Books in the Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought series

This book highlights the relationship between the state and religion in India and Europe. It problematizes the idea of secularism and questions received ideas about secularism. It also looks at how Europe and India can learn from each other about negotiating religious space and identity in this globalised post-9/11 world.

This book provides a rich and systematic engagement with Jürgen Habermas¿ political theory from critical perspectives outside its Western locus. The chapters added to the second edition explore Habermas¿ own recent response to the charge of `provincialism¿.

This book examines the idea of cosmopolitanism, its reconceptualisations and critiques. It explores the specific institutional and philosophical challenges in constructing a cosmopolitan political community and critically engages with assumptions about the nature and direction of global politics. The volume presents a post-colonial critique ofWestern cosmopolitanism and suggests alternative frameworks.

Over the last two decades, people and institutions have been grappling with the role of religion in socio-cultural and political conflicts worldwide. This volume delves into these complexities, and demonstrates the topical need for better understanding of how religion, culture, and law interact, especially in periods of transition.

This volume looks at human rights in independent India through frameworks comparable to those in other postcolonial nations in the Global South. It examines wide ranging issues that need immediate attention such as those related to disability, violence, torture, education, LGBT, neoliberalism, and social justice.

The global justice debate has hitherto been concerned mostly with the possibilities of a theory of socio-economic justice extending beyond the borders of the liberal-democratic (Western) nation-state.

This volume looks at human rights in independent India through frameworks comparable to those in other postcolonial nations in the Global South. It examines wide ranging issues that need immediate attention such as those related to disability, violence, torture, education, LGBT, neoliberalism, and social justice.

This book examines the idea of cosmopolitanism, its reconceptualisations and critiques. It explores the specific institutional and philosophical challenges in constructing a cosmopolitan political community and critically engages with assumptions about the nature and direction of global politics. The volume presents a post-colonial critique of `Western¿ cosmopolitanism and suggests alternative frameworks.

Global climate change is a key challenge in contemporary times. This volume examines the ethics and politics of climate change, and resulting theoretical perspectives or approaches, while representing the wide variety of sub-themes it engenders for global governance, democracy, justice, responsibility and sustainable development.

Recognising the crucial role that civil society plays in contexts of conflict and peace-building, this book looks at how governmental actors across different regions ¿ Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe ¿ can partner with civil society to bring about conflict resolution.

This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian. Its balanced internal structure does not just throw these two critiques together, but actually forces them to enter into confrontation and dialogue.

Interrogating the ethical foundations of democracy, this volume provides an interdisciplinary understanding of key Gandhian concepts and their relevance to contemporary politics. It also re-interprets Gandhi¿s complex intellectual and political relations with other influential figures of Indian politics and culture such as B. R. Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru.

This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian. Its balanced internal structure does not just throw these two critiques together, but actually forces them to enter into confrontation and dialogue.

Interrogating the ethical foundations of democracy, this volume provides an interdisciplinary understanding of key Gandhian concepts and their relevance to contemporary politics. It also re-interprets Gandhi¿s complex intellectual and political relations with other influential figures of Indian politics and culture such as B. R. Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Recognising the crucial role that civil society plays in contexts of conflict and peace-building, this book looks at how governmental actors across different regions ¿ Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe ¿ can partner with civil society to bring about conflict resolution.

The global justice debate has hitherto been concerned mostly with the possibilities of a theory of socio-economic justice extending beyond the borders of the liberal-democratic (Western) nation-state.