POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Undoing Privilege

Unearned Advantage in a Divided World Professor Bob Pease

An essential book for all who are concerned about developing theories and practices for a socially just world.

Privilege, as the other side of oppression, has been given insufficient attention in both critical theories and the practices of social change and as a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their privilege, as demonstrated in this new edition.

Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western dominance, class elitism, and white and patriarchal privilege to the less-examined sites of heterosexual and able-bodied privilege. Bob Pease points out that while the vast majority of people may be oppressed on one level, many are also privileged on another. He also demonstrates how members of privileged groups can engage critically with their own dominant position, and explores the potential and limitations of them becoming allies against oppression and their own unearned privilege. Bob Pease is Chair of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars

The Politics of Sex Finn Mackay

A contextualization of contemporary feminist fractures, toxic masculinity, and trans movements, through a specific focus on lesbian masculinity.

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the ‘gender wars’ or ‘TERF wars’ – the violent feminist fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity. Uniquely, she approaches this debate through the context of female masculinity, butch and transmasculine lesbian masculinities. An increasingly important topic in political science and sociological academia, this book breaks new ground in the discussion of the politics of gender and identity. Finn Mackay is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, and founded the London Feminist Network in 2004.

December 2021 320 pages 216 x 138mm 2nd edition 9781913441135 Zed Books

October 2021 264 pages 234 x 156mm 9780755606634 I.B. Tauris

Uncontrollable Women

Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries Nan Sloane

Uses inspirational, individual stories of female political pioneers from the 1800's to explore the period in which women began to enter the public space to seek change.

Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Nan Sloane illuminates a time when the first demands were made for female suffrage, when women began to organise on their own account, and when working-class women and men began to assert their collective presence and voice. She shows how these women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and the vital battles they fought which are still ongoing. Nan Sloane is an author, speaker and trainer with an interest in the role of women in the public space, particularly in politics and the Labour Party.

January 2022 304 pages 216 x 138mm 9781838606633 I.B. Tauris

September 2021 304 pages 234 x 156mm 9780755617494 I.B. Tauris

October 2021 264 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781786999696 Zed Books

January 2022 256 pages • 234 x 153mm 9781472992932 Bloomsbury Continuum

Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries

A Campaign for Justice

Katherine O’Donnell, Claire McGettrick, James M. Smith, Maeve O'Rourke and Mari Steed Edited by Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke, James M. Smith and Mari Steed

An important account of the development of the campaign for social justice around the Magdalene laundries in the Republic of Ireland.

Using the Irish State’s own report into the Magdalene institutions, as well as testimonies from survivors and independent witnesses, this book gives a detailed account of life behind the high walls of Ireland’s Magdalene institutions. It offers an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish State’s response culminating in the The Ryan Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group. The result is a damning assessment of how the Irish State continues to evade its responsibilities, not merely to survivors of the Magdalenes but also in providing a truthful account of what happened. Claire McGettrick is an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland and cofounder of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). Katherine O'Donnell is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy, Ireland. Maeve O'Rourke is a lecturer in human-rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, and a barrister (England and Wales) and attorney-at-law (New York). James M. Smith is an associate professor in the English department at Boston College. Mari Steed serves as U.S. coordinator with the Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA), and cofounded Justice for Magdalens/ Research (JFMR) in 2003.

Speak Not

Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language James Griffiths

A personal and engaging account of how we can stop the race towards the extinction of linguistic diversity.

As globalisation continues, languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet’s linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. It is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic ‘super-tongues’. James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation, and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. James Griffiths is Asia Correspondent at the Globe and Mail, currently based in Hong Kong.

Against the Tide

The best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley

Edited by Mark Dooley

The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume.

Roger Scruton was the leading conservative thinker of the post-war years in the English speaking world. He was also a journalist, critic and commentator whose public pronouncements were prophetic, coruscating and provocative. In this book are assembled the very best of Scruton’s essays and commentaries, arranged thematically. Scruton proves himself to be at his most scintillating and controversial. He writes with passion and conviction about such varied topics as feminism, racism, fascism, Tony Blair, Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump. He takes aim at those who defy conservative common sense in favour of liberal falsehoods. This book shows a writer at the height of his intellectual powers whose works will provide a philosophical legacy for many years to come. Roger Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; University Professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

What is the Economy?

And Why it Matters to You Joe Richards and Beth Leslie

An explanation of key concepts in economics in terms of the individual and everyday life.

What exactly is the economy anyway? Economists and politicians would have you believe it is a rarefied topic best left to ‘the experts’. This book uncovers what people really mean when they talk about ‘the economy’, taking the word off its pedestal and showing that it is just a lens for seeing the world around us. That, at its heart, economics is about you, and the society you are a part of. Explaining key concepts in economics in relation to how they directly affect your life – from your money to your home, your workplace to your future – What is the Economy? drags the obscure world of economics kicking and screaming towards the everyday and equips you with clarity and understanding. Beth Leslie and Joe Richards work for Economy, the charity that believes economics is for everyone.

Veganism

Politics, Practice, and Theory Eva Haifa Giraud

A lively overview of the tensions surrounding veganism that makes an original contribution to these debates in relation to other social justice issues.

What exactly do vegans believe? Why has veganism become such a critical and criticised social movement, and how does it correspond to wider debates about the environment and sustainability, animal studies and the media? Eva Haifa Giraud offers an accessible route into the debates that surround vegan politics, which feed into broader issues surrounding food activism and ethical consumption. Drawing on a range of examples, from recipe books with punk aesthetics to social media campaigns, Giraud shows how veganism's radical potential is being complicated by its commercialization, and elucidates new conceptual frameworks for reclaiming veganism as a radical social movement. Eva Haifa Giraud is Senior Lecturer in Media at Keele University, UK.

Whatever Happened to Tradition?

History, Belonging and the Future of the West Tim Stanley

This hard-hitting book explains why people need to commune with tradition and why they should embrace it.

Civilisations go wrong: they change too fast, too far and throw out the good with the bad. This book examines what we have lost and how we can rediscover it. Focusing on utility and beauty, Stanley shows that traditions – ritual, hierarchy, codes of behaviour, the concept of sanctity – were once preserved because they were useful. Traditions are also beautiful because they enhance life and make it worth living. Drawing on a rich trove of examples from history, literature, art and architecture, Stanley demonstrates how traditions add colour and identity, tying us into our past and evoking sacred mysteries that exist beyond ourselves. Tim Stanley is a historian and journalist with a growing profile as a political commentator.

October 2021 240 pages 234 x 156mm 9781786995605 Zed Books

July 2021 • 6 mono illus 208 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350124912 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics

October 2021 272 pages 234 x 153mm 9781472974129 Bloomsbury Continuum