EU reforms promote the US university system as a model for economic growth. This book demonstrates that this contradicts basic European values, ignores the social costs of copying an elite system, and neglects crucial issues of elitism and democracy.
Migrants and Minorities
Europe is being irrevocably changed by immigration. This book pinpoints the trends shaping its future, exploring EU-level regulations, the challenges of Islam and xenophobia, and how different nations are integrating migrants and minorities.
Questions of Civil Society
This interdisciplinary volume explores civil society, stimulating new research questions. Avoiding a fixed definition, it examines civil society’s pivotal role in 21st-century upheavals and in the renegotiation of relations between the state and society.
This publication studies suffrage, citizenship and parliamentary reforms in various socio-political contexts. By highlighting national differences, this collection argues that the age of suffrage narratives based on universal emancipation is over.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Exploring Political and Gender Relations
Offering a contemporary, multicultural approach to the relationship between politics, media and society, this publication investigates such links from various perspectives. It brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed.
Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. This monograph discusses these and a number of other events alongside a variety of general issues.
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
The contributions to this book assume diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity, and offer case studies that provide important counter-narratives to prevailing local and global discourses of Nordic-ness.
A World Beyond Global Disorder
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
Good Governance and Civil Society
Governance provides an answer to the challenges of globalization by combining cooperative forms of governing with the private sector and social partners. This book offers interdisciplinary research and case studies to analyse the many facets of this concept.
Yesterday’s Tomorrows
In 2012, a year of crises and forebodings, the world became a stage for new beginnings and utopian movements. The essays in this book discuss utopia and dystopia in literature and film, using science fiction, gender politics and social sciences to understand the present.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.
An International Humanitarian Organisation
Parker discusses the current approach to the climate crisis and gives a clear view of the history of the failed protocols and promises. He studies why solutions only emerge by changing the international structure of governance, a structure now conditioned by out-dated modes.
Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India
After a constitutional amendment reserved political seats for women in rural Haryana, who are the women who ran for office? What barriers do they face? Ten elected women Sarpanches share their own life stories, reflecting on their journeys and the difference they are making.
Brazilians Abroad
This book explores Brazil’s experience with emigrant voting. It investigates what external voting rights represent to the Brazilian emigrant community and how emigrants engage politically with their country of origin, based on original data from Brazilians abroad.
Bulut addresses the constitutional journey of religious minorities in modern Turkey, specifically the Lausanne minorities, who have been blacklisted in the official records for decades. He focuses on the non-Muslim citizens who have maintained their lives with confidential codes.
The European Culture for Human Rights
This pioneering analysis frames happiness as a human right, linking our quality of life to collective responsibility. It offers a pragmatic vision for improving our inner and outer worlds in a complex, modern society.
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