populism, closely examining the logic from which corrupt systems evolve and are promoted and fostered. Her examination moves from country to country as it considers the circumstances, appearance, and propagation of populism in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., drawing important connections and comparisons between the politics and people of different nations of the world.This approach allows for an analysis that juxtaposes cultural and social influences on political processes, following how the psyches of nations and individuals are influenced by populist thinking. Important connections are drawn between the emergence of repressive laws and the underlying intentions and perceptions of the politicians and lawmakers involved." - The Bookwatch, Volume 19, Number 9"This important book cogently applies psychoanalytic thinking to a host of serious dangers that threaten democracy and even our very survival in the United States and in the rest of the globe. Starting with Donald Trump’s unscrupulous rise to power and deeply damaging presidency, Messina studies the regressive dynamics of his supporters. She then broadens her discussion to include 15 additional countries being weakened by authoritarian leaders. Messina is a role model for psychoanalysts who want to apply their understanding of individual and group dynamics beyond the consulting room." - Richard M. Waugaman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA"In the fascinating Resurgence of Global Populism, Messina helps us understand the workings of the Populist-Authoritarian powermongers and how they con us and end up destroying everything in their path. This book is important and should be required reading in schools as a safeguard of true democracy." - Robert M. Gordon, Ph.D. ABPP, Forensic Psychologist"Karyne E. Messina takes us on a global tour to explore how the fragile state of democracy has enabled the rise of authoritarian populist leaders - from Trump to Modi to Bolsonaro - who see themselves as heroes amidst a world of villains. Messina describes how the vitriolic blame game that these leaders employ is leading to immense human suffering and environmental damage. This important book stands as a stark warning that the mental health of elected leaders is a vital issue that impacts us all." - Ian Hughes, author, Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy"Karyne Messina has her psychoanalytic hand on the pulse of growing authoritarianism throughout the world. This book takes us on a guided world tour of corrosive trends from the United States to South America, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania to analyze the causes and effects of populist and authoritarian governments. What sets this book apart is her sure-handed use of a psychoanalytic lens to examine the developmental causes of threats to democracy and good governance, the invasive effects of social media, and the erosion of good governance worldwide. Students of international relations and all who care about the health of our planet will benefit from sharing her examination." - David Scharff, MD; Winner of the 2021 Sigourney Award in Psychoanalysis; Co-Founder, The International Psychotherapy Institute"Messina brilliantly and eloquently applies the psychoanalytic defenses of splitting and projection to explain the appeal of populism and its powerful threat to democracies throughout the world. Her mastery of history, politics, authoritarian governments and their leaders makes for an exciting as well as invaluable read." - Maurine Kelber Kelly, Ph.D., Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst, Contemporary Freudian Society; Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Private Practice in North Bethesda, Maryland, USA"Dr Messina offers a psychological explanation for current world politics. Narcissistic, charismatic leaders use projection to color complex situations black and white and tap into our unconscious desires to do the same. The world-wide rise of populist regimes, the hold on us of social media, and the sapping of political will to combat climate change are covered here in detail. If there is a fix, it rests in our discovering an ability to hear how the other is right." - Christopher Keats, M.D., Psychoanalyst"Resurgence of Global Populism is one of the most important books that has been written in recent years because it illustrates the devastating effect of the Trump presidency that has reverberated around the world. While modern populists existed around the globe, the 45th president of the United States legitimized autocratic ways of thinking. Through the mechanism of projective identification, Messina explains how this way of shifting blame is destroying freedom as we know it. This is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how social media is also contributing to the erosion of representative government; a phenomenon that could lead to irreparable damage to democracy in America." - Harry Gill, MD, PhD; Medical Director, Embark at Cabin John; Medical Director, J Snyder Therapeutic Services; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University, USA"While it is uncommon for psychoanalysts to venture into the realm of the political, Karyne Messina has done so with an astute eye, a deep well of social, historical and theoretical knowledge, and a willingness to face head-on the question on everyone’s mind: "How did we get here?" Dr. Messina provides a framework for understanding how profoundly the psychological defense mechanisms of individuals in positions of power can reverberate on a global scale. Drawing on her understanding of the mechanisms of splitting and projective identification, Dr. Messina offers a comprehensive investigation into the dynamics that can precipitate a populist’s rise to power." - Anne Adelman, Ph.D., Teaching and Training Analyst, Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis; Teaching Analyst, Contemporary Freudian Society; Co-Chair, New Directions in Psychoanalysis, WBCP"Karyne E. Messina considers the driving forces for the emergence and propagation of populism, closely examining the logic from which corrupt systems evolve and are promoted and fostered. Her examination moves from country to country as it considers the circumstances, appearance, and propagation of populism in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., drawing important connections and comparisons between the politics and people of different nations of the world.This approach allows for an analysis that juxtaposes cultural and social influences on political processes, following how the psyches of nations and individuals are influenced by populist thinking. Important connections are drawn between the emergence of repressive laws and the underlying intentions and perceptions of the politicians and lawmakers involved." - The Bookwatch, Volume 19, Number 9Table of ContentsAcknowledgements IntroductionAuthor’s NoteChapter One: Corrupt Systems: Understanding Trumpian PopulismChapter Two: O Mito: Jair Bolsonaro, Blame Shifting, and Anti-Democratic TendenciesChapter Three: Populism in Hungary and America: The Similarities between Donald Trump and Viktor OrbánChapter Four: The Forgotten People: Populism in Australia and New ZealandChapter Five: Populism in PolandChapter Six: Austrian Populism in the 21st CenturyChapter Seven: Populism in IndiaChapter Eight: Slow Erosion: Populist Leaders in Western EuropeChapter Nine: Cincinnatus, Deferred: Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and When Unchecked Populism Turns to AuthoritarianismChapter Ten: Killer Savior: Populism in the PhilippinesChapter Eleven: Pugnacious Populism in Erdoğan’s TurkeyChapter Twelve: Common Traits Among Populist LeadersChapter Thirteen: It’s Time for Government to Hold Big Tech AccountableChapter Fourteen: Behaving Badly: Pandemic Blame GameChapter Fifteen: Ecological Grief: Mourning a Changing Planet and Fighting Populist DenialismConclusionEpilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surveillance Law Data Retention and Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The increase in the use of modern technology has led to an explosion of generated data and, with that, a greater interest from law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In the early 2000s, data retention laws were introduced into the UK, and across the European Union (EU). This was met by domestic challenges before national courts, until a seminal ruling by the Court of Justice in the European Union (CJEU) ruled that indiscriminate data retention was incompatible with EU law. Since then, however, the CJEU has revised its position and made certain concessions, particularly under the guise of national security. This book focuses on data retention in the UK with the principal aim of examining compatibility with the ECHR. This is explored through a variety of ways including providing an account of democracy and why secret surveillance poses a threat to it, a history of
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Taylor & Francis Unjust Borders
Book SynopsisStates restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorize border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners. Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust and examines how individual actors should respond to this injustice. Javier Hidalgo maintains that individuals can rightfully resist immigration restrictions and often have strong moral reasons to subvert these laws. This book makes the case that unauthorized migrants can permissibly evade, deceive, and use defensive force against immigration agents, that smugglers can aid migrants in crossing borders, and that citizens should disobey laws that compel them to harm immigrants. Unjust Borders is a meditation on how individuals should act in the midst of pervasive injustice.Trade Review"The book is persuasive and beautifully written, bringing forth a realistic and optimistic account of how humans can reorganize themselves to better govern in the emerging epoch. It is agenda setting, providing new ideas for progress on a variety of fronts— from the environmental, to the social, to the political—and giving us new ways to think about environmental governance in uncertain, unstable circumstances. Overall it stands as a novel and robust treatment of the Anthropocene and the core issues of global governance. Perhaps most importantly, the book offers hope that human reason and communication with one another and with the Earth system can rise to the challenges of theAnthropocene." - Jen Iris Allan, Ethics and International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Case Against Exclusion2. Challenges to Freedom of Movement3. Actual Immigration Restrictions Are Unjust4. Are More Open Borders Feasible? Does It Matter?5. Resistance at the Border6. People Smuggling7. Complicity and the Duty to Resist8. Promoting More Open Borders
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace
The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace is the first multi-authored volume to specifically address the many facets of the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict, colloquially known as the Troubles, and its subsequent peace process. This volume is rooted in opening space to address controversial subjects, answer key questions, and move beyond reductive analysis that reproduces a simplistic two community theses. The temporal span of individual chapters can reach back to the formation of the state of Northern Ireland, with many starting in the late 1960s, to include a range of individuals, collectives, organisations, understandings, and events, at least up to the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998.This volume has forefronted creative approaches in understanding conflict and allows for analysis and reflection on conflict and peace to continue through to the present day. With an extensive introduction, preface, and 45 individual chapters, this volu
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon.Although illiberalism is most often discussed in political and constitutional terms, its study cannot be limited to such narrow frames. This Handbook comprises sixty individual chapters authored by an internationally recognized group of experts who present perspectives and viewpoints from a wide range of academic disciplines. Chapters are devoted to different facets of illiberalism, including the history of the idea and its competitors, its implications for the economy, society, government and the international order, and its contemporary iterations in representative countries and regions.The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism will form an important component of any library's holding; it will be of benefit as an academic reference, as well as being an indispensable resourceTrade Review"An impressive and wide-ranging volume whose theme is deeply relevant for political theorists and practical politicians in both liberal and illiberal democracies worldwide."Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Emeritus, Yale University"Almost everyone writing for this volume, not just the editors, seems committed to treating illiberalism as the concept that sheds the greatest light on the distinctive forms of authoritarianism or populism or ethnocentrism emerging in contemporary politics. Are they justified in doing so? Does their restricted focus pay off in greater insight into contemporary political problems? My short answer to these questions is yes."Bernard Yack, SocietyTable of ContentsPart 1: Theoretical perspectives 1. The antiliberal idea 2. The history of illiberalism 3. Illiberalism and opposition to the Enlightenment 4. Contemporary Christian criticism of liberalism 5. Left and New Left critiques of liberalism 6. Conservativism as illiberalism 7. Asian values, Confucianism, and illiberal constitutions 8. A theory of illiberal democracy Part 2: Forms of illiberal government 9. Illiberal regime types 10. Hybrid regimes 11. Theocracy 12. Authoritarian structures and trends in consolidated democracies Part 3: Ideas and Forces Fuelling Illiberalism 13. The ideational core of democratic illiberalism 14. The people in ancient times and the rise of ’popularism’ 15. The illiberal potential of the people 16. Identity, narratives and nationalism 17. Illiberalism and national sovereignty 18. Populism and illiberalism 19. Illiberalism and the multicultural backlash 20. Illiberal democracy and the politicization of immigration 21. Gender and illiberalism 22. Illiberalism and Islam Part 4: Illiberal practices 23. Illiberal practices 24. Surveillance in the illiberal state 25. Media control and post-truth communication 26. Illiberal practices and the management of protest and dissent 27. The body of the nation: Illiberalism and gender Part 5: Government and governance 28. The myth of the illiberal democratic constitution 29. Constitutional practices in times ’after liberty’ 30. Parliaments in an Era of Illiberal Executives 31. Political parties, elections, and pernicious polarization in the rise of illiberalism 32. The plebiscite in modern democracy 33. Illiberal constitutionalism and the judiciary 34. Illiberalism and the rule of law 35. Emergencies and illiberalism 36. Illiberalism of military regimes 37. Towards a post-liberal approach to political ordering Part 6: Economy, society and psychology 38. The social requisites of illiberalism 39. The psychological construction of the illiberal subject 40. The psychology of authoritarianism and support for illiberal policies and parties 41. Illiberal politics and group-based needs for recognition and dominance 42. Illiberal economic policies 43. Economic Consequences of Illiberalism in Eastern Europe Part 7: Regional and national variations 44. Asia’s illiberal governments 45. Cultural sources and institutional practice of authoritarianism in China 46. The intertwining of liberalism and illiberalism in India 47. Indonesia’s ‘third-wave’ democratic model? 48. Latin America breathing: Liberalism and illiberalism, once and again 49. From antiestablishmentarianism to Bolsonarism in Brazil 50. The Balkans 51. Illiberalism in East Central Europe 52. The illiberal challenge in the European Union 53. Turkey as a model of Muslim authoritarianism? Part 8: Global perspectives 54. Illiberalism and human rights 55. Free trade in peril 56. International sources of democratic backsliding 57. The crisis of liberal world order Part 9: Sources of resistance 58. The weaknesses of illiberal regimes 59. Civil society, crisis exposure and resistance strategies 60. Politics after the normalization of shamelessness Part 10: Themes for future research 61. A compass for future research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deepening Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book examines the renewed interest and commitment that countries across the world have shown in recent decades towards adopting models of decentralising, or downsizing the state, and moving towards more participatory models of government.It examines systems of decentralised development such as self-managing co-operatives from a global and comparative perspective with a focus on developing countries. Drawing on examples from Kerala and a few other states in India, as well as Cuba, Bangladesh and South Africa among other countries, the book offers critical perspectives on the positive impacts of these experiments and the promises these offer for the future. It discusses the challenges of implementing these models, how well these work in coordination with the civil society and the state, issues of transparency and democratic oversight as well as corruption and capture of power due to entrenched structures of inequality. The volume analyses welfare and development models andTable of Contents1. Introduction: Experiments of Deepening Democracy Through Decentralized Governance: An Overview Part I - Concepts and Visions: Some Reflections 2. Embedded Democracy 3. Socialist Construction and Commoning 4. Thinking Beyond Capitalism 5. Covid 19 Context in India and Working Towards Alternative Paradigms 6. Citizenship and Social Suffering in the Context of Covid 19 Part II - Decentralized Governance and Development in Comparative Perspective 7. Roles of NGOs, State and For-Profit Organizations in Improving Maternal and Child Sector in Bangladesh: Towards a Division of Labour 8. Comparative Notes on the Pros and Cons of Decentralization in the Context of the Corona Crisis 9. The Cure Remains a Symptom: Sub-National Government, Democracy and Development in South Africa 10. Democratic Decentralization in Kerala: A Critique of Recent Experience 11. The Capacity Conundrum, Decentralization and Local Governance: How Kerala Tackles It 12. Employment Creation at Decentralized Level Through Construction of Niche Structure and Promotion of Self-Organization Part III - Experiments in Cooperativism, Decentralized Governance and Self-Management 13. Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión 14. Factory Takeovers for Production Under Self-Management: Three Examples From Europe 15. Cooperativism to Manage Covid 19 16. From Agricultural Cooperatives to Farmer Producing Companies – Analyzing the Transition of Cooperativism in India Part IV - Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European
Book SynopsisThis book provides novel and critical insights into the complex relationship between politics of memory and oblivion in European countries in the 20th and early 21st centuries as well as the cultural, political and institutional backgrounds against which they function. It explores the uses of the past in terms of a conscious choice to either reactivate or overlook memories as selective reference points for the promotion and legitimation of contemporary political goals. The chapters of this volume bring together theoretical discussions on the interrelationship between remembrance and purposeful oblivion as active processes that serve particular interests and ideologies in the present. By addressing the diverse meanings given to practices of memory, the contributions offer new perspectives on how institutions shape cultural memory, power relations and identity projects. Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context: Critical Perspectives will be of interest to Table of ContentsIntroduction: Politics of memory and oblivion 1. Legacies of an imperial past in a small nation: patterns of postcolonialism in Belgium 2. Politics of fire: the commemorative torch rally 612 of the Finnish radical right 3. The political uses of the past in modern Russia: the images of the October revolution 1917 in the politics of memory of Russian parties 4. Highlights of national history? Constitutional memory and the preambles of post- communist constitutions 5. Reconstructing the past in a state- mandated historical memory institute: the case of Albania 6. The construction and deconstruction of national myths: a study of the transformation of Finnish history textbook narratives after World War II
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Irish Republican Counterpublic
