This work explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture and interprets his connections with Black internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude movement. The b
In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn considers survivors’ arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. Her approach is
This book argues that monetary side policies focused on spurring GDP growth and output offer an alternative to more conventional supply and demand side approaches. These policies are an extension of c
This book deconstructs the 2016 campaign appeals of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to disenfranchised and polarized publics at opposite ends of the political spectrum through a rhetoric of divisive p
This book assesses the contribution of soft powers, such as foreign aid and diplomacy, to U.S. foreign policy strategies. Since 1945, soft power of citizen diplomacy has become an increasingly useful
This study challenges contemporary discussions of justice by bringing moral frameworks back into full view. By examining Plato and Aristotle’s approach to the question of justice and connecting
This volume engages the unseen impacts of religion-linked conflicts and successful peacebuilding around the world. The authors address the paradoxes of the role of religion in global conflicts to reve
Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. It addresses
Presenting a framework that considers the ways that neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and
This book presents an overview of the context and work conditions of contingent faculty in higher education. It addresses questions related to the ways in which faculty theorize about contingent acade
This book explores the narrative of Adam and Eve, its transformation into the doctrine of original sin, its power to stimulate reflection on the meaning of human life, its amazing persistence in liter
In this volume, renowned scholars come together to reflect on Michael Krausz’s examinations of the relation between interpretation and ontology, the varieties of relativism, and the interpretive
This book explores the Founders’ conception of American political order, including traditional American rights and their relation to the rule of law, the purpose of government, the meaning of so
This book is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street social movement. It uses a revisionist Marxist framework, informed by critical theory, to un
This book brings together comic studies and critical animal studies to provide a critical media analysis that centralizes total liberation for all beings—both human and nonhuman. Through the len
Before and After Violence explores the complex network of experiences and relationships that contribute to both the origins and consequences of violence, beginning with local instances like intimate p
This study examines Chile’s 1988 Franja Electoral, the month-long nationally televised political program that gave space to both sides ahead of the country’s national plebiscite. The autho
This edited collection looks at leadership on television to investigate issues of race, gender, class, identity, and voice in a variety of workplace and social settings. It examines the constructive a
This volume, which includes accessibly written chapters by skeptics and believers, asks deep questions about the nature, possibility, and desirability of heaven that will be of interest to anyone who
This collection explores policing and race in relationship to political challenges, economic realities, and social ramifications. This is done through the use of evidence-based research and establishe
This book explores an environmental justice movement in a rural Kentucky community in the United States. It proposes a plural framework to examine how justice strategies and tools are adopted in envir
This book presents a history of the development of film noir and neo-noir in Argentina, as well as a technical, aesthetic, and socio-historical analysis of recent Argentine neo-noir films. It also con
This book offers original readings of classic and contemporary black texts, highlighting the pain of racism and love-based strategies of antiracist resistance. Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to
Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes exposed in the Apology. These include th
Rhetorical Animals explores what the study of communication and persuasion would look like if it included the voices of all persuasive species, from the microscopic gut bacteria to the charismatic meg
Mapping the Megalopolis is an interdisciplinary collection of 10 chapters on contemporary Mexico City. Through topics such as the privatization of public space and challenges to existing conceptualiza
This study examines the Democratic Progressive Party's 2016 electoral victory in Taiwan. It places the election within the context of Taiwan's recent political history and investigates whether
This book examines Paul Ricœur’s moral anthropology. It shows that his hermeneutical approach to responsibility and justice, focusing on the analysis of the singularity of lived existence,
This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to be classified as a white person and a man in a societ
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities reveals the powerful potential of intergroup dialogues to transform both identities and mutually negating relations between Israeli Jews and Pale
The book is a protest against some geopolitical agendas which are pushing the world toward a major global war, and possibly toward a nuclear apocalypse. As an antidote, the book issues a call to peopl
This book is an account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution has informed historical novels from Walter Scott to the near present. Building upon of the Marxist scholarly traditio
This book examines the change of Turkish state identity in relation to foreign policy behaviors after the end of the Cold War. The author explores why and how Turkey has constructed middle power ident
Former college student journalists discuss the challenges of reporting for the student newspaper during some of the most famous campus protests in the 1960s. Fast forward to the present and student jo
This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian lite
This book explores the rise of Euroscepticism and Eurosceptic groups as an evolved form of fascism. It carefully examines multiple groups to identify similarities and determine characteristics that le
This book analyzes major films about the American political process since the 1930s. It considers the films’ major themes about politics, ideology, and representation of race and gender over the
Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults examines the Jonestown massacre to reveal a new understanding of vital issues concerning cults, such as the origins of human awareness, religi
This book looks at security governance, in particular the variety of state and nonstate actors carrying out policing-type duties in East Africa. It links global and local issues to give a highly relev
This edited collection explores a wide range of communication elements and themes representing a variety of topics and methodologies relating to the 2016 US presidential election. The chapters focus o
