Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

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21. Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice

    Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice

    Edited by Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon, Avigail Eisenberg

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
22. The New Politics of Masculinity

    Men, Power and Resistance

    By Fidelma Ashe

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    The field of masculinities research continues to expand, and has become increasingly complex. Much of the contemporary analysis of men, masculinity and power has been influenced by the work of a number of profeminist writers who have been leading figures in developing new political interventions...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
23. Political Constructivism

    By Peri Roberts

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Political Constructivism is concerned with the justification of principles of political justice in the face of pluralism. Contemporary accounts of multiculturalism, pluralism and diversity have challenged the capacity of political theory to impartially justify principles of justice beyond the...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
24. Political Language and Metaphor

    Interpreting and changing the world

    Edited by Terrell Carver, Jernej Pikalo

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know the importance of metaphors in electoral...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
25. Citizens and the State

    Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia

    By Takashi Inoguchi, Jean Blondel

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state. Their relationship has tended to be argued from a top down perspective without systematically examining empirical data about their association. In contrast, Citizens and the State, analyses the relationship from a primarily bottom...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
26. Political Evil in a Global Age

    Hannah Arendt and International Theory

    By Patrick Hayden

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization. In recent...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
27. Morality and Nationalism

    By Catherine Frost

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
28. Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

    By David van Mill

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics and decision-making. Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy addresses the dispute between these competing schools of...

    Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
29. John Stuart Mill - Thought and Influence

    The Saint of Rationalism

    Edited by Georgios Varouxakis, Paul Kelly

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of the philosophical legacy of Mill’s...

    Published February 16th 2010 by Routledge
30. National-Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics

    Edited by Ephraim Nimni

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    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 devolves considerable non-territorial autonomy to national communities, while sustaining the administrative unity of the Multination...

    Published December 9th 2009 by Routledge