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice. Considering the establishment of Irish Republican community institutions, prison protests, Republican Feminism, and Provisional IRA media and communications, this volume explores the emergence of Republicanism as a mass social movement in the nationalist Catholic ghettos and rural regions of Northern Ireland in the 1970s a development that helped to sustain the armed struggle of the Provisional Irish Republican Army for three decades. An examination of the emergence and transformative power of the counterpublic discourse and action of the Irish Republican movement, this volume provides a framework for conceptualizing counterpublics in social movement studies. As such it will appeal to sTrade Review"Scholars still know relatively little about the communities of support that stand behind the more visible face of movement activism. In this fascinating volume, the authors show that Northern Irish Republicans’ thirty-year struggle for independence was sustained by a 'counterpublic' forged in tenants associations, prison protests, local broadsheets, street art, and mothers’ support committees. Deeply researched and elegantly argued, the volume provides a genuinely new perspective on the ideas and institutions that fuel movements." -Francesca Polletta, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine"Organizing its detailed, highly innovative empirical investigations around concepts of counterpublic and civil sphere, this volume makes a critical theoretical intervention. Its publication is a major event, not only for studies of Irish Republican resistance but for social movement studies more broadly." -Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Social Movements and Counterpublics: the Northern Irish Republican Movement, 1969-1998 2. The Northern Ireland Republican Movement and Counterpublic Construction, 1969-1976 3. Irish Republican Counterpublics and Media Activism since the Troubles 4. Troubled Mothers: The Mobilization of Republican Motherhood during the Northern Ireland Conflict 5. The Republican Counterpublic in the H-Blocks, 1983-1989 6. The Prisoners' Support Campaign: How Hunger Strikes Facilitated the Counterpublic 7. Commentary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy
Book SynopsisThe Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since the third wave' of democratization from the 1990s.Democracy is in global decline. Fewer countries are democratic and fewer people, globally, live in substantive democracies. Autocracy is now the dominant political form and the future looks, at best, challenging for the retention of such democracies that remain. As they did a century ago, nationalism and populism have again reared their ugly heads, and more people are claiming that democracy no longer addresses their most compelling needs or interests. This book examines what democracy is and the circumstances that allowed even encouraged it to arise. Democracy has been a product of a need to find a political model that mediates between competing interests, building on conducive conditions. However, there have since been fundamental changes Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Drivers of Political Change 3 Ebb and Flow 4 Challengers 5 Compromise 6 Decline 7 The Radical Right 8 The Future is Not Written 9 Conclusion: With a Bang?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece
Book SynopsisThis book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts.It explores the notion of kingship offered by historians such as Herodotus, as well as dramatists writing for the Athenian stage, paying particular attention to dramatic depictions of the unique capabilities of Theseus in uniting the city in the figure of the democratic king'. It also discusses kingship in Greek philosophy: the Socratics' identification of an art of kingship', and Xenophon and Isocrates' model of virtue monarchy'. In turn, these allow a rereading of explorations of kingship and excellence in Plato's later political thought, seen as a critique of these models, and also in Aristotle's account of total kingship or pambasileia, treated here as a counterfactual device devTrade Review"Atack’s elegant and clever book situates itself amid recent discussions of kingship, from Graeber and Sahlins to Strathern. It focuses on texts from Herodotus to Aristotle, between the Homeric king and the late Hellenistic period of Philodemus. The focus is Greek even when speaking of foreign kings, and notwithstanding Atack’s impressive awareness of the huge literature on external kings in their own contexts (and bibliography in general)... [The book] works on at least two levels. First, it offers astute readings of some well-known texts, and succeeds without any doubt in reconceptualizing the Greek discourse of kingship (and kingliness) in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, in Athens especially. Second, it asks challenging methodological questions about sole rule and regality, which make the book of a wider interest. Atack's framework might work interestingly in relation to the Roman emperor, for example. The argument is concise and clear, and should provoke debate at the same level of seriousness and intellectual ambition with which it is written." - Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. King and Cosmos in Herodotus 2. Monarchy on the Democratic Stage 3. The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought 4. Kingship and Socratic Thought 5. Virtue and Monarchy 6. Kingship in Plato’s Later Political Thought 7. ‘Total Kingship’ and the Rule of Law 8. Conclusion: the Imaginary King and the Metaphysics of Political Unity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Migrant Protest and Democratic States of
Book SynopsisRecognizing the radical disparity between migration/border policy and constitutional law inside these borders, Kathleen R. Arnold focuses on two main forms of migrant protest to explore the meaning of resistance in a sovereign context: self-harming protest by detainees and faith-based sanctuary of individuals scheduled for detention.This activism creates a democratic state of exception, interrupting the legal process, altering discretionary forms of sovereign power, and enacting rights not formally granted; these efforts go beyond the assertion of liberal rights or merely restoring the rule of law (even if these are also goals), challenging the warfare state while constituting a demos that is formally illegible.Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception will be of interest to scholars, migrant advocacy professionals (including INGO and IGO officers), graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in a variety of fields from legal studies to forceTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1 Understanding migration policy as foreign policy2 Self-harming protest3 Faith-based sanctuary: Creating spaces of democratic exception4 Sovereignty and counter-sovereignty: Is democratic sovereignty possible?Conclusion: States of democratic exception: migrant agency and resistance to the warfare stateIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered what libertarians think about vaccine mandates? About gun control? About racial and sexual inequalities? While libertarianism is well known as a political theory relating to the scope and justification of state authority, the breadth and depth of libertarian work on a wide range of other topics in social and political philosophy is less well known. This handbook is the first definitive reference on libertarianism that offers an in-depth survey of the central ideas from across philosophy, politics, and economics, including applications to contemporary policy issues.The forty chapters in this work provide an encyclopedic overview of libertarian scholarship, from foundational debates about natural rights theories vs. utilitarian approaches, to policy debates over immigration, punishment and policing, and intellectual property. Each chapter presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of historical and contemporary libertarian thought on its subject, anTrade Review"This is a terrific collection of essays by leading thinkers. It covers just about every major topic in libertarian thought, plus some leading critiques. It should make an essential reference for anyone studying political philosophy."- Michael Huemer, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder"Libertarians are famously argumentative. This book introduces readers to everything that libertarians are arguing about – with conventional wisdom, critics, and each other. It’s an encyclopedic treatment of libertarian – and anti-libertarian – thought. If you love the free play of ideas, this is the book for you."- Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Foundations 1. Natural Rights 2. Freedom 3. Welfare 4. Contractarianism 5. Virtue Ethics 6. Objectivism Key Concepts 7. Self-Ownership 8. Property Rights 9. Liberty 10. Force and Coercion 11. Political Legitimacy and Authority Institutional Regimes 12. Anarchism 13. Minimal Statism 14. Classical Liberalism 15. Left Libertarianism Social Issues 16. Race 17. Sexual Ethics 18. Sex and Gender 19. Class Domestic Policy Issues 20. The Welfare State 21. Guns and Self-Defense 22. Children and the Family 23. Public Health and Healthcare Policy 24. Policing and Punishment 25. Taxation Global Policy Issues 26. Colonialism and Territorial Rights 27. Immigration 28. Rectification and Historic Injustice 29. War and Humanitarian Intervention 30. Environmental Issues 31. Intellectual Property Libertarianism and Economic Thought 32. Libertarianism and the Chicago School of Economics 33. Libertarianism and the Austrian School of Economics 34. Libertarianism and Public Choice 35. Libertarianism and the Bloomington School Critiques of Libertarianism 36. Feminist Critiques 37. Liberal Egalitarian Critiques 38. Conservative Critiques 39. Marxist Critiques 40. Republican Critiques
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Taylor & Francis The Origins of Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different geographic spaces. It traces the genesis of the idea of human rights back to ancient Indian and Greco-Roman texts, especially concepts such as the Rigvedic universal moral law, the Upanishadic narratives, the Romansâ model of governance, the rule of law, and administration of justice. It also looks at Ciceroâs concept of rights and duties which focuses on quality of compassion and fair play, and Senecaâs expositions on mercy, empathy, justice, and checks on the arbitrary exercise of power.An important contribution, this book fills a significant gap in the study of human rights. It will be useful for students and researchers of political science, ancient history, religion and civilizations, philosophy, history, human rights, governa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility
