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Reimagining britishness
This volume explores the evolving concept of Britishness, examining how the nation has been imagined across time through diverse sources and interdisciplinary perspectives. It highlights the entangled temporalities of the past, present, and future, offering critical insights into the complex dyna...
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Nomadism in afghanistan
This book unpacks one of the most complicated and forgotten conflicts with a long history: the nomad-sedentary conflict in Afghanistan that has been continued in the modern era accelerated by the state formation process.
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Housing justice
A groundbreaking collection examining housing as a site of both dispossession and liberation under contemporary racial capitalism. Through global case studies, contributors reveal how structural violence operates through dwelling while documenting grassroots struggles for just habitation beyond c...
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Critical theory and peace processes
Drawing from Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, this book examines the dynamics of peace processes in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the France intervention in Darfur. It furthers the critical theory research agenda by providing a novel understanding of the role of civil society in shaping t...
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Navigating platform power
This volume provides a fresh cross-disciplinary perspective on the politics of digitalisation, through the lens of feminism, Marxism and poststructuralism and drawing on empirical examples in policy-making, party politics, civil society organisation and social movements.
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Terrorism and the self
Focussing on the case study of West German leftist armed groups active in the 1970s, this book explores post-terrorist autobiography as literary genre. It makes the case that post-terrorist autobiography must be taken seriously as both cultural phenomenon and crucial source of knowledge.
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Health impact assessment and policy development
An instrument and approach, Health Impact Assessment, seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies in a systematic way. This book provides for the first time an analysis of how and why HIAs informed local policy development in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.
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The european conservatives and reformists (ecr)
This study argues that the political activities of the ECR ought to be recognised as the main voice for conservatism in Strasbourg promoting 'Anglosphere' free market values and the role of NATO in international relations.
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Crafting evidence based policy
This book dissects the role of evidence in public policy making by examining the various forms of evidence used by governments, traces the origins of evidence, demonstrates its importance, and provides analysis tools for practitioners.
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Geopolitics
Geopolitics shapes daily life and key human geography processes, and this book introduces its historical and theoretical development to support critical thinking. Using contemporary case studies, it challenges assumptions about global power while providing accessible yet academically rigorous fra...
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Indigeneity, democracy, and the rights of foreigners in political philosophy
Liberal democracies are increasingly polarized and have witnessed the rise of post-liberal authoritarians who challenge the justice of open borders. This volume examines this theme and explores fundamental questions of indigeneity, migration, and the rights of foreigners in the history of politic...
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The second amendment and american gun culture
A discussion on the history and controversy surrounding the American dilemma of the Constitutional Right to bear arms (own guns).
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Reclaiming the media
At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened an...
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The assetocracy
Parliament’s second chamber may no longer be home to hereditary peers, but elitism remains. This detailed analysis of the financial and political activity of the members of the House of Lords exposes the extent of the wealth elite's grip on power at the heart of British government.
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Churchill and de gaulle
Hefler explores why Britain and France failed to cooperate after WWII. Prime Minister Winston Churchill opposed a lasting alliance with France, pursuing an unofficial campaign in the Middle East and working to discredit de Gaulle as a political force, ultimately sacrificing Franco-British relatio...
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Cultural arsenal
Cultural Arsenal: The Weaponisation of Heritage in Armed Conflict addresses head-on a dark and often overlooked aspect of cultural heritage: its weaponisation by both state and non-state actors. This new book is intended to show how cultural heritage has been used as a tool or weapon in contempor...
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The posthuman nineteenth century
This book recovers the ways in which nineteenth-century British writers—from well-known liberal thinkers to lesser-known feminists, socialists, and vegetarians—debated the implications of evolutionary becoming, anthropocentrism, scales of historical time, and humanity’s relationship to nature. Th...
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The model of open cooperativism
This book examines the role of open-source technologies and the digital commons in fostering a cooperative economy. Through case studies such as Open Food Network and CoopCycle, it explores grassroots innovation and platform cooperativism as pathways toward a sustainable, post-capitalist economic...
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The regeneration of east manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester.
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The political philosophy of jean-jacques rousseau
Rousseau is often seen as a prophet of revolution. Now with a new preface and postscript, this classic study shows he was nothing of the sort. Rather, the Genevan-born writer was a conservative populist who sought to use direct democracy to halt the advance of the ideas of the ‘elites’.
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Streetology
Streetology overturns traditional studies on working-class neighbourhoods. Based on ethnographic research guided by the author's experience as an activist, the book offers a new approach to street culture that highlights its political aspirations. It analyses phenomena such as riots, political pa...
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The new germany
The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life.
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Caesarism in the 21st century
The profound turbulence in global politics is the result of digital information technologies changing the structure and makeup of world order. As these changes unfold, authoritarian leaders have taken advantage of the lack of legitimacy in global governance and exploited electronic media capabili...
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Identity politics past and present
Using a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, collective memory and commemoration, this book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 199...
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Negotiating justice
Between February 1990 when the South African president F.W. De Klerk, released Nelson Mandela from prison and legalised the ANC, and April 1994 when the first democratic elections were held, South Africa experienced revolutionary changes.
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From the gulf to central asia
The demise of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of independent republics, have had profound implications for the regions on its periphery such as the Caucasus and Central Asia. This book explores the complex ways in which these republics have found both independence and a new regional identity ...
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Not on any map
The collection draws on the work of scholars and creative producers from all over the world who explore the idea of the nation in a variety of postcolonial contexts.
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The radical campaigns of john baxter langley
The work details the life and political career of John Baxter Langley, a once infamous but now largely forgotten Victorian reformer. Through a chronological narrative of his activities the work also provides an overview of many of the more significant political causes of the mid- to late nineteen...
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Writing belonging at the millennium
Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies.
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Enemies of the red flag
A study of British anti-socialism, 1900–40, demonstrating its popular, cross-class and cross-party character through analysis of political campaigns, religious activism and cultural representations within parliamentary, civil society and transnational contexts.
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Contesting transitional justice in peru
Contesting transitional justice in Peru analyses how the international transitional justice paradigm has shaped Peru’s reckoning with the internal armed conflict.
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The british labour group in the european parliament
Exploring the history of the European Parliament and Labour MEPs, this book investigates the building of a second front in the European Parliament. Here, Labour MEPs worked alongside European colleagues to shape core policy areas, influenced the direction of European integration, and attempted to...
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The arab state after the uprisings
The uprisings revealed novel challenges to statehood and raised theoretical and empirical questions about the Arab state. The authors tackle a wide variety of topics that explore how the uprisings impacted regimes and the structure of rule, economic relationships, social dynamics, and the state's...
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Alfred’s empire
A historical study of Prince Alfred’s global royal tour, 1867–71, analysing how royal travel, naval power, and local encounters shaped imperial identity and established a template for later British royal tours.
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Anatomy of an opposition
This book offers a framework for understanding opposition to Lebanon’s entrenched system of sectarian politics in the country’s postwar era.
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Cold war humanitarians
This book compares Oxfam and MSF’s humanitarian programmes in the 1980s to illuminate how British and French political cultures conditioned their opposing interpretations of ethical action during the Cold War. In so doing, it demonstrates that emerging norms of humanitarian intervention and human...
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Constructing far-right nations
The book analyses how far-right actors create and circulate digital geo-imaginaries that reframe nations, borders and power, showing how these narratives move transnationally and reshape contemporary cultural geopolitics.
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A history of the fulbright program in poland, 1945–2025
To Build a Republic of Spirit embarks on a revealing journey into the heart of U.S.-Poland relations, unveiling the profound role of the Fulbright Program in shaping bilateral dealings through educational and scientific diplomacy.
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Yemen
This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the political, legal, economic, sociological, cultural and theological factors and their impact in Yemen. It seeks to challenge a number of prominent assumptions around the salience of sectarian difference as a driving force of the conflict, and to...
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Urban heritage and contested planning
Urban heritage and contested planning: Making use of Ireland’s built past explores the transformation of urban heritage preservation in Ireland, from a peripheral concern to a cornerstone of urban identity and growth. The book tackles pressing questions on whose heritage is preserved, why, and ho...
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Saudi arabia and qatar
Saudi Arabia and Qatar offers a thorough analysis of post-Arab Spring Gulf politics, focusing on intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) dynamics and their regional impact.
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Neighbourhood planning in practice
This book examines the experience of neighbourhood planners, analysing what communities have achieved, how they have done so and what went well or badly.
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Security, resilience and planning
Security, Resilience and Planning offers key concept and practical guidance about the role of planners in countering terrorist risk, using a range of international case studies.
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Planning for an ageing society
Comparing international case studies, Gilroy explores the critical role of housing and the possible use of land allocation to encourage developers to think about better and more housing options for later life.
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A phenomenology of trumpism
This thought-provoking book spans historical periods, cultures, and continents to prompt reflection on rhetoric, politics and the enduring challenges of democracy. Revisiting Classical thought, it offers a lens through which to examine the early ideals of democratic governance, social and cultura...
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Regulating new media in africa
A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the cont...
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Taking back control
This deeply researched book exposes how right-wing populists have captured the debate on asylum in the UK. Focusing on boats, hotels, barracks and removal flights, it reveals how asylum seekers have been vilified and how serious policy has been replaced with spectacles of cruelty.
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Brothers of italy
This book charts the origin and evolution of Georgia Meloni and the Fratelli D’Italia, the first radical right party to lead a government in Europe since the Second World War. It examines its organization, political elite, ideological positioning, policy proposals and supporter base.
