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Book SynopsisWhat can visual artifacts tell us about the past? How can we interpret them rigorously, weaving their formal and material qualities into rich social contexts to reach wider historical conclusions? Unfolding key historiographical and methodological issues, Writing Visual Histories equips students to answer these questions, showing visual analysis to be a key skill in historical research. A multifaceted structure makes this a practical guide for writing and reflecting on visual histories. A first section includes six case studies -- on topics ranging from medieval heraldry to Life magazine. These examples are followed by an exploration of essential concepts that inform historical thinking about visual matters, a treatment of disciplinary practices, and discussion of the practicalities (such as accessing museum collections and organising permissions) that scholars working with visual sources have to navigate. This book is an invaluable tool kit for opening up a historical Trade ReviewThe six chapters offer case-studies from the fourteenth to the twentieth-century in Britain, Europe and the United States, and collectively present visual history as a lively interdisciplinary mode of enquiry. With its additional sections on concepts, practices and practicalities, the volume exceeds the conventional textbook – making it invaluable as a student handbook or toolkit. * Viccy Coltman, Professor of eighteenth-century History of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Heraldry Topsy-Turvy: Depictions and Performances of Dishonour and Death, Marcus Meer 2. Costume Imagery and the Visualisation of Humanity in Early Modern Europe, Katherine Bond 3. Identity and Continuity: The Visual Culture of an Institution over 500 Years, Ludmilla Jordanova 4. Making an Exhibition of Himself: John Wilkes through Visual Sources, Jonathan Conlin 5. Writing the History of the Photographic Book: The Case of Weimar Germany, J. J. Long 6. The Picture Magazine: Life and the Limits of Photography, Melissa Renn Concepts Agency Art Discourse Genre Iconography Medium Reception Reproduction Rhetoric Skill Style Visual Culture Practices Description Contextualization Periodization Practicalities Using Image Databases Organizing Permissions Writing Captions Publishing with Pictures Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide an introduction to contemporary cultural approaches to the study of religion. This book makes sophisticated ideas accessible at an introductory level, and examines the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped the field including anthropology, history, literature, and critical studies in race, sexuality, and gender. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and includes: the biographical and historical context of each theorist their approaches and key writings analysis and evaluation of each theory suggested further reading.Part One: Comparative Approaches considers how major features such as taboo, texts, myths and ritual work across religious traditions by exploring the work of Mary Douglas, Phyllis Trible, Wendy Doniger and Catherine Bell. Part Two: Examining Particularities analyzes the comparative approach through the work of Alice Walker, Trade Review[An] important resource for any religious studies course that includes a theoretical dimension. * Nova Religio *The two volumes directly complement one another and are both written with prose and arguments that are accessible to students with no prior knowledge of the field of religious studies. As such, this is an ideal text for introductory courses in religion. * Religious Studies Review *Serving as brief intellectual-biographical histories, these essays illumine the preoccupations and priorities that have motivated influential scholars’s work. While the text is not a required counterpart for the Reader, the editors note that its contributions profitably locate the span of its contents within personal and historiographical worlds, opening an aperture for students to further reflect on their own locations and the disciplinary contexts in which these texts are situated. It is also worth noting that these essays deserve careers of their own as documents of intellectual history and could be usefully assigned together or apart in graduate as well as undergraduate seminars. * Reading Religion *A fresh, concise introduction to some of the most important theorists of religion in recent decades. A must for future courses on theoretical approaches to the