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Across global queer activism and literature from the social sciences and humanities, the impact of empires on the regulation of sexuality and gender is an emergent theme. While there has been a considerable focus on British colonial criminal law, there is a need to investigate and compare the diverse forms of power and control adopted across the histories of European empires. In Colonialisms and Queer Politics, Sonia Corr獪, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, and Matthew Waites provide a groundbreaking comparative analysis of empires and colonialities with respect to sexuality and gender diversity. Including contributions from an international team of authors, chapters focus on eleven empires: Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Ottoman, Russian, Belgian, German, Italian, and United States. Starting from the fifteenth century, authors explore how colonial racial hierarchies, gender norms, and heteronormativity structured relations between colonizing and colonized societies. The chapters r

This book presents Encounter Theory; an approach grounded in engagement with difference and the principle of nonviolent conflict transformation. It offers scholars, peacebuilders, and students a comprehensive way to understand and practice violence transformation by drawing on diverse frames, concepts, and pedagogies from multiple disciplines. Schmitz, Standish, and Sloan, who work across personal, interpersonal, community, and international contexts, aim to create a platform for addressing violence in society, culture, and the self in the twenty-first century. At its core, Encounter Theory calls for meeting others and their deeply held beliefs within a space that is non-dominatory and non-discriminatory, fostering recognition and appreciation. Through such encounters, individuals move toward relationality, building bonds of understanding and re-humanization. The book argues that creating a nonviolent world requires tools that allow us to continually and relentlessly engage with differ

Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any p

Now in its fifth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of significant de

A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best-known female intellectuals. For the sixteen centuries following her murder by a mob of Christians Hypatia has been remember

Power and Anxiety in the Kingdom is the first true archival history of modern Saudia Arabia, and the first to track the Wahhabi clergy's path in shaping the modern Saudi state from 1924 to the Bin Salman era. Nadav Samin uses the kingdom's official state records to open an unparalleled window into the inner workings of power and policy in one of the world's most influential and opaque nations. As trusted advisors to the court, the clergy shaped the kingdom's new legal institutions and public culture more than any other interest group. From a position of immense power, authority, and comfort during the first two decades of the monarchy, the Wahhābī clergy lost their exclusive influence in the post-war court, a loss that had global ramifications. Muhammad Bin Salman's dramatic reshaping of Saudi Arabia's religious culture, Samin concludes, was the final step in a long decline that has unfolded across three-quarters of a century. Drawing extensively on Saudi government documents

Debates about "natural food" have long stood in for broader confrontations about science, health, and power. These persistent tensions in American society can be illuminated by exploring the origins of a beloved consumer product: breakfast cereal. Shredded Wheat, Corn Flakes, and Grape-Nuts emerged in the 1890s with eye-catching packaging that promised clean, healthy, and natural contents. Producers of these and other early packaged foods developed marketing campaigns that reframed industrial food as the key to reforming capitalism's excesses. In so doing, cereal manufacturers became some of the world's largest food processors and, at the same time, among the nation's most prominent nature writers, health authorities, and social reformers. Fresh from the Factory shows that American consumption habits and beliefs about nature developed together. Cereal manufacturers gained influence by appealing to a widespread desire among a largely female consumer base for cleanliness, purity, and sim

What does it mean to pursue the comfort of daily life alongside legacies of profound injustice? What are the ethical demands that histories of atrocity place on us, even if we did not participate in them? These are the kind of questions that lay at the heart of this book, which explores the nature of silencing, accountability, and the obligations we have to each other as individuals and as a society. Award winning author and psychoanalyst Roger Frie travels to sites of atrocity to meet with descendants of survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust in Germany, the Indigenous genocide in Canada, and the legacy of lynching in the United States. Wounds of Silence melds survivor testimony, history, and personal reflection with a wealth of illustrations and psychological insights. The book is fundamentally cross-disciplinary and deals with the following areas: memory studies, genocide studies, trauma studies, Holocaust studies, psychosocial studies, and psychoanalysis. The stories and lesso

The threat from extraterrestrials is not Them, it's Us. In this provocative exploration of what we know of the search for intelligent life in the universe, Alexander Wendt explains why, despite the common assumption that discovering a non-human intelligence in our solar system would bring humanity together, there is a real chance that--even without direct contact--it could cause states and the international system to implode in chaos and violence instead. In 2021, the Pentagon announced that UFOs, now Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), are not only real, but a potential threat to national security. The Pentagon did not say who the threat was from, what exactly the threat was, nor did it mention extraterrestrials (ETs). Yet this finding raises several existential questions. How would human society react to the discovery that we are not alone in our solar system? Would the discovery of ETs locally unify humanity under a world state, or would disagreements on how to respond to an ali

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of ground-breaking work to recover historical views on marginalized identities and to incorporate these topics into historical narratives. Yet, there has been no substantial undertaking among scholars of ancient Greek philosophy to discuss race in the works of the most central philosophical figures of this period: Plato and Aristotle. Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle collects nineteen previously unpublished essays that address this gap by exploring the different views and background assumptions about race and racism in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The volume also explores important questions about how to investigate race in Greek antiquity by examining the continuities between the ancient past and our current worldviews, while avoiding inadequate projections of later historical developments.

Life on Our Dynamic Planet explores the forces that shape our world-from weather systems and seasons to the intricate dance between climate and life. The engaging text offers readers keys to understanding how the interaction between atmospheric dynamics, the energy we receive from the sun, ocean circulation, and Earth's yearly journey in the solar system create and maintain the environments we inhabit with millions of other living things. Through clear and approachable writing, it bridges the gap between everyday experience and the science behind weather, climate, and the living world. Answering and explaining everyday questions that pique readers' curiosity, the book explores a wide range of phenomena, from the formation of clouds, snow, and glaciers to the mechanisms behind hurricanes, droughts, and monsoons. It reveals the wonder of color, from rainbows to the patterns in flowers that are invisible to humans but act as bright UV road signs for pollinators. What makes the tropics war

Although the ancient Chinese text Laozi--also known as the Daodejing--is highly popular worldwide, few Anglophone readers are familiar with the history of how the Chinese themselves have interpreted it. This volume aims to introduce students and general readers to the two earliest surviving commentaries on the Laozi, through translations that are approachable for non-specialists and can be read on their own. These two commentaries, the "Jie Lao" (Explaining the Laozi) and "Yu Lao" (Illustrating the Laozi), appear as two chapters in the book Han Feizi, traditionally dated to the 3rd century BCE. They are interesting not only for showing how at least one very early reader understood the Laozi, but also for what they may reveal about the state of the Laozi itself at that time, before it achieved the form of the text that is so famous nowadays. The book also includes original essays that explore the commentaries' relation to the rest of the Han Feizi, compare and contrast them with other L

How do unconscious motivational needs (i.e., implicit motives) influence physiology, cognition, emotion, and behavior? What are the fundamental motives and how do they operate and interact with incentives? How can motives be measured and when is a motive measure valid? How are motives shaped by biology and culture, how do they influence political and societal processes? How can we use knowledge about implicit motives in clinical, business, and sport contexts to help people achieve their goals? These are some of the topics this comprehensive book presents in 27 clearly written chapters, contributed by leading authorities in the field. It represents a state-of-the-art reference for all researchers and practitioners interested in human motivation. The first section addresses fundamental questions about the nature of motivational incentives, the role of learning in motivation, and paradigms for the experimental study of motivation. It also portrays how motives, power, affiliation, achievem