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  • New Public Spheres

    Recontextualizing the Intellectual

    by Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns, Sara Mels ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate. Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Political Engagement of the Young in Europe

    Youth in the crucible

    Edited by Peter Thijssen, Jessy Siongers, Jeroen Van Laer, Jacques Haers, Sara Mels ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of young people is stable and increasingly expressed through non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics.This book makes a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the "decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding political participation of the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    by Michael J. Prince ...
    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

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  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • Media and Morality

    On the Rise of the Mediapolis

    by Roger Silverstone ...
    Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. It also argues that without a clear understanding of that significance, ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Diversity

    Beyond Prejudice and Racism

    by James M. Jones, John F. Dovidio, Deborah L. Vietze ...
    The Psychology of Diversity presents a captivating social-psychological study of diversity, the obstacles confronting it, and the benefits it provides.Goes beyond prejudice and discrimination to discuss the personal and social implications of diversity for both majority and minority group membersConsiders how historical, political, economic, and societal factors shape the way people think about ... Read more

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  • Multicultiphobia

    by Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Education

    by Harry Daniels, Philip Garner ...
    This volume provides overviews and approaches to inclusive education from around the world. It defines the philosophical, political, educational and social implications of "inclusion", and maps out the dilemmas facing its successful implementation. ... Read more

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  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Read more

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