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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Ontological Entanglements, Agency and Ethics in International Relations

    Exploring the Crossroads

    by Laura Zanotti ...
    Series series Interventions
    While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate for several years, the implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored. This work focuses on the importance of addressing the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the discipline of ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    by Stephen H. Kellert ...
    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Anthropology in Theory

    Issues in Epistemology

    Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...
    This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Key Problems of Sociological Theory

    by John Rex ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume of VII twenty-two on a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1961, this book was written because of the author’s sense of the inadequacies of a sociological tradition dominated by empiricism and positivism. The tradition of empiricism leads to attempts to settle public issues by reference to crude ad hoc generalisations. So “right-wing” facts are refuted ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • On What Matters

    Volume Three

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Gender and Agency

    Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

    by Lois McNay ...
    This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative account of agency, which underplays the creative dimension present in the responses of individuals to changing social relations. An understanding ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Realist Constructivism

    Rethinking International Relations Theory

    by J. Samuel Barkin ...
    Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Being Realistic about Reasons

    by T. M. Scanlon ...
    T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Rajend Mesthrie ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Constructivism and International Relations

    Alexander Wendt and his Critics

    Edited by Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt.Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are informed by a wide array of contending theories ranging from realism to poststructuralism. The collected ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD