Political Sociology

This is the first comprehensive overview of Jean Baudrillard’s work from a socio/cultural perspective. This illuminating book explores many of Baudrillard’s key themes, like power, resistance, the social, subjectivity and agency, and puts them into context...

Achille Loria was a well-known Italian political economist and this translation of his work presents his views and discussions on famous socialist Karl Marx, bringing his work to an English audience. Originally published in 1917, the translators have included a detailed foreword which attempts to pu..

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 examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the Na..

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 examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the Na..

Making a strong case for the relevance of literary production to understanding international relations, this persuasive volume highlights the potential rewards of developing a methodology to bring literature to bear on a discipline which has tended to neglect fictional sources...

Media, Wars and Politics..

This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes ‘crisis’, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being constitute..

Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offe..

Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offe..

Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa..

This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions and addessing four concepts - Good Society, Good Governance, Human Security and Varieties of Capitalism..

This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions and addessing four concepts - Good Society, Good Governance, Human Security and Varieties of Capitalism..