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 explores the topic of food and foodways within American jails and prisons. It focuses on food as a political item in the service of control when executed by jail and prison personnel, as wel
This book considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young wom
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
Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial efforts in Algeria. Employing literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it pro
This book captures the growing debate among Muslim scholars about the theory of the “Objectives of the Shari‘a” (maqa?id al-shari‘a) and its role in reforming Islamic law. The
This book explains Ukraine’s and Russia’s post–Cold War developments by applying the framework of political symbolism and collective memory. The key historical experience of both nat
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
This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperation between secular and religious sectors, the nor
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
This book reads nineteenth-century American literature in the context of emerging technologies, laws, and industries. By engaging ideas about risk and vulnerability, literature showed a shift in Ameri
This book examines how the form and function of prisons in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras differ, as evidenced by data gathered from interviews with 150 prison administrators in ten in
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its differ
This book offers a critical analysis of the spread of branding discourse and practice to new “objects”—from the individual, to the city, region, and nation-state. It offers a novel p
The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the dominant evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these
Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood in India represents the best of Indian scholarship from emerging psychoanalytic thinkers and researchers on cu
This book explores how women within the male-dominated Communist Party in the United States built a home for feminist ideology and practice during the early Cold War. It explores how, in pamphlets, ar
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
In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheism and freethought. Meagher demonstrates how changes i
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 why and how people take revenge against others, and what happens when they do. The authors review the methods and issues involved in conducting research on the topic and provide a t
This book explores and analyzes contemporary issues associated with victimology in more depth than is possible in an introductory textbook. Included are chapters on rape and sexual assault on the coll
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
This book offers a new interpretation of the Phaedo, arguing that the central issue of the dialogue is the relation between logos and the defining activity of the soul, which is gathering the multipli
This book examines how strategic narratives are produced, deployed, and legitimized to enable the capture of the geostrategic discursive space during times of war fighting failure. Using case studies,
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 takes a unique look at not only the presentation of disability in the media but also how image echoes impact individuals with disabilities and their identities and possible stigmatization. I
Aesthetics and Ideology of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot explores the correlation between the aesthetic and the ideological in Modernism, with special focus on Lawrence, Woolf and El
Using a patient-centric approach, Patient-Centric Analytics in Health Care identifies how analytics can drive value in terms of managing quality, access, and cost of care for patients across diverse h
Human Strengths and Resilience fills an important gap in current literature on trauma survivors by explicitly focusing on international work concerning positive psychology and strength-based approache
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
What happens when one’s skill level in dance, the martial arts, or other activities surpasses local training opportunities? Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion provide a new and exciti
Utilizing case studies from Guatemala, Bolivia, and Ireland to China, India, and Dubai, the contributors to Cosmopolitanism and Tourism question whether cosmopolitan subjectivity is still the desired
This book considers the aspirations and operations of American universities in China through the lens of previous American universities’ expansion efforts in Japan. Drawing on lessons from their
The author studies the Hilltop Youth through an examination of their practices of protest and rebellion. The book explores how the group presents a new structural process for border area development,
