Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time
for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time …

Political scientists and practitioners have long been troubled by political violence, defined as
the use of force, or threatened use of force, to achieve political ends. However, gaps in …

1 The Occupy Movement 1 2 A problematic concept 13 3 The argument from below 25 4
Reactionary disobedience over abortion 35 5 Disobedience in defense of cruelty 47 6 …

The words' rebellion'and'revolution'have gained renewed prominence in the vocabulary of
world politics and so has the question of justifiable armed'resistance'. In this book …

Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time.
While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and …

Peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political
relationships and symbolic notions of community reconciliation, paying limited attention to …

Within the confines of the receding Swedish welfare state, family homelessness and poverty
are on the rise among one-parent families, in particular those headed by a single migrant …

In light of its title, there is a temptation to begin this book with an overstated ambition: to
heroically challenge a rigid 'orthodoxy'that totalitarianism is a throwback to a pre-modern …

Historians of the French Revolution have traditionally emphasised the centrality of violence
to revolutionary protest. However, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the surprising prevalence …

Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology
for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch …