Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
On Music, Value and Utopia
Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Adorno’s writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that ‘he didn’t listen to the right jazz’ or ‘he was a snob’. In this book, using Adorno’s aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The study of Asian culture, media and communications is an area that has developed rapidly over the past two decades. This rapid development has led to the deployment of diverse scholarly approaches while simultaneously raising important questions regarding the extent to which the use of key terms...
The Thought of Matter
Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years. From the speculative realism/materialism of Quentin Meillassoux to the New Materialism of many modern Marxisms, the interest in a return to or rehabilitation of materialism is on the rise. What is not analyzed in many of these discussions,...
artWORK
Art, Labour and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change. What can we learn about contemporary art and politics by looking...
Egyptian Revolutions
Conflict, Repetition and Identification
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on...
The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés
Decolonialism, Class, Gender, Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of oppositional consciousness with a consideration of not only race, but also colonialism. Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia examines the construction of race, gender,...
by Qadri Ismail
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S....
Theorizing Glissant
Sites and Citations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Édouard Glissant’s work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory*.* His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies.This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical...
The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene
Axial Echoes in Global Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
In its early modern form, philosophy gave a decisive impetus to the science and technology that have transformed the planet and brought on the so-called Anthropocene. Can philosophy now help us understand this new age and act within it? The contributors to this volume take a broad historical view...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This cross-disciplinary book uses phenomenological method and description to explore questions of place, underscoring the significance of phenomenology for place and place for phenomenology.
The book brings together prominent scholars in phenomenology of place. Covering a range of issues from...
Radical Skin, Moderate Masks
De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Radical Skin, Moderate Masks explores a voice trapped by the War on Terror. How can a Muslim speak about politics? And, in what tone can they argue? In today's climate can they "talk back" without being defined as a moderate or radical? And, what do the conditions put on their political...
Punks, Monks and Politics
Authenticity in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic is an insult or an embarrassment. Being authentic suggests that a given behaviour or performance is reflective of a ‘trueness’ or ‘genuineness’ to one’s identity. From a social science perspective there is sometimes scepticism...
Posthuman Urbanism
Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The World Health Organisation estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city. But what does it mean to inhabit the city in the twenty-first century?
Posthuman Urbanism evaluates the relevance and usefulness of posthuman theory to understanding the urban...
Spatial Anthropology
Excursions in Liminal Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Spatial Anthropology draws together a number of interrelated strands of research focused on landscape, place and cultural memory in the north-west of England. At the core of the book lies an engagement with the methodological opportunities offered by new interdisciplinary frameworks of research and...