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Forthcoming Critical Theory Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Race and the Politics of the Exception

    Equality, Sovereignty, and American Democracy

    By Utz McKnight

    Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

    The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in...

    To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Madness in International Relations

    Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

    By Alison Howell

    Series: Interventions

    Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. Through the analysis of three key...

    To Be Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction

    By Badredine Arfi

    Series: Interventions

    International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international politics. Running through all these attempts is a persistent, yet unquestioned, quest by theorists to develop strategies to eliminate or reduce the...

    To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Contemporary Democratic Theory and Religion

    An Introduction

    By Camil Ungureanu

    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

  5. Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology

    By Piet Strydom

    Series: Social Research Today

    Contemporary critical theory’s methodology is currently taking shape under the impact both of transformative internal develops within the discipline, and of external pressures and incentives arising from a series of international debates. In this book, Piet Strydom presents a groundbreaking...

    To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Representative Turn in EU Studies

    Edited by Sandra Kröger, Dawid Friedrich

    Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

    After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to which this volume contributes by addressing the relation between representation and democracy in the EU. Although in the Lisbon Treaty the EU conceives...

    To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge

  7. Tourism and Citizenship

    Rights, Freedoms and Privileges in the Global Order

    By Raoul Bianchi, Marcus Stephenson

    Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

    To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health

    A New Theoretical Perspective

    By Joao Nunes

    Series: PRIO New Security Studies

    This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of security issues and applies this to the case of health. Building on the work of the ‘Welsh School’ of Security Studies, and drawing on contributions from the wider critical security literature, the book provides an emancipatory...

    To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Stillness in a Mobile World

    Edited by David Bissell, Gillian Fuller

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Pope Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity

    Edited by Marc D. Guerra

    In Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity, distinguished scholars from North America and Europe examine Pope Benedict XVI’s searching reflections on the challenges and prospects facing modern Western society. For more than five decades, Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI has made the subject of...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge