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NEW BOOKS:

Towards a New Research Era: A Global Comparison of Research Distortions
Edited By Marek Hrubec and Emil Visnovsky

Peace Advocacy in the Shadow of War
By Francis Shor

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Pursuing Peace and Justice: A Memoir...of Sorts

By Francis Shor

As the subtitle, A Memoir...of Sorts, suggests, this is not a traditional rendering of a memoir, filled with all the names and events that defined a singular life. Instead, the focus is on those movements, organizations and institutions through which I attempted to pursue peace and justice. Thus, the chapters and contents are arranged to highlight what led me to that involvement. Also integral to each chapter are the ways in which certain historical moments created the conditions that engaged the conscience and consciousness of myriad individuals and groups. To the extent that I was one of many participants in these undertakings, this memoir represents an attempt to make sense of the multiple meanings and efficacy of our collective efforts. Although what follows reflects my own experiences, it is intended to be enlightening and explanatory about the wider context. Hence, it should be of interest to those wanting to learn more about these times, as well as for those who still fervently desire peace and justice in this country and the world.

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NEW from BRILL:

Towards Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics

By Marek Hrubec

Based on a critique of liberal and libertarian contradictions with their conflictual consequences and on analyses of critical social theories and perspectives from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, and Asia), as well as the Global North, this book seeks to address tensions of global social misrecognition and injustice. It deals with the dispute over particular and universal norms on local, regional, and global levels, extra-territorial social recognition of the global poor, strategic socialism, threats of global hegemony, authoritarianism, and war in light of various conflicts.

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Social and Political Experiments: Latin America in the 21st Century

Edited by Marek Hrubec and Dominika Dinusova

This book focuses on innovative transformations and demands for social and political justice in 21st-century Latin America. The volume surveys how these ongoing shifts have motivated two recent emancipatory tides in several Latin American countries, further developing and giving new momentum to social changes previously set in motion.

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Towards Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics

By Marek Hrubec

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New from Routledge, Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.

Employing three core concepts within historical materialism, capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony, it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination of advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, this book charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today's deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of 'climate capitalism' are too little, too late.

A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, the environment and sustainability.

New from Routledge, British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism: Parallel Trajectories employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including electoral politics and system of political representation.

Covering the period of 1980 to the present, the book provides analysis of how neoliberalism applies to the electoral sphere and the growing use of advanced communication technology and draws the connections between the larger forces behind the globalising political economy and the trajectory of the corporate state and the many intersections of US and UK electoral politics, with lessons for other wealthy states that follow in similar pathways. As such, it helps explain a phenomenal parallel pattern of major political upheavals and social dislocations within these two countries. Finally, it reveals through numerous social indicators that the two leading neoliberal political economic systems are producing depressing results for large sections of their citizenry and a threat to social democracy, as the concentration of wealth and well-being is largely captured by a minority class of empowered individuals.

NEW BOOKS:

	Weaponized Whiteness: The Constructions and Deconstructions of White Identity Politics By Fran Shor	Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times By Manfred B. Steger and Paul James	Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class By Jeb Sprague