Written by experts with lived experience in Africa, this book explores gender empowerment and its impact on economic development. It argues that without women’s full input, sustainable development is unachievable, and illustrates how female capacity building leads to growth.
Violent Extremism in the 21st Century
This anthology provides global insights into violent extremism, questioning how and why it arises and what can be done about it. It contributes models, analyses, and practical tools for first-liners working to prevent extremism and rehabilitate those returning to society.
Between a Past and Present Consciousness
This book traces how Caymanians overcame fragmented identities of race and class to forge a singular nationality. Now, this cultural solidarity is being tested by astonishing numbers of immigrants keen to become Caymanians themselves. Can this modern identity survive?
Images and Human Rights
This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.
Culture, Trauma, and Conflict
Using Cultural War Studies, this book analyzes the constructions that glorify killing and make us forget its trauma. It explores how media, torture, and memory shape our understanding of war, revealing the cultural durability of conflict.
Speaking about racism is difficult, yet state racism is more acceptable than ever. Immigration detention and racial profiling impact our daily lives. Race and State breaks the taboo of discussing the links between “race” and state from multiple perspectives.
Is democracy in crisis? Amidst a loss of trust in institutions, this volume brings together experts to shed light on the future of our democracies. By focusing on Japan and Germany, it determines transnational tendencies and country-specific consequences.
Media researchers and journalists consider what happens in the wake of a terrorist attack: how the people affected communicate and how terrorists use social media. This collection will appeal to academic readers and anyone interested in this contemporary global problem.
Trust and Transitions
This volume examines trust within social capital theory, using empirical studies of post-Communist countries and theoretical analysis. Noted scholars explore trust’s role in marketization and democratization, presenting contemporary perspectives for times of transition.
This global history challenges our understanding of modern law and politics. From the Renaissance to WWII, it reveals how liberalism and fascism shaped justice not only in Europe, but in societies like the Ottoman Empire, India, and the Cherokee Nation.
Latin American Marxisms in Context
In Latin America, governments and popular mobilizations have challenged neoliberalism, sparking a revival of Marxist perspectives. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, appealing to all interested in the region’s radicalism.
This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today’s activists.
Between Jihad and McWorld
Inspired by Benjamin Barber’s bestseller *Jihad vs. McWorld*, contributors grapple with inequality, democracy, and power in our times. Barber joins them with an insightful essay on democracy and terrorism in a world shaped by globalization and conflict.
Catching Terrorists in America
Hewitt presents a detailed examination of terrorist acts in America from the late 1960s to the Boston Marathon bombing, focusing on such aspects as responses of law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to block terrorism attacks from abroad.
Civilization at Risk
A devastating human rights war has unfolded. With 30 million people in slavery, this scourge puts Civilization at Risk. This evil cannot be combated by indifference, but by the education and the courage to stand and fight.
Shaped by a history of competition and cooperation, Russia-Turkey relations gained new dimensions with Vladimir Putin. This book discusses this history before analysing the situation of both countries in the first 20 years of the 21st century.
Current Myanmar Studies
This book contains articles concerned with the major issues facing development in Myanmar. Topics explored include Muslims in Arakan (Rohingya), economic perspectives, the challenges facing Aung San Suu Kyi, and an ethnographic note on textile production in Shan State.
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.
Beneath the long history of Africa-India relations lies a troubling reality of racism. This collection of studies explores prejudice against Blackness in India through the lived experiences of sub-Saharan Africans and Siddhis (Afro-Indians).
Gendered
Challenging disciplinary boundaries, this volume moves beyond an art-history survey to explore the bond between feminist art, theory, and politics. It compares American and European artists to reveal the continuing relevance of both for the contemporary reader.