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  • The Child and the World

    Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress

    by Jana Tabak ...
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    However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world. The participation of children in wars may question the idea of childhood as a "once-upon-a-time story with a happy and predictable ending," disrupting the (natural) idea of a protected and innocent ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Childhood and Governance

    by Nadine Benedix, Ulrike Bialas, Joanne Faulkner, Stefanie Fishel, Jonathan Josefsson, Zsuzsa Millei, Archana Rath, Lindsay Robinson, Karen Smith, Zain Swaleh, Jana Tabak, Jan Varpanen ...
    This edited volume offers in-depth analyses of childhood as a social technology of governance. Contributions explore the ways in which dominant ideas about childhood bear on governance in a range of specific contexts, spanning the personal, the local and the global.Each chapter reveals important insights into how ‘imagined childhood’ functions as an ubiquitous and powerful social technology of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Childhoods in Peace and Conflict

    Edited by J. Marshall Beier, Jana Tabak ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children’s lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Logic of Violence in Civil War

    by Stathis N. Kalyvas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

    Edited by Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and ... Read more

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  • Gender, War, and Conflict

    by Laura Sjoberg ...
    Series series Gender and Global Politics
    From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare, but only recently have they been allowed to join state militaries, insurgent groups, and terrorist ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War

    Winning domestic support for the Afghan War

    Edited by Beatrice De Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies.In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, strategic narratives provide a grid for interpreting the why, what and how of the conflict. This book ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Land of Strangers

    by Ash Amin ...
    The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies

    Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

    by Ousmane Bakary Bâ, Thomas Boudreau, Jason J. Campbell, Paul Cormier, Nathan C. Funk, Johan Galtung, Nancy Hansen, Sherrill Hayes, Myrtle Hill, Peter Karari, Neil H. Katz, Peter Kellett, Alka Kumar, Brenda LeFrançois, Andrea Levy, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Amos Nadan, Robin Neustaeter, Frederic Pearson, Jean Poitras, Jodi Dueck-Read, Brian Rice, Anna Snyder, Arnaud Stimec, Chuck Thiessen, Hamdesa Tuso, Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, Christina J. Woolner ...
    Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Revolutionary Road to Me

    Identity Politics and the Western Left

    by Chetan Bhatt ...
    How can the left be credible when it can’t decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is the answer, why are so many Western left organizations being damaged by it?As the culture wars rage, this compelling book examines why much of the Western political left has foundered because of identity politics. Identity issues ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said

    by Conor McCarthy ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century, Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major opus, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

    Edited by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary case studies and conceptual issues. From a transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective, this book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD