Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
New Directions in Diaspora Studies
Cultural and Literary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The...
Protests as Events
Politics, Activism and Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events?
Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories—culture, sport or business....
Fair Work
Ethics, Social Policy, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy. The volume brings together essays by scholars in philosophy, education, economics, and law that draw our attention to significant issues raised by the transformation of modern work....
Why Social Movements Matter
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central...
by Marcel Hénaff
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The planet is urbanizing at an accelerating pace. More than half of the world’s population now lives in metropolises. By 2030, that proportion is expected to increase to 60%. Even though many cities are unhealthy, the urban habitat seems destined to become the dominant way of life across the globe....
Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia
Exploring Indonesian Popular and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today? In contemporary discourse Islam and modernity are often presented as each other’s opposites in media and popular culture.
Southeast Asia has a large Muslim population, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, but Islamic culture in these...
Sewing, Fighting and Writing
Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century....
Arguments for Welfare
The Welfare State and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is under attack. The critics argue that welfare states...
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change.
This volume is the first to...
EU Cohesion Policy in Practice
What Does it Achieve?
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending. As such, the performance of the policy has come under increasing scrutiny. Perhaps surprisingly, however, past attempts to assess the effectiveness of the EU’s have proved to be...
Criminalising the Client
Institutional Change, Gendered Ideas and Feminist Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
In 1998, Sweden was the first country in the world to criminalise the purchase of sexual services, but not the sale of sex. The law represented a new prostitution regime that problematised power relations in prostitution as inherently gendered and hierarchical and made the male buyers of sexual services...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic ritual played out in an iconic public space has provided a potent symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a feature of European life under the rule of “austerity.” Yet, beneath this surface activity, which...
by Nolen Gertz
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the rise of Big Data has exceeded our worst fears...
Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
Properties of Meaning, Power, and Value in Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. hegemony on the global stage. Critics who challenged these practices of mass persuasion were quickly discredited by the emergent field of communication...