Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Ambivalence
A Philosophical Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambivalence is incompatible with entrenched philosophical conceptions of personhood, judgement, and action, and is denied or marginalised by thinkers of diverse...
The Speaking Animal
Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal...
Decolonizing Democracy
Power in a Solid State
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate that ‘liberal’ democracy in fact encrypts...
by Sean Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
In the mid-eighteenth century metaphysics was broadly understood as the study of three areas of philosophical thought: theology, psychology and cosmology. This book examines the fortunes of the third of these formidable metaphysical concepts, the world.
Sean Gaston provides a clear and concise...
Ethics in Healthcare
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Structured around eight chapters, this book introduces ethical theory and practice to healthcare students and professionals, including medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, and research.
Increasingly, students and professionals within healthcare are faced with difficult questions and...
Life Adrift
Climate Change, Migration, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Life Adrift critically engages with two of the most defining issues of our contemporary global political economy: migration and climate change.
In their own right, both are discrete areas of politics, theory, practice, and resistance. But as climate and migration are increasingly imagined together...
Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV
The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies. But what place is left for sex/gender relations in this move beyond the human?
Materialities...
Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe
Causes, Characteristics and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to...
The Next Democracy?
The Possibility of Popular Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall). Following the increase of direct action across the world, through the Occupy movement and the rise of new populist...
Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific
Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet...
New Philosophies of Sex and Love
Thinking Through Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure; they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves, each other and our shared world. This volume challenges some of our most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body, monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction,...
Creole in the Archive
Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles...
Real Queer?
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
“How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks...
Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission
Theory, Practice and Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission argues that despite the prevalence of generational narratives within feminism, the technical processes through which knowledge is transmitted across generations remain unexplored.
Taking Bernard Stiegler's concept of the already-there as its...