Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
by Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed as citizens.
This book examines how citizens encounter and perform new sorts of rights, duties, opportunities...
Affect and Social Media
Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Affect and Social Media is an edited collection of twenty bite sized articles by leading scholars from across disciplinary boundaries. It is comprised of four distinct but related sections which are interspersed with artistic illustrations, depicting the affectivities that flow through social media....
Untranslating Machines
A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
On what basis can we establish an alternative to the unifying of cultures brought about by economic globalization? When ideas, like objects and words, can be translated and marketed everywhere, what forms of critique are available? Straddling the fields of political philosophy, comparative literature,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?
This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos”...
by Neil Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Affective Critical Regionality offers a new approach to developing a sharper, more nuanced understanding of the relations between place, space, memory and affect. It builds on the author’s extensive work on the American West, where he developed the idea of ‘expanded critical regionalism’ to...
From Gulag to Guantanamo
Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This book offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. It examines the different political and social contexts that combine with free market mechanisms of mass incarceration to ascertain how economic incentives shape...
The Changing Face of Alterity
Communication, Technology, and Other Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The figure of the 'other' is fundamental to the concept of communication. Online or offline, communication, which is commonly defined as the act of sending or imparting information to others, is only possible in the face of others. In fact, the reason we communicate is to interact with others—to...
Comparative Metaphysics
Ontology After Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism?
On a planet that is increasingly becoming a single, metaphysically homogeneous world, anthropology remains one of the few disciplines...
Disrupting Maize
Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of maize, the staple food and symbol of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible ‘contamination’ by genetically engineered...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected. This book explores the ethical dimensions of bringing the threat of global warming under effective political control. It addresses problems of domination and...
The Pink Tide
Media Access and Political Power in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Over the last two decades, military and authoritarian regimes in Latin America have receded as indigenous social movements and popular protests have demanded and won peaceful transitions to democratically-elected governments. Across the entire Southern hemisphere, democracy arose with a radical flourish,...
by Marcelo Svirsky, Ronnen Ben-Arie
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish...
by Daniel Loick, Axel Honneth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In this important new book, Daniel Loick argues that in order to become sensible to the violence imbedded in our political routines, philosophy must question the current forms of political community – the ways in which it organizes and executes its decisions, in which it creates and interprets its...
Transformations of Democracy
Crisis, Protest and Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.
Drawing on a range of theoretical...