Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
Social Epistemology and Technology
Toward Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the direction we are moving, how should the pursuit of knowledge be organized? Social Epistemology...
Little Vast Rooms of Undoing
Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Public toilets are places where individual identity is put to the test through experiences of fear, anxiety, shame, and embarrassment, yet also places where we shore up, confirm, and check the status of our gendered identities. In these highly gendered and sex-segregated places, people of various...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Ecology, Ethics, and Hope explores what hope is, how it operates, and whether or not it is important in our response to ecological challenges like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and pollution. The book offers an accessible and timely overview of this emerging topic within environmental...
The Attention Economy
Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence increasingly...
The Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened...
The Labour of Subjectivity
Foucault on Biopolitics, Economy, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in de-subjectivation. To what extent did this claim shape his philosophical practice? What are its theoretical and ethical justifications? Why did Foucault come to view the production of subjectivity as a key site of political and intellectual emancipation...
Time Well Spent
Subjective Well-Being and the Organization of Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Measuring quality of life has been identified as fundamental in assessing the relative progress of societies and as having relevance for both monitoring and policy-making purposes. Self-reported measures of well-being, referred to as subjective well-being, have become increasingly topical given the...
Democratic Problem-Solving
Dialogues in Social Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science? Can and should science be treated as an exemplar for a more dialogic democracy? Are universities and public intellectuals able to develop a more dialogically engaged public? What role should there be for ‘experts’...
A Human Right to Culture and Identity
The Ambivalence of Group Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities? Do different conceptions of culture and identity, and their potential to frame human rights violations as culturally appropriate, complicate the question? How should a human right to collective identity be outlined?
Claims...
by Jeff Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
This book sets out the most influential theories of democracy (liberal-egalitarian, deliberative, and cosmopolitan) and argues that they fail to adequately comprehend the cause of politically meaningful inequality on the one hand and the security state on the other. The private and exclusive control...
Existential Medicine
Essays on Health and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and other influential twentieth-century figures such as...
Elinor Ostrom
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice revolutions, discovering surprising ways in which communities around the world have succeed in solving difficult collective problems. She first rose...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality. In this book, leading scholars develop sophisticated analytical frameworks and provide detailed empirical knowledge to further our understanding...
Chemical Bodies
The Techno-Politics of Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation. This book examines how chemical agents have been justified, utilised and resisted as means of control. Through attending to how, when, and for whom bodies become rendered as...