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With contributions by scholars from different religions and specializations, this volume explores the potential of nondualism as a fundamentally unifying concept. In every case, we find that nondualism is universal in its relevance yet distinctive and original in its contribution.

This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female agency and feminism. This critical feminist analysis analyzes the construction of female empowerment in the American avenging-woman narrative to uncover how we can understand messages about women and power in contemporary culture.

In this book, Natalia Mielczarek engages with close to one thousand editorial cartoons to trace visual representations of President Donald Trump and the rhetorical mechanisms that construct them. Mielczarek argues that editorial cartoons largely either hide or overexpose the president, often resembling partisan propaganda, not social critique.

This book analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, ending with Afghan immigrant authors, who adapt colonial myths as anti-colonial strategy, and post US-War authors, who more fundamentally re-imagine old narratives.

This book explores the political, economic, social, and environmental health relations and politics of the global tech and electronics industry. Peter C. Little argues that, in the fast growing digital age, we need greater synthesis of political ecology, anthropology, and technocapital critique.

This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.

Political Expressionism represents a new era in the practice of Social Movements where the transition from print to digital mediums forever changed how people protest and communicate. This work applies a comparative historical approach looking at the trends of Social Movements in Iran, the Middle East, and the world.

This book analyzes the unstable, shifting perceptions of parasites in biological and social settings after 1900. It argues that ¿parasite¿ is a dangerous label for nonhuman animals and minorities, yet many modernist writers reimagine the parasite as the embodiment of dependency in a posthumanist world.

Returning to the much-neglected work of George Herbert Mead, this book defines the self and links it to identity and collective action.

This book examines media and clinical discourses and their impact on women with PCOS. Findings from the study reveal that while women with PCOS have limited agency in constructing and representing their identities and ontologies in traditional media, by networking in participatory new media, these women can reclaim their agency.

Proximate Difference in Aesthetics explores the interconnections of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and the artistic practices comprising Institutional Critique as a means of both providing a framework for this heterodox approach to art and examining Derridäs contributions to contemporary aesthetics.

This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.

This book addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism," Dolis (psycho)analyzes the narrative unconscious of each text to excavate a discourse "other" than the story being "told."

Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women¿s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films and graphic narratives to narratives of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, this volume initiates a scholarly discussion on the myriad challenges posed by male-dominated public spaces for the female traveler, demanding women¿s rights as free and equal citizens who can fearlessly inhabit and explore public spaces and roads. Making the problem of women¿s vulnerability in public spaces their chief focus, the contributing scholars highlight how ambitious and steadfast women who choose to contest the perils of the road are censured by manifold forms of emotional, mental, epistemic, and above all sexual violence. Gendered Violence in Public Spaces articulates the challenges associated with women¿s mobility to inaugurate cultural and scholarly debates that may help India re-examine its public spaces against misogyny and gendered violence.

This book explores the dramatic identity and design of the American political thriller, tracking the close correlation between the evolution of the genre and the history of the United States from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing War on Terror.

Teacher Education Department Chairs and Social Justice: Transformative Leadership through Inclusivity is a ground-breaking book that introduces teacher educators to the power of social justice teacher preparation programs. It highlights the importance and magnitude of developing teacher education programs that include a sociopolitical curriculum. The book adds value to the discourse around critical race theory in education by demonstrating how social justice discourses in teacher education can lead to more socially just teachers who can bring out the gifts and talents of diverse student populations. Included in the book is a discussion of how department chairs who lead social justice teacher preparation programs apply transformative leadership practices. The book offers a critical pedagogy to deconstruct dominant ideologies that permeate teacher education programs and provides strategies to effectively prepare teachers who can educate and advocate for historically underserved students, their families, and communities.

A study of ancient, medieval, and modern forms of leadership, this book brings to light qualities of statesmanship that continue to resonate in our current political environment.

This book analyzes how the decline of American hegemony affects Italian foreign policy. It explores how Italy's EU membership intersects with Italy's role as a member of the coalition supporting the US-led hegemonic order.

Sacramental Presence develops a theology of preaching grounded in the embodied event of preaching. Comparing the steps involved in voice production with the fourfold shape of the Eucharist, the author argues that preaching is an event of communion with God, and as such is personal, communal, and political.

Ultimate reality is often characterized in terms of a variety of what are thought to be incompatible concepts, like God, Dao, Brahman, etc. This book examines the plausibility of a genuine religious pluralism, arguing against relativism but in favor of the authenticity of a plurality of the world¿s major religious traditions.

Religious Leaders and the Regime in the Second Republic of Zimbabwe discusses the nexus of religion and politics in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on how religion has played a role in thwarting democracy and has acted as a machine to silence dissenting voices, repression, and poor governance.

The core theme of this book is that the justices, both liberal and conservative, do not simply call balls and strikes, as Chief Justice Roberts memorably stated, in formulating their decisions. Instead, as shown in some 200 cases, they have expanded or limited prior precedent, created new rights, and eliminated others.

Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives contains 15 essays that approach contemporary literary and cultural representations of ecological disaster in India from various theoretical angles. The studies engage with many of today's pressing ecological issues by carefully examining these diverse texts.

This book contributes to the debate concerning the future of the political economy of African development by addressing the important question of how African countries can strategically approach global political economy at multilateral, continental, and regional levels in view of North-South versus South-South configurations.

An edition and study of the poetry of the first of the medieval European troubadours, this book claims William's songs are cornerstones of the modern western mind and culture, but also reveal the deep-seated problems and instability of structures built on a foundation of love and freedom of desires.

Contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven's work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. Scholars of cinema studies, horror, and ecology will find this book of particular interest.

In the 1990s over a million Turkish Kurds were displaced from Southeastern Turkey. By focusing on the forced migrants' stories and on their mobilization of social capital in times of illness and conflict, Geerse shows how they tried to sustain meaningful lives in urban contexts marked by political and structural violence.

Redefining the Hypernym Mensch:in in German: Gender, Sexuality, and Personhood examines how the verbalization of `human¿ in gender normative terms results in implicit exclusion. Situated in the tension between traditional rules and progressive language use, this book criticizes the heteronormativity of masculine hypernyms and argues for the adoption of gender-inclusive linguistic practices.