A brief, affordable book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family today.

Oekraïne werd 25 jaar geleden onafhankelijk na het uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie. Wat is er sindsdien gebeurd, hoe leven de inwoners, wat zijn de perspectieven? En de steeds terugkerende vraag over oorlog, gekoppeld aan de woorden separatisme, oligarchen, machtsstrijd, voor of tegen Rusland...

Bas van der Plas is gespecialiseerd in de geschiedenis, politiek en cultuur van de landen die ooit deel uitmaakten van de Sovjet-Unie en die sinds 1991 onafhankelijk zijn geworden. Vele jaren was hij...

This book informs students about the practice of modern diplomacy, while simultaneously inviting them to critically reflect on it.

A long awaited new edition of this popular introduction to the sociology of sport. Fully updated throughout, it is an approachable, student-focused exploration of sport and society today.

An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects. The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering not only traditional concerns such as the state, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism; but also increasing important areas at the cutting-edge of political geography research including globaliza...

Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped explains how white supremacist extremism endures, the varied forms it takes, its relationship to systemic racism, and what to do about it.

Vlamingen, zelfs zij die geen Vlaams-nationalist zijn, denken vaak in dezelfde termen over Wallonië. Dat Franstalig België een economisch kerkhof is en dat het die toestand te danken heeft aan een tekort aan dynamiek en modernisering. Dat Walen lui zijn, vandaar de hoge graad van werkloosheid. Dat ze profiteren van de Vlamingen, op onze kap leven. En dus dat samenwerken of samenleven met Wallonië steeds moeilijker wordt.

Zijn deze clichés ook waar? Thomas Dermine, econoom en jonge, rijzen...

This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity. This typology is then applied to two different political and historical contexts, namely the trajectories of the metropolitan region Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the metropolitan region Ruhr in Germany. The historical discussion spans 500 years, providing valuable depth to the study.

Taken as a whole, the book provides a new perspective within the territorial-relational dichotom...

Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the earth's surface into separate states to the placement of 'keep out' signs, territorial strategies to control geographic space can be used to assert, maintain or resist power and as a force for oppression or liberation. Forms of exclusion can be consolidated and reinforced through territorial practices, yet they can also be resisted through similar means.

Territoriality can be seen as the spatial expre...