Polity

Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are asserting their s...

Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are asserting their s...

If fundamental political categories were represented as geometric shapes, citizenship would be one of those rotating polyhedrons with reflective su...

This incisive book provides a succinct overview of the new academic field of citizenship and immigration, as well as presenting a fresh and origina...

This incisive book provides a succinct overview of the new academic field of citizenship and immigration, as well as presenting a fresh and origina...

A good political community is one whose citizens are actively engaged in deciding their common future together. Bound together by ties of national ...

Most interpretations of ethnicity concentrate either on particular societies or on specific dimensions of 'world society'. This work takes quite a ...

The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new vol...

The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new vol...

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do ...

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do ...

What is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even today it remains unclear ho...

What is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even today it remains unclear ho...

This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and deb...

This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and deb...

From Gandhi's salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social...

From Gandhi's salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social...

Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action...

This volume of especially commissioned essays explains what is meant by "civil society", paying particular attention to the relationships between c...

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, ev...

Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action...

Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nin...

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incen...

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incen...