Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
The Kuhnian Image of Science
Time for a Decisive Transformation?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science. One argument put forward is...
Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno
Something or Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Since his notorious 1961 lecture, 'Trying to Understand Endgame', Theodor W. Adorno's name has been frequently coupled with that of Samuel Beckett. This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between these two figures, whose paths crossed all too fleetingly. Specifically...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
This volume critically explore and extend Hayek’s Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness from the disciplines of law, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, and history. Hayek’s insights about knowledge become even more important once it is recognized...
Disturbing Conventions
Decentering Thai Literary Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond...
Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations.
The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across...
Identity, Hybridity and Cultural Home
Chinese Migrants and Diaspora in Multicultural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The Chinese have been one of the oldest and largest ethnic communities across the world with well over 35 million people living overseas. Despite their relatively large cultural distance from the host countries, and the ordeals faced by generations of Chinese immigrants due to stereotypes, prejudice,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Qualitative methods are increasingly used within health economics research, but there is almost no specific material to guide the use of these methods in this context; there is very little that links them to the specific questions that (health) economists ask or that provides guidance on analyzing...
Advances in Well-Being
Toward a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Media and research tend to focus on social problems in today's world - from terrorism and natural disasters to environmental degradation, conflict and economic decline. Yet many countries are also placing the promotion of well-being central at the heart of their social agenda. So what can we say about...
Chinatown Unbound
Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’. By the 1980s, when...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and...
Governing Globalization
Challenges for Democracy and Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The book develops globalization as the emergence of a global society; presents a theory of governance predicable of all human societies, revolving around competing OWL imperatives; and identifies fundamental flaws in the democratic solutions to global governance. To ensure that the democratic promise...
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Political Order
New Applications of Public Choice Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
The political process focuses on the ways that people come together to engage in collective decision making in a variety of contexts. The central elements of the political process include: the formation of rules, the subsequent interactions that take place within those rules, and the evolution of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Comparative political theory has grown into a recognized discipline in its own right in the last two decades. Yet little has been done to explore how political theory engages with the actual social, legal, and political reality of a particular polity. East Asians are complexly conditioned by traditional...
Choreographies of Resistance
Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the...