Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Sites of Protest examines the global resurgence of protest movements and the ways in which they use public and private space - both physical and ‘immaterial’ - to secure attention for a wide variety of causes, cultural events and moral campaigns. The book takes its readers inside the mindset,...
Public and Political Discourses of Migration
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they influence both the general public’s perception of migration and the policies which regulate both the act...
Economics of the Marine
Modelling Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory,...
Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey
Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The transformations in alternative media, journalism and social protest in contemporary Turkey have largely occurred due to the upsurge in use of social media. Some of the most fervent users of social media in the world come from Turkey where forms of social media are frequently banned by the Turkish...
Ethics and Communication
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
How can ethics be communicated in an age of globalisation? Is it possible to overcome cultural differences and agree on common values and principles that cross cultural borders? How does globalisation challenge ethics and established moral traditions? How are human rights justified in a global context?
This...
Europe's Radical Left
From Marginality to the Mainstream?
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Although the most pernicious consequences of the crisis have apparently abated, the long-term political repercussions remain unclear. Whereas most attention has focused on the right-wing populist parties, the rejuvenation of the left is an unwritten story of post-crisis politics.
This volume...
Songs of Social Protest
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and their performance that have been deployed...
The Spell of Responsibility
Labor, Criminality, Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, ‘responsibility’ was only of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice, and it had little ethical significance. What is the significance of the fact that ‘responsibility’...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies, Subaltern studies, decolonization, law and society, global political economy, critical geopolitics and theories of de-coloniality. This volume proposes that...
by Debbie Rodan, Jane Mummery
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Activists use digital as well as mainstream media tools to attract supporters, advertise their campaigns, and raise awareness of issues in the broader community. Activism and Digital Culture in Australia examines the use of digital tools and culture by Australian and international activist organisations...
Metamodernism
Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film...
Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation
Combating Civic Deficit?
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Prominent studies and opinion polls often claim to show that young people distrust politicians, they are disengaged from political institutions, and are disillusioned about democracy. But academic work conversely shows that young people are engaging with politics, merely in new and innovative ways.
Young...
Mandela
His Essential Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Hain takes an in-depth look at Mandela's rise through...
The Desiring Modes of Being Black
Literature and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish....