Social Movements Products

Edited by Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor, Blessing-Miles Tendi

Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa’s wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research. Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to…

Hardback – 2019-12-09 
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Southern African Studies

By Hannes Hansen-Magnusson

Pioneering a hermeneutic methodology for analyses of global governance, this is the first monograph that makes Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutic philosophy relevant for global politics research. Drawing on the concept of "horizon" as the element that captures the dynamics of…

Hardback – 2019-12-16 
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Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

By Luca Manucci

Right-wing populism is a global phenomenon that challenges several pillars of liberal democracy, and it is often described as a dangerous political ideology because it resonates with the fascist idea of power in terms of anti-pluralism and lack of minorities’ protection. In Western Europe, many…

Hardback – 2019-12-16 
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Extremism and Democracy

By Iam-chong Ip

Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy. Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and…

Hardback – 2019-12-18 
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Routledge Contemporary China Series

By Anna Lavizzari

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy among political activists of the LGBTIQ movement and the traditionalist movement during the “anti-gender” campaign, this book provides a dynamic picture of their sustained interactions. Through an analysis of the contentious strategies, discourses, and…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
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The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture

By Alexander J. Carter

This book frames several historical incidents of violent movement-countermovement conflicts within the concept of ‘cumulative extremism’— the mutually reinforcing dynamic of radicalisation that can develop between two or more antagonistic groups. Drawing on several in-depth case studies, including…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

Edited by B. Jeannie Lum

In 1999 the UN instituted the Program of Action on a Culture of Peace, leading to the Declaration of the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World 2001-2010. This represented a paradigm shift away from the prevailing…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Dirk Kruijt, Eduardo Rey Tristán, Alberto Martín Álvarez

Organized around single country studies embedded in key historical moments, this book introduces students to the shifting and varied guerrilla history of Latin America from the late 1950s to the present. It brings together academics and those directly involved in aspects of the guerrilla movement,…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Victor Faessel, Richard Falk, Michael Curtin

In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era paradoxically marked by intensifying globalization and resurgent nationalism. Divided into five…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by David Drakakis-Smith

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development. The contributions range from studies of peripheral Third World states, such as…

Paperback – 2019-12-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urbanization

Edited by Saurabh Dube, Sanjay Seth, Ajay Skaria

Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty’s astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elaborated a range of important issues, especially those of modernity, identity, and politics – in dialogue with postcolonial theory and critical historiography – on global and planetary scales. All of this…

Hardback – 2020-01-02 
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Postcolonial Politics

Edited by Kathryn Henne, Rita Shah

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy. In an era of fake news, misguided rhetoric about immigrants and refugees, and…

Hardback – 2020-02-07 
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