Polity

Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can b...

The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to s...

The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to s...

Moving beyong traditional concern with pattern and process, this innovative text explores the political and legislative history of 'racial' segrega...

We live in a runaway world. New patterns of risk and uncertainty threaten the stability of our traditional institutions. To make sense of these pro...

In this important book, Antonio Negri develops the key ideas that were to form the basis for the highly influential analyses of new forms of power ...

Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-...

Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-...

Europe is entering a new political epoch. The centre-left, now in government in many EU countries, has struggled to modernize itself and is now def...

Europe is entering a new political epoch. The centre-left, now in government in many EU countries, has struggled to modernize itself and is now def...

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more gener...

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more gener...

Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless...

Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless...

The field of cultural and media studies is one of the most important and rapidly developing areas in the social sciences and humanities today. This...

Gender studies has become one of the core fields in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of the struggles of feminists, women are no lon...

This book provides a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the major debates and schools of thought in social theory today. Some thirty diff...

Populism is an expression of anger; its appeal stems from being presented as the solution to disorder in our times. The vision of democracy, societ...

Populism is an expression of anger; its appeal stems from being presented as the solution to disorder in our times. The vision of democracy, societ...

This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional arguments about pornography. Kappeler re-examines the artistic distinctions betw...

A concise introduction to a core and popular area of literary studies. Provides extended case studies which survey and summarise key critical deba...

The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modif...

The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modif...

Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expressio...