This text critically examines the various practices of anti-immigrantism in three Western democracies - the US, the UK and France - within the context of globalization and questions our understanding of the state. The volume draws upon the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and analyses their understanding of desire, its forms and its relation to the social order. Doty uses these concepts as a way to comprehend the forces at work in the social, political and economic life, to explore the impulses which move society towards various practices and policies, and finally to understand...
This text critically examines the various practices of anti-immigrantism in three Western democracies - the US, the UK and France - within the context...
This book provides a balanced introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration, demonstrating both the importance and the potential of research in this area.
The volume includes three types of chapters: broad literature reviews, narrower applications of existing arguments, and new syntheses of competing claims. The authors also present a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration, and examine issues such as citizens' attitudes, perceptions and preferences of actors, the role of...
This book provides a balanced introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration, demonstrating bo...
Global Standards of Market Civilization brings together leading scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how global 'standards of market civilization' have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact.
Key chapters show how as the modern state system has evolved such standards have also developed, incorporating the capacity for social cooperation and self-government to which states must conform in order to fully participate as legitimate members in international society. This study analyzes their justification, and...
Global Standards of Market Civilization brings together leading scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how glob...
This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties. Using historical-materialist state and regulation theory, it assesses how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have contributed to the internationalisation of the state.
The authors argue that sustainable development, far from being a fixed concept, is a conceptual terrain on which different and conflicting symbolisations of and solutions responses to of the ecological crisis struggle for...
This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other inte...
This book provides the first consistent, wide-ranging analysis of how children are affected by, and themselves affect, outcomes in the international and domestic economic arenas.
This book provides the first consistent, wide-ranging analysis of how children are affected by, and themselves affect, outcomes in the international a...
Analyzes the restructuring of the Polish state since 1989 by connecting concrete instances of policy to historical processes, social structures and political economy.
Analyzes the restructuring of the Polish state since 1989 by connecting concrete instances of policy to historical processes, social structures and po...
Offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment.
Offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing envi...
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April Biccum critically examines the ways in which development in its current form has recently begun to be promoted among the metropolitan public.
Biccum contends that what has begun is a sustained marketing campaign for development that is a repetition, augmentation and ultimately...
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayat...
This text examines the multitude of ways in which the political, the cultural and the economic interconnect and intersect and provides case studies focusing on finance, tourism, contemporary business discourse, the 'war on terror' and migration.
This text examines the multitude of ways in which the political, the cultural and the economic interconnect and intersect and provides case studies fo...
Drawing on gender, queer and postcolonial studies and representing different regional perspectives, this book critically examines the relationship among gender, sexuality, global governance, development and queer social movements in the global South.
Drawing on gender, queer and postcolonial studies and representing different regional perspectives, this book critically examines the relationship amo...
