Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
The Ecology of Violent Extremism
Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism. Nothing can be fixed until it is understood. News media keep us alarmed to the close--‐up devastation of acts of terrorism.
This book climbs...
The Geopolitics of Real Estate
Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Individual foreign investment in Western nation states is a long-standing geopolitical issue. The expansion of the middle class in BRICS and Asian countries, and their increased activity in Western real estate markets as foreign investors, have introduced new and revived existing cultural and geopolitical...
Conflict Intervention and Transformation
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book is aimed at both professionals and students who desire to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflict intervention and resolution effectively. Reflecting on multi-disciplinary traditions, it throws new light on discursive processes that facilitate or hamper a dialogue,...
Spaces of Governmentality
Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Much work has been done on the causes and characteristics of the Arab Spring, but relatively little research has examined the political and spatial consequences that have developed following the uprisings.
This book engages with the ways in which spaces in Southern Europe and Northern Africa...
The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe
Detention, Deportation, Drowning
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants.
Firstly, the volume analyses the development and political-cultural conditions of current...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
From the threats posed by austerity and the fears around global migration to the unsettled notion of resistance, our political world is permeated with anxieties. But what does this mean for our everyday lived political experience? Do governments provoke or encourage a sense of anxiety as a form of...
Informing Public Policy
Analyzing Contemporary US and International Policy Issues through the Lens of Market Process Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Market process theory illustrates how the market is the most effective institution for overcoming the knowledge problem. Specifically, the institutional characteristics of private property, monetary prices, and the disciplining mechanisms of profit and loss, guide actors to utilize knowledge dispersed...
Values in Foreign Policy
Investigating Ideals and Interests
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests covers all aspects of the tension between values and national priorities, with specific reference to the leading countries of today. The volume explores the effect of the enlightenment, colonialism, modernity and post-modernity in determining...
Software Theory
A Cultural and Philosophical Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity, and...
Critical Animal Studies
Towards Trans-species Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This important book charts new territory by showcasing some of the newest developments in the rapidly-growing field of Critical Animal Studies. Critical Animal Studies presents a radical ethical and normative challenge to existing systems of power in the context of neoliberal capitalism and to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies. If we know who we are, then we can know and articulate what we want as political actors.
This book examines the relationship between identity and political dissent in the context...
Walking Inside Out
Contemporary British Psychogeography
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily...
The Future of Social Epistemology
A Collective Vision
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we – human beings reimagining our selves and our society – want, need and ought to know. The book examines, concretely, practically and speculatively, key ideas such as the public conduct of...
New Rules for Global Justice
Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Today’s globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others. How do these highly skewed global distributions happen, and what can be done to counter them?
New Rules for Global...