Bøker i Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought-serien

This book addresses the question whether there is a duty to vote and if this is enforceable in the form of compulsory voting. Anthoula Malkopoulou presents the importance of compulsory voting today, situating the debate within the contemporary discussion on elections, representation and democracy, and questioning the historical origins of the idea in Europe. Malkopoulou also criticizes the misuse of compulsory voting and argues for its abolition after the Second World War, exposing the contingency of relevant normative claims today and the conditionality of compulsory voting.

George Orwell led a unique life that found expression in a prose style of uncompromising brilliance. This book shows that although Orwell is often read as a socialist, he is best understood as a moralist and imaginative writer.

Presents an examination of the slowly developing body of literature that has been published following Michael Oakeshott's death. This book considers the 'lesser-known' essays, as well as the various secondary appraisals of Oakeshott's work, which sets his thought in the contemporary political environment of the twenty-first century.

In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences.

The contributors to this volume - many among the foremost Edward Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic, his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers and his involvement with major movements of his time (such as music, feminism, new humanism, and Marxism).

This volume recognizes and presents the complexity of Gramsci's formulation through a selection of contemporary theoretical as well as historico-social investigations that mark a significantly innovative moment in the work on hegemony.

This volume - organized around critical perspectives on Norbert Elias's history of emotions - focuses on the history of emotional styles and socio-historical change, providing an analysis of the intersection of historical and sociological perspectives on changes in emotional regimes. Exploring such issues as the formation of emotional communities, the histories of contested emotions, the modern politics of emotions, and violence and emotions, the authors seek to answer the questions: What are the drivers of change in Western societies¿ emotional regimes? What is the role of collective emotions in socio-historical change?

Erving Goffman is considered by many to have been one of the most important sociologists of the post-war era. His later analysis explored the field of deviance and many of his works in this area are now considered as sociological classics. This collection brings together many of today's leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy.Ranging from his critique of institutionalization to his understanding of the minute details of face-to-face interaction, this collection reveals the richness of Goffman's own work as well as his contribution to sociology today and will be essential reading for students and academics alike.

Written by world renowned Durkheim scholars, this book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's classic text on suicide, and revisits some of the key issues explored.

This book is a comparative, historical analysis of dissident thought and practice for contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism. Divided into two parts, the editors and contributors explore the contribution of 'paradigmatic' dissidents like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Havel, Sakharov, Mandela, Liu Xiaobo, Aung San Suu Kyi towards a post-universalist cosmopolitan theory. Part Two examines the inherent cosmopolitanism of the seemingly 'peripheral' dissent of contemporary forms of protests, resistance, direct action like NO TAV movement and Occupy Wall Street.