discipline. * Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, USA *What distinguishes this introduction from its more traditional predecessors is its robust insistence that neither the lived experience nor the study of religion can be separated from issues of cultural context, power, and identity. The result is an innovative guide to the field that models the relation of theory and praxis. * Mark A. Chancey, Professor of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA *I cannot endorse this highly enough. Many introductions to religion and culture claim a fresh perspective, but Bloesch and Minister give so much more in this accessible and exciting volume. Religious Studies students need ?Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion. * Dawn Llewellyn, Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester, UK *This is the book so many have asked for in secret. Keeping up with the widening field is an increasingly difficult task. Finally there’s a way to fill in some of the gaps. It reminds readers that the study of religion isn’t a genuflection to past thinkers but a generative, ongoing conversation. And you’ll want to take part! * Richard Newton, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, The University of Alabama, USA *This volume not only fills a glaring lacuna in the available handbooks, it breathes new life into the theory and methods course in religious studies. * Kent L. Brintnall, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction, Sarah J. Bloesch (Elon University, USA) and Meredith Minister (Shenandoah University, USA) Part One Comparative Approaches 1. The Bounds of Hierarchy: Mary Douglas, Kathryn Lofton (Yale University, USA) 2. Feminist Textual Critique: Phyllis Trible, Rhiannon Graybill (Rhodes College, USA) 3. Myth and the Religious Imaginary: Wendy Doniger, Laurie Patton (Middlebury College, USA) 4. Ritual and Belief: Catherine Bell, Kevin Lewis O’Neill (University of Toronto, Canada) Part Two Examining Particularities 5. Womanist Religious Interpretation: Alice Walker, Carolyn M. Jones Medine (University of Georgia, USA) 6. Signifying Religion in the Modern World: Charles H. Long, Juan M. Floyd- Thomas (Vanderbilt University, USA) 7. Gender and Materiality: Caroline Walker Bynum, Jessica A. Boon (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA) Part Three Expanding Boundaries 8. Mestiza Language of Religion: Gloria Anzaldúa, Joseph Winters (Duke University, USA) 9. Performative, Queer Theories for Religion: Judith Butler, Ellen T. Armour (Vanderbilt University, USA) 10. Disrupting Secular Power and the Study of Religion: Saba Mahmood, SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, cTrade ReviewQueer Shakespeare engages with crucial yet subversive queerness throughout Shakespearean poetry and performance. Unifying past scholarship with vital queer theory, Stanivukovic’s collection reveals necessary insights into our evolving relationship with Shakespeare. -- Peter Kuling, University of Ottawa, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality’, by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada 1.‘Which is worthiest love’ in Two Gentlemen of Verona?, by David L. Orvis, Appalachan State University, USA 2. ‘Glass: The Sonnets’ Desiring Object’, by John Garrison, Carroll University USA 3. ‘The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, by Kirk Quinsland, Fordham University, USA 4. ‘As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus’, by Ian F. Moulton, Arizona State University, USA 5. ‘The Queer Language of Size in Love’s Labour’s Lost’, by Valerie Billing, Knox College, USA 6. ‘Locating Queerness in Cymbeline’, by Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada 7. ‘Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the Sound of Women’s Desire’, by Holly Dugan, George Washington University, USA 8. ‘“Two lips, indifferent red:’ Queer Styles in Twelfth Night’, by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada 9. ‘Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth’, by Christine Varnado, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA 10. ‘Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice’, by Eliza Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA 11. ‘Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems,’ by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA 12. ‘Held in Common: Romeo and Juliet and The Promiscuous Seductions of Plague’, by Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University, USA 13. ‘Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure’, by Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USA Afterword by Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Canada