Book SynopsisThe philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts on the history, the theory, and the practice of responsibility within which the following key topics are examined: responsibility and wrongdoing responsibility and determinism the scope of responsibility the responsibility of individuals within society the concepts of responsibility the conditions and challenges of responsibility the practices of being and holding responsible the ethics and polTable of ContentsIntroduction Maximilian Kiener Part 1: The History of Responsibility Section 1: Responsibility and Wrongdoing 1. Plato on Vice Marcel van Ackeren 2. Hegel on Guilt Mark Alznauer Section 2: Responsibility and Determinism 3. The Stoics: What Kind of Responsibility is Compatible with Divine Providence? Rachana Kamtekar 4. Hobbes Against Bramhall: Moral Responsibility, Free Will, and Mechanistic Determination Thomas Pink 5. Hume on Free Will and Moral Responsibility Peter Millican 6. Sidgwick on Free Will and Ethics Anthony Skelton Section 3: The Scope of Responsibility 7. Aristotle on Legal and Moral Responsibility: Interpretation and Reform Terence Irwin 8. Kant on Absolute Responsibility and Transcendental Freedom David Sussman Section 4: Individuals and Society 9. Responsibility in Confucian Thought David Wong 10. Aquinas on Holding Others to Blame Jeffrey Hause Part 2: The Theory of Responsibility Section 5: The Concepts of Responsibility 11. Responsibility and Agency Maria Alvarez 12. Responsibility and Causation Alex Kaiserman 13. Responsibility and The Deep Self Monika Betzler 14. Responsibility and Emotion Andreas Carlsson 15. Varieties of Answerability Maximilian Kiener Section 6: The Conditions and Challenges of Responsibility 16. The Consequences of Incompatibilism Patrick Todd 17. Free Will and The Case for Compatibilism Carolina Sartorio 18. Deliberation and the Possibility of Skepticism Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette 19. Responsibility and Manipulation Massimo Renzo 20. Responsibility and Coercion Carla Bagnoli 21. Ignorance and the Epistemic Condition Daniel Miller 22. Moral Competence and Mental Disorder Lubomira Radoilska 23. Excuse, Capacity and Convention David Owens Part 3: The Practice of Responsibility Section 7: Being and Holding Responsible 24. Blaming Leonhard Menges 25. Communicating Praise Daniel Telech 26. The Standing to Blame Matt King 27. Apology and Forgiveness Andrea Westlund 28. Taking Responsibility Elinor Mason 29. Responsibility Without Blame Bruce Waller 30. Holding Responsible in the African Tradition: Reconciliation Applied to Punishment, Compensation, and Trials Thaddeus Metz Section 8: The Ethics and Politics of Responsibility 31. Artificial Intelligence and the Imperative of Responsibility: Reconceiving AI Governance as Social Care Shannon Vallor and Bhargavi Ganesh 32. Moral Responsibility for Historical Injustice Michael Schefczyk 33. Corporate Digital Responsibility Alexander Filipović 34. Reckless Complicity: International Banks and Future Climate Henry Shue 35. Responsibility and Gender Paula Casal Section 9: Responsibility in the Law 36. Legal and Moral Responsibility Peter Cane 37. The Voluntary Act Requirement in Criminal Law John Hyman 38. Strict Liability and Strict Responsibility Antony Duff 39. Responsibility and Pre-Trial Detention Kim Ferzan 40. Responsibility for Others Jenny Steele 41. Legitimate Divergence Between Moral and Criminal Blame Alexander Sarch. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Racism in Contemporary Germany
Book SynopsisThis book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors, representing several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and media and literary studies, situate the topic in the global and German context of the 2015-16 migration crisis and its aftermath, and of the ongoing transformations seen in the postsocialist regions of the European Union.Since the 2015-16 refugee crisis, illiberal leaders and parties within Europe have instrumentalized Islamophobia in an attempt to dislodge the traditional political elites. Strikingly, such illiberal movements have been most successful in the formerly socialist areas of the EU. This is mirrored within Germany itself, where political formations with an Islamophobic agenda remain more popular in the East than in the West. This volume examines the reasons for this difference, includTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Islamophobia in Germany, East/West 1. The east is just like the west, only more so: Islamophobia and populism in Eastern Germany and the East of the European Union 2. Building a new nation: anti-Muslim racism in post-unification Germany 3. Islamophobia East-West and the politics of hospitality in contemporary Germany 4. Gendered identities and German Islamophobias 5. ‘The burqa is not us (wir sind nicht burka)’: strategic Islamophobia and the mainstreaming of nativist appeals 6. Islamophobia and anti-Muslim feeling in Saxony – theoretical approaches and empirical findings based on population surveys
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Racism in Contemporary Germany
Book SynopsisThis book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors, representing several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and media and literary studies, situate the topic in the global and German context of the 2015-16 migration crisis and its aftermath, and of the ongoing transformations seen in the postsocialist regions of the European Union.Since the 2015-16 refugee crisis, illiberal leaders and parties within Europe have instrumentalized Islamophobia in an attempt to dislodge the traditional political elites. Strikingly, such illiberal movements have been most successful in the formerly socialist areas of the EU. This is mirrored within Germany itself, where political formations with an Islamophobic agenda remain more popular in the East than in the West. This volume examines the reasons for this difference, includTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Islamophobia in Germany, East/West 1. The east is just like the west, only more so: Islamophobia and populism in Eastern Germany and the East of the European Union 2. Building a new nation: anti-Muslim racism in post-unification Germany 3. Islamophobia East-West and the politics of hospitality in contemporary Germany 4. Gendered identities and German Islamophobias 5. ‘The burqa is not us (wir sind nicht burka)’: strategic Islamophobia and the mainstreaming of nativist appeals 6. Islamophobia and anti-Muslim feeling in Saxony – theoretical approaches and empirical findings based on population surveys
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nostalgia and Political Theory
Book SynopsisIn Nostalgia and Political Theory, Lawrence Quill advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the historic' past and a vertiginous present. He does so by offering detailed analyses of diverse theoretical approaches, from the ancient world to the modern day, in order to reassess the relation between nostalgia and politics. Quill proposes nostalgia as an organizing concept, silently (and not so silently) influencing theorists as they construct critiques of the present or visions of the political future.Nostalgia and Political Theory surveys key contributions to nostalgic and antinostalgic thinking from across the political spectrum. Assessing the influence of photography, radio, television, and personal computing on changing conceptions of the past, Quill also considers the relation between populism, nationalism, and nostalgia. By challenging those who would dismiss nostalgia as irrational or a symptom of cultural malaise, Quill concTrade ReviewNostalgia and Political Theory is an absolute treasure trove for anyone interested in understanding nostalgia within a historical and political context. Lawerence Quill shows in an accessible and comprehensible manner how and why nostalgia continues to serve as an important source for the political imagination. By linking nostalgia to different technologies, Quill makes nostalgia relevant to personal identity, political theory as well as to populist appropriation.Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Professor of Sociology, Aalborg University, Denmark.Traversing a gauntlet of historical, political, and technological ideas related to nostalgia in thoughtful, thorough, and eye-opening ways, Nostalgia and Political Theory is an important and fresh contribution to Nostalgia Studies. I learned so much about a topic I thought I already knew a good deal about. Lawrence Quill has a way of writing about nostalgia that makes putting this book down impossible. Highly recommended to scholars and nostalgia enthusiasts alike!Ryan Lizardi, Associate Professor, Digital Media Design and Humanities at SUNY Polytechnic InstituteAll human beings yearn to reconcile with their origins. Despite the best efforts of those who would deny that such an endeavor is possible, we continue to push against the constraints of memory in order to heal divisions within ourselves and our societies. This 'search for home' that is deeply rooted in the human psyche is the subject of Lawrence Quill's magisterial Nostalgia and Political Theory. A meticulously researched and eloquent book, it traces the history of nostalgia as a political concept from the dawn of civilization to the digital age. Brimming with erudition, it demonstrates the truth of Edmund Burke's conviction that 'People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors'. Indeed, there is no other book available that so comprehensively analyses this vital subject, and none that will so persuasively convince the reader of its necessity to any life worth living.Mark Dooley, Irish philosopher, writer, and journalistNo matter what sort of interest brings you to the subject of nostalgia – whether you’re critical, curious, or perhaps even a bit of a nostalgic yourself – Nostalgia and Political Theory, packed with provocative claims and ranging far and wide over the history of political thought, has something for you. From Hesiod’s Works and Days to the Rucellai Gardens, from Livy’s History to Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond, and from nineteenth-century photography to the iPhone, Professor Quill engages with a range of thinkers alienated from the world around them and eager to find comfort – and often revolutionary insight – in a purported past.Andrew Murphy, Professor of Political Science at the University of MichiganTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Pre-modernity and Nostalgia2 An Emotional Contract3 Inventing the Past4 Nostalgia and Exile 5 Mediating Nostalgia 6 Consuming Nostalgia 7 Populism and NostalgiaConclusion Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Economic and Political Democracy in Complex Times
