This book explores education and empowerment for Afghan women. It examines the significant improvements achieved since the fall of the Taliban, the challenges that still lie ahead, and the threat women will face in the event of the Taliban returning to power.
Discourses on Disability bridges academic and personal voices from India to deconstruct ableism. Narratives from people with disabilities examine how it feels to exist in a world of cultural taboos, challenging the systemic silence around disability in India.
African Immigrant Children in the United States
African immigrant children and their families navigate forging new identities in a foreign land while upholding their cultures. Their journeys, marked by challenges and triumphs, highlight the universal struggle of belonging and show how they become bridges between cultures.
This manual is a framework for starting a new government. It guides non-technical readers in building a successful representative democracy that can be adapted to any culture. This researched, equitable approach is for all humankind—on Earth, underground, underwater, or in space.
Africana-Melanated Womanism
Through the Africana Womanist lens, this book tackles contemporary societal ills, including generational wealth for Blacks. It speaks truth to Africana women and their families, offering solutions for combatting racial dominance by prioritizing race, class, and gender.
Despite their different economic models, the middle classes in the US and South Korea face the same crisis: labor market instability and widening inequality. This book examines the causes, the consequences for family and education, and presents policy ideas for revitalization.
Social Segmentation and Clientelism in the Extreme West
This volume explores the importation of Western institutional models and their effects on social structures, especially in non-Western societies. It focuses on resulting problems like the persistence of clientelism and corruption within official institutions.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity using the McIntosh index. With examples and regression methods, it shows how to assess the organizational factors that influence age, ethnic, gender, and organizational diversity.
This book moves beyond state-centric politics to explore how communities and leaders shape socio-political identities. It emphasizes the importance of identities and narratives within the cultural, religious, and social contexts of the Middle East and Mediterranean region.
Female Subjectivity in African-American Women’s Poetry
This book constructs Black female subjectivity through the poetry of African-American women. It delves into issues like racism, motherhood, and the struggle for identity, illuminating Black female aesthetics, the liberation of self, and the politics of survival.
Capital Punishment in Popular Culture, Toys, Games, and Nursery Rhymes
This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice in death sentencing, featuring illustrated toys and dolls representing famous trials and murderers.
This volume brings together innovative research across Iberian Studies. The collection includes cutting-edge work on memory politics, dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, and colonial exchanges, exploring themes of migration, resistance, trauma, sexuality, and feminism.
More than an average textbook, this guide combines major theories with culturally-relevant examples and indigenous research from the Middle East. Written by local experts, it helps students understand the relevance of psychology to their own lives and societies.
Organizational Power and Ethical Subjectivity
This collection emphasizes the significance of the theoretical humanities in our times and their urgent task of reconstructing a more rationalized humanist-scientific foundation for a new type of human sciences through critically reorganizing all intellectual sources of mankind.
This volume explores Utopia from diverse, contemporary perspectives. From literature to media and philosophy, its interdisciplinary character is a main asset. As leading authority Lyman Towers Sargent states, “Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied… varies.”
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to measure organizational diversity. It details the application of diversity indices and regression methods to assess how workplace factors influence age, gender, and ethnic diversity, with examples throughout.
Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations
Inspiration defines who we are. But what are its sources and can we control them? This book analyzes the historical, cultural, and political moments that ignite our passions, questioning the status quo and challenging us to find inspirations for a truly advanced world.
Transforming Magazines
This book is a vital contribution to Magazine Studies, showing the urgent need for industry and academia to find solutions for the challenges magazines face transitioning to digital. With global contributions, it offers fresh research for scholars and professionals alike.
Pathographies of Modernity with Aby Warburg and Beyond
This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork’s “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.
This is the first book to address the root causes of poor working conditions within global supply chains. From a unique survey of nearly 2,000 suppliers, it presents fresh evidence on how purchasing practices impact wages and identifies changes for more sustainable supply chains.