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Assata Zerai reflects on three decades of scholarship and examines ways in which scholars and professors have begun to move their disciplines from a focus on traditional canons of the modernist era to embrace decolonial sensibilities in research, teaching, and institutional transformation, bringing about change within higher education.

In this book, Aidan Kestigian argues that political communities are in a critical thinking crisis, which inhibits high-quality reasoning in public deliberation. Substantive educational and political reform is needed to bring public decision-making closer to the ideals imagined in democratic theory.

This book presents Ahmadu Bamba as one of the pioneers of decolonization and non-violence in West Africa to examine his legacy as a man of unshakable faith, a humanist, a socio-cultural reformer, and a key agent in the decolonization of minds and spaces.

Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context.

This book examines the life of the Sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.

In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.

"This book uses ideas from Mead, Burke, and Bakhtin to analyze how individuals interact through communication and applies Burke's "grammar of motives" to various social phenomena"--

"Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections this January. This book analyzes the trilateral relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China under the new Lai administration in Taiwan"--

This book serves as a comprehensive guide not only to Catholicism, headlined by its evangelizing pope and the sexual abuse scandal of its clergy, but also to Times journalism during the epoch of Pope John Paul II.

"This book presents an in-depth exploration of Korean migration to and within the Global South, offering new insights into how migrants adapt to diverse political and economic contexts in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa"--

"This study, based at a community garden in a small town in Minnesota, explores different factors that affect the acculturation process of twenty Somali refugee women. Using Berry's framework of acculturation patterns, the study also looks at how social capital complements the process of acculturation"--

"Critical Mixed Race Philosophy reimagines mixed race studies, challenging commonplace beliefs about the social effects of mixedness and arguing for a non-essentialist conception of mixed race identity and kinship rooted in feminist and queer thought"--

"Using the theory of the encryption of power, this book explores whether it is possible to decrypt justice as it has been predominantly shaped by Western hegemony. Decrypting Justice argues that envisioning and creating a more just world, founded on new communalities, is not only possible but necessary"--

"This book explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the "golden age" of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also examines the Mahåayåana Buddhist ideas that motivated the growth of early modern woodblock publishing and the religious use of books during that period"--

This book explores the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, focusing on the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and its implications for Australian constitutional law and politics.

"This book brings more understanding to Fitzgerald's famed novel by revealing the hidden subtext of its literary foundations of classical and modern writers. Elmore challenges the interpretation of Gatsby as a tragic failure of the American Dream, demonstrating the enduring national belief in the possibilities of the future"--

"Natural Disasters and Local Resiliency examines the impacts of natural disasters on local government operations and sustainability. Through case studies and interviews of local managers this book discusses action strategies to help local governments be more resilient to natural disasters"--

"This book offers an array of novel essays, each advancing discourse surrounding the nature of disability and Christian vision of life in the world to come. The contributors advance conversations on disability through the lenses of theology, philosophy, psychology/psychiatry, and more"--

"A regional approach to politics in the U.S., Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider's Perspective to Regional Politics is the first book of its kind to directly address the intricate factors influencing how southern Texas continues to develop politically"--

This book examines Luigi Dallapiccola's groundbreaking works created alongside the masterpieces of many Florentine artists and literati who guided his daily steps and his embrace of twelve-tone serialism as a spiritual dogma.

"Echoes of Antiquity: Hellenistic Thought in a Politically Changing World invites readers to explore the philosophical schools of the Hellenistic era, including the Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics, while connecting ancient thought to modern challenges through the complexities of Hellenistic philosophy"--

This book proposes an intellectual focus on the Qur'anic recovery of meaning. Akel Ismail Kahera contends that the Qur'anic exegesis must be recognized if we are to understand its clear representation of the ontological situation, the primordial self, and the life universe from Islam's exegetical standpoint.

The book provides an insightful understanding and conflict transformation analysis of intra-ethnic conflicts in Nigeria and offers a set of recommendations. Drawn from a wealth of knowledge and research, these recommendations are crucial for a more inclusive socio-cultural conflict transformative approach in societies like Nigeria and Africa.

This edited volume identifies and establishes the idea of the Callidocene, which the authors position as an epoch that both includes and extends beyond the current conception of the Anthropocene. While the word 'Anthropocene' has become strongly associated with concerns over humanity's impact on the planet, contributors turn instead to the Callidocene-intended to encompass human, machine, and system cleverness- to emphasize the hopeful and positive aspects of human influence on the world. Contributors posit that designers in particular have increasingly attempted to consider the impact of their work on society, culture, and the environment, and this book will contribute to this conversation through its analyses of a wide range of topics, including complexity in design, media toxicity, and community innovation in sustainability. Collectively, contributions to this volume highlight the potential of human cleverness to address - or even reverse- the damage we've inflicted on both ourselves and our planet. Scholars of sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, media studies, and communication will find this book of particular interest.