Alexander Jenkins: 3 books
Post-Ethical Society
The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes...
Between Two Worlds
Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...