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Book SynopsisOnce one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world including design - dramatically changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new philosophy of design. With these thoughts this book presents a radically new understanding of the history, context and futures of designing. First published in 1999, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy is a prescient and powerful account of what it means to comprehend that we live in world that is taking away futures for ourselves and non-human others. Arguing that designing is doubly implicated in this process, first in its roles in helping to create the unsustainable, but second, re-thought through the lens of defuturing, as a mode of acting in the world that can help contest the negation of the world, Defuturing transforms our comprehension of designing and ofTrade ReviewDefuturing: A New Design Philosophy bears true to its title. It’s the confident announcement of a new approach to design by a fiercely independent and original design thinker. Nobody has grasped with greater clarity design’s role in creating the structural logic of sustainability constitutive of today’s world as Tony Fry. In these pages, the reader will find a most perceptive exploration of the profound historicity of design, from which there emerges a genuinely new way of looking at the world, one that goes well beyond the redeeming rhetoric of humanism and the nihilistic lucubrations of posthumanism. By conjuring up a critical new awareness of design’s powers of world making, Fry is able to craft the contours of a compelling redirective design practice and a novel lexicon for making otherwise. * Arturo Escobar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, USA *Table of ContentsList of images Tony Fry's Defuturing: A new design philosophy by Clive Dilnot Preface to the 2020 edition Preface to the original edition INTRODUCTION An introductory lexicographical review Design Sustain-ability and unsustainability Defuturing Relationality Guided Reading PART I: An opening 1. TECHNOLOGY, WARRING AND THE CRISIS OF HISTORY Technology in flux From structure and from techné From war to warring The crisis of the crisis of history PART II: History, modernity and defuturing 2. MADE IN AMERICA: A WORLD PRODUCTION America Then and now Productivism and a history of world making 3. DWELLING IN STREAMLINES AMERICA Streamlining Design The New York World's Fair Utopia: A designing idea 4. TOTAL DESIGN: EUROPE The Bauhaus, as told The Vkhutemas postscript PART III: One point: Four locations 5. DESIGN AND THE BODY OF COMPETITION The body Bodies of the body The measure that measures the standards Openings as endings 6. TIME AND CHINA Time The years of 1926 China: Four perspectives 7. TELEVISUAL IN-HUMAN DESIGN The televisual Perspectives and horizons Ecology of the image 8. THE AUTONOMIC TECHNOCENTRICITY OF COMPUTERS The reason machine The force of design Reiterations towards making decisions CONCLUDING IMPRESSIONS Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Psychic Life of Fragments rethinks trauma and psychic fragmentation starting from the psychoanalytic clinic. What does it mean to work with fragments in psychoanalysis? What is the psychic life of fragments? And what can a fragment do? Raluca Soreanu writes about trauma, fragmentation and the radical plasticity of the psyche. Reconstructing SÃndor Ferencziâs trauma theory, she articulates an original vocabulary of fractures, splits, atomisations, pulverisations, leakages, detritus and psychic dematerialisation along with new formations, protective membranes, expansions, contagions and growths. She approaches the scene of trauma from new angles, paying attention to oblique lines and asymmetric encounters. Mobilizing clinical and literary vignettes, this book further argues for a minor psychoanalysis, one that emerges at the intersection of four types of theoretical-clinical experimentation: a psychoanalysis of scars, a psychoanalysis of organs, an eventful psychoanalysis and a blue psychoanalysis.This book is important for clinicians and trainees in psychoanalysis, for mental health practitioners working with trauma, and for psychosocial and psychoanalytic thinkers. It is written to be used, between the psychoanalytic chair and the couch, especially at challenging times, in the transference and in the world.

