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The Formation of Critical Realism

A Personal Perspective

By Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig

This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar and Mervyn Hartwig, tells a riveting story of the formation and development…

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January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45503-9 (Routledge)

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Retro-modern India

Forging the Low-caste Self

By Manuela Ciotti

Firmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a north Indian province, this book explores self-fashioning in pursuit of the modern amongst low-caste…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56311-6 (Routledge India)

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Voicing Dissent

American Artists and the War on Iraq

By Violaine Roussel, Bleuwenn Lechaux

Voicing Dissent presents a unique and original series of interviews with American artists (including Guerrilla Girls on Tour, Tony Shalhoub, Shepard Fairey, Sean Astin, and…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80058-7 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Thought and Politics

By Earnest Gellner

Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought.…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48862-4 (Routledge)

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The Contemporary Goffman

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99681-5 (Routledge)

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Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

Edited by Partick Baert, Sokratis Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci, Carlo Ruzza

This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55873-0 (Routledge)

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National-Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics

Edited by Ephraim Nimni

In his seminal essay 'Staat und Nation' ('State and Nation') Karl Renner presents his model for national-cultural autonomy, with a two-tier system of government that…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49901-9 (Routledge)

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Explaining Global Poverty

A Critical Realist Approach

By Branwen Gruffydd Jones

The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56869-2 (Routledge)

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Legislating Creativity

The Intersections of Art and Politics

By Dustin Kidd

How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87119-8 (Routledge)

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The Concept of the Public Realm

Edited by Noel O'Sullivan

In its political form, the existence of a public realm is the basis of a shared relationship between rulers and ruled which makes politics more…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44831-4 (Routledge)

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Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds beyond the nation state
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Religion and Human Rights
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Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan
By Jolan Hsieh
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Are We Thinking Straight?: The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
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International Humanitarian Law and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
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East Asia’s New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-liberal Alternatives
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Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union: Interdisciplinary Views
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Politics of Difference in Taiwan
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Israeli Nationalism: Social Conflicts and the Politics of Knowledge
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European Governmentality: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
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Environmental Destruction and Psychosocial Breakdown: Health and human development
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Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights
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Atoms, Bytes and Genes: Public Resistance and Socio-Technical Responses
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Barcoding Nature: Shifting Taxonomic Practices in an Age of Biodiversity Loss
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Diversity in Europe: Dilemnas of differential treatment in theory and practice
Edited by Gideon Calder, Emanuela Ceva
To be published December 30th 2010

People Power and Political Change: Key Issues and Concepts
By April Carter
To be published December 30th 2010

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