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This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.

This panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia provides a uniquely cross-disciplinary look at the language of the Russian Revolution from its origins through fruition in early Soviet society. Harrison examines storms, floods, and harvest metaphors in selected works of fiction and analyzes the use of language as a weapon of class war.

This book retraces "the nature of hate" as hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today and "the hatred of nature" as contempt for the natural world and also nature hating in return through Western literature.

Though widely discussed by scholars, critics, and educators alike, empirically, we know little about the individual reception of Holocaust films by actual cinemagoers. Taking Britain as a case study, this book foregrounds the analysis of audience responses to select films and explores the relationship between history, film, and memory.

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of individual US presidents-including Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation,guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of theBlack radical tradition.

Shifa Haq traces the dynamics of mourning, collective trauma, and political resistance in personal accounts of mourners of the disappeared persons, providing insights into psyche-polis connection. By using a psychoanalytic lens, this book turns to individual cases to throw light on claims of affect and memory to re-imagine social suffering.

Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South explores the conditions of extreme poverty in the American South that allow Neglected Tropical Diseases to infect 12 million people in the richest country in the world.

This book presents a number of contemporary philosophical issues from a wide range of Chinese philosophical texts, figures, and sub-traditions that are usually not addressed in English studies of Chinese philosophical traditions.

Victoria Carty uses theories of immigration, social movements, and critical race theory to study the recent immigration crises on both sides of the Atlantic. Carty shows that the high volume of immigration in both the European Union and the United States has led to a resurgence of nativist sentiments and white supremacy groups.

The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states.

This book engages with the conceptual intersections of post-Yugoslav literature, focusing on analyses of postism and temporality.

This study addresses race and ethnic relations from the standpoint of Schutzian phenomenological social psychology. It shows how this approach, by focusing on intersubjectivity and the construction of self and identity, both yields an intimate look at race and reveals the critical thrust, hence, political relevance, of phenomenology.

This book engages with Latin American interwar thought and culture from the vantage point of the Global South. By placing anti-imperialism, Blackness, and indigeneity at the center of decolonial analysis, the author offers new ways of approaching modernist literature and the avant-garde in Latin America.

This book explores the three foundational topics in Rawls's theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of democratic citizenship, public reason, and liberal individualism latent in his treatment of these subjects in order to uncover their cultural and historical underpinnings.

This study analyzes the emotional, religious, and cultural dimensions of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the post-revolutionary legacy of the Sandinistas.

Guardian of the Wall examines Leo Pfeffer's interpretation of religion clauses in the First Amendment, influence on church-state law, and understanding of religion in public life. Pfeffer's belief in a wall of separation between church and state maximized religious freedom, fostered religious equality, and protects the authenticity of faith.

This book explores the significance of archery as ritual practice and literary metaphor in classical Confucian texts. Archery passages in the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi are discussed in the light of Zhou culture and the troubled historical circumstances of early followers of the ruist master Confucius.

Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material. This book applies theories by Osborne and Danto to new Chinese art to show how artists are working below the level of language to make each work of art prove that it is art.

This book is an inquiry into the nature of protest, legislative efforts at its criminalization, and the common good. Using the method of montage, the text juxtaposes different voices, disciplines, and media to illuminate rather than obscure the contradictions in our contemporary understanding of dissent and state power.

Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan examine the Taiwan Strait Crisis and upheavals in Tibet and Hong Kong through the lens of Peter Berger's theory of social construction of reality in order to explain the origins of national identity and the process of nation building.

This book tackles the social issues that are key to the long-term survival of humanity away from Earth.

This book argues that authoritarian strains of U.S. governance violate the idea of ethos in its ancient, collectivist sense, corrupting the cultural "dwelling place" through public relations strategies, policies on race and immigration, and a general disregard for ecological concerns.

This book analyzes the thiry-six political party conventions since 1948 as rhetorical entities with goals often epideictic, constitutive, and even deliberative. Crucial in meeting (and sometimes not) these goals are speeches, demonstrations, and off-camera discussions at each convention.

This book traces the history of college costs from the Colonial Era to the early years of the Cold War. The author examines the normalization of tuition, scholarships, and student loans.

This book is an ethnographic, First Amendment critique of the state's privacy and anti-harassment laws. It provides the reader with a firsthand look at whether paparazzi comply with the laws and how these restrictions have impacted the celebrity photography industry.

This book examines well-documented policy failures in the United States and argues that a human rights approach to these issues can lead to meaningful change regarding online harassment of women, child poverty, and access to water. The authors articulate a practical way forward rooted in human rights scholarship and practice.