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  • Debating Migration as a Public Problem

    National Publics and Transnational Fields

    Edited by Camelia Beciu, Mălina Ciocea, Irina Diana Mădroane, Alexandru I. Cârlan ...
    Series Book 24 - Global Crises and the Media
    This volume identifies empirical sites and methodological frames for approaching the construction of migration as a public problem. Starting from the premise that transnationalism becomes structural in setting the public agenda, the authors explore topics and arguments on migration in media and political discourses, as well as the ways migrants and non-migrants recontextualize these discourses in ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • Language and Globalization

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Desiring China

    Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

    by Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy

    Edited by Bernard Spolsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Over the last fifty years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It provides a ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy

    Edited by Sieglinde Gstöhl, Simon Schunz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in European Foreign Policy
    Despite growing scholarly interest in the EU’s flagship policy towards its Eastern and Southern neighbours, serious attempts at theory-building on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have been largely absent from the academic debate.This book aims at contributing to fill this research gap in a three-fold manner: first and foremost it aims at theorizing the ENP as such, explaining the origins, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Red Creative

    Culture and Modernity in China

    by Justin O'Connor, Xin Gu ...
    This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China’s position in global capitalism, the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy. Clearly written and engaging, it is the first study to provide a critical lens on creative industries discourse and to bring it together with detailed ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Linguistic Justice

    International Law and Language Policy

    by Dr Jacqueline Mowbray ...
    Globalization and migration are producing societies of increasing linguistic diversity. At the same time, English is achieving unprecedented global dominance, smaller languages are becoming 'extinct' at an alarming rate, and ethnic tensions in countries from Belgium to Tibet continue to centre on questions of language. Against this background, the issue of how to ensure justice between speakers of ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia

    Science between Marx and the Market

    by Sarah Amsler ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for understanding the science project in Central Asia. Instead, a critical understanding of local science is more ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy

    Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide

    Edited by Joseph Chan, Doh Chull Shin, Melissa S. Williams ...
    What makes a government legitimate? Why do people voluntarily comply with laws, even when no one is watching? The idea of political legitimacy captures the fact that people obey when they think governments' actions accord with valid principles. For some, what matters most is the government's performance on security and the economy. For others, only a government that follows democratic principles ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • After the Revolution

    Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia

    by Jessica Greenberg ...
    What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenberg's narrative highlights the stories of young student ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Postcommunism from Within

    Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony

    Edited by Jan Kubik, Amy Linch ...
    Series Book 8 - Social Science Research Council
    While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism led to enormously complex political, economic, social, and cultural transformations, and while ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD