This text explores theoretical issues in contemporary rhetoric, including the role of culture, citizenship, and how space and time affect language. A resource for scholars and students, its goal is to stimulate thought and provoke critical responses to the ideas within.
Europe and its Regions
As Europe gets closer, understanding its regional data is a major challenge for social sciences. This volume improves insight into the rich stock of European datasets, highlighting socio-economic cross-border studies and powerful analysis tools.
European Culture in a Changing World
In an era of European Unification and Globalism, what will happen to the rich mosaic of National European Cultures? This volume brings together essays by leading scholars to shed light on these issues of national identity and cultural creativity.
Explaining and Resisting Trumpism Post-2020
Why did 74 million people vote for Donald Trump in 2020? Authored by scholars and activists, this book addresses why certain voters found Trump appealing, how his campaign used fear and conspiracy, and the role activism plays in the future of Trumpism.
Exploring the Macabre, Malevolent, and Mysterious
Scholars explore how horror and dark subjects influence cultures worldwide. These topics are found not only in fiction but in belief systems, art, and government. This intellectual exploration covers witchcraft, zombies, serial killers, monsters, and the mysterious unknown.
Facets of Urbanisation
Increasing urbanisation is a dominant global trend with numerous social and environmental implications. This volume analyzes its various facets, including cultural adaptation, migration, gender, slums, and human rights, from a cross-cultural perspective.
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration among the Intelligence Community, Academy, and Industry
This book analyzes the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS), a collaboration between intelligence, academia, and industry. It details practical lessons for developing cross-sector partnerships to create innovative solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.
Failed and Failing States
State collapse is a major threat to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions. This volume brings together key essays on these critical issues.
Food Security and Food Production
India’s food security depends on its ecological foundation, which is threatened by competition for water and land. This book addresses the critical institutional challenges and offers insights into the changes needed to ensure food security for the nation.
Foreign Policy Posture in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This book explores the link between domestic and foreign policy in South Africa, tracking its evolution since the 1990s. Combining theoretical perspectives and empirical case studies, it demonstrates the complex motives behind the country’s involvement in global affairs.
Just as pollution disrupts nature, toxic cultural elements erode society. This book provides a roadmap to reverse this decay, starting with individual empowerment and self-leadership to rebuild our communities and foster sustainable leadership.
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas
This artist’s book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.
This book offers a unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern Europe from an intersectional perspective of gender and agency. It analyzes the rapid changes since the collapse of socialism, using case studies to reveal gendered practices and activism.
This book explores the critical role of gender in the agricultural sector, examining the challenges women face. It advocates for inclusive, gender-sensitive policies that empower women, promote equity, and ensure sustainable development and food security.
Gender and Trauma
These interdisciplinary essays explore the intersection of gender and trauma. Contributors analyze the links between the effects of trauma and the performance of gender, examining the roles of sex and sexual identity within this complex relationship.
Is mental ability one general factor, as psychometrics claims, or many specific ones, as neuropsychology suggests? This debate has critical implications for education and social issues. This book gathers diverse experts to explore the nature of human mental abilities.
Geography of Crime in China since the Economic Reform of 1978
China’s economic upsurge presents a two-edged sword: more challenging crime problems. This book analyzes Chinese criminal issues from a geographic perspective, testing Western theories in Shenzhen city to provide a systematic overview of the nation’s crime.
Growing Democracy in Africa
This edited collection critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, questioning the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance.
Hamas Transformation
This book examines the transformation of Hamas from a resistance movement into a political authority in Gaza after its 2006 election victory. It analyzes the political opportunities, challenges, and structural shifts required by this transition.
Health Sector Reforms in Orissa
This book proposes a new framework for analysing health sector reforms. As private participation in health care increases, states must regulate the private sector to ensure universal access to quality health care and protect democratic values.