Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
Becoming a Movement
Identity, Narrative and Memory in the European Global Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Social movement scholars have become increasingly interested in the role of stories in contentious politics. Stories may facilitate the mobilization of activists and strengthen the resonance of their claims within public discourse and institutional politics. This book explores the role of narratives...
Naming Adult Autism
Culture, Science, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition.
Autism is a ‘social disorder’, defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined...
by Katie Moylan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Community radio is an established and key site for negotiations of social and political issues for marginalised communities. Given its inherently local nature (both geographically and ideologically), community radio is perfectly placed as a site for articulating community concerns. At the same time,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy. However, the debate over this relationship has given rise to a great deal of polemics and confusion.
This...
Heidegger's Gods
An Ecofeminist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This highly original new book highlights the importance and significance of Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, the ways in which his views are commensurate with ecofeminism, and the insights that a study of that intersection provides for both the diagnoses of our world’s ills and possible curative...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Curiosity has taken a winding path through intellectual history, from Early Christian vice to Enlightenment virtue and beyond. This original volume sees contemporary philosophers and psychologists examining the nature and value of curiosity, shedding light on some of its most interesting features...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Forgiveness—either needing or wanting to be forgiven, or trying to forgive another—is a near-universal experience and one of endless fascination. This volume mines the work of phenomenologists and the methods of phenomenology to extend and deepen our understanding of these complex experiences.
Interest...
The Loving Struggle
Phenomenological and Theological Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
It has been 25 years since Dominique Janicaud derisively proclaimed the “theological turn” in French phenomenology due to the return of God to philosophy through the influence of “religious” thinkers such as Lévinas, Ricoeur, and Marion. Since then, the “theological turn” has flowered...
by Alison Assiter
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
There has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality. This new way of reading Kierkegaard stands alongside a revival of interest in ontology and metaphysics...
Caribbean Island Movements
Culebra's Transinsularities
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Caribbean Island Movements explores the different ways in which being mobile is central to the production and reproduction of social identities on the Caribbean island of Culebra. Rather than seeing insularity and mobility, and its associations, as mutually exclusive components, this ethnographic...
Examining Genocides
Means, Motive, and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Mass killing through genocide haunts humanity as one of the most horrific forms of warfare. Scholars seek to understand what causes such violence, but it is still difficult to predict the onset of genocide. Why does violence sometime stop short of the genocide threshold, whilst others cross the threshold?...
Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal
Geographies of the Interior and of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal—a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably and universally connected. Enrol them in diverse strategies and tactics that create varied anatomo-politics of the body and biopolitics of the population. Enlist those three...
Deliberative Democracy and Social Movements
Transition Initiatives in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Deliberative democracy is increasingly central in democratic theory and its concepts are employed in a growing number of fields, including social movement studies and environmental politics. At the same time, contemporary citizen activism seems to feature some forms of engagement that resonate with...
Food, Environment, and Climate Change
Justice at the Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This volume takes up the pressing issues of justice and responsibility that arise at the intersection of food and agricultural systems, environmental degradation, and global climate change. The diverse contributions examine both the various ways that food and agricultural practices contribute to environmental...