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Whether challenging the settlement between political theory and political science, whereby theorists stuck to the "old texts" and left the "real world" to their empirical colleagues, or interrogating the relationship between political theory and political action, these essays expand and elaborate the parameters of political discourse--making their timeliness, relevance, and reach powerfully apparent.

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This chapter covers selected research in postcolonial theory published in 2019. It begins with books and edited collections before it focuses on a special journal issue and a book chapter. The work discussed here demonstrates how postcolonialism engages in human geography and in the ongoing refugee and climate crises, and also how it draws attention to the continued need for ethical responses to precarity and subalternity. Concomitantly with this need postcolonial theory points to a reconfiguration of planetarity and a critical stance towards the Western-centric ideas that remain part of the field's legacy.

"This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North. CTC expresses the emergence and historical actuality of a set of intellectual fields aimed at denouncing domination and promoting emancipatory ideas at the borders of colonial capitalism. The book argues that the actuality of the CTC relies on the importance of valuing theoretical and methodological pluralism in the context of the necessary redefinition of the directions of global society. It reveals a plural reflection of scientific, moral, and aesthetic character in different areas of former planetary colonisation such as Asia, Africa and America but also on the borders of Europe. This book is aimed at researchers and students in the social sciences as well as in interdisciplinary studies. It is attractive to those who are interested in the plural development of theoretical criticism outside the European universe and who seek to understand how capitalist power has metamorphosed with planetary coloniality. Considering this book implies important reflections on topics such as development, modernity, tradition, imperialism, dependency and democracy, it is interesting to specialists in development issues, international relations and policy makers"--

"Role Theory in Foreign Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.

This is the first book to provide a complete and detailed methodology for developing sound theory in applied disciplines, which are academic and professional fields that apply scientific knowledge to professional practice, such as management, nursing, psychology human resource development, and many more.

In questioning "sign-rule" derivations & advocating a causal language as an alternative to symmetrical relational terms in theory construction, H. Blalock & H. Costner in "Scientific Fundamentalism and Scientific Utility: A Reply to Gibbs," Social Science Quarterly, 1972, 52, 4, 827 -- 844, appear insensitive to a host of problems. Their claim that the sign-rule is not valid ignores the distinction between the logical validity & the empirical validity of derived assertions. No rule of derivation insures empirical validity, & any assertion derived in strict accordance with the stipulated rules is logically invalid. The conceptions of causation suggested by Blalock & Costner's statements are either grossly incomplete or relevant only for exp'al sci's. They fail to stipulate the specific kind of res evidence required to substantiate a causal relation between variables, nor do they recognize that any such stipulation is likely to be arbitrary &/or alien to the conditions of work in sociol. As for the "causal models" advocated by Blalock & Costner, they are causal in a nominal sense only. Whereas conventional conceptions of causation recognize a time lag between cause & effect, Blalock & Costner's models rest on the dubious assumption that causation can be inferred from synchronic (cross-sectional) r's. In any case, the use of a causal language in theory construction does not insure systematic derivations of theorems, nor does it eliminate any of the major problems involved in the interpretation of tests, the fallacy of affirming the consequent in particular. AA.

If we want to understand Marx, we simply have to read what he said. Marx has been subject to widespread politicisation and misinterpretation since his death and, as a consequence, many commentaries and reviews are suspect. Notwithstanding interpretative error, commentaries are a helpful means of gaining an initial understanding of the complexities inherent in the Marxian analyses of the capitalist mode of production. The work of Ernest Mandel is a good example of such work and his academic status is substantiated by his commission to write the introduction to all three volumes of capital, published by Penguin in the seventies. However, the purpose of this brief note is to illustrate that his description of the unit of (objective) measurement, utilised by Marx?s theory of value (LTV), appears inconsistent with Marx?s own work or, at best, is poorly explained. Since Marx?s entire political economy is predicated on the LTV it is perhaps imperative to clarify the matter for posterity.

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This chapter surveys important studies in affect theory published in 2021. In contrast to earlier scholarship that sought to define affect by debating now-standard genealogies—Spinoza to Deleuze; Tomkins to Sedgwick—this snapshot of affect theory's development reveals myriad approaches bookended by an epistemological divergence. On one end are studies that embrace affect as an umbrella term for moving beyond emotions in a normative key. In these studies, what affect does eclipses what affect is. On the other end are studies that assert dissatisfaction with the world as 'given' in theoretical models of affect, particularly as that world is always already colonial, patriarchal, white, and so on. In these studies, neither what affect does nor what affect is dismantles a world that precludes decolonization, Black flourishing and the flourishing of other minoritized subjects. In between, a number of the studies surveyed here lean in one direction or the other, suggesting that this divergence is nascent but influential. I position these studies along a tentative spectrum, from affect's embrace to its dissatisfactions, while also noting other scholarly conversations into which affect has lately entered, notably autotheory and the emergent idea of 'vibe theory'. The review is organized into the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Affect's Embrace: Staging Feeling; 3. Intimacy, Pleasure, Skin: What Is the Scale of Affect?; 4. The History and Poetry of Public Feeling: Two Eras of Revolt; 5. On Refusing the World: Yao's and Palmer's Dissatisfactions; 6. Reflections.

While the study of games and gaming has increased in International Relations in recent years, a corresponding exploration of play has yet to be developed in the field. While play features in several key areas – including game theory, videogames and popular culture, and pedagogical role-plays and simulations – little work has been done to analyse its presence in, and potentials for, the discipline. The aim of this article is to introduce the study of play to IR. It does this by demonstrating that play is political, and that it is at work across the global arena. Drawing on the deconstructive tradition associated with Jacques Derrida, its core contribution is a theorisation of play. The central argument developed is that play is (auto)deconstructive. By this I mean (1) that play precipitates an unravelling of any attempt at its conceptualisation, and (2) that this illustrates the value of a deconstructive approach to international theory. This claim is substantiated through an analysis of four key binary oppositions derived from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens. Having shown how play powerfully deconstructs its own conceptual foundations, I argue that a playful approach offers a robust challenge to entrenched assumptions in international theory.

Obwohl Beobachtungsdaten von Anfang an wesentlich für Grounded-Theory-Forschende waren, werden meist Interviewdaten ausgewertet. In diesem Artikel plädieren wir für eine stärkere Einbeziehung ethnografischer Beobachtungsdaten, da diese Praxis mehrere Vorteile bietet: Indem Forschende die sozialen Prozesse, die von den Teilnehmer*innen erlebt werden und sich auf diese auswirken, selbst erfahren, sind ethnografische Beobachtungen sowohl eine einzigartige Datenquelle als auch eine Möglichkeit, die eigene theoretische Sensibilität zu verbessern. Weitere Vorteile ergeben sich bei der Stichprobenziehung und Rekrutierung der Teilnehmenden, der Entwicklung von Interviewleitfäden, der Kodierung und der Analyse. Die Durchführung ethnografischer Beobachtungen kann gemeinsam mit der Verwendung von Interviewdaten zur Verbesserung der Qualität der endgültigen Theorie führen. Das Verfassen von Feldnotizen kann mit dem traditionellen Memoschreiben verbunden werden, was den analytischen Nutzen für die Forscher*innen erhöht und die kritische Prüfung des Forschungsprozesses sowie reflexive Praktiken unterstützt.

An introduction to sociological theories -- Marx and marxism -- Max weber -- Emile Durkheim -- Interpretive sociology : action theories -- Language, discourse and power in modernity : Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault -- Social structures and social action -- Feminist and gender theories -- Sociology and its publics