Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Steadfast Movement around Micronesia
Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement on the atoll of Satowan in Chuuk State as intimately associated with clan, lineage, and locality,...
American Democracy
American Founders, Presidents, and Enlightened Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Following the Renaissance, democracy was still considered a dangerous form of government. Democracy was often regarded as a fool’s folly and a madman’s paradise. The well-wishers of the Republican Government would have fanciful debates in intellectual circles, but paternal monarchies dominated...
The Ruling Ideas
Bourgeois Political Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The concepts that organize our thinking wield, by virtue of this fact, a great deal of political power. This book looks at five concepts whose dominion has increased, steadily, during the bourgeois period of modernity: Labor, Time, Property, Value, and Crisis. These ruling ideas are central not only...
Whatever Happened to Class?
Reflections from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations...
by John Leveille
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement. John Leveille spent over nine months with Occupy Philadelphia as the members organized and carried out their protests. This book describes and analyzes...
The Burden of Academic Success
Managing Working-Class Identities in College
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic...
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established...
Politics of the European Union in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Between Conflict and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Politics of the European Union in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Between Conflict and Democracy, by Doga Ulas Eralp, evaluates the European Union's ability to transform the escalating political tensions at a period where the postconflict balance of the Dayton Peace Agreement is turning increasingly unsustainable....
Communication and the Globalization of Culture
Beyond Tradition and Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept of culture and its fate in the globalized, mediated environment. Acknowledging widespread fears of cultural erosion at the hands of dominant global forces,...
Locke's Political Thought and the Oceans
Pirates, Slaves, and Sailors
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This book outlines and analyzes John Locke’s political thought about the oceans with a focus on law and freedom at sea. The book examines the Two Treatises of Government, in which Locke argues that the seas are collectively owned by all humans and are governed by universal natural laws that prohibit...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent...
Borderlands Media
Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward.
Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s...
Civil Society and World Regions
How Citizens Are Reshaping Regional Governance in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Supranational regionalism and regional integration have for a long time been top-down processes, led by the few and imposed on the many. The role of citizens, especially those active in civil society, has been neglected by scholars, students, and commentators of regionalism. In reaction to the prevalence...
Human Rights and the Third World
Issues and Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in human rights, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World.