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  • Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible

    by Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper, Gideon van Riet, Paula Ensor, Daryl Glaser, Christine Hobden0, Billy Keniston1, Ayesha Omar2, John Sodiq Sanni3, Tendayi Sithole4, Crain Soudien5 ...
    Revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debatesRick Turner was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who rebelled against the apartheid state at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 'To Serve and Protect': The Inkathagate Scandal

    As told to Laurence Piper by Brian Morrow

    by Laurence Piper ...
    Series series 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa
    This book provides a detailed account of the history, consequences, and events leading up to the ‘Inkathagate Scandal’ which changed the course of South African history. It states that Inkathagate was the work of one man – Brian Morrow – who outraged by the racism, corruption and torture rife in the Security Branch of the South African Police in Durban where he worked, resolved to do something to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Decolonisation after Democracy

    Rethinking the Research and Teaching of Political Science in South Africa

    Edited by Laurence Piper ...
    Decolonisation after Democracy addresses the provocative idea that we need to rid higher education of lingering forms of colonial knowledge. This matters because in the colonial era much knowledge was put to the service of subjugating indigenous peoples, and the assumptions from this era may linger into the present. Examples of deep-rooted and ‘foundational’ forms of knowledge that carry colonial ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Democracy Disconnected

    Participation and Governance in a City of the South

    by Fiona Anciano, Laurence Piper ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over key aspects of city decision-making, especially under conditions of economic globalisation and rapid urbanisation in the urban South.Demonstrated ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Contesting Identities

    by Avtar Brah ...
    By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of `race', gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts.The first ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • For a Left Populism

    by Chantal Mouffe ...
    What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a “populist moment” that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing a frontier between “the people” and “the oligarchy,” a left–populist strategy could bring together the manifold ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Politics Without Sovereignty

    A Critique of Contemporary International Relations

    Edited by Christopher Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe, Alexander Gourevitch ...
    Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty.The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders and opinion-makers throughout the world claim that the sovereign state is a barrier to efficient global ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Justice: The Basics

    by Carl Death, Huw Williams ...
    Series series The Basics
    Global Justice: The Basics is a straightforward and engaging introduction to the theoretical study and practice of global justice. It examines the key political themes and philosophical debates at the heart of the subject, providing a clear outline of the field and exploring:the history of its developmentthe current state of playits ongoing interdisciplinary development.Using case studies from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Decolonising International Law

    Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

    by Sundhya Pahuja ...
    Series Book 86 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Transformation of the Media

    Globalisation, Morality and Ethics

    by Nicholas Stevenson ...
    The changing pattern of contemporary media is one of the most striking and important transformations of our age. This major new work seeks to understand the implications of a series of mediated processes in relation to public cultures and modern identities. In The Transformation of the Media the author leads the reader through a number of complex theoretical issues, connecting the nature of modern ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Multicultural States

    Rethinking Difference and Identity

    Edited by David Bennett ...
    The idea of the nation is globally in crisis, but multiculturalism has often seemed to name a specifically national debate. Multicultural States challenges the national focus of these debates by investigating theories, policies and practices of cultural pluralism across eight countries with historical links in British colonialism: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • A Global Political Economy of Democratisation

    Beyond the Internal-External Divide

    by Alison J. Ayers ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’, with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet democracy has multiple meanings, values and significances. The start of the twenty-first century has witnessed a massive revival of interest in the meaning and role of democracy, not least as democracy understood in one highly particular sense has been ... Read more

    $62.99 USD