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This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the critical discourse of the blackness of black. In addition to Saidiya Hartman's axial concept of the "afterlife of slavery," the book explores Frank Wilderson's "Afropessimism," Fred Moten's "generative blackness," and Calvin Warren's "black nihilism.

This book explores complicity in the novels of Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Pynchon, and Margaret Atwood. It examines how complicity occurs through failures of witnessing that are present on a thematic level, both in narrative form itself and in readers' engagement with the texts.

The book examines public participation at all stages of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Brazil and proposes a model for improving community involvement in the process.

This book uses the philosophies of Objectivism, rule-utilitarianism, and neo-Aristotelianism to argue that ethical risk-taking is vital for economic flourishing.

Home and Away provides a comprehensive account of critical design for mental health, focusing on how health facilities can intentionally promote positive psychological outcomes through design and use of space.

In The Poverty of Planning, Benno Engels examines the factors that contributed to the rejection of urban planning in nineteenth-century England.

Growing up in Walltown, Italy presents an ethnographic account of the culture of early childhood education, as it is constructed in two municipal schools of an Italian town, explored through extensive participant observation and interviews of educators, teachers, school coordinators, mothers, and cooks and school staff.

In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks illustrates that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people are the product of institutions and ideologies that exist both outside and inside of Black and Latinx communities.

This study examines the discourse surrounding Josippon in religious polemics and in the construction of historical and mythical narratives during the Renaissance period.

This book is a guide for language researchers who are considering the adoption of a transdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to language research. It aims to provide a n overview of each of the most popular physiological methods today, along with their applications in research, and basic data collection procedures.

Based on a longitudinal interview study of students at a liberal arts college, this book provides a rich description of how aspects of the college community and how relationships developed within that community create opportunities for transformative experiences that lead to personal and academic growth for students.

Trust within Learning offers an in-depth inquiry into the value and meaning of trust across nations within learning relationships. Educators are offered an original and challenging look at schools and the learning process on a global level.

Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha presents five major facets of liberty as they appear in the first modern novel. Analyzing the novelist's attitudes towards religion, feminism, slavery, politics, and economics, the author argues that Cervantes should be considered a major precursor to history's greatest liberal thinkers.

This book develops a new methodological approach to infinite otherness (as with the concept of change that permeates and overturns all limits) that explains how the affirmation of this otherness, despite our best intentions, tends to create a conflictual aspect in social values.

This study examines US relations with Spain during its political transition to democracy after 1975. The author focuses on the US military presence in the country and analyzes how the Spanish democratic government's perception of the state's own recent past affected its aims and actions in the post-Franco period.

This book combines approaches from science, literary theory, and philosophy to examine the canon of Stephen King's fiction from a Darwinist hermeneutic perspective in one critical study.

Ratonalist Pragmatism argues that our interest in truth-our rational nature as practical and theoretical beings-forms us as a community of mutually recognizing truth seekers and creates the possibility of objective moral knowledge.

This volume examines the cosmopolitanism ideal from ancient to contemporary times. It grapples with the question: Is there still relevance today for the idea of the "citizen of the world" that transcends national borders in the aftermath of the Brexit Referendum result and election of Donald Trump in 2016?

National sovereignty entails exclusive ownership of territories and natural resources, which often leads to uncompromising domination and subjugation of life by a central political authority. In a stark contrast, the Kurdish vision of political community invokes communal sovereignty, which is detached from the nation and the territorial state.

This book explores the philosophies and actions of a group called Hongan no kai, comprised of mercury poisoning sufferers and their supporters in Minimata, Japan. While depicting their plights, Yuki Miyamoto unpacks the ways they wrestle with tragedy in their community as well as their vision of "a world otherwise" (janaka shaba).

This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.

This book provides a quick overview of the European Union's water and waste management legislation, reflects on European standards on Member States' policy implementation by referring to statistical data, and analyzes environmental policy-making and policy implementation of the Czech Republic in the post EU-accession period.

This study analyzes the influence of big business on the economic, political, and social structure of twentieth-century America. The author examines the development of a mass production and consumption economy and argues that the corporation became a key institutional force in the United States.

In spite of intense but traditional academic effort, a unique formal framework to study civil conflict has been elusive. This book uses predictive machine learning to highlight a framework to identify potential causes of civil conflict. Machine learning also improves the human ability to predict and therefore prevent conflict.

This book is an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of the takeover of politics by entertainment. The author looks for answers in the parallel evolution of satire, the media, and politics, and how each has influenced the other and the implications of this interconnectedness for political discourse.

In 2002, a Senegalese passenger ship called the Joola capsized in a storm off the Gambian coast, killing 1,863 people and leaving only 64 survivors. In Africa's Joola Shipwreck, Karen Samantha Barton investigates the roots of the Joola shipwreck and its consequences for Senegalese society and space.