Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Willing Collaborators
Foreign Partners in Chinese Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
In recent years, many media producers, screenwriters, technicians and investors from the Asia-Pacific region have been attracted to projects in the People's Republic of China. The Chinese state’s recent willingness to consider collaboration with foreign partners is a major factor that is enticing...
Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion
On Human Creation, Historical Novelty, and the Social Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book features a highly significant discussion between Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis. Recorded for Radio France (Culture) in 1985, it is the only known encounter between these two great philosophers of the imagination. Their wide ranging conversation covers such themes as the productive...
Entrepreneurship and Institutions
The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Asymmetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Entrepreneurship does not occur in a vacuum. The institutions which provide the framework for economic activity matter. As countries around the world strive for economic growth, this book examines how institutional arrangements are critical in fostering entrepreneurship. Through 12 case studies drawn...
Justifying Same-Sex Marriage
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
There is massive public interest in same-sex marriage, a controversial topic that is rarely out of the media. This book investigates the extent to which legalizing same-sex marriage can contribute to ending the discrimination and social stigma faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and...
In Search of the Afropolitan
Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature...
Radical Space
Exploring Politics and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state. In the process, space has been revealed as a productively contested concept with methodological implications...
The Animal Inside
Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Much has been written about animals in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new turn, offering an examination of the 'animal question' from a more fundamental, philosophical-anthropological perspective. The contributors in this important volume focus on how the...
Derrida and Foucault
Philosophy, Politics, and Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Derrida and Foucault offers a major contribution to the interpretation of these two highly influential thinkers. By tracing the moments where Derrida and Foucault’s arguments converge but also where they deviate, this book fundamentally recasts our understanding not only of these two philosophers,...
Soundtracking Germany
Popular Music and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history,...
Human Value, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
The Precautionary Ecosystem Health Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
It is widely acknowledged that we have a duty to protect the environment. Yet, current environmental policy discussions demonstrate that fulfilling this in practice is a difficult, complex, and costly task.
There are many ethical questions arising from such discussions. Should we care about...
Political Philosophy and Political Action
Imperatives of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Political philosophers have long taken inspiration from political movements when crafting their theories, which they hoped would address the universal problems of democracy. Political Philosophy and Political Actioninvestigates the relationship between political practices of popular resistance and...
Negotiating Digital Citizenship
Control, Contest and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
With pervasive use of mobile devices and social media, there is a constant tension between the promise of new forms of social engagement and the threat of misuse and misappropriation, or the risk of harm and harassment.
Negotiating Digital Citizenship explores the diversity of experiences that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in philosophy and the current social and political interest in anger, this collection provides an inclusive view...
Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism
Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The end of the post-World War II ‘long boom’ in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and across the developed world more generally. This is a phenomenon with deep ramifications for social justice.
The...