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This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies.

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How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

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How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

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This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. -- .

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Is democracy in crisis Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'. -- .

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Reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. Casts new light upon the contested languages of constitutionalism, contract theory and the rights of petition and provokes fresh controversy over the viability of monarchies in the modern world. -- .

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This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for constitutional change, how political agendas are formed, and reviews different political motivations. -- .

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Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of early modern England. -- .

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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

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This book challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences alike have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. -- .

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Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. -- .

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Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. -- .

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A guide to the Constitution which attempts to provide the political terminology for modern political studies. An introductory survey of concepts relating to the constitutional framework leads on to a glossary in which basic terminology is defined in clear terms. Aimed at A level students and first year Undergraduates in Politics and Government.

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Providing students with all the essential information required and a full definition of terms, this companion to Western European politics presents past events, prominent personalities, important dates, organizations and electoral information in an accessible, easy-to-read format.

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Investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. This book attempts to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with an empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.

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This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that sex killed God, reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change.

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This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that 'sex killed God', reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change. -- .

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Provides the definitive study of voting behaviour in the 2016 Irish election

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This book engages with the historical paradigm of contemporary art by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in the 1990s. The Soros Centers for Contemporary Art played a leading role in popularising the norms and conventions of contemporary art throughout the region.

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This book argues that misconceptions about the economy are rife in the general population and that this democractic deficit is caused by institutional bias and wilful misrepresentation at our most powerful institutions. This book exposes the structures of bias that distort public perceptions and understandings of the economy.

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This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.

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This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.

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Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. -- .