Ethnicity

In this concise and accessible introduction, Steve Fenton navigates the reader through 100 years of literature on ethnicity. Drawing on a wider range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested ...

Migration

the boundaries of equality and justice

The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no coherent theory of boundaries, or how members should be selected for political ...

Democracy in Latin America

surviving conflict and crisis?

Limits to globalization

welfare states and the world economy

This text argues for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongside the processes of globalization. In the two decades following World War II, the massive expansion of the welfare state system arguably allowed Western governments to expose their societies to uncontrollable ...

Gender and the welfare state

care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA

"Gender and the Welfare State" offers a comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations. It explores how care, work and welfare are constituted in eight countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA). The book examines the impact ...

Taming globalization

frontiers of governance

In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integration. They assess the benefits and the costs of globalization and suggest strategies for reconciling it with the interests and aspirations of the ...

Islam under siege

living dangerously in a post-honor world

Habermas and aesthetics

the limits of communicative reason

Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Bioethics

a philosophical introduction

Consumption

In this wide-ranging book, Alan Aldridge examines whether consumer society has delivered choice, freedom and prosperity, or individualism, selfishness and social exclusion. Social class and local communities appear to be in irreversible decline in the West. Job insecurity has grown, and fewer people see work ...

Environmental ethics

an overview for the twenty-first century

Surveillance, power and modernity

bureaucracy and discipline from 1700 to the present day

Introduction to german philosophy

from Kant to Habermas

Islam in Europe

Aquinas

Globalization / Anti-globalization

Men and masculinities

key themes and new directions

The information society

a sceptical view

Gender