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  • Paul Ricoeur

    Empowering Education, Politics and Society

    by Alison Scott-Baumann ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book employs Paul Ricoeur's methodologies to identify, challenge, and replace with responsible language the many continuing abuses of power, including in the university curriculum and in the international discourse of right-wing populism. Using Ricoeur’s philosophy, the book provides a meta-frame for current debates about the university and a pragmatic micro-frame for supporting ... Read more

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  • Islam on Campus

    Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain

    by Alison Scott-Baumann, Mathew Guest, Shuruq Naguib, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Aisha Phoenix ...
    Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it. Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or affirming orientations to religious institutions for reasons to do with history and ethos, much western scholarship has presumed higher education ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Islamic Education in Britain

    New Pluralist Paradigms

    by Dr Alison Scott-Baumann, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor ...
    The Western world often fears many aspects of Islam, without the knowledge to move forward. On the other hand, there are sustained and complex debates within Islam about how to live in the modern world with faith. Alison Scott-Baumann and Sariya Contractor-Cheruvallil here propose solutions to both dilemmas, with a particular emphasis on the role of women.Challenging existing beliefs about Islam ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • How to Develop Free Speech on Campus

    International Controversies and Communities of Inquiry

    Edited by Alison F. Scott-Baumann, Hasan Pandor ...
    Series series How To Guides
    This How to guide addresses the complex debate around free speech and academic freedom within universities and provides proven pedagogic responses to the issues raised. Contributors showcase and dissect case studies of universities’ failures and successes in dealing with issues including ‘culture wars’, ‘woke’/ ‘antiwoke’ disputes, antisemitism, decolonising the curriculum, Islamophobia, Israel ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Freedom of Speech in Universities

    Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism

    by Alison Scott-Baumann, Simon Perfect ...
    Series series Islam in the World
    Freedom of speech and extremism in university campuses are major sources of debate and moral panic in the United Kingdom today. In 2018, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament undertook an inquiry into freedom of speech on campus. It found that much of the public concern is exaggerated, but identified a number of factors that require attention, including the impact of government counter ... Read more

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  • Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness

    by Dr Alison Scott-Baumann ...
    Ricœur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive writings on this subject. Ricœur concluded that there are multiple forms of negation; it can, for example, be the other person (Plato), the not knowable nature of our world (Kant), the included opposite (Hegel), apophatic ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

    by Dr Alison Scott-Baumann ...
    Series series Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
    Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of widespread and growing suspicion about whether such a search is either possible or worthwhile.In ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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  • Free Speech

    by Matteo Bonotti, Jonathan Seglow ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
    Freedom of speech is never very far away from political controversy. In recent years, the rise of populism, the ‘cancel culture’ phenomenon, and online hate attacks are among the developments that have kept it at the forefront of both public and academic discussion.In this new introduction to the subject, Matteo Bonotti and Jonathan Seglow offer an accessible analysis of debates around freedom of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • After the Fact?

    The Truth about Fake News

    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here.We are supposed to have more information at our disposal now than at any time in history. So why, in a world of rising sea levels, populist leaders, ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Having Your Say

    Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century

    by J. R. Shackleton, David S. Oderberg, Philip Booth, Nick Cowen, Stephen Davies, Claire Fox, Dennis Hayes, Victoria Hewson, Leo Kearse, Jacob Mchangama0 ...
    Today should be a Golden Age for free speech – with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we’re actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors – academics, philosophers, comedians and more – stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting

    Edited by Kristin Skare Orgeret ...
    Series series Journalism Insights
    As the second book in the Routledge Journalism Insights series, this edited collection explores the possibilities and challenges involved in contemporary reporting of peace and conflict.Featuring 16 expert contributing authors, the collection maps the field of peace and conflict reporting in a digital world, in a context where the financial prospects of the news industry are challenged and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights

    Edited by Howard Tumber, Silvio Waisbord ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights offers a comprehensive and contemporary survey of the key themes, approaches and debates in the field of media and human rights.The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD