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Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states. Such discourses offer new...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovators in Political Theory
Chantal Mouffe’s writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological and substantive...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
Should democratic politics and religion, political reason and faith be completely separated from each other, or should they be seen in a relationship of discursive interaction? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has undermined state-induced attempts to privatise faith, and...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
How should the State respond to the different identity-based justice claims made by its citizens? To what extent should majority societies accede to the claims of immigrant groups whose values are so different to, and sometimes in conflict with, their own? Drawing on the work of economist and...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
The positive / negative freedom distinction made popular by Isaiah Berlin just over half a century ago is met by an uneasy balance of scepticism and toleration among contemporary academic political theorists. Positive and Negative Freedom in Liberal Thought undertakes a systematic study of the...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
This book examines the relation of Hegel’s politics to his metaphysics in light of the controversy this issue has inspired over the last fifty years and to consider its larger implications for contemporary social and political thought. Goodfield reads Hegel’s devotion to the resolution of...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: CRESC
From food punnets to credit cards, plastic facilitates every part of our daily lives. It has become central to processes of contemporary socio-material living. Universalised and abstracted, it is often treated as the passive object of political deliberations, or a problematic material demanding...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
Should alternatives to evolution be taught in American public schools or rejected as an establishment of religion? Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution argues that accurate science education helps shape a democratic temperament. Rather than defending against Intelligent Design as religion,...
To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagreement about just how valuable rights are and what their proper limits ought to be. For example, some scholars and practitioners maintain that human...
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
