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This book outlines the scale and scope of ableist bias, as it manifests both institutionally and intergenerationally. Ranging across disability studies, continental philosophy, and bioethics, the philosophical questions addressed in this work confront and resist ableism as it frames our world in uninhabitable and unsustainable ways.

The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts-from fiction to protest effigies and posters - and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.

This book presents a history of the organized labor movement in Puerto Rico from US colonial domination in 1898 to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Despite the early influence of revolutionary ideologies, the organized workers' movement sought to create change through the organization of labor and participation in electoral politics.

This book examines the journeys of 114 veterans as they seek to make sense of their military experiences and their new post service pacifist and/or antiwar identity. Focusing on the identity change process, the book reveals the powerful role of moral authenticity in living a life of well-being after military service.

Robert P. Delprino examines challenges faced by law enforcement families and the consequences of those challenges on officer and family health. In addition, he provides an analysis and commentary on the resources meant to support officers and family members in balancing family and work life.

This book analyses the HBO program Treme from multiple perspectives and argues that the series' depictions of music, culture, cuisine, and identity are innovative and represent unique televisual storytelling strategies.

The way American communities address the issue of low literacy has changed with the development of literacy coalitions. The authors examine in detail how this happened and explore potential emerging best practices for the collective impact approach to community change.

In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers' efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics.

This study examines the CIA's "third force" strategy-providing support for a third-party alternative over two primary on-the-ground options-in East Asia during the first decade of the Cold War. The author argues that the strategy failed due to a lack of understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the region.

This study examines the Democratic Progressive Party's 2016 electoral victory in Taiwan. It places the election within the context of Taiwan's recent political history and investigates whether the party is likely to hold onto power.

This book provides results from two extensive qualitative studies in South African primary school classrooms-the first on leadership qualities and voting, and the second from a project on writing to read. The authors discuss the studies' central themes of transformation in teaching practice with an emphasis on the role of context.

This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work.

This book explores contemporary writers' use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.

This book examines the national criminal justice system's and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system's policies in terms of how they balance the citizens' need for prisons with the private sector's desire for profits and the policies' effects on the incarceration rate of African American males in the state of Tennessee.

Violent Offenders and Their Victims is a holistic and human exploration of the nature of violence and its genesis. Chad C. Breckenridge provides a complete psychoanalytic, child developmental, and neurobehavioral understanding of empathic failure and violence.

This book explores the work, experience, language, and ambiguity of the profession of chaplaincy, tracing its struggles to professionalize in the hospital while caring for the human experiences of death and decline within its walls.

This study examines Native American protests in the Pacific Northwest during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the successful occupation of Fort Lawton in 1970 and the creation of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in 1975, both of which the author frames within the larger history of Native American activism.

The author studies the Hilltop Youth through an examination of their practices of protest and rebellion. The book explores how the group presents a new structural process for border area development, as well as the effects it has on both the micro and macro level.

This study examines the culture of leadership-within the government, the Communist Party, and business-in contemporary China. The author analyzes the conflict between traditional Chinese values, communist ideology, and Western liberalism.

Through fourteen medical narratives of pediatric patients and their families, this book analyzes how one makes sense of difficult medical journeys.

In this book, French compares the "well-meaning" intensions of "diversity" in independent schools with the continued dominance of whiteness in these institutions. Using mixed methods and a Critical Race Theory frame, French argues that "diversity" serves only to strengthen the status quo of educational segregation between Black and White.

A Flaw of Light: Reading the Novels of John Williams is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the novels of one of America's unfairly neglected writers. This clearly structured study offers detailed readings of the major novels combined with a brief assessment of Williams as an academic, poet and teacher.

This book explores the rise of Euroscepticism and Eurosceptic groups as an evolved form of fascism. It carefully examines multiple groups to identify similarities and determine characteristics that lead to their success and the altered political and social landscape we face today.

Critical belonging has been an essential feature of Christianity since its origin. This book shows how, by working collaboratively, the "people of God" can credibly meet past and present challenges together. In this way, the diversity and unity within the Christian community are acknowledged and affirmed.

This book challenges stereotypes about the romance genre, examining how modern romance production serves women in multiple ways, from escapism to sexual education, from fantasy to fun, and most importantly, as a site of production for feminist texts.

This book engages broadly with the tradition of state theory, arguing that contemporary state theory must account for multiple sites of power. The authors build on and expand traditional state theory offering tools to rethink how we analyze the state.

This book offers original readings of classic and contemporary black texts, highlighting the pain of racism and love-based strategies of antiracist resistance. Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to the impact of racist affect on the black body and how black women writers deploy emotional states to move readers to progressive political action.

This book argues that literacy functions as a means of tracking social change in modern Mongolia. Its leaders have used literacy to promote new ways of living and socialist identities. In post-socialist Mongolia, literacy expresses the anxieties that Mongolians feel as they navigate globalism and express conflicting identities.

This book examines the change of Turkish state identity in relation to foreign policy behaviors after the end of the Cold War. The author explores why and how Turkey has constructed middle power identity in order to illuminate the change in post-Cold War Turkish state identity.

This book offers an interpretation of the philosophical thought of the ancient Maya, in the classic and postclassic periods. Alexus McLeod adopts philosophical methodology, comparative philosophy, and history of philosophy to reveal and understand the ancient Maya by engaging with Maya thought as philosophy.