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In 2024, Lebanon entered the fifth year of a crippling economic crisis, a crescendo of many decades of state fragility. The Fragility of the Lebanese State explores the causes of this fragility and suggests practical solutions.

This book emerges from conversations between scholars interested in discussing all the pains, crises, and difficulties on the path to establishing themselves in academia, and encourages the practice of ethical human relations between linguists and each other, and with their students.

The irreconcilable claims of Compact Theory and Nationalist Theory underlay countless constitutional debates, including recognition of a federal common law. The push for federal common law jurisdiction and the assertion that American nationhood preceded the states come together in the thoughts of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story.

Through careful analysis of court transcripts and modern scholarship on the 1913 Human Leopard cases in Sierra Leone, this book uncovers a complex web of judicial overreach, colonial ambitions, indigenous belief systems, European paranoia, animals whose habitat was being encroached upon, and socio-political turmoil.

This anthology introduces literary theories developed in Japan from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. In rendering it in English, the translators have attempted to make visible the conceptual realignments taking place when theories travel back and forth between the West and Japan.

This book addresses the characteristics of communication systems and communication practices that inhibit or enhance democratic life and how both can be altered to make democracy thrive.

This book is about the legendary fight and resistance of Ukraine against Russia's invasion in 2014-24. The book tells of the situation in Ukrainian cities and villages during the war and the fate of objects of cultural and educational heritage, which are under the intensive fire of the Russian invaders.

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines the link between American political culture and superhero narratives as well as the genre's global reach and transformations in various national and cultural contexts.

This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since its inception in the 1960s.

Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture explores anxiety from the perspective of Lacan's claim that anxiety is a "signal of the Real." Showing how our relationship with anxiety is intertwined with our fantasies, Felder unpacks how anxiety is related to the gaze, sex, race, and our capacity for social change.

This book explores gender debates on African social media platforms and the political, social, and cultural discourses surrounding them. It examines topics such as gender-based violence, gender in political and economic spaces, gender activism, challenges in the African LGBTQIA+ community, and gender harassment.

This book explores rock and pop music lyrics of the last seventy years to elucidate a broad spectrum of themes about the collective human experience.

This book fills a gap in Yorùbá history and religion to provide an extensive analysis of two deities: O¿bàtálá and Olókun. Drawing from oral accounts, chants, folk songs, praise poems, and verses from the Ifá corpus, the authors provide new insights into the worlds of both deities hitherto missing in the literature.

This innovative collection of essays on contemporary migration literature and culture in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality. The authors address the role of integration, waiting, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures in narratives of the European refugee crisis and migrant border-crossings.

Pandemic Playlist explores a selection of popular music recorded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing songs by Bono, Cardi B, Kid Rock, Van Morrison, Juvenile and many more. Through rhetorical analysis of these songs, Kevin Farrell considers how the pandemic shaped the music of 2020, 2021, and beyond.

This book documents research based on real classroom examples of how educators could design and combine practices from culturally responsive teaching and self-regulated learning pedagogies to support all learners' motivation and engagement in multicultural classrooms.

In Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism, Amanda Hernandez argues that white supremacy influences the perception of feminism and faith as contradictory. In this sociological study, the author uses a variety of methods to explore this important topic.

This book analyzes mind-game films and TV series featuring male protagonists who retreat into imagined realities to cope with trauma and grief. It examines their stories of intersecting crises of reality and crises of masculinity within the context of U.S. culture wars over the way that manhood should be enacted.

The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse offers a re-evaluation of Herbert Marcuse's Critical Theory and argues for its continued relevance in the twenty-first century.

The global economic edifice built after World War II, was a source of unprecedented prosperity, and could not have functioned without open and predictable international trade and the peaceful international relations that are its foundation. The rules that enable trade are outdated and under attack. Social divisions and great power rivalry have eroded the political support for open trade. The consequence is fragmentation of world trade, its separation into blocks that advance domestic producers or most favored nations nearby. These blocs are themselves often pulled by competing agendas. The prospects are for vastly reduced economic efficiency and - most ominously - heightened geopolitical tensions.The questions about why this is happening, how economic fragmentation will evolve, and how to respond to it, are today uppermost in the minds of policymakers and businesses across the world. These are the questions that Uri Dadush seeks to answer in Geopolitics, Trade Blocks, and the Fragmentation of World Commerce. The world economy is already mired in profound trade uncertainty, which is likely to persist. Since it cannot be dispelled, the uncertainty must be better managed.

This book explores rhetorics produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service Pilots program. The author utilizes feminist and classical rhetorical concepts to illustrate how the women closest to the program communicated to supporters and detractors of their labor in military aviation.

Although she never penned a text dedicated exclusively to ethics, Edith Stein's work encompasses an implicit, but self-consciously developed, moral philosophy not yet sufficiently developed in the current English-language literature. However, comparison of Stein's anthropological and metaphysical theories against the ethical philosophy of other early phenomenological thinkers, such as Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl, reveals lines of moral theory woven throughout her texts. In On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein: Outlines of Morality, William E. Tullius endeavors to present a systematic account of Stein's moral thought as it takes shape in conversation with neo-scholasticism and develops across her corpus in conversation with her philosophical anthropology, axiological theory, and metaphysics. The ethics which emerge from these sources is oriented around the moral project of the development of personality through the unfolding of one's personal core and which entails a call to the development of an ethical community reflective of and oriented by its responsiveness to the highest values and to the communal destiny of all humanity in God

Perception and Its Content elucidates the content of perception by arguing such content is conceptual, propositional, and world dependent. This view sheds light on the relationship between the mind and the world and clarifies in what sense perception provides non-inferential knowledge about empirical reality.

This book explores Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenging Tamil literary tradition with poetics that reinvent language, form, and content. They present their radical poems shedding rich insight on the violence of patriarchal and caste supremacy on the Dalit body, while affirming Dalit spirituality, music, culture, nature, and democracy.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach to the Amazigh art of weaving, the author argues that women's ancestral rug designs inspired the Amazigh alphabet Tifinagh. In doing so, the book sheds new light on the active role women played in the process of codifying the Amazigh language.

This book traces the development of reconciliation in Mozambique from the signing of the General Peace Agreement (GPA) in 1992 to the present day. Based on an original operationalized conceptualization of reconciliation, the author challenges the understanding that the country was once reconciled and argues for a new Mozambican solution.

This book explores the linguistic and biological relationship between the Aleuts of coastal southwest Alaska and the Utians of coastal central California. Both groups speak languages diverging in the Middle Holocene Period from a common parent language. During this period, the Utians migrated by watercraft to the San Francisco Bay.

This book examines Chicago's controversial Drill rap scene, emphasizing both the technology that allows Drill rappers to gain visibility through exploitation of stereotypes and the social processes through which Drill rappers and cultural workers organize themselves around platforms.

This book elucidates the ways post-cinema engages with potential futures, arguing that the morph is the crucial figure to understand both how the future is constrained and how hope for the future might be produced. The author draws on Deleuzian and Whiteheadian insights to argue for a new model of digital cinema.

Alyson R. Buckman argues that Star Trek: Discovery moves from the liberal humanism presented in the original series to an intersectional humanism by analyzing its representation of posthumanism, becoming-animal, leadership, parenting, intimacy, and trauma.