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By: Ebun Joseph

ISBN: 9781526160300
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality. -- .


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By: Anthony Burke

ISBN: 9780719073045
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the war on terror and the plight of refugees.


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By: Anthony Burke

ISBN: 9780719073052
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the war on terror and the plight of refugees.


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By: Paul K. Jones

ISBN: 9781526123435
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt Schools relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of modern demagogy and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox populism studies and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institutes analysis to assess counter-demagogic forces.


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By: Patricia McManus

ISBN: 9781526139733
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adornos work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adornos critique of modernity.


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By: Patricia McManus

ISBN: 9781526139757
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adornos work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adornos critique of modernity.


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By: Anastasia Marinopoulou

ISBN: 9781526105370
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- .


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By: Anastasia Marinopoulou

ISBN: 9781526139627
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- .


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By: Simon Mussell

ISBN: 9781526155948
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect.


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By: Simon Mussell

ISBN: 9781526105707
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts - including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis - and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect. -- .


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By: David McGrogan

ISBN: 9781526174642
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that this is ultimately antagonistic to individual freedom.


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By: David McGrogan

ISBN: 9781526131829
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that this is ultimately antagonistic to individual freedom.


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By: Teodor Mladenov

ISBN: 9781526175151
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people's Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.


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By: Stephen Hobden

ISBN: 9781526131959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An introduction to critical theory in international relations summarising the history of critical thought in the discipline and its possible future.


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By: Gunther Teubner

ISBN: 9781526107237
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first English-language collection of the work of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis. -- .


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By: Gunther Teubner

ISBN: 9781526107220
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first English-language collection of the work of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis. -- .


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By: Neal Harris

ISBN: 9781526154736
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Axel Honneths critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.


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By: Darrow Schecter

ISBN: 9781526105844
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. -- .


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By: Jane A. Mills

ISBN: 9780719080890
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores a new area of Cromwellian studies that has not been fully explored before and covers a wide range of both domestic and international research. Its wide chronological and geographical range make it attractive to those interested in the history of other periods and countries, as well as to students of early modern Britain. -- .


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By: Jane A. Mills

ISBN: 9780719080906
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores a new area of Cromwellian studies that has not been fully explored before and covers a wide range of both domestic and international research. Its wide chronological and geographical range make it attractive to those interested in the history of other periods and countries, as well as to students of early modern Britain. -- .


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By: Christopher Durston

ISBN: 9780719060656
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during the 1655 and 1656, a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the 21st century.


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By: Zalfa Feghali

ISBN: 9781784993092
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Can reading make us better citizens Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.


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By: Zalfa Feghali

ISBN: 9781526163936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Can reading make us better citizens Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.


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By: Geoff Horn

ISBN: 9780719088698
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice, one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. He remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period, and his defection was reflective of an important 'sea change' in British politics. -- .

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