Social Sciences

Critical Method and Contemporary Film

Reviewing the Reviewers

By: Christopher K. Brooks

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This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture

Edited By: Dorsía Smith, Tatiana Tagirova

£39.99

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.

Critical Perspectives on Conflict in Caribbean Societies of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries

Edited By: Patricia Donatien, Rodolphe Solbiac

£41.99

This book adopts a fresh approach to conflict in Caribbean societies of the late 20th and 21st centuries. It brings new perspectives to the analysis of recent fiction and art by writers and artists from both the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean.

Critical Perspectives on Formal Governance of and by Those Identified as Mothers

Edited By: Alisha Chohan, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich

£70.99

This anthology explores how laws shape and oppress mothers—and how they resist. Bringing together diverse voices, it shines a light on the experiences of racialized, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, and criminalized mothers, challenging how societies define and support motherhood.

Critical Perspectives on Hollywood Science Fiction

A Neoliberal Crisis?

By: Stephen Trinder

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This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.

Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order

Edited By: Faiz Sathi Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan Bee Hoon

£39.99

This collection explores language in the “New World Order,” raising consciousness about how discourse constructs identities and empowers users. A significant contribution to the critical discussion, it highlights the socially transformative role of language.

Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture in the New World Order

Edited By: Washima Che Dan, Jason Sanjeev Ganesan, Noritah Omar

£39.99

This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.

Critical Perspectives on National Security Strategies in Nigeria

Edited By: Anthony O. Chukwu, Caroline Obiageli, Nafisatu Dahiru Muhammad

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With widespread insecurity in Nigeria, this volume brings together military professionals and civilian scholars to explore critical thinking for national security. It fosters debate to answer an age-old question: Whither Nigeria’s national security and strategy?

Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st-Century British Literature

Edited By: Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız

From £36.99

This book is an intellectual journey through the critical perspectives on resistance in 21st-century British literature. It appeals to readers interested in cultural studies, literary studies, the humanities, and sociology, particularly resistance and discourse studies.

Critical Perspectives on Work-Integrated Learning in Higher Education Institutions

Edited By: Nirmala Dorasamy, Renitha Rampersad

£61.99

This book explores work-integrated learning (WIL) programmes for the student, coordinator and supervisor. It integrates practical industry experience within the higher education curriculum to enhance student development, and highlights the diverse WIL approaches in South Africa.

Critical Race Theory and the American Justice System

How Juries Wrestle with Racial Prejudice

By: Paul Zwier

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Critical Race Theory is skeptical of racial justice in the courtroom. Yet the guilty verdicts in the Floyd and Arbery cases offer a challenge to that view. This book uncovers how these landmark convictions were won and asks what they mean for America.

Critical Race Theory and the Struggle at the Heart of Legal Education

A View from the Inside

By: Paul Zwier

From £38.99

As states legislate against teaching critical race theory, law schools are struggling to respond. How should legal education view CRT? This book seeks answers, encouraging a recommittal to the foundational beliefs of free speech, equality, and the due process of law.

Critical Reading and Writing in the 21st Century

Edited By: Semin Kazazoğlu

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To prepare students for the 21st century, we must change the way we teach them to think. This book instils a love of critical thinking in students and teachers, covering its history, methods in language teaching, and providing reading and writing activities.

Critical Readings of the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Edited By: Gambo Sani

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This collection of essays on Ngugi wa Thiong’o, one of the most important postcolonial writers, offers fresh insights into his artistic oeuvre. The volume animates Ngugi’s politics, poetics, and commitment to decolonisation, covering his novels, plays, and scholarly works.

Critical Reception of Arundhati Roy

The Unsuitable Girl

By: Urvi Sharma

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Arundhati Roy is equally loved and disparaged. This book delves into the kaleidoscope of reactions to her writings that mediate her identity as a writer, activist and celebrity, exploring how factors from her Booker win to sedition charges shape how her work is read.

Critical Thoughts on Contemporary Turkish Media

Edited By: Nigar Pösteki

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Contemporary Turkish media is placed under the microscope in this text which sheds light on current trends and debates in the different mass media spheres of the digitalized world. It offers valuable insights into the current conditions of the field of communications in Turkey.

Critical Times, Critical Thoughts

Contemporary Greek Writers Discuss Facts and Fiction

Edited By: Natasha Lemos, Eleni Yannakakis

£47.99

Despite the visibility of the Greek crisis, the media represents only the views of politicians and bureaucrats, leaving the voice of artists unheard. These specially commissioned essays by major Greek writers offer new insights into the crisis, and its causes and ramifications.

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels

By: Ranjana Das Sarkhel

£58.99

Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.

Cronies or Capitalists? The Russian Bourgeoisie and the Bourgeois Revolution from 1850 to 1917

By: David Lockwood

£39.99

Why wasn’t there a successful bourgeois revolution in Russia? This political history of the Russian capitalist class from 1850 to 1917 traces their opposition to the autocracy and their alliance for reform that led to the Soviet state and their own destruction.

Cross Currents

Comparative Responses to Global Interdependence

Edited By: Cindy Scheopner, Ian M. Sullivan

£39.99

Comparative philosophy engages thinkers worldwide to approach common problems from different perspectives. This approachable survey brings “eastern” and “western” philosophy into a global conversation. Foreign terms are translated and notes give context.

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