Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Chemical Bodies
The Techno-Politics of Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation. This book examines how chemical agents have been justified, utilised and resisted as means of control. Through attending to how, when, and for whom bodies become rendered as...
The Spatial Politics of the Sculptural
Art, Capitalism and the Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Space is a formative factor in the production of sculpture. Phenomenological thought interprets sculptural work in relation to the immersive experience of the viewer, situating it within its environment. But what possibilities lie beyond this unitary position? What is the political potential of a...
by Kate Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, an analysis of parenting websites and policy analysis, this book presents a series of interlinking...
Media, Culture and Human Violence
From Savage Lovers to Violent Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Humans of the advanced world are the most violent beings of all times. This violence is evident in the conditions of perpetual warfare and the accumulation of the most powerful and destructive arsenal ever known to humankind. It is also evident in the devastating impact of advanced world economy and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by interrogating some vital questions about this so-called...
The Phenomenology of Gravidity
Reframing Pregnancy and the Maternal through Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The Phenomenology of Gravidity explores the particularity of women's engagements with gestation, linking the denial of certain embodied experiences of pregnancy to gender oppression. Employing the term 'gravidity' to name the metaphysical condition of having conceived, Lymer develops a theory of maternity...
Gender Norms and Intersectionality
Connecting Race, Class and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
There have been few, if any, attempts to translate the immense library of academic studies on gender norms for a lay audience, or to illustrate practical ways in which their insights could (and should) be applied. Similarly, there have been few attempts to build the case for gender in diverse fields...
Martial Arts Studies
Disrupting Disciplinary Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The phrase “martial arts studies” is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest. But many academic fields including history, philosophy, anthropology, and Area studies already engage with martial arts in their own particular way. Therefore, is there really such a thing...
Austerity as Public Mood
Social Anxieties and Social Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving. It examines the powerful appeal of these concepts as part...
Futures of Life Death on Earth
Derrida's General Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene extinction. Unlike the previous five, this extinction is due to the destructive practices of a single species, our own. Up to 50% of plant and animal species face extinction...
by Rafe McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach – the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content – to present a new argument for, and defence of, literary humanism. He argues that literature has value for...
Transitioning
Matter, Gender, Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Transitioning: matter, gender, thought takes the body, its ontologies and temporalities, as a primary ethnographic heuristic to explore transition contexts, relations and life processes. Although in Britain the Gender Recognition Act has, since 2004, provided a framework for identity recognition for...
by Robert Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The politics of everyday life is to be found, time and again, in meandering movements, in making connections across and between things in the rough and tumble of the seemingly banal, fragmentary and quotidian experiences that make up our day-to-day existence. The key point of the book, ideally as...
by Stephen Muecke, Professor of Ethnography, University of New South Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
As a genre that confounds the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, fictocriticism continues to gain currency. It solves a problem for researchers and writers who do not wish to be held to that somewhat artificial division, and who consider their research methods necessarily to include the...