Book SynopsisThe concept of economic democracy is traditionally identi?ed with workplace democracy and participation at the enterprise level. This is a very important dimension, but the concept of new economic democracy also recognizes that, in a world of increasing complexity, the principles of democratic deliberation and social participation have to be applied to other areas as well.This book takes a fresh look at economic democracy from various perspectives. It provides rich historical narratives of episodes of social participation in the economy and society, more broadly, from the 19th to the 21st century. It dissects the various analytical underpinnings informing the theory of economic democracy connecting it with collective choice, social contract theory, Marxian analysis and libertarian critiques. The book identi?es new areas of application of the principles of democratic deliberation and oversight such as the adoption of austerity policies, the signing of free trade agreements, thTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Economic Democracy and Socio-Political Change in Historical Perspective, Chapter 3. Political Democracy, Economic Democracy and Distributive Justice, Chapter 4. Austerity Policies, Neoliberal Restructuring and Human Rights, Chapter 5. Economic and Political Rights and Social Policy, Chapter 6. Democratizing Monetary Systems and Bitcoin (with Pedro Solimano), Chapter 7. Global Economic Democracy, Chapter 8. Synthesis, References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy and Event
Book SynopsisCatastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world. As such, they provide an interesting site to analyze the intersection of our affective and political lives.Bringing radical democratic thinking, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and discursive analysis to bear on contemporary catastrophic events, Democracy and Event presents a fresh perspective on the study of affect and its impact on democratic sensibilities and practices. Situated in different countries with differing institutional histories and cultures the Grenfell Tower fire in London, England (2017); the SARS epidemic in Toronto, Canada (2003); the Parkland shooting in Florida (2018); the early days of the COVID-19 crisis and the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA (2020) Elaine Stavro interprets the rhetoric, discourse, and affective communication of politicians and passionate protestors. She examines their linkages to well-established organizations informed by democratic ideals, as well as the conteTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgments1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practicesVital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinismPopulist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the socialNavigating novelty and indeterminacy – embodied creativity versus the post-humanRethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affectThe monstrous event2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinkingThe event: the impact of fearDebates that frame this catastropheAbjection: scapegoating the ChineseThe Orientalist thesis – essentializing the Asian – linking negative affect to Social OtheringMedia management of the crisis – the pairing of the war on terror and bioterrorRepresentations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus TorontoFrom fear to disbelief: challenging WHO’s travel advisoryAttending to emotion’s material effectsSARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-makingToward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions – mega slums and global livestock productionPost-SARS3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerityThe event: affective representations overwhelm factsConfronting vital materialists’ and populists’ thinking on affect and emotionSocial weightlessnessFostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelingsChallenging earlier narratives – the case for investigative journalismApplying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibilityA new collective subject fails to emergeAttending to larger frames of referenceThe effects of Brexit – ignoring economic interestsThe power of neoliberal governing strategies – the demise of democratic practices4 Students’ passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital ageThe terrifying eventThe public sphere in the age of internet and social media – the prospect for democratic opinion formationMOFL’s success: cultivating affective solidarity and pursuing strategic actionsDifferences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives MatterCollaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problemsStriving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromisesStrategic actions in the face of a history of defeatsThe government’s response or lack thereofGun culture: another impediment to gun controlInstitutional and cultural differences matter5 President Trump’s response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagementThe turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certaintyEschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critiqueSocial Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHOCultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentimentsEfforts to consolidate affective solidarity: “we are all in this together” #alonetogether Trump’s populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being Populist leadership: the allure of tough talkMishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic proceduresAddendumThinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?The promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich eventAffective solidarity: the power of the eventThe appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political movement in the digital ageSymbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism – the process of emotional reorientation Spontaneous affective events – dismantling statutes waiving public debateAmbiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support The counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing Emotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments Transforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism Strategies and ideals of BLM – the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practicesMoving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires’ charities?AddendumConclusion Index
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Taylor & Francis Legal Feminism
Book SynopsisThe volume offers an overview of the theories and practices of Italian legal feminism, presenting both the main themes addressed and the main protagonists of Italian feminist legal theory.The book is divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to deepening crucial issues that directly concern womenâs knowledge and lives from a feminist perspective, such as the interconnection between law, rights and justice; diversity, difference and equality; sex, sexuality and reproduction; citizenship and borders; deviance, criminal matters and security; and victims, victimology, and vulnerability. Each set of thematic issues is analysed by a current Italian feminist legal scholar, who engages with multiple feminist voices in order to emphasise the need for an interdisciplinary approach to law from a feminist perspective. The second part of the book is devoted to outlining the paths of study, research and practice of specific and renowned Italian legal scholars who have provided the fou
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rectifying Historical Injustice
Book SynopsisCalls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation, and other forms of historical redress have engaged with the thesis that historical injustice can be superseded, the idea that changing circumstances following historical injustices can alter what justice later requires. The supersession thesis, developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, has been challenged, both conceptually and in terms of its possible application and implications.This is the first book to critically assess how the supersession thesis might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. Cases examined include Indigenous
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collective Action
Book SynopsisThis book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities.Every size and type of human collective involve co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations individualism and economic globalisation have contributed to authoritarianism in politics and inequality among citizens. This book analyses how collective action might offset the most destructive consequences for well-being of these two tendencies. It explores these manifestations of collective action and their impact on social relations and social policies in the developed world. Further, the volume sets out a programme for more progressive and egalitarian future for global populations.Engaging, accessible and transdisciplinary, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and public policy, sociology, social psychology,Table of Contents1. Introduction, 2. The History and Dynamics of Collective Action: Crisis and Transformation, 3. Relationship: The Dynamics of Feeling, 4. Couples and Families, 5. Well-being and Social Value, 6. Civic Relationships and Civil Society, 7. Globalisation, 8. Conflict and Coercion, 9. A New Direction?, 10. The Revival of Nationalism, 11. The State, 12. Mobility and Migration, 13. Extremism, Political and Religious, 14. Nations and Sustainability, 15. A New Cold War?, 16. A New Basis for Citizenship, 17. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of NonIdeal Theory
Book SynopsisMade popular by John Rawls, ideal theory in political philosophy is concerned with putting preferences and interests to one side to achieve an impartial consensus and to arrive at a just society for all. In recent years, ideal theory has drawn increasing criticism for its idealised picture of political philosophy and its inability to account for the challenges posed by inequalities of, for example, race, gender, and class and by structural injustices stemming from colonialism and imperialism. The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory is the first handbook or reference source on this important and fast-growing debate.Comprised of 34 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts: Methodological Challenges Intersections Applied Issues and Contemporary Challenges. Within these sections key topics are addressed including: the question of whether non-ideal theory is methodologic
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Taylor & Francis The Art of Populism in US Politics
Book SynopsisThe Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and artistic expressions in the United States in the Trump era.Beginning with comparisons between frontier populism and millennial-era populism, the author examines how citizens imitate and improvise on political sentiments, global histories, images, and discourses to create their own senses of community, identity, belonging, and exclusion. Political art, narratives, opinions, polemics, and abstract artistic expressions are shared instantly, creating new political and affective communities that challenge the power and stability of previous institutions and ideologies. These modes of digital sharing create communities of practice, groups who come together through shared creation and consumption, whether it be memes and vlogs, homemade signs and T-shirts, music videos, or political dialogues. The book analyzes the physical and digital art practices that support the growth and proliferat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SellOuts or Warriors for Change
