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
This study examines the connections between literature and national identity in post-Soviet Ukraine. The author conceives of literary production as a social institution and analyzes such topics as gen
This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of “harmony with difference” and Foucault&rsquo
This book brings together humanitarianism, arms control, and disarmament in the field of global governance and focuses on the International Committee of the Red Cross as a leading humanitarian actor.
Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participator
This study examines how the US military forced German civilians to witness Nazi atrocity sites, publicly carry and display the victims’ dead bodies, and perform ritualized reburials. The author
The book serves as a relevant and timely study of the most pressing issues facing NATO today – including recent lessons gained. It provides recommendations for consideration and further discussi
This book explores the experience of home and what home says about the people we become. It benefits students and scholars of communication, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gender st
This book examines the evolution of urban social patterns and infectious diseases. Tracing the historical record, it explores the human struggle to contain infectious disease and the adaption of micro
Teckyoung Kwon examines Nabokov’s use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and biology, characters that imitate Freud or Nabokov in behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory,
This study provides a broad examination of the current Shinzo Abe government in Japan. It analyzes various controversial domestic and foreign policies and argues that its election in 2012 inaugurated
This collection of essays turns to misfit children as those found in-between socio-cultural, psychological and physical realms. It explores both the possibilities and futilities of negotiating this in
Demonstrating that learning is the educational logic that underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic. This book will be o
In this volume an international array of scholars provides case studies from various countries of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics include how social
Sino-Japanese Transculturation examines the cultural dimensions of relations between East Asia’s two great powers, China and Japan, in a period of change and turmoil, from the late nineteenth century
The Workshop of Being brings into conversation Jonathan Edwards and William James on the pragmatic value of religious experience. The author shows how Edwards and James employ psychological dynamics a
Knowledge workers include the upper end, such as journalists, broadcasters, filmmakers, and the low end workers in data entry, software coding and maintenance of computer systems. This collection of 1
Agreeing with the definition of whiteness as "a refusal to acknowledge how white people are implicated in certain social relations of privilege and relations of domination and subordination," Cooks (c
Moody (political science, U. of Notre Dame, Indiana) describes Chinese conservatism as an exclusion of utopian vision and concentration on steady and sure material progress to enhance both people's li
Catching Fire provides for the first time an in-depth analysis of political and humanitarian catastrophes in which forced migration characterizes the complexity of both the emergency and the response.
This analysis of Joseph de Prémare’s long-unpublished interpretations of ancient Chinese texts, which were suppressed as dangerous and implausible by both his religious superiors and Euro
This book analyzes the duality of IR theory, how it is possible for such theory to both explain and inform international politics, and discusses the dialectical approach to theorizing international po
This book develops the concept of ethics in radical generosity as a social and political practice. It looks at the original grounding for cosmopolitanism, as both an ethical and political transformati
This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livabil
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of differ
Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across
This book provides a view of well-being in schools from a range of theoretical and practical perspectives. Contributors from academic, field-based and community roles in education offer insights from
This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (1734–1795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic duri
This book embraces a historical perspective to comprehensively explore the current state of change in world politics. It is concerned with changes that impact world and state prosperity and security r
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
This book opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The terms ecology and culture are past separation. We are far removed from their prior historical binaric co
This collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations
Using a set of case studies conducted in the United States, China, India, Nigeria, and Cambodia, Maryann McCabe and Elizabeth K. Briody examine cultural change in everyday life, or more specifically,
This book examines China’s bilateral relations with its established suppliers of crude petroleum and other petroleum products. It highlights the nature and depth of China’s involvement wit
Golf as Meaningful Play is a philosophical introduction to golf as a sporting practice and source of personal meaning. It addresses topics of interest to both scholars and intellectually curious golfe
This book analyzes newspaper coverage of four pioneering women politicians between the 1870s and 2000s to understand how media discourse of women politicians has and hasn’t changed over 150 years. In
This book analyzes the ideas central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Polka argues that Schopenhauer has
This book examines the role of historians, novelists, directors, and their audiences in shaping twenty-first century versions of Henry VIII. It shows how popular stories and histories contribute to a
This book argues that ethnic conflict increases or decreases in relation to changes in social structure and the location and distribution of political power. It examines five countries with a history
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect provides a multifaceted, backward glance at García Márquez and his output as a writer. The essays examine his cultural background and influence, take a close look
