Politics and International Relations
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More Meditations of a Militant Moderate
Peter H. Schuck
The book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American exceptionalism; civic discourse; the Trump presidency; campus life; and immigration, citizenship, and refugee policy. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation as a commentator in these and many other public debates.
Anthem Press
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9781839988530
May 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American exceptionalism; civic discourse; the Trump presidency; campus life; and immigration, citizenship, and refugee policy. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation as a commentator in these and many other public debates.
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Challenging the Narrative
Documentary Film as Participatory Practice in Conflict Situations
Cahal McLaughlin
Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.
Anthem Press
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9781839988691
May 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.
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Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries
Edited by Richard G. Braungart, Margaret M. Braungart
Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the international eruption of youth unrest and demonstrations in the 21st century. A concluding chapter assesses the global trends and worldwide surge in youth movement activity from 2000 to 2020, which is then put into perspective in relation to previous historical generations of youthful political unrest.
Anthem Press
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9781785277894
April 2023
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£200.00 / $200.00Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the international eruption of youth unrest and demonstrations in the 21st century. A concluding chapter assesses the global trends and worldwide surge in youth movement activity from 2000 to 2020, which is then put into perspective in relation to previous historical generations of youthful political unrest.
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Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision
A Translation of Esbozo de Historia de Las Utopias
Edited and translated by Toby Widdicombe
Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision provides a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject.
Anthem Press
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9781785279157
April 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision provides a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject.
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Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis
Edited by Sofia Iordanidou, Nael Jebril, Emmanouil Takas
This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.
Anthem Press
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9781839982828
April 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.
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International Broadcasting and Its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft
Middle Power, Smart Power
Geoff Heriot
An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.
Anthem Press
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9781839985041
March 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.
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Media Sociology and Journalism
Studies in Truth and Democracy
Greg Nielsen
While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
Anthem Press
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9781839980602
February 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
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The Archaeology of War
The History of Violence between the 20th and 21st Centuries
Christian Wevelsiep
The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.
Anthem Press
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9781839983559
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.
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Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation
Ben Spies-Butcher
Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.
Anthem Press
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9781839988400
November 2022
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£115.00 / $115.00Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.
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Roland Barthes Writing the Political
History, Dialectics, Self
Andrew Stafford
Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer’s ‘double grasp’.
Anthem Press
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9781785278976
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer’s ‘double grasp’.
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Nuclear Power Policies in Britain
The Quandaries of Neoliberalism
Lucie de Carvalho
This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
Anthem Press
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9781785277283
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
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Complex Solutions to Local Problems
The Dilemma of the African Union in Somalia
Jude Cocodia
This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.
Anthem Press
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9781839988196
September 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.
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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
Legal Chicanery on a World Stage
John Quigley
When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
Anthem Press
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9781839984631
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
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Regulating Cross-Border Data Flows
Issues, Challenges and Impact
Bryan Mercurio, Ronald Yu
Governing cross-border data flows is inherently difficult given the ubiquity and value of data, and the impact government policies can have on business, innovation and societal interests. This book engages with the unexplored topic of why and how governments should develop a coherent and consistent framework regulating cross-border data flows.
Anthem Press
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9781839984280
August 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Governing cross-border data flows is inherently difficult given the ubiquity and value of data, and the impact government policies can have on business, innovation and societal interests. This book engages with the unexplored topic of why and how governments should develop a coherent and consistent framework regulating cross-border data flows.
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Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining
Strangers, Aliens, Spirits
Fenda Akiwumi
This book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash with customary land governance system through landlord-stranger relations.
Anthem Press
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9781839988097
August 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash with customary land governance system through landlord-stranger relations.
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Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests
Documenting the Resistance
Valleri J Robinson
This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.
Anthem Press
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9781839987953
August 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.
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Key Concepts and Contemporary Approaches to Structured Inequality
Capital, Power and Status
Carl Bankston III
This book provides a basic but comprehensive text on the topic of social stratification.
Anthem Press
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9781839987779
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book provides a basic but comprehensive text on the topic of social stratification.
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Is Brazil Afraid of the World?
Discussing Brazilian Foreign Affairs and Challenges
Roberto Teixeira da Costa
Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations
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9781839987472
July 2022
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£29.95 / $29.95Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations
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Personal Data Collection Risks in a Post-Vaccine World
Edited by Colette Mazzucelli, James Felton Keith, C. Ann Hollifield
afterword by
foreword byThe editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
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9781839987380
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
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Genocide: A Thematic Approach
Thomas Earl Porter
The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so frequently in the contemporary world.
Anthem Press
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9781839987311
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so frequently in the contemporary world.
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Popular Iconoclasm in the Public Square
Paul Hardin Kapp
This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservationists, preservationists, elected officials, and the public to reconsider the public square and whether or not civic art that memorializes is still relevant or a practice that can be reimagined.
Anthem Press
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9781839987342
July 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservationists, preservationists, elected officials, and the public to reconsider the public square and whether or not civic art that memorializes is still relevant or a practice that can be reimagined.
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The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century
Power, State and Territory
John Rennie Short
Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
Anthem Press
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9781839983030
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
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The Rights Track
Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman, Christine Garrington
The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.
Anthem Press
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9781839983856
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.
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Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere
How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion
Slavko Splichal
The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
Anthem Press
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9781839984501
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.