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Critical political studies : debates and dialogues from the left /

Written as a tribute to the remarkable intellectual career of Colin Leys, the debates in this book deal with some of the most pressing problems confronting the majority of citizens in both first world and third world contexts. Their contributions provide the confidence to pursue new possibilities th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bakan, Abigail B. (Abigail Bess), 1954-, MacDonald, Eleanor, 1959-, Leys, Colin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Biography: Colin Temple Leys
  • Introduction From Colin Leys to Counter-Hegemony: Debates and Dialogues from the Left
  • National Politics in a Global Economy: Reflections on the British Experience
  • Introduction
  • From Thatcher to Blair: British Politics at the Turn of the Millennium
  • Revisiting Thatcherism and Its Political Economy: Hegemonic Projects, Accumulation Strategies, and the Question of Internationalization
  • Rethinking the Labour Party's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism
  • Tony Blair and the British Left
  • Introduction
  • Politics in Africa: Trajectories, Transitions, and Contradictions
  • Afropessimism/optimism: The Antinomies of Colin Leys1
  • Caught in the Contradictions: The State in Kenya, 1945-2000
  • Constructing a Development Agenda for Namibia1
  • Political Dimensions of the Adjustment Experience of Côte d'Ivoire
  • Introducing Race As a Variable Into the Political Economy of Kenya Debate: An Incendiary Idea
  • Introduction
  • World Economy: Ideologies, Perspectives, and Strategies for Change
  • Development Theory: A New Hegemonic Ideology?
  • Capital, Marxism, and the World Economy: APEC and the MAI1
  • Amnesty: An Essay in Law and Politics
  • The Rise and Fall of New Social Movement Theory?
  • The Social Economy in Québec: Discourses and Strategies
  • Introduction
  • New Theoretical Challenges: Political Theory and the Theory of Politics
  • Politics in Isolation? Recent Developments in Political Theory
  • An Ethical Politics of Our Times: Moral Selves or Solidarity?
  • Fetishizing Phantoms: Carl Schmitt, Chantal Mouffe, and "The Political"1
  • Incredulity and Poetic Justice: Accounting for Postmodern Accounts
  • Afterword
  • About the Authors