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This book forensically examines geopolitical, geo-economic, and geostrategic implications of the interventionist role of extra-regional powers in South Asia and its extended neighborhood, Afghanistan and Central Asia in particular.

Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization explores communication forms that can generate settler support for decolonization. Emphasizing the importance of both indigenous and settler audiences, the book suggests the promise of decolonial rhetoric framed in the language of mutual benefit.

This text explores Martin Heidegger's thinking in response to Nietzsche's philosophy: beginning with the problem of European nihilism, moving toward a period of transition situated in-between classical and post-Cartesian ontology.

Foucault and Family Relations analyzes notions of property in rural Australia during the colonial period and how these conceptions maintained family stability. Using Foucault's ideas on family, sexuality, race, space, and economics, Voyce outlines how inheritance and divorce law were established so that the state could rule from a distance.

Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, including online harassment, the election of Donald Trump, and the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases. The author examines the causes of these consequences, and what action-if any-should be taken in response.

This book argues that some of the most important deviants have been at the forefront of positive social change and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society.

The Queer Life of Things takes up new materialism and posthumanism as a queer intervention into the devaluing and degradation of some human, animal, and plant lives and ways of living. Through a sustained and vibrant encounter with things that matter, this book offers readers an affective and more-than-human mode of activism for the 21st century.

This study examines the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm, founded in California by refugees of the 1868 Boshin War as the first Japanese settlement in the United States. The author analyzes how the farm played a critical role in expanding agriculture in the state and how it paved the way for tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants.

This book develops the concept of ethics in radical generosity as a social and political practice. It looks at the original grounding for cosmopolitanism, as both an ethical and political transformative practice, and xenophobia.

This book combines Latin American literature, cultural and gender studies, and history of science to consider the literary perspective of the discourse of natural history in women's travel narratives, shedding a new light on the implications of women's contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual currents.

The complex relationship between preservice teachers, teacher education instructional practices, and White privilege is examined in this study, suggesting that a sense of self and pedagogical wholeness are needed for preservice teachers to become capable educators who will provide the appropriate environment and support their students will need.

This book helps modern institutions, particularly today's military service academies, to solve concrete problems on how to inculcate the pursuit of the honorable in 21st Century leaders and soldiers and to provide a methodology for instilling honor in character formation.

In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Whitehead and Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims of the psychology as it first emerged. To illustrate the field's turn from its initial aims they trace the growth of the discipline from its conception in the late 1800s to the humanistic revolution of the 1960s to the current period of social unrest.

The political and academic program of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism is not a progressive social movement and, in fact, works against the principles and values of the Left. Race against Reason critiques the key tenets of the program and offers a genuinely leftist way forward.

The text provides a phenomenological analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X taken from the subjective perspective offered by Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X). Central to this process is the ever evolving and shifting relationality between Malcolm's specific point of view and the social world he must take-up.

African Americans have long used the military for gaining legitimacy and the ultimate path to citizenship. Blacks in the Military and Beyond chronicles their tumultuous journey from slavery through the present, extending the history to significant factors in determining whether or not serving in the military has indeed advantaged Blacks.

This book analyzes how the decline of American hegemony affects Italian foreign policy. It explores how Italy's EU membership intersects with Italy's role as a member of the coalition supporting the US-led hegemonic order.

This book uses a feminist approach to analyzing gender relations in the production and distribution of folk art in four different cultures. It examines examples of women's creativity within male-dominated societies and offers an analysis of different art forms, including clay figures, baskets, lacquer work, and dolls.

Building upon cases of the United States, South Africa, and Malta, this book examines issues of migration in the early twenty-first century. It explores dynamics of opposition to and acceptance of migrants and refugees as nations continue to experience cycles of human movement.

Since the New Deal, Republican presidents have looked for ways to accommodate rather than abolish the federal social safety net. Yet moderation often led to a backlash from their conservative supporters, leading Republican presidents, in some cases, to move from accommodation to opposition.

Damian Janus draws on his clinical experience to address the relationship between psychopathology and religion. Using clinical vignettes and religious concepts, Janus questions common understandings of mental disorders.

This volume examines halakha and the challenge of the Israeli sovereignty. It traces the use and collective recognition of halakhic sources from the late 19th century to the first decades of the establishment of the State of Israel and sheds light on the pliable nature of halakha, particularly in conjunction to the notion of sovereignty.

This book examines how corporations have expanded their market and political power on a global scale by internationalizing production on terms highly favorable to investors. It also details how corporate profits are increasingly dependent on a global exploitation of labor that has led to the latest crisis of global capitalism.

This book reconsiders the Aristotelian analogy. Focusing primarily on Aristotle's Physics Alpha, a structure of analogy emerges within Aristotle's discussion of the principles of "becoming." Eric Schumacher argues that logos, the first of these principles, is rooted in analogy and entails a type of mobility fit to reflect the be-coming of nature.

Using illustrations from research on racial inequality in varied domains from public procurement and contracting to mortgage lending to child maltreatment to competitive swimming, Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality argues that race neutrality-while desirable on its face-often fails to do what it is intended to do.

This study analyzes Barton Stone and Alexander Campbell. It brings new evidence to the debate regarding their influence on the branches of Christianity that emerged from Stone-Campbell Movement and argues that Stone wasn't a viable leader in his own movement.

New Seeds of Profit highlights the shortcomings of the admiration Americans have historically shown toward entrepreneurs and business leaders, diagnoses the underlying causes of the dysfunctional condition of American capitalism, and recommends the current trend of greater economic inequality.

This study examines efforts to convert Jews to Christianity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century London. The author examines the activities of King Henry III's Domus Conversorum and compares his conversion policies to practices elsewhere in Europe.

This book explores the historical rise of free society in the West, especially its relation to the religious world view that inspired the quest for individual freedom. It further examines the threats to freedom posed by modern ideological movements and related paradigms such as progressivism, postmodernism, and multiculturalism.

The book examines the relation of individual freedom to the economic arrangements of society. It explores both the theory and practice of the competing paradigms of capitalism and socialism, as well as the moral frameworks-justice and social justice-correlative to them.