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Deliberative Democracy: Understanding the Indian Experience by Teresa Joseph 9781032653433
RRP: £39.99£35.06Deliberative democracy can be seen as a part of the agenda of deepening democracy, wherein the public deliberation of citizens forms the basis of legitimate decision-making, with the people participating directly in the deliberations or making of... -
The Character of American Democracy: Preserving Our Past, Protecting Our Future by Jill Long Thompson 9780253050434
RRP: £15.99£14.24"We live in an age that demonstrates the powerful need for ethics in government. Democracy is a privilege that carries with it important responsibilities for the people and their representatives. As we look back on this era and determine the future of... -
Civil Society through the Lifecourse Sally Power (WISERD and Cardiff University) 9781447354833
RRP: £79.99£60.86Are young people blindly self-interested? How does university shape students' political participation? Can busy parents and grandparents find time to volunteer? Challenging conventional thinking, leading academics explore how individuals'... -
Borders and Migration: The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective by Asad G. Kiyani 9780776638058
RRP: £26.50£23.04Since 2015, the cross-border movement of migrants and refugees has reached unprecedented levels. War, persecution, destitution, and desertification impelled millions to flee their homes in central Asia, the Levant, and North Africa. The responses in the... -
Stepping Forward: A Positive, Practical Path to Transform Our Communities and Our Lives by Richard C Garwood 9781626346765
RRP: £17.50£14.50How do we bring people together when our society is breaking apart? What will it take to bridge our divides, overcome mistrust, and restore our belief that we can get things done together as Americans. In Stepping Forward, Richard C. Harwood gives us a... -
Civil Society in an Age of Uncertainty: Institutions, Governance and Existential Challenges Paul Chaney (WISERD, University of Cardiff) 9781447353416
RRP: £80.00£60.87This book explores how the uncertainties of the 21st century present existential challenges to civil society. These include changing modes of governance (through devolution and Brexit), austerity, migration, growing digital divides, issues of (mis)trust... -
Resistance in the Bluegrass: Empowering the Commonwealth by Farrah Alexander 9780813195261
RRP: £23.00£19.05From the anti-segregation sit-ins of the 1960s to the protests in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor, the rest of the nation - and often the world - has watched as Kentuckians boldly fought against instances of injustice. In Resistance in the... -
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Heather D. Gautney 9780415989824
RRP: £135.00£117.68Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and... -
Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics by Elzbieta H. Oleksy 9780415648752
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume responds to the need to extend the theory of citizenship, in order to bridge the gap between the public and the private sphere. Through the application of intersectional methodology, the authors document how people's most private decisions... -
Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era by Thad Williamson 9780415947411
RRP: £41.99£37.15When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation... -
South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society by Gi-Wook Shin 9780415857659
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy... -
Diaspora and Citizenship Claire Sutherland (University of Durham, UK) 9780415847032
RRP: £43.99£38.44This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and... -
Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Past and Present by Maleiha Malik 9780415815987
RRP: £47.99£41.81This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine... -
Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society by Partick Baert 9780415534130
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides readers - students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists - with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship... -
Plurality and Citizenship in Israel: Moving Beyond the Jewish/Palestinian Civil Divide by Dan Avnon 9780415557764
RRP: £135.00£117.28Israel's political process is too often framed in terms of a dichotomy between Jewish and Arab/Palestinian citizens of the state, a framing which perpetuates political inequality and consequent injustices. This book focuses on the conflict within Israel... -
Religion, Identity and Politics: Germany and Turkey in Interaction by Haldun Gulalp 9780367866839
RRP: £45.99£40.13German-Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes. Isolated instances of influence have been examined in detail, but the historical and still ongoing processes... -
Civility in Crisis: Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India by Suryakant Waghmore 9780367545918
RRP: £33.99£19.17This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept), to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This... -
Civility in Crisis: Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India by Suryakant Waghmore 9780367506414
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept), to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This... -
Learning One's Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America by Tracy B Strong 9780226623191
RRP: £78.00£74.74Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political one... -
Civil Society and Governance in Europe: From National to International Linkages by William A. Maloney 9781847207586
£110.61The research presented in this book - based on new primary data - demonstrates that in terms of civil society actors adapting to the European political space the Europeanization process has an uneven development. This innovative book integrates... -
Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South by Lisa Thompson 9781848133891
£38.75Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this... -
Citizens' Solidarity in Europe: Civic Engagement and Public Discourse in Times of Crises by Christian Lahusen 9781789909494
£95.61Citizens' Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies and measures of public authority in Europe. This critical book provides a comparative analysis of eight European countries,... -
Civility and Participatory Democracy: The Importance of Civil Society and Active Citizenship by Thomas P. Boje 9781789907766
£88.61This thought-provoking book conceptualizes the importance of civil society and citizenship in building a sustainable and participatory democracy. It considers the ways in which networks and organizations promoting common interests contribute to this... -
Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing by Zalfa Feghali 9781784993092
RRP: £85.00£26.99Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise how the act of reading can contribute to the queering of contemporary citizenship in North America... -
Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements Hein-Anton van der Heijden 9781783479030
RRP: £48.95£44.85Since the 1960s, social movements and political citizenship have become buzzwords not only in social and political life but also in social and political science. The impact of the environmental and women's movements, and the advance of multicultural,... -
Diaspora and Citizenship by Claire Sutherland 9780415594127
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and... -
Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change Staughton Lynd 9781604866667
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866667Author Staughton LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 167g -
Federalism In Africa Vol. 2: The Imperative of Democratic Development by Aaron T. Gana 9781592210800
RRP: £29.95£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210800Author Aaron T. GanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 572g -
Citizenship in Uncertain Times: Life in the Waiting Room by Anne-Marie Fortier 9781526139085
RRP: £85.00£69.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526139085Author Anne-Marie FortierFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manchester University PressWeight(grams) 138g -
Arab New York: Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans by Emily Regan Wills 9781479897650
RRP: £74.00£64.45From Bay Ridge to Astoria, explore political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet have been the target of a disproportionate amount of political scrutiny. Most non-Arab Americans know... -
Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality: The Transnational Lives of Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney by Melanie C. Hawthorne 9781837644186
RRP: £29.99£27.38Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks,... -
Digital Media and Participatory Cultures of Health and Illness by Stefania Vicari 9781032169583
RRP: £38.99£34.22Accessible and engaging, the book is ideal for scholars and students interested in digital media, digital activism, health activism and digital health, as well as areas of media and communication and sociologyThis book looks at the complex scenario of... -
Britannia Waives The Rules: Story of the Quandary of My Status of British Citizenship by Dr Narhari Patel 9781805140573
RRP: £18.99£13.61Britannia Waives The Rules gives an example of the folly of the U.K. Citizenship and Immigration Act proven by the story of the quandary of the author’s national status on passports, with contradictory endorsements and written advices by various... -
Gender, Violence and Governmentality: Legal and Policy Initiatives in India by Skylab Sahu 9780367678562
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book critically examines gender-based violence in India and interrogates the legal and policy discourse surrounding it. It discusses various forms of violence faced by women such as sex selective abortion, trafficking, rape, domestic violence, as... -
Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to Societal Integration by Thomas Faist 9781138275584
RRP: £45.99£40.13In an age of terrorism and securitized immigration, dual citizenship is of central theoretical and political concern. The contributors to this timely volume examine policies regarding dual citizenship across Europe, covering a wide spectrum of countries... -
Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China: Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi Delia Lin 9781138218673
RRP: £135.00£117.28Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi - a term that denotes the... -
Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North by Graeme Truelove 9780889713628
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713628Author Graeme TrueloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions -
Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s by Christina Gerken 9780816674732
RRP: £21.99£19.19During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform... -
Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel 9780815377481
RRP: £47.99£41.81Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms in its efforts to insert gender-specific demands in the post-genocide period. The overall goal of these women - and their... -
Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions: An Attributional Approach Bernard Weiner 9780805855272
£38.04Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action. The place of this theory within the larger fields...