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Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation (2017)
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Featherstone. (2017). Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212500

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist... Read More about Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation.

Planet Utopia (2017)
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Featherstone, M. (2017). Planet Utopia. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212500

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist... Read More about Planet Utopia.

Comparing Kant and Sartre (2016)
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Baiasu, S. (Ed.). (2016). Comparing Kant and Sartre. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454539

For a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics. Recent research of their philosophies has discovered that Sartre's relation to Kant's work manifests an 'anxiety of influence', which masks more profo... Read More about Comparing Kant and Sartre.

Local Citizenship in the Global Arena Educating for community participation and change (2016)
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(2016). Local Citizenship in the Global Arena Educating for community participation and change

Educating for community participation and change Sally Findlow ... Citizenship in the Global Arena Educating for community participation and change Sally Findlow Local Citizenship in the Global Arena Educating for community participation.

Consciousness and the Great Philosophers (2016)
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Leach, S., & Tartaglia, J. (Eds.). (2016). Consciousness and the Great Philosophers. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315678023

Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness. Each of the thirty-two chapters within this edited collection focuses on a majo... Read More about Consciousness and the Great Philosophers.

Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education (2016)
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Howlett, J. Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315772370

Although considered a figure of great importance and influence by his contemporaries, Edmond Holmes has been consigned to relative obscurity in the progressive educational tradition. This book reinstates Holmes as a key figure in the history of progr... Read More about Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education.

Occupy! A global movement (2016)
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Pickerill, J., Krinsky, J., Hayes, G., Gillan, K., & Doherty, B. (Eds.). Occupy! A global movement. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742502

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across cities in American, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of evictions as corporations and governme... Read More about Occupy! A global movement.

Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes (2016)
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Howlett, J. (2016). Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes. Rowman & Littlefield

This book represents the first scholarly gathering together of the long-neglected poetry of the School Inspector, educationalist and philosopher Edmond Holmes (1850 – 1936). Alongside a generous selection from Holmes’s six volumes of poetry there is... Read More about Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes.

A Critical Introduction to Properties (2016)
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Allen, S. (2016). A Critical Introduction to Properties. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474276979

What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontologic... Read More about A Critical Introduction to Properties.

US Climate Change Policy (2016)
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(2016). US Climate Change Policy

The United States is often perceived as sceptical, if not hostile, to the need to address man-made climate change. US government policy has undoubtedly disappointed environmentalists and scientists who believe more concerted action is needed, but a c... Read More about US Climate Change Policy.

The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice (2016)
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Corcoran, M. (2016). The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and... Read More about The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice.

Climate Change in World Politics (2015)
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Vogler. (2015). Climate Change in World Politics. Springer

John Vogler examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). He considers how the international system treats the problem of climate change, analysing the ways in which this has... Read More about Climate Change in World Politics.

Sexing War/Policing Gender Motherhood, Myth and Women’s Political Violence (2015)
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(2015). Sexing War/Policing Gender Motherhood, Myth and Women’s Political Violence

Overall, this book argues that maternalist war stories function to reiterate traditional heteronormative gender roles. This is how a ‘body politics’ of war is not only policing gender norms but actually writing ‘sex’ itself.

Integrated Offender Management Research Project: Commissioned by Staffordshire Police and Partners. (2014)
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Corcoran. (2014). Integrated Offender Management Research Project: Commissioned by Staffordshire Police and Partners

Understanding Statebuilding Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland (2014)
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Richards, R. (2014). Understanding Statebuilding Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone ’wrong’ in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone ’right’ in non-interventionist statebuilding... Read More about Understanding Statebuilding Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland.

Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers (2014)
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Rorty, R. (2014). S. Leach, & J. Tartaglia (Eds.), Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139626538

Ages and Stages: the cultural value of older people’s experiences of theatre making (2014)
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(2014). Ages and Stages: the cultural value of older people’s experiences of theatre making

Ageing, Drama and Creativity is a critical review focused on the cultural value older people derive from their involvement in theatre and drama. Though there are existing published reviews on the impact of participatory arts on older people, there is... Read More about Ages and Stages: the cultural value of older people’s experiences of theatre making.

Ageing, Drama and Creativity: a critical review (2014)
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(2014). Ageing, Drama and Creativity: a critical review

Ageing, Drama and Creativity is a critical review focused on the cultural value older people derive from their involvement in theatre and drama. Though there are existing published reviews on the impact of participatory arts on older people, there is... Read More about Ageing, Drama and Creativity: a critical review.

Globalization and Work (2013)
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Williams, S., Bradley, H., Devadason, R., & Erickson, M. (2013). Globalization and Work. Wiley

This engaging book offers a lively and rigorous synthesis of the varied interconnections between work and globalization. Drawing on relevant sociological insights, and based on extensive, up-to-date research studies of work and employment, it brings... Read More about Globalization and Work.

Progressive Education : A critical introduction (2013)
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Howlett, J. (2013). Progressive Education : A critical introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472553188

Sustainable School Transformation: An Inside-Out School Led Approach explores how we can best build a truly world class education system. It presents a theoretical and practical case for an alternative approach that combines the rigour of traditional... Read More about Progressive Education : A critical introduction.