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Book SynopsisThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Digital personalization is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, with application to a variety of areas including design, education and publication industry. This book focuses on children's education and literacy resources, which have undergone important changes with the personalization revolution' in the early 21st century. The author develops original insights from educational research and her own studies concerned with digital and non-digital personalization, to discuss in a clear and critical way the thinking, research issues and practical implications of this new field. She scrutinises the character of technology-based personalized education to substantiate the claim that the current models of personalized education tend to be technology- and business-driven, with little pedagogical understanding of the social value of personalizatioTrade ReviewDr Kucirkova addresses important questions in relation to the significant tensions in current education, between promoting creativity and critical thinking, or promoting basic skills for everyday living and employment. She brings together her own research and experiences, together with the use of significant theoretical perspectives to suggest that personalised pluralism can be a solution. The way this innovative idea is developed is crucial reading for students, researchers and anyone interested in education and child development. * David Messer, Emeritus Professor of Education, The Open University, UK *Table of Contents1. Understanding Digital Personalization 2. The Origin and Rise of Personalized Education 3. Technology-Enabled and Technology-Driven Personalized Education in the 21st Century 4. Overview of Personalized Books: Self-Made and Commercially Produced Personalized Books 5. Theoretical Frameworks Relevant for Digital Personalization in Early Education 6. The Five As of Personalization 7. Extant Research with Personalized Books 8. Personalization and Creativity 9. Personalization and Identity 10. Touchscreens and Personalized Education 11. Personalized Education: Pedagogical Possibilities 12. Personalized Pluralization References Index

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Book SynopsisThe impact of ICT on the teaching of classical languages, literature and culture has not until now been extensively described and evaluated. Nevertheless, educational technology has made a huge difference to the ways in which Classics is taught at junior, senior and college level. The book brings together twenty major approaches to the use of technology in the classroom and presents them for a wide, international audience. It thus forms a record of current and developing practice, promotes further discussion and use among practitioners (teachers, learners and trainers) and offers suggestions for changes in pedagogical practices in the teaching of Classics for the better. The many examples of practice from both UK and US perspectives are applicable to countries throughout the world where Classics is being taught. The more traditional curricula of high-school education in the UK and Europe are drawing more and more on edutech, whereas educational jurisdictions in the US are increasingTrade ReviewThis must surely now become the seminal text now for all those engaged in the teaching of classics, whether the languages or civilisation. It is also extremely relevant to those who are interested in the development and application of technology in schools and colleges, regardless of subject specialism. * Classics for All *[This book] allows us, in many ways, to better understand the need to adapt the teaching of Classics to the digital and collective age, and provides teachers with valuable advice. educational, theoretical and practical, to arouse a renewed interest in ancient worlds among students. * Anabases (trans. by Bloomsbury Academic) *The main contribution of the volume is its rootedness in practice; instead of manifestos, theory, and prophetic mantras, individual chapters represent reports from the trenches, as it were: real-life experiments with a range of technologies with real students in physical and virtual classrooms … This is an inspiring and useful book and even the most obstinate Hotmail user will find it invigorating. * Greece & Rome *What shines through every chapter of this volume, and the text as a whole, is the persistent relevance of principles underpinning digital Classics pedagogies ... and are more potent now for having been put to the ultimate test. * The Classical Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Editors and Contributors Foreword Kenneth Kitchell, independent scholar, USA Acknowledgements Introduction Bartolo Natoli, Randolph-Macon College, USA and Steven Hunt, University of Cambridge, UK Part I Blended and Distance Models 1 Flipping Romans: experiments in using technology for teaching in higher education Kate Gilliver, Cardiff University, UK 2 Auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit: The Joyful Learning Community Model for Learning Latin Online Justin Schwamm, independent scholar, USA 3 Distance Learning Latin