This anthology brings together scholarship in the field of Friendship Studies. In recent
decades friendship has been a site of analysis for understanding the connections between
people and groups and as a fabric for holding the political and social together. Starting with
the theoretical debates about how to conceptualize friendship as a political idea the
anthology then looks at friendship¿s relationship with justice the state and civic relations.
The collection presents cutting-edge research which moves the theorization of friendship beyond
western confines to consider the themes in cross-cultural and decolonized contexts.
