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Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present and future contribute to the nature of political conflict in the world today. He forms his argument around three major cases: Indigenous politics in settler colonies, the politics of bordering and migration, and debates over the future of democracy.

Post-Industrial Socialism provides critical analysis of recent developments in leftist political thought. Adrian Little charts new directions in the economy and the effects they have had on traditional models of social welfare and orthodox approaches to social policy.In demonstrating the limitations of the welfare state and the associated concept of citizenship, this book suggests that we need to renew socialist welfare theory through the eval...

This book addresses the idea of radical democracy - one of the most vibrant currents in contemporary political thought - in poststructuralist terms.

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Little introduces the political concept of community, showing how philosophical ideas can be used in political practice.The aims of the book are to provide a critical analysis of the historical use of the concept of community in political philosophy and sociological theory and to demonstrate the problems that emanate from the division between communitarianism and liberalism. Little also aims to contrast the orthodox views on communitarianism o...

At the leading edge of critical studies into democratic theory and practice.' Dr Iain MacKenzie, University of KentThis book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. Rather than accepting this situation, this boo...

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This unique text challenges the notion that absence of conflict is the foundation and norm of a stable political environment. Combining complexity theory and the notion of signature with case studies, it argues that political processes need to be understood within their social and cultural contexts. It thus develops the idea of enduring conflict, referring to both the enduring nature of political conflict and the endurance of people in conflic...