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  • Political Theory

    A Global and Comparative Introduction

    by Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris ...
    This groundbreaking work presents a transformative perspective on political theory. This text is not just an introduction to political theory, it′s a call to broaden the discipline′s horizons, making it more globally aware and methodologically diverse.The authors introduce a novel approach to political theory that expands the scope of the discipline beyond traditional philosophical texts and ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Changing Referents

    Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West

    by Leigh Jenco ...
    Globalization has brought together otherwise disparate communities with distinctive and often conflicting ways of viewing the world. Yet even as these phenomena have exposed the culturally specific character of the academic theories used to understand them, most responses to this ethnocentricity fall back on the same parochial vocabulary they critique. Against those who insist our thinking must ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Chinese Thought as Global Theory

    Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities

    Edited by Leigh Jenco ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.With a particular focus on Chinese thought, this volume explores how, and under what conditions, so-called "non-Western" traditions of thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory. Reversing the usual comparison between "local" Chinese application and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

    Edited by Leigh K. Jenco, Murad Idris, Megan C. Thomas ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Increased flows of people, capital, and ideas across geographic borders raise urgent challenges to the existing terms and practices of politics. Comparative political theory seeks to devise new intellectual frames for addressing these challenges by questioning the canonical (that is, Euro-American) categories that have historically shaped inquiry in political theory and other disciplines. It does ... Read more

    $215.99 CAD

  • Republicanism in Northeast Asia

    Edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Leigh Jenco ...
    Series series Political Theories in East Asian Context
    As rapid economic development brings increasing uncertainty in East Asia, interest in a new version of republicanism, termed iscalled neo-Roman republicanism, is growing across the region. Conceptualized as liberty as non-domination, this new form of republicanism has inspired not only Western but also East Asian political theorists. However, neo-Roman republican ideas in Northeast Asian countries ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Gender in History

    Global Perspectives

    by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ...
    GENDER IN HISTORYPraise for the first edition:“Wiesner-Hanks ... accomplishes a near-impossible feat - a review of what is known about the construction of gender and the character of women’s lives in all known cultures over the course of human history …. Theoretically sophisticated and doing justice to the historical and cross-cultural record, yet assimilable by students.”Choice<stro... ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality

    by Sayan Dey ...
    This collection of interviews fromfrom various decolonial researchersand academicians across the worldcentrally reflects upon upon twocrucial aspects - the differencesbetween the concepts of postcolonialityand decoloniality, and the multifariousforms of decolonial thinking and doingthat are taking place in thecontemporary era. ... Read more

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  • Democracy to Come

    Politics as Relational Praxis

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy. He argues that democracy is not a stable system anchored in a manifest authority (like monarchy), but is sustained by the recessed and purely potential rule of the "people". Hence, democracy has to constantly reinvent itself, resembling theologically a creatio continua. Like one of Calder's mobiles, democracy for ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing International Relations

    Edited by Branwen Gruffydd Jones ...
    The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism. Decolonizing International Relations exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD