Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Spatial Anthropology
Excursions in Liminal Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Spatial Anthropology draws together a number of interrelated strands of research focused on landscape, place and cultural memory in the north-west of England. At the core of the book lies an engagement with the methodological opportunities offered by new interdisciplinary frameworks of research and...
Intensities and Lines of Flight
Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought. However, these writings are both so wide-ranging and so challenging that much of the synoptic work on Deleuzo-Guattarian aesthetics...
Island Genres, Genre Islands
Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres—crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction—Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental...
by J. Colin McQuillan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Early Modern Aesthetics is a concise and accessible guide to the history of aesthetics in the early modern period. J. Colin McQuillan shows how philosophers concerned with art and beauty positioned themselves with respect to the ancients and the moderns, how they thought the arts were to be distinguished...
Making Sense of Heidegger
A Paradigm Shift
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger’s notoriously difficult oeuvre*.* Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger’s writings, Thomas Sheehan’s latest book argues for the strict unity of Heidegger’s thought on the basis of three theses:...
The Concept of Resistance in Italy
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The Concept of Resistance in Italy brings together experts from different fields to reflect in a new, comprehensive critical approach, on an event that has shaped the young Italian nation from the onset of Fascism in the early 20s. Although grounded in the Italian context, its theoretical frameworks,...
Taking the Square
Mediated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
From the Arab uprisings to the indignados movement and the global Occupy sit-ins, recent protests and civil unrest have sparked new debates about political organisation, media representation and the nature of contemporary citizenship. But is there anything new about these occupations of public space?...
Environmental Humanities
Voices from the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.
At a time when the narrative and theoretical...
Riots and Militant Occupations
Smashing a System, Building a World - A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Riots and Militant Occupations provides students with theoretical reflections and qualitative case studies on militant contentious political action across a range from across Europe to Nigeria, China and Turkey.
This multi-authored, interdisciplinary collection adopts an interpretive and participatory...
The Right of Necessity
Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios – from street pickpocketing and petty theft...
Transnationalism and the Jews
Culture, History and Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The concept of transnationalism has been widely used for many years to describe mobility and cross-border relations in the modern, globalized world. Most uses of the concept of transnationalism neglect its historical trajectory and largely ignore the networks that constructed its meaning and normativity.
Transnationalism...
Narratives of Globalization
Reflections on the Global Condition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Globalization can sometimes seem like an abstract concept, an unconscious aspect of our everyday existence. What impact does it have on the reality of our daily lives? How does it shape our experiences, perspectives and identities?
Narratives of Globalization explores how a range of key ideas...
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast...
Animal Ethics and Philosophy
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent attention largely unexamined.
This timely collection of essays brings together new theory and critical...