Verity Walden, independent scholar, UK 4 Making IT Count: Measuring Student Engagement with Online Latin Resources at the Open University Mair Lloyd, independent scholar, UK and James Robson, Open University, UK 5 VLW, Latin Literature, and Student Voice Elizabeth Lewis, independent scholar, UK 6 Going Digital: The Principles behind CyberCaesar Alan Chadwick, independent scholar, UK 7 Una Vita: Exploring the Relationship between Play, Learning Science, and Cultural Competency Stephen Slota, University of Connecticut, USA and Kevin Ballestrini, independent scholar, USA Part II Classics without Language: Literature, Culture, and Outreach Models 8 Using Virtual Learning Environments for Classics Outreach Emma Searle, independent scholar, UK 9 From Research on Roman History into Cartoons and Outreach to UK Schools Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Australia 10 Vase Animations and Primary-Aged Learners Sonya Nevin, independent scholar, UK 11 Sketchup and digital modelling for Classics Matthew Nicholls, University of Reading, UK 12 iPad Technology and the Classics Classroom Caron Downes, independent scholar, UK 13 Just-in-time learning: Using handheld voting devices in the undergraduate lecture room Helen Lovatt, University of Nottingham, UK 14 Teaching the Geography of the Ancient World Scott Arcenas, Dartmouth College, USA Part III Using Technology in the Ancient Language Classroom 15 Bridging the Gap between Students and Antiquity: Language Acquisition Videos with Minecraft and CI/TPRS Jessie Craft, independent scholar, USA 16 On Stage and Screen: ‘Big Book’ Latin and Dialogic Teaching Steven Hunt, University of Cambridge, UK 17 Using Annotations in Google Docs to Foster Authentic Classics Learning Roger Travis, University of Connecticut, USA 18 Project-Based Learning, Technology, and the Advanced Language Classroom Bartolo Natoli, Randolph-Macon College, USA 19 In the Classroom with Multi-Modal Teaching Lisa Hay, independent scholar, UK Appendix I Glossary of terms Appendix II Comparison of UK and US Educational Systems Index

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Book SynopsisSince its publication in 1968 Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed has maintained its relevance well into the 21st century. This book showcases the multitude of ways in which Freire's most celebrated work is being reinvented by contemporary, educators, activists, teachers, and researchers. The chapters cover topics such as: spirituality, teacher identity and education, critical race theory, post-truth, academic tenure, prison education, LGBTQ educators, critical pedagogy, posthumanism and indigenous education. There are also chapters which explore Freire''s work in relation to W.E.B Du Bois, Myles Horton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Simone de Beauvoir. Written by leading first and second-generation Freirean scholars, the book includes a foreword by Ira Shor and an afterword by Antonia Darder.Trade ReviewI would recommend this book as a must-have for teacher educators to reflect and explore alternative models of teacher education as well as teachers and educational researchers committed to critical theory and literacies as it provides an excellent overview of the world through a Freirean lens and within different settings. * Educational Review *At a time of growing authoritarian movements across the globe, the work of Paulo Freire stands out as a prescient beacon of struggle and hope. Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Contemporary Critical Perspectives builds on that political ideal and memory of resistance and in doing so brilliantly reinvents and extends Freire work by engaging it from a variety of disciplines, studies, and emancipatory concerns. In this book, theory and practice emerge in a fresh and original appropriation of Paulo’s work at a time when education as the foundation for critical thought and practice is in crisis. This is a brilliant and important addition to a Freire’s work that should be read by everyone who believes that education is central to politics and those modes of resistance that make a radical democracy possible. * Henry Giroux, Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, McMaster University, Canada *Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is written in an accessible manner and is empirically rich. * International Review of Education *Table of ContentsForeword: On the Road to Social Justice: Reinventing Paulo Freire Ira Shor (City University of New York, USA) Introduction: James D. Kirylo (University of South Carolina, USA) Part I: The Criticality of Teacher Preparation 1. Preparing Foundational Phase Educators: Reading the Word and World through Transect Walks Deidre Geduld, Ivor Baatjes, and Heloise Sathorar (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) 2. W.E.B. DuBois and Paulo Freire: Toward a ‘Pedagogy of the Veil’ to Counter Racism in Early Childhood Education Meir Muller (University of South Carolina, USA) and Nathaniel Bryan (Miami University Ohio, USA) 3. The Community as a Teacher Educator: Preparing Critically Conscious Teacher Candidates in Detroit Kaitlin Popielarz (Wayne State University, USA) Part II: Pedagogy and