Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader brings together classic statements and contemporary views that illustrate how everyday culture is as much a product of policy and economic determinants as it is of creative and consumer impulses.
This volume contains 11 papers by an international group of researchers which address a well-recognized and central issue concerning the most fundamental formal aspects of syntactic theory: the distinction between derivation and representation.
* Introduces the Qumran Scrolls to the uninitiated general reader. * Explains how revolutionary the discovery of the Scrolls was and their enduring significance. * Sets the Scrolls within the wider context of Jewish history and religion of the second temple period.
This new textbook invites readers to explore their own responses to debates about democracya s meaning. It provides tools for thinking actively about democracy as a practice, an ideal, and a site of contestation.
What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy.
This book fundamentally challenges the radical credentials of post--structuralism. Though Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze claim to have a deconstructeda... Læs mere
This book contains specially commissioned chapters by leading experts on economic development in the Third World. Leftwich examines and assesses the key... Læs mere
In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura.
At the beginning of the twenty--first century, liberal democracy appears as the only valid form of democracy. Nonetheless, the well--established parliamentary regimes are facing serious threats to both their liberal and their democratic values.
Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a... Læs mere
This monograph concerns the psychological processes underlying the development of executive function, or the conscious control of thought and... Læs mere
This text brings together a range of thinking on democratic theory. It covers a number of issues ranging from the moral significance of political equality to the importance of political... Læs mere