Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Rethinking Gramsci
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Green
February 14, 2013
This edited volume provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of Antonio Gramsci's significant contribution to the fields of political and cultural theory. It contains seminal contributions from a broad range of important political and cultural theorists from around the world and explains the...
Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Finlayson
February 17, 2012
William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic life in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of pluralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and ...
Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch
June 23, 2011
An ideal new multi-disciplinary volume for students and scholars of philosophy, contemporary political theory, and international relations. This volume offers key insights into the work of the chief figures in the contemporary debate surrounding thin universalism and presents a ...
Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Dimova-Cookson, Peter Stirk
June 10, 2011
Multiculturalism is higher on the daily political agenda than it has ever been. Leading politicians and public commentators speak with an unparalleled bluntness about the perceived limitations of multiculturalism while representatives of cultural, minorities express concern about marginalisation. ...
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon, Avigail Eisenberg
February 08, 2011
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 ...
Political Constructivism
1st Edition
By Peri Roberts
February 02, 2011
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 ...
Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and changing the world
1st Edition
Edited
By Terrell Carver, Jernej Pikalo
February 02, 2011
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 ...
The New Politics of Masculinity: Men, Power and Resistance
1st Edition
By Fidelma Ashe
February 02, 2011
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 ...
Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory
1st Edition
By Patrick Hayden
September 23, 2010
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...
Morality and Nationalism
1st Edition
By Catherine Frost
August 20, 2010
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 ...
Citizens and the State: Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Takashi Inoguchi, Jean Blondel
August 10, 2010
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 ...
Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy
1st Edition
By David van Mill
August 10, 2010
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 ...