Wilkes follows the development of modern State theory, from Gramsci and Nicos Poulantzas to Stuart Hall and Pierre Bourdieu. He provides the reader with a fresh interpretation of these very important ideas, allowing a clear and precise interpretation of the original texts.
A History of the American Nonprofit Sector
This history of the American nonprofit sector covers its independence in a seminal 19th-century Supreme Court decision, its 20th-century professionalization, and modern challenges like lobbying. It also analyzes nonprofits in pop culture. A key text for researchers and students.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
A Mashup World
Hybridity is a hallmark of our age. In our new “post-reality,” the internet fuels the spread of fake news, where make-believe events have real-life effects. This book provides the analysis needed to differentiate this manipulated non/reality from authentic stories.
A Treatise on the Capitalist Society, Second Edition
Language is the foundation of capitalism. This book uses this unique lens to redefine private property, challenge Marx’s theory of surplus value, and reveal the wage labor system as a cooperative one, deepening your understanding of our economic reality.
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.
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.
Explore how communities use alternative planning to oppose government interventions. This book is the first systematic overview of activist planning, compiling 164 global cases with a comprehensive classification scheme for researchers and students.
Scholars explore how Britons have imagined America over 400 years. American life, culture, music and theatre were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from admiration to outright hostility. Included are essays on Dickens, Orwell, and Radiohead.
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.
Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America
This book presents research on public policies in Latin America from a cognitive perspective. It asks what paradigms have shaped these policies, how they have changed over time, and who the new actors and coalitions influencing agendas are today.
Between a Past and Present Consciousness
This book traces how Caymanians overcame fragmented identities of race and class to forge a singular nationality. Now, this cultural solidarity is being tested by astonishing numbers of immigrants keen to become Caymanians themselves. Can this modern identity survive?
Between Jihad and McWorld
Inspired by Benjamin Barber’s bestseller *Jihad vs. McWorld*, contributors grapple with inequality, democracy, and power in our times. Barber joins them with an insightful essay on democracy and terrorism in a world shaped by globalization and conflict.
Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
This book traces the Black American community’s transition to an intersectional model, revealing how capitalism now uses the images of its youth, athletes, and women to assimilate Black people into the neoliberal global order.
Bonds Across Borders
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
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.
Catching Terrorists in America
Hewitt presents a detailed examination of terrorist acts in America from the late 1960s to the Boston Marathon bombing, focusing on such aspects as responses of law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to block terrorism attacks from abroad.
Children on the Boundaries of Time and Space in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book departs from stereotypes to analyze children’s rights and well-being in sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the conflict between official policies and reality, bridging the gap between government rhetoric and effective practice to help children thrive.
Cities and Protests
As protests over climate change, democracy, and human rights erupt worldwide, cities become the stage. This collection explores how a city participates in these struggles, negotiating its own identity while providing answers—or not—to the protesters and their cause.