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  • Africa in a Multilateral World

    Afropolitan Dilemmas

    Edited by Albert Kasanda, Marek Hrubec ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole.The first part focuses on the assumptions that are necessary to understand the role of Africa on the global stage, especially from the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy

    Trends, Debates and Challenges

    by Albert Kasanda ...
    This book explores what constitutes contemporary African social and political philosophy with regard to its meaning, aims, sources, and relevance for today’s Africa. Kasanda denounces conventional approaches considering these either as a subcategory of general philosophy or as the ideological attempts of individual African leaders and professional philosophers, such as Nkrumah, Nyerere, Senghor, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Understanding African Philosophy

    A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues

    by Richard H. Bell ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Human Situation
    Understanding African Philosophy serves as a critical guide to some of the most important issues in modern African philosophy. Richard Bell introduces readers to the complexity of Africa, the legacy of colonialism, the challenges of post independence Africa, and other recent developments in African Philosophy. Chapters discuss the value of African oral and written texts for philosophy, concepts of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond

    Edited by Mamoudou Gazibo, Daniel Bach ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population, is central to any teaching or conceptualisation of contemporary African politics. This book is a theoretical and comparative study of neopatrimonialism in Africa and across world regions.Although such practices are widespread in other parts of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Multiculturalism

    (Expanded paperback edition)

    by Charles Taylor, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas, Stephen C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, Susan Wolf ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

    Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

    by Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Roberto Esposito, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, Joseph Vogl ...
    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Words of the World

    The Global Language System

    by Abram De Swaan ...
    This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society.The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these groups constitute one coherent world language system, connected by multilingual speakers in a surprisingly powerful way. The chances of ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • International Relations in India

    by Kanti Bajpai, Siddharth Mallavarapu ...
    This reader is a collection of first-rate theoretical engagements relating to International Relations from across India. The class character of contemporary international law, reassessing the conceptual foundations of imperialism, mapping human security, evaluating the gaze of Orientalism and defending the analytical relevance of gender as a lens to examine national security are issues covered in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    by Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Book 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Epistemic Freedom in Africa

    Deprovincialization and Decolonization

    by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration

    Edited by Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, Shahram Khosravi ...
    This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular ... Read more

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