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The social foundations of global finance
A fresh collection of original contributions from a range of scholars inspired by the work of Tim Sinclair that critically engages and further applies the social foundations approach to global finance.
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Rethinking the middle east as west asia
A richly interdisciplinary challenge to mainstream approaches to area studies through focus on the Middle East's relationship to West AsiaRethinking the Middle East as West Asia reframes a region long constrained by Euro-American strategic narratives. By situating the Middle East within its rel...
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Decolonising international solidarity
Decolonising International Solidarity explores how differences in natural resources between Europe, Africa and the Middle East contributed to the failure of the colonialists’ attempts at imposing their civilisation onto the colonised. It shows how this colonial attitude persists to this day and a...
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Wars of neoliberalism
Initiated in response to the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan formed part of the Bush Administration’s War on Terror but they were also a strategic response to the United States' long hegemonic decline. In its chaotic withdrawal some 20 years later, the US had accelerated the disorg...
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Israel–palestine and the case for one state
This scholarly but accessible book exploring the Palestine–Israel conflict balances history, politics and human experience to make the case for a one-state solution, arguing that the conflict has its roots in a toxic mix of European racism and American fundamentalism, forces that have combined to...
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The radical right and demographic populism
This book introduces the concept of radical right demographic populism to examine how demographic fears are weaponised to redefine identity and justify exclusion, framing change as an existential threat to a perceived native, heteronormative, and Christian population.
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Populism in the uk
With Reform riding high in the polls, Andy Knott charts the history of popular politics in the UK to consider whether the historical antecdents can shed light on the current resurgence.
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Silent war
Silent war reveals how silence - through secrecy, omission and tacit consent - enables military violence. Focusing on drone warfare and colonial counterinsurgency, it uncovers the enduring architecture of silence at the heart of imperial power and offers critical tools for listening otherwise.
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Making and unmaking peace in europe
Catherine Guisan considers what lessons can be learnt for future conflict resolution, especially the War in Ukraine, from the processes of peacebuilding in Europe since the Second World War.
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Coal country
This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...
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Convergence
Competing visions of the future are at the heart of debates on climate change. In navigating between entrenched geopolitical logics and transformative possibilities, this book provides readers with a vocabulary and framework for assessing climate risk rooted in current realities but not limited b...
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Wave makers and the rise of #metoo in taiwan
This book offers a critical analysis of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement, tracing its emergence from the Netflix series Wave Makers and its impact on survivor empowerment.
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Settled unsettlements
Constitutional ambiguity has been an important enabler of European integration. Achim Hurrelmann argues that although this can cause problems, it often remains the best option for holding the European Union together and has shaped how the EU has responded to its recent crises. This book reinterp...
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Animals, politics and morality
This is an extensively re-written, comprehensive and up-to-date second edition of a well-regarded and much cited text on the politics and philosophy of animal protection.
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Us grand strategy and the madman theory
What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US grand strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon’s secret Cold War gambit to Trump...
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Global counter-terrorism
This collection proposes a novel contribution to counterterrorism studies by challenging Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism in existing approaches. It explores how colonial epistemes shape everyday practices of counterterrorism.
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Vulnerability
This volume explores how the language of ‘vulnerability’ transforms social policy and national security programmes, through case studies drawn from Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.
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Peace and the politics of memory
The book explores how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It finds that three elements of memory politics – inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity – play a key role for a just peace.
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The rise of state capital
A comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as diverse as China, Russia and Norway, and the rise of the state in the global economy.
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Political racism
A compelling analysis of political racism in the Brexit campaign and in UK post-Brexit politics.
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Sovereign wealth funds
An incisive discussion of the development of this class of investor, how they have become legitimate actors in global financial markets, and their role as providers of capital and in economic development at home and abroad.
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Reconciling rwanda
ContentsRwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) government departmentsGlossary of Kinyarwanda wordsChronology of key eventsIntroduction Contribution and engagement Conflict in context Gacaca: justice and reconciliation at the community genocide courts Nation-building and a return to unity Teaching the nati...
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The path to paralysis
Using the lens of history, The Path to Paralysis offers the first comprehensive analysis of how U.S. politics became polarised and dysfunctional and why things aren’t likely to change soon.
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The modern state and its enemies
‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.
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When business harms human rights
“When Business Harms Human Rights” narrates the experiences of different individuals and communities from around the world, examining the impact that business activities has had on their lives. The volume is situated within the multidisciplinary subject area of business and human rights.
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Transnational nationalism in the mediterranean sea
This book investigates how pre-nationalist ties between Mediterranean cultures have been inherited, repurposed and rejected by nationalist movements from 1815 until the present day. The book uses five case studies of regional nation-states to explore this theme of ‘transnational nationalism’: Ita...
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The rights track
The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.
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Iconomy: towards a political economy of images
Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It que...
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