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Althusser and Pasolini
Philosophy, Marxism, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser’s philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most important films. There is a philosophical, religious, and political relationship between Althusser’s philosophy and Pier...
Muslims and Jews in America
Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities interact with one another in the American context. Each essay discusses a different episode from the recent twentieth and current twenty-first century American milieu that links these two groups together.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy and recognition of human rights and fundamental freedoms seem to be the main drives of the people organized in form of civil groups or grassroots movements...
The Arab World and Iran
A Turbulent Region in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This volume focuses on interpreting the changing domestic and regional dynamics in the Arab world and Iran. Its chapters discuss an array of countries, events, actors, and issues - from an examination of the Arab Spring and the Tunisian democratic transition, to an exploration of the role of Saudi-Iranian...
Policy Borrowing and Reform in Education
Globalized Processes and Local Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book addresses the intersections of globalization, policy borrowing, and educational reform. Drawing upon multiple disciplines, it provides a comprehensive overview of globalization’s history, processes, theories, and trends, both generally and in education specifically. The book includes an...
The Morality of Radical Economics
Ghost Curve Ideology and the Value Neutral Aspect of Neoclassical Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is in equal parts a treatise on morality and economics, a critique of neoclassical orthodoxy, a brief for replacing mainstream economics with a radical political economics, and an argument for the abandonment of neoliberal capitalism in favor of democratic socialism. It includes a detailed...
The Limits of Transnationalism
Collective Identities and EU Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Through the application of public opinion, interview, and print-media analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of post-Maastricht integration measures, such as the completion of the Common Market, the introduction of...
Politics and Beauty in America
The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism’s survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum’s exhibition of...
by Diane Negra
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political...
Stars, Fans, and Consumption in the 1950s
Reading Photoplay
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
As the leading fan magazine in the postwar era, Photoplay constructed female stars as social types who embodied a romantic and leisured California lifestyle. Addressing working- and lower-middle-class readers who were prospering in the first mass consumption society, the magazine published not only...
War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In this sweeping, definitive work, historian David Crowe offers an unflinching account of the long and troubled history of genocide and war crimes. From ancient atrocities to more recent horrors, he traces their disturbing consistency but also the heroic efforts made to break seemingly intractable patterns of violence and retribution.
by Pekka Hallberg, Janne Virkkunen
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This book offers a unique exploration of the current state of freedom of speech as a basic right available to everyone. The research focuses on the different development stages of the concept of freedom of speech and the use of modern indicators to depict the its treatment in different legal cultures,...
The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life
Historical, Interdisciplinary, and Renewal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Twelve scholars from the biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical disciplines engage in a conversation on the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life. The essays are held together by an enduring focus and concern to explore the relationship between the work of the Holy...
Football and the Boundaries of History
Critical Studies in Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The essays in this volume use football to create a dialogue between history and other disciplines, including art criticism, philosophy, and political science. The study of football provides fertile ground for interdisciplinary initiatives and this volume explores the disciplinary boundaries that are...