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This book examines the destructive politics of Trump and Trumpism expressed as the amplification of pre-existing forms of hate and violence, supported by segments of middle and upper classes oriented toward a dress rehearsal for fascism.

This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green. It examines multicultural literature to transcend ethnic and national boundaries, thereby voicing for a multiplicity of human experiences in relation to an eco-globalist imagination.

Investigating Babyn Yar tells the story of the murder of Kyiv¿s Jews using available fragmentary evidence. The book follows the trail of discarded property to identify the killing site in the ravine. Aerial photographs, ground photographs, and eye-witness testimony are interwoven to explain what happened at history¿s largest mass shooting.

This book demonstrates the key role The Leftovers played in the development of early twenty-first-century television, while also unpacking its central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of the family and home.

This book explores the intersection between society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts day-to-day life.

New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children¿s literature, film, and video games to explore the ways in which everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. In many ways, the essays show, the narratives blur traditional lines between children¿s and adult content, taking children series as subjects while also guiding them through the processes of dealing with the particular challenges. Collectively, the essays develop a more contemporary construct of the American child and offer new insights into what that construction might mean for contemporary American society and culture.

Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor¿s oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity.

This book identifies food addiction behaviors and characteristics in historical and current food advertisements for ultra-processed foods. By using thematic analysis, the concept of ¿happy eating¿ is introduced and explored in relation to food advertisements for unhealthy food.

Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States provides insight and awareness concerning crises that exist in underserved Black and brown communities in the United States.

With a focus on Works of Love, this book argues that for Kierkegaard the living of the life of faith and love is a kind of art, involving skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual¿s life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues.

This book is about staying together, living together, the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, non-human studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness.

In a post Roe society where abortion is becoming increasingly difficult to access, abortion clinic escorts ensure patient safety and comfort. This qualitative study highlights the challenges and motivations escorts experienced at clinics across the country both pre and post Dobbs. Drawing on interviews with clinic escorts, the author examines how increasing abortion restrictions, lack of police support, massive clinic closures, and upticks in anti-abortion protesting from Christian organizations impact the clinic escorts¿ work and their perceived ability to keep the sidewalks of their clinics peaceful for patients seeking abortion care.

Native and introduced hallucinogens channel hemispheric tensions between European, pre-Columbian, Black, and Indigenous values. This book explores those encounters by analyzing their depictions in media, arguing that artists used their mixed heritage to navigate porous boundaries ranging from consumer culture to political dissent.

In this edited volume twelve scholars of philosophy, political theory, and theology consider the role of religious ideas in several modern films. The authors explore how these films grapple with themes such as sin and judgment, grace and reconciliation, and the confrontation of good with radical evil.

Spurred by encounters with gender diverse persons in his care, and employing a scriptural framework, the author urges caregivers of all kinds to look within and wrestle with the complexities of their own gendered selves, opening doors to emerging as affirmative pastoral caregivers beyond gender binaries.

This edited collection analyzes the concept of economic justice for those deemed non-normative due to their gender or sexuality in Latin American and Latinx literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Featuring cutting edge research from top elections scholars, Pandemic at the Polls examines the context under which the 2020 U.S. elections were buffeted by a global pandemic unfolding during a hotly contested presidential election, how states and voters responded, and how to fortify the administration of elections for the future.

This book compares the ecologies of historical knowledge in late socialist Hungary and Croatia. Its integrated analytical framework ¿ academic, party, and popular history ¿ is an innovative attempt to grasp the unique uncertainties surrounding the making of narratives and knowledge about the recent past in state socialist Eastern Europe.

This book critically addresses the conventional practices of studies on music, while taking readers through various global examples of musical expression.

The chapters in this collection reveal the depths and nuances in the cultural attitudes toward and popular views of the second wife, from ancient times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of second wifehood in a way that offers insights into the second wife experience.

This book analyzes ¿high corruption¿ in terms of political corruption and high-end white-collar crime and ¿low corruption¿ in terms of juvenile delinquency and street crime. It shows how this former type of corruption contributes to the latter type and also explains how both types should be curbed.

This edited volume examines the topic of trust and its place in the thought of several key figures from the history of philosophy. Drawing on thinkers and philosophical traditions from across the globe, the chapters focus especially on trust¿s moral and social dimensions.

This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajir¿¿s urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called ¿accidental beauty.¿

In Big Rural, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities, deserving of conceptual rethinking and fresh research, policy, and practical approaches for the benefit of both their citizens and their environments.

This comprehensive study of the sylvan realm in speculative fiction focuses on the conceptualization of a sylvan and arboreal agency and the interrelationship between the human and the forest. The author argues for a re-negotiation of material agency and a facilitation of an eco-sylvan awareness within the Anthropocene.

The Moral Psychology of Anxiety brings a variety of disciplinary perspectives to examine anxiety, providing historical context and incorporating recent advances in philosophical and psychological research on anxiety¿s nature, causes, and consequences and on its possible benefits, virtuous aspects, and role in human inquiry.

In this book, Mike Van Esler examines how film and television libraries satisfy not only audience demand, but also corporate expansion mandates, private equity investors, tech companies, streaming service operators, and more. Scholars of media studies, business, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

This book explores the challenges faced by documentary filmmakers in creating films and series for global audiences in response to increasing demands. The research utilizes in-depth interviews with members of the industry to reveal recurring themes and argue for greater support and deeper understanding of creative practices and processes.

From a Nietzschean perspective, the author disputes the often-postulated lineage between Nietzsche and Derrida. Peter Bornedal argues instead that they have very different epistemological programs: the deconstructionist and postmodernist projects undermine beliefs in reason and logic in a manner that cannot be found in Nietzsche.

Spinozäs Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing interprets and defends Spinozäs God/Nature argument using speculative metaphysics as a method and illustrates the practice and potential of metaphysics at work. These features work together to strengthen Spinozäs argument that only one substantial being exists.