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Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world.

This book addresses the paradox of non-migration in the context of a protracted economic unrest. Rose Jaji discusses how individual subjectivities mediate macroeconomic factors in Zimbabwe and critiques simplistic explanations of non-migration, paying particular attention the complexities and contradictions involved in the decision not to migrate.

In this edited collection, contributors analyze the literacies, rhetorics, and pedagogies needed to transform food systems and create sustainable food systems. Scholars of rhetoric, interdisciplinary food studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Drawing on data and stories from Native 24/7, a 5-year, 700-particpant social investigation of Indigenous identity, the authors document what Native people believe characterizes, constitutes, and contributes to contemporary Native identities.

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts in the field, this book examines how horror reveals the anxieties around our current cultural moment and how that might develop in the future.

This book examines the unlikely conversion stories of fifty former atheists as they move from belief in naturalistic atheism to strong belief in God and conservative Christianity. Their own perspectives and journeys provide deep insight for those who are interested in why and how such dramatic change is possible.

Space sharing by groups is widespread in the United States, from commercial partnerships, to government and private sector joint use agreements, to the use of public facilities and commons. All space-sharing arrangements are similar in most respects, so what difference does it make when religious groups are involved?

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleBeauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of the potentials inherent in cultural, spiritual, and political traditions since pre-colonial times. Edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, this collection explores branches of thought from wisdom or oral traditions to political thought and philosophy of culture. This book is urgent reading material for any policy maker, scholar, or student wishing to attend to the voices of African(ist) thinkers who search for alternative approaches to global questions of development in a time of climate change and increasing socio-economic inequality.

Earthly Engagements brings together scholars who take up Jean-Paul Sartre's thought as a critical and heuristic resource to think through the planetary socio-ecological crisis. The volume advances the ecological voice in Sartre studies and the Sartrean voice in environmental studies, from environmental philosophy to eco-criticism.

This book examines how the USA decided, reluctantly at first, to use the Syrian Kurds as a cheap proxy warrior against ISIS and how this partnership evolved, in the end, into a not-so-cheap investment owing to its unforeseen geopolitical implications.

The authors examine the internal and external motivating factors behind the actions of the House Committee on Ethics members by looking at the procedural efficiency of the Committee on Ethics (or lack thereof), as a natural consequence of the committee members' implicit public policy actions.

The author explores the process and outcome of ethnic identity on nation-building and ethnic conflict. It sheds light on the question of how minorities position and represent themselves during and after regime transitions and the dilemmas that minorities present for regime change and how social cleavages shape their preferences and identities.

In Augustine's Preaching and the Healing of Desire in the Enarrationes in Psalmos, Mark J. Boone shows how Augustine expressed a Platonically informed yet distinctively Christian theology of desire, focused on the unity of Christ and the church, in these remarkable sermons and commentaries on the Psalms.

The first book of its kind, Forms of Krishna: Collected Essays on Vaishnava Murtis is an exotic journey into the heart of Indian spirituality, explaining the entire esoteric tradition, including yoga and meditation, through a sampling of revered Vaishnava icons, Deities worship in temples throughout the world.

Using various case studies as well as legal, communication, and awareness perspectives, this book examines the nexus of the people of Southern Africa, democratization, and integration in the SADC region.

This book examines relevant social/political issues while analyzing how repetitive patterns of interactions with significant people and the wider world develop one's expanding personality and how some repetitive patterns create "problems in living." The authors argue that people evolve by comprehending and challenging those patterns.

Türkiye enters an era of restructuring international relations as a potent geostrategic actor dubbed "the" hub of solutions. More than a middle power, Türkiye's changing status brings forth a new conceptualization in global politics.

The Future of Christian Realism directly addresses fundamental topics in theology, ethics and politics. The contributors of this volume come from different traditions, span five continents, and together present a case for the continuing relevance of Christian realism.

As Turkey's regional and global roles and influence growth, this volume provides a critical understanding of how the current Turkish foreign policy within the "Enterprising and Humanitarian Framework" operates in practice to achieve Turkey's foreign policy ambitions.

This publication addresses several contemporary issues impacting Social Justice in the Caribbean, including challenges related to industrial relations, governance systems, social protection, social dialogue, cooperatives and community empowerment, the future of education, migration and security, presenting national and regional perspectives.

Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex explores the role of Jin Yong's popular martial arts fiction in Chinese literary and cultural discourse. The kungfu industrial complex accounts for how his characters, stories, and tropes maintain cultural significance via adaptation in television and film.

The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.

While the years between 1927 and 1953 in China were a time of war, revolution, and social disintegration, they were also a time for building political legitimacy. In this ground-breaking work, Ray Hartman painstakingly details how Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders perceived political legitimacy during the party's formative years. He argues that Chinese Communist leaders' conception of legitimacy was the main force driving the party's policies and military strategy during this time.Although "legitimacy" often comes up in discussions pertaining to the CCP's performance regarding the party's policies -- whether they be social, economic, or military -- this work is the first to demonstrate how top CCP leaders, themselves, understood the concept. Providing extensive documentation from party directives and speeches (including recently available sources) as well as memoirs written by party members and military leaders, the author reveals a CCP consumed with the notion of its own legitimacy in hopes of not only attaining power but saving the Chinese state from destructive internal and external forces.

The book analyzes the critical theories in international relations that have become increasingly popular in the post-Cold War era. The book will analyze critical theory, Frankfurt School, constructivism, post-colonialism, feminism, critical geopolitics, political economy, Copenhagen School, Aberystwyth School, Paris School and Ontological security.

Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons examines the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances.

In this edited collection, contributors analyze how the media is navigating Nigeria and its mediated democracy. Scholars of journalism, political communication, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.

This book explains Central Asia's different perceptive, especially in the economic, security, and energy fields. The book also clarifies the influence of America, Russia, Europe, and China on Central Asian countries.

The Spirit of Montesquieu's Persian Letters explores Montesquieu's careful treatment of the spiritual, ethical, and civic dilemmas France encountered in the early 18th Century. In examining Montesquieu's response to Bourbon France's commercial and political culture of this time, it will help deepen our understanding of his political philosophy.

Although still unpublished when Edith Stein was killed in Auschwitz, Stein's philosophical magnum opus was finally published in a complete form in 2009 and recently re-translated into English. This guide provides a sure-footed introduction to Stein's vision of the meaning of being, including contextual essays and a detailed synopsis.

This book, through Pakistan-India experience, demonstrates an intimate relationship between political conflict and arms control. It proves that several contributing political conflicts affect arms control in distinct ways. Importantly, the combined effect of these pertinent political conflicts claim greater influence over arms control processes.