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the central question of how right-wing women navigate the cross-pressures between gender identity and political ideology.The hope has always been that more women in politics would lead to greater inclusion of women's voices and interests in decision-making and policy. Yet this is not always the case; some prominent conservative women such as Margaret Thatcher have rejected the feminist label while others such as Angela Merkel have reluctantly accepted it. Republican women in the U.S. Congress have embraced social and economic policies contrary to what many consider to be women's issues while EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is a staunch supporter of feminist ideas. Other conservative women, such as Marine LePen in France strategically use feminist ideas to justify their conservative stances on immigration. This brings up an interesting yet understudied question: under what circumstances do conservative women become feminist allies and when do t
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Taylor & Francis Revolution Revisited Emmanuel Macron and the
Book SynopsisThis book provides timely assessment of the extent to which Emmanuel Macronâs declared presidential goal - to bring in radical transformation of French politics, indeed a revolution, albeit a democratic one - has been achieved.This analysis of his presidency provides a framework for reflection on âimmobilismâ in French politics, and how enduring transformation has remained much more elusive to most of those who promised it. With a wide a range of underlying, seemingly intractable and unresolved structural issues dominating French society, the book asks whether the young âdisrupterâ has succeeded in reforming France where others had failed. What can we be learnt about the processes of political change from analysing Macronâs successes and failures in working through his ambitions for France?This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and followers of French politics/studies and society, gender studies, media studies and more broadly European studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Law Vulnerability and the Responsive State
Book SynopsisThis book considers how vulnerability theory provides the basis for a reconceptualization of the liberal ideas of autonomy, equality, and freedom.Vulnerability theory argues a vulnerable legal subject should displace the liberal legal subject that currently dominates law and policy. The theory is based on the fundamental empirical realities of the material body and offers an alternative to a social contract or rights-based notion of state responsibility, both of which tend to privilege abstractions such as rationality or dignity. A vulnerability analysis poses law and policy questions based on the vulnerable legal subject and requires new thinking about state or governmental responsibility. To achieve a truly comprehensive and inclusive notion of what constitutes social justice or a universal or common good, vulnerability theory mandates a reassessment of both equality and freedom as these concepts are currently conceived. Presenting the work of scholars from a wide range of Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: Understanding Vulnerability Martha Albertson FinemanI. The Fallacy and Foibles of Vulnerability as Particular II. Vulnerability Theory A. Reasoning From the Body B. Embedded—The Necessity of Social (and Legal) ArrangementsIII. Theoretical Implications of “Reasoning From the Body” IV. Conclusion PART ILegal Structures: The Constitution and the Mechanisms of Justice 1 Restructuring the Constitution for Human Resilience Martha T. McCluskeyIntroduction I. Structural Principles for Constitutional Power II. Contemporary Right-Wing Constitutional Restructuring III. Vulnerability Theory’s Constitutional Reframing IV. Affirming the Administrative State for Human Resilience V. Conclusion 2 Vulnerability Theory and Access to Justice: Elaborating Possibilities for Legal System Design Andrew Pilliar1. Background on Access to Justice a. What Is “Access to Justice”? b. How Common Are Access to Justice Problems? 2. Situating Vulnerability a. Vulnerability Theory and Responsive Law b. Vulnerability Theory and the Capability Approach 3. Realizing Person-Centred Access to Justice 4. Conclusion PART IIRole of Social Movements in Vulnerability Theory 3 Toward a Responsive Landscape: The Role of Social Movements in Vulnerability Theory Kathryn AbramsIntroduction I. Learning From Social Movements: Cultivating Resilience in Arizona II. Social Movements and Vulnerability Theory: Three Questions A. Do Social Movements Help to Meet Human Vulnerability?III. How Does the Work of Social Movements Relate to the Activity of the Responsive State? A. Density and Effects of Regulatory Frameworks IV. Directions for Vulnerability Theory 4 Law, Public Policy, and Social Movements to Supportand Strengthen Individual and Collective Interests of Labor Risa L. LieberwitzIntroduction I. The Role of the State to Provide for the Public Welfare A. The Vision of the Responsive State B. The Reality of the Unresponsive State in the U.S. II. The Role of the State in the Employment Relationship A. The “Private Welfare” System in the U.S. B. The Liberal Contradictions of the National Labor Relations Act C. Legislative Reforms to Move Toward a Responsive State D. Recent Legal and Social Developments that Resonate With the Reforms of the PRO Act III. Conclusion PART IIIOrganizing the Economic Infrastructure 5 The Corporation, Vulnerability, and Resilience Lua Kamál YuilleIntroduction I. Vulnerability, the Human Condition, and the Liberal Legal Subject II. Understanding Resilience III. The Corporation as a Site of Resilience A. Conceiving of the Corporation B. Corporate Resilience IV. Toward a Responsive State Approach to the Corporation 6 Market Citizenship, Resilience Drainage, and the Role of Private LawHila Keren and Ronit Donyets-Kedar Introduction I. The Private-Public Divide and the Role of Private Law II. Resisting Resilience Drainage via Contract Law A. The Problem: Market Rejections and Humiliation B. A Vulnerability-Based Response III. Resisting Resilience Drainage via Corporate Law A. The Problem of Market Evangelism B. A Vulnerability-Based Response IV. Conclusion PART IVThe Public Nature of “Private” Property 7 Housing Trusts and Resilient Cities: Hierarchy, Resources, and Resilience Marc L. RoarkVulnerability and Affordable Housing Resilience Affordable Housing as an Inherent Vulnerability How Cities Sought Resilience in the Form of Housing Trust Funds Scale, Resilience Gaps, and Responsibility 8 Vulnerability, Resilience, and the Fair Housing Act Xiaoqian HuI. Some Limits of the FHA A. Excessive Deference to Defense B. Illegal Immorality Versus Legal Privilege C. A Vulnerability Evaluation II. Reinterpreting the FHA Through Vulnerability Theory A. A Social-Situational View of Harm and Discrimination B. A Reconceptualized State for Systemic Action III. ConclusionPART VThe Ultimate “Private” Space—The Construction of the Family 9 The Elder Catch: Engineering the Future of CaregivingJessica Dixon WeaverI. Vulnerability Theory and Resistant Assets A. The Taxonomy of Vulnerability Theory B. Resistant Assets and the Non-Responsive State II. The Family as a Resistant Asset III. State and Market Response to the Elder Catch 10 Vulnerability Theory and the Conception of Time June Carbone and Naomi CahnPart I: The Pandemic Part II: Secure Versus Precarious Family Regimes Part III: Vulnerability Theory PART VIDimensions of Public and Private in Health Care 11 A Vulnerability Approach to the “Right to Health Care”: Addressing Epistemic Vulnerability Matthew B. LawrenceIntroduction A. The “Right to Health Care” and the Challenges of an Entitlement Approach 1. The Popular “Right to Health Care” 2. Operationalizing the “Right to Health Care”: The Role of Theory 3. Entitlement Approach and Its Limitations B. Vulnerability Approach: From Entitlement to Obligation 1. Vulnerability Replaces Individual Entitlement With Collective (or State) Obligation 2. What Is the Content of the State’s Obligation? 3. A Collective, Procedural Right to Priority C. Addressing Epistemic Vulnerability 1. Epistemic Vulnerability 2. Respond or Reject? 3. Separating Stepping Stones From Stumbling Blocks 12 Disability, Vulnerability, and Public Health Emergencies Ani B. SatzIntroduction I. Limits of Current Approaches II. Reasoning From the Body III. Disability, the Vulnerable Subject, and Health Law IV. Disability and the Vulnerable Institution: Hospitals and Public Health Authorities V. Disability and Resilience in Public Health Emergencies VI. Conclusion PART VIIVulnerability and Sovereignty 13 Using Vulnerability Theory to Reconceive the Relationships Between Native Nations, the United States, and State Governments Nazune Menka and Laura SpitzIntroduction I. (Dependent) Sovereignty a. Background: Sovereignty and Liberalism b. Domestic Dependent Nations II. Using Vulnerability Theory to Reconceptualize Sovereignty and the Doctrines of Plenary Power and Trust Responsibility a. Assertion of Tribal Sovereignty Remains a Critical Component of Inherent Indigenous Power b. Sovereignty Is Inter-Dependent c. Indigenous Peoples Are Not a Vulnerable Population d. Trust Responsibility Can and Should Be Detached From the Doctrine of Plenary Power III. A Contemporary Example: The Indian Child Welfare Act IV. Conclusion: Vulnerability Theory, Tribal Sovereignty and Federal Responsibility Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratization and Autocratization in Comparative Perspective
This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches developments in the conceptions of democracy, discusses how to distinguish between different forms of political rule, and maps the development of democracy and autocracy across space and time. The book reviews the major debates and findings about domestic and international causes and consequences of democratization and autocratization. It synthesizes theoretical models and empirical relationships based on an explicit comparative perspective which focuses on similarities and differences across countries and historical periods. Key features: Offers a coherent framework, which students and scholars can use to grasp the literature on democratization and autocratization as a whole. Includes tables and figures as well as plentiful, illustrative in-text features, including chapter summaries, text boxes, concluding bullet
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Taylor & Francis Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity beginning with the post-World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism â the dominant political economic perspective which elevates competition above all else at both the structural and individual levels â has increased the amount of insecurity (e.g., food, energy, job) across the world. It provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of how and why neoliberalism and insecurity have become intertwined over the last half century.The book takes a novel approach to the study of neoliberalism, insecurity, and their intersection. First, in addition to examining specific types of insecurity, the overall concept of insecurity is defined and theorized as a fundamental part of neoliberal capitalism. Second, to help bypass the structural vs. individual binary that has come to characterize much of the neoliberalism literature, a field-theoretic framework heavily influenced by the work of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Crime Punishment and Justice
Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitudes Survey and the British Crime Survey, as well as individual-level cohort data such as the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study, it examines changes in long-term crime rates, criminal justice policies, and their integration with social and economic policies in Britain over four decades. It offers a detailed discussion of how radical social and economic changes affected the fear of crime and attitudes to punishment, and how well Thatcherite social and economic values were embedded in contemporary British society. Drawing on a wide literature across criminology, political science, sociology, and social policy, this book demonstrates how a thorough understanding of crime cannot take place without an examin
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Taylor & Francis The Limits to Power
Book SynopsisThe Limits to Power (1979) analyses the spectrum of Soviet interests and policies in the Middle East following the Yom Kippur War of October 1973: how the Soviets handled the oil question, military and economic aid, policy toward Egypt, Syria, Iraq, the Palestinian organisations â and toward Israel itself. The Soviet position in the Middle East in 1970 was as the dominant foreign power in the region, and this book examines the events and actions that resulted, under a decade later, in such a sharp reversal in Soviet fortunes. The ebb-and-flow of Soviet diplomacy, as it emerges from the wealth of official statements and press material, is examined in detail.
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Taylor & Francis Gorbachevs Third World Dilemmas
Book SynopsisGorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic, political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies toward the developing world. Organized around particular themes and issues, it pays attention to both theoretical fundamentals in Soviet doctrine and to Soviet actions in specific regions. The topics range widely and include: the Soviet conception of regional security; Soviet arms transfers and military aid to the developing world; the developing world in Soviet military thinking; the USSR and crisis in the Caribbean; Soviet policy towards Southern Africa, notably Angola and Mozambique; and Soviet policy towards Southwest Africa. It looks at the activist foreign policy that Gorbachev inherited, and explores the elements of change and continuity that Gorbachev and the Soviets faced.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Western Civilization in the Near East
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1936, Western Civilization in the Near East traces the spread and growth of Western civilization in the countries of the Levant and their immediate hinterland. The author argues that modern civilization took birth in Western Europe and then slowly spread to the rest of Europe and to all other parts of the earth, leading to the Europeanization of mankind. While Europe's modern civilization initially enabled it to dominate the world economically and political, it also provided non-European people with the resources to ultimately resist and reject Europe's control. This universal acculturation and the ensuing birth of a coherent and closely-knit humanity, facing similar social, economic, and cultural problems determined the new trends of world history. This book only focuses on the European contact with the Muslim East and the consequences of the contact. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by thTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. The Environment 3. Man and his Environment in History 4. Man and his Environment at the Present Day 5. Changing Man in a Changing Environment 6. Inter-relation and Implications of World Communications 7. Inter-relation and Implications of World Economics 8. Inter-relation and Implications of World Politics 9. Methods and Problems of Europeanization Bibliography Index Map
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Taylor & Francis The Commons
This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as the role the commons can play in the struggle against the global socioecological crisis that is threatening the very future of humanity.Over the past decade, various theories, concepts and political projects connected to the commons have become fundamentally important for social science and numerous social movements around the world. In sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, the law and anthropology, the study of the commons has inspired many important academic innovations. In parallel, community activists, labour unions, ecologists, feminists and cooperativists have discovered in the commons a powerful and thought-provoking toolkit with which to defend
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Taylor & Francis Government Action and Morality
Book SynopsisThis book was first published in 1964. Everything in politics has changed since then why a reprint? Because moral criticisms of governments havenât changed. Indeed, historical comparison suggests a disconcerting similarity. We still accept a liberal-democratic morality and politics and believe that it is individuals who bear moral responsibility. How can we reconcile the corporate actions of governments with individual responsibility? Is the private life of politicians relevant to their official actions? Should politicians resign if they disagree with government policy? These problems are still with us, and the 1964 discussion of them remains illuminating. We elect governments to further our material interests, but we also believe that they should express our moral ideals, for example by providing vaccines, alleviating poverty or supporting oppressed countries. Are moral ideals consistent with political realism? The book reconciles these apparently opposed positions by introducing t
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resilience of Democracy
Book SynopsisIlliberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are some democracies more resilient than others to the current trend of autocratization? What role do institutions, actors and structural factors play in this regard? What options do democratic actors have to address illiberal and authoritarian challenges? This book addresses all these questions.The present introduction sets the stage by developing a new concept of democratic resilience as the ability of a democratic system, its institutions, political actors, and citizens to prevent or react to external and internal challenges, stresses, and assaults. The book posits three potential reactions of democratic regimes: to withstand without changes, to adapt through internal changes, and to recovTable of ContentsIntroduction — Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges 1. How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process 2. What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability 3. Pernicious polarization, autocratization and opposition strategies 4. Negative partisanship towards the populist radical right and democratic resilience in Western Europe 5. The supply and demand model of civic education: evidence from a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo 6. Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy 7. Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Retrieving Democracy
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985, Retrieving Democracy offers a thorough and systematic answer to the familiar objection that genuine democracy is utopian. The book outlines an imaginary, yet imaginable, society that would be non-racist, non-sexist, and sufficiently classless to support true civic equality. Moving beyond previous discussions of re-industrialization and economic democracy, the book proposes the social control of corporations; a democratic division of labour that would maximize equality of citizenship rather than merely the production of commodities; the democratization of trade unions; the equalization of wages and job opportunities and the insulation of electoral politics from the power of money.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Equality and Social Policy
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1978, this book presents a philosophical analysis of the principle of equality, and is also a study of the institutional implications of that principle in the field of social policy. The author distinguishes between a procedural' and a substantive' version of the principle of equality and considers the implications of both. Procedural equality is identified with the concept of equity and includes the recommendation that like cases should be treated as like. The application of this principle to some political argument in the area of social policy, such as family allowances, is discussed. The author defines the substantive principle as the rule that persons should share the same level of economic welfare. Some difficulties in implementing the equal welfare principle are discussed, with particular application to pensions policy. An original interpretation of the logical relationship between the principle of need and that of equality is proposed, and is applied t
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reflections on Inequality
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975, this anthology of essays focusses on the historical dimension of class inequality which has long concerned both sociologists and social philosophers but has often been neglected in literature. Although Marx is the first name to come to mind when social inequality and class struggles are mentioned, most of the authors included here precede him. Each analyses and discusses the problems of class conflict as they understood them in the light of their own times. Taken together these writers treat stratification as essentially a pecking order where position is determined by relative power a notion which subsumes rather than contradicts the economic interpretation of social inequality because wealth is a form of power. The relation between the views of these authors and the well-known theory of Marx is discussed in the Introduction.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Socialist Economic Systems
Book SynopsisBernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism's promises and performance during 18202022, identifies a feasible path forward and provides a rigorous analytic framework for the comparison of economic systems. The book opens by surveying pre-industrial utopias from Plato to Thomas More, and libertarian communal designs for superior living. It plumbs all aspects of the revolutionary and democratic socialist political movements that emerged after 1870 and considers the comparative economic, political and social performance of the USSR and others from the Bolshevik Revolution onwards. The book also provides case studies for all revolutionary MarxistLeninist regimes, and supplementary discussions of Mondragon cooperatives, Israeli kibbutzim, NoTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables, Acknowledgements, Preface, Executive Summary, Methodology, Introduction, Part I Socialist Cross Currents 1820-1920, Chapter 1 Utopia, Chapter 2 Libertarian Socialism, Chapter 3 Socialist Utopian Fiction, Chapter 4 Marxist-Leninism, Part II Marxist-Leninism 1917-1991, Chapter 5 Bolshevik Revolution, Chapter 6 Planning, Chapter 7 Perestroika, Chapter 8 Worker Self-Management, Chapter 9 Maoism, Chapter 10 Castroism, Chapter 11 Reform Communism, Chapter 12 World Communism, Chapter 13 Dystopian Socialist Fiction, Chapter 14 Crimes against Humanity, Chapter 15 Oblivion, Part III Post Command Planning, Chapter 16 Chinese Market Communism, Chapter 17 Democratic Socialism, Chapter 18 Anarcho-Socialism, Chapter 19 New Age Planning, Chapter 20 Egalitarian Socialism, Chapter 21 Japanese Communalism, Chapter 22 Twenty-first Century Socialism, Conclusion, Appendix 1 Bergson’s Systems Function, Appendix 2 Marx, Lenin and Stalin, Appendix 3 Marxist Economics, Appendix 4 Perfect Competitive Benchmark, Appendix 5 Soviet Statistics, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Overcoming Exploitation and Externalisation
Book SynopsisAdvancing an intersectional theory of hegemony, this book shows how various power relations interact through capitalist structures of othering. Going beyond the usual critiques of capitalism, it analyses the market itself as a principal cause of various forms of externalisation and domination. The book therefore calls for a dismantling of the market and its competitive economic structures through a transformation of the economy from below, greater democratisation (not least for the empowerment of suppressed identities), and the creation of commons as spaces based on inclusion rather than exclusion.In doing so, Overcoming Exploitation and Externalisation argues that co-operative possibilities can emerge for the transformation of ourselves and our society. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory with interests in the commons and alternatives to capitalism.Trade ReviewThis book empowers all those who are in search of alternatives. Friederike Habermann sheds light on the false premises of liberal economic theory and the extractivist character of market economy. This book provides intersectional theory of hegemony which is key for understanding how the gendered and racialized subject is entangled with the economy. It offers intersectional and emancipatory pathways for non-extractivist, relational and embodied ways of life. Gülay Çağlar, Professor of Gender and Diversity,Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyThis is a refreshing and challenging book. It confronts the only scientific question that is left to us, how to get rid of capitalism (or market society), and in the process it brings together an impressive range of sources and ways of thinking and struggling. It opens doors, suggests directions, stirs us up. Just what is so desperately needed.John Holloway, Professor of Sociology, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Autonomous University of Puebla, MexicoFriederike Habermann has given the world a wonderful gift in Overcoming Exploitation and Externalization. Not only has she analysed and distilled two hundred years of Marxist, decolonial, and feminist social theorists, but she has brought a unique and piercing insight that exceeds them all. This is the work of a giant standing on the shoulders of giants.Raj Patel, Research Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USAThis book actually delivers what the title promises. It makes the theory and practice of intersectional transformation conceivable. This is critical feminism as it is urgently needed.Uta Ruppert, Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology and Chair of Global South and Gender Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyFriederike Habermann combines her decades of activist experience on global and local levels and her profound knowledge of economic, Marxist, feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial theory to weave an intersectional theory of hegemony – a theory which allows us to perceive of the huge task of overcoming global capitalism not as something deferred to a utopian future, but as a practical work we can tackle every day in our lives. A thoughtful manual for revolution through commoning which highlights our agency while not ignoring the structures, spreading hope and courage.Aram Ziai, Professor of Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel, GermanyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Intersectional Theory of Hegemony 3. Construction of the market economy & its subjects 4. Any market relies on exploitation and (produces) externalisation 5. Overcommoning capitalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Russian Idea in International Relations
Book SynopsisThe Russian Idea in International Relations identifies different approaches within Russian Civilizational tradition Russia's nationally distinctive way of thinking by situating them within IR literature and connecting them to practices of the country's international relations.Civilizational ideas in IR theory express states' cultural identification and stress religious traditions, social customs, and economic and political values. This book defines Russian civilizational ideas by two criteria: the values they stress and their global ambitions. The author identifies leading voices among those positioning Russia as an exceptional and globally significant system of values and traces their arguments across several centuries of the country's development. In addition, the author explains how and why Russian civilizational ideas rise, fall, and are replaced by alternative ideas. The book identifies three schools of Russian civilizational thinking about international relatTrade Review"The Russian Idea describes the way Russia thinks about itself and its place in the world. As never before, the world needs to understand the concept, and Tsygankov provides a brilliant, historically-grounded and detailed analysis that guides us through the labyrinth. Clear, balanced and supremely well-informed, this is essential reading for all those looking to understand Russia today."Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK"As relations between Russia and the West have worsened, Russians have increasingly accepted the idea that their country constitutes a distinct civilization. But the nature of that distinctiveness remains a matter of debate. Andrei Tsygankov ably summarizes the different strands of thought concerning the "Russian Idea", and in the process sheds valuable light on the ideological underpinnings of current East–West conflict."Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa, Canada"The "Russian Idea" in International Relations traces over centuries the three central notions of Russia as a unique civilization and helps us understand how Russian elites' views of their conflict with the West is rooted in such longue durée visions of the country. Andrei Tsygankov's refined analysis is a must-read to comprehend the roots of today's tensions."Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University, USA"In this intellectually persuasive book, Andrei Tsygankov analyses the competing civilizational ideas of the Russian nation that challenge Western liberal ideology. This is an essential contribution to the main debates about Russia and its deteriorating relations with the West."Glenn Diesen, University of South-Eastern Norway"With this book, Professor Tsygankov cements his reputation as America’s preeminent scholar of Russian foreign policy and intellectual thought. Deftly guiding us through the deepest debates over Russian identity, he illuminates Russia’s struggle to preserve its freedom in an interconnected and mutually responsible world. A vital part of this, for Russia, is preventing the global dominance of any one civilization, even the Western civilization of which it is a part. An intellectual tour de force!"Nicolai N. Petro, University of Rhode Island, USA, author of The Tragedy of Ukraine and Russian Foreign PolicyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Russian Civilizational Ideas 3. Slavophiles 4. Communists 5. Eurasianists 6. The "Russian Idea" for Russia and for the World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Housing Land and Property Rights
This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights. HLP rights have undergone a major transformation in recent decades, but much remains to be done to bring their promise to the billions of people who have yet to access them. This work presents several innovative ways by which the entire field of HLP rights can be strengthened in support of those to whom they are promised by human rights laws. It outlines the author's suggestions for creating a new World Restitution Agency, expanding our understanding of the term internationally wrongful act' to HLP crimes, the links between mine action and HLP rights in post-conflict societies and the need to include HLP issues in peace agreements. The book concludes with several chapters that outline suggestions for better addressing climate displacement, including the need for national climate land banks, the role of the courts and how to redistribute global wealth towards rehousing the
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