Politics & International Relations: Political Communication

By Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl, Stuart Cosgrove

First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist — perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment — and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of…

Paperback – 2018-05-31
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Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series

Edited by Alex Frame, Gilles Brachotte

The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Edited by Seamus Simpson, Manuel Puppis, Hilde van den Bulck

Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective media policies can be developed to ensure a…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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By Jesper Dahl Kelstrup

In the 21st century, think tanks have become more than a buzzword in European public discourse. They now play important roles in the policy-making process by providing applied research, building networks and advocating policies. The book studies the development of think tanks and contemporary…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

By Victor Bekkers, Rebecca Moody

Traditionally, images have played an important role in politics and policy making, mostly in relation to propaganda and public communication. However, contemporary society is inundated with visual material due to the increasing ubiquity of media and visual technologies that facilitate the…

Paperback – 2018-04-03
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Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

By Andrew Dowling

As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The Spanish state seemed to be on a journey…

Paperback – 2018-03-08
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Federalism Studies

By Matthew C. Benwell, Peter Hopkins

Young people, and in particular children, have typically been marginalised in geopolitical research, positioned as too young to understand or relate to the adult-dominated world of international relations. Integrating current debates in critical geopolitics and political geography with research in…

Paperback – 2018-01-24
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Critical Geopolitics

By Timothy Kersey

Today, examples of the public’s engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common. In February 2012, the Susan G. Komen Foundation reversed a decision to cease funding of cancer screening programs through Planned Parenthood amidst…

Paperback – 2018-01-24
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Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory

By Michael Patterson

First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces…

Paperback – 2018-01-18
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By Michael Patterson

First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’…

Paperback – 2018-01-18
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Edited by Chris Rumford, Didem Buhari-Gulmez

Europe and World Society offers a distinctive critical approach to understanding European transformations, exploring both the progress and limitations of integration on various key policy areas such as agricultural policy, education reform, migration, and external relations, as well as the…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Edited by Helder De Schutter, David Robichaud

The world contains over 6000 languages and less than 200 states to accommodate them. This creates the important normative question of how to respond politically to linguistic diversity. What is a just language policy? Are language minorities entitled to language protection? Should language rights…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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