Practice 4. Making Meaning in the Carceral Space: Freirean Dialogue and Existential Becoming in the Jail or Prison Classroom Gregory Bruno (Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA) 5. Critical Race Counterstories and Freire’s Critical Pedagogy: Navigating Race in an Interdisciplinary Literature and Religious Studies Course Soumitree Gupta (Carroll College, USA) and Gerardo Rodríguez-Galarza (St. Norbert College, USA) 6. Toward a Software of the Oppressed: A Freirean Approach to Surveillance Capitalism Erin Rose Glass (UC San Diego, USA) 7. Freirean Cultural Circles in a Contemporary Social Studies Class Shelley Martin-Young (Oklahoma State University, USA) 8.The Liberatory Potential for Teacher Mindfulness Amy E. Laboe (University of Virginia, USA) 9. Who’s in Charge?: Teacher Authority and Navigating the Dialogical-Based Classroom A.J. Tierney (Oklahoma State University, USA) Part III: The Intersection of Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, Martin Luther King, jr., and Simone De Beauvoir 10. “To Speak a Book”: Lessons from Myles Horton and Paulo Freire’s We Make the Road Walking Jon Hale and Alexandra Bethlenfalvy (University of South Carolina, USA) 11. The Beloved Community and Utopia: Hope in the Face of Struggle as Envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Paulo Freire Drick Boyd (Eastern University, USA) 12. Less Certain But No Less Committed: Paulo Freire and Simone de Beauvoir on Ethics and Education Peter Roberts (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Part IV: Policy, The Environment, and Liberation Theology 13. Ley de Reforma Educativa de Puerto Rico: A Freirean Perspective Patricia M Virella (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) and Jennie Weiner (University of Connecticut, USA) 14. Overcoming (In)Difference: Emancipatory Pedagogy and Indigenous Worldviews toward Respectful Relationships with the More-Than-Human World Jennifer Markides (University of Calgary, Canada) 15. We Write on the Earth as the Earth Writes on Us: Paulo Freire the (Post)Humanist Tricia M. Kress (Molloy College, USA) and Robert Lake (Georgia Southern University, USA) 16.The Postdigital Challenge of Paulo Freire’s Prophetic Church Peter McLaren (Chapman University, USA) and Petar Jandric (Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia) Part V: Reflections, Experiences, And Considerations 17. Pursuing Critical Consciousness on the Tenure Track: Toward a Humanizing Praxis within the Neoliberal University Rolf Straubhaar, Sara Torres, Sascha Betts (Texas State University, USA) 18. Living in the Contradictions: LGBTQ Educators and Critical Pedagogy Dena Lagomarsino (Tulane/New York University, USA) 19. An Eye-Witness Account of Freire’s Return Back to Brazil after the Exile: Personal Reflections on Fighting Oppression Nelio Bizzo (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 20. Dare to Hope: The Art of Untying the Tongue and Awakening the Resilient Spirit Débora B. Agra Junker (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA) Afterword: Paulo Freire Fifty Years Later Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA) References Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical relationship with others, whether humans, non-human creatures, environments, or artifacts, is guided by aesthetic sensibility and manifested through aesthetic means.Weaving together insights gained from philosophy, art, design, and medicine, as well as artistic and cultural practices of Japan, she illuminates the aesthetic dimensions of various forms of care in our management of everyday life. Emphasis is placed on the experience of interacting with others including objects, a departure from the prevailing mode of aesthetic inquiry that is oriented toward judgment-making from a spectator's point of view. Saito shows that when everyday activities, ranging from having a conversation and perforTrade ReviewYuriko Saito’s exploration of ethical and aesthetic sensibility in the care relationship is rich and subtle. As she proceeds, the interweaving of persons, objects, and situations grows in meaning and significance. Profound yet always accessible, her new book is rich with insight. It can and should be read and re-read. * Arnold Berleant, Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), Long Island University, USA *Inspired in part by Japanese traditions, Aesthetics of Care is a compelling development of Saito’s insight that authentic care - for ourselves, others, objects and environments – should determine our integrated aesthetic and ethical modes of living. The book is an eloquent challenge to mainstream Western ethics and aesthetics alike. * David E. Cooper, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Durham University, UK *With meticulous research and characteristic insight, Yuriko Saito integrates ethics and aesthetics in this study of objects and the treatment they deserve. Her thought-provoking reflections draw attention to the care we should extend to material things and, reciprocally, the ethical and aesthetic significance of designing objects that care for us. * Carolyn Korsmeyer, Research Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, USA *Yuriko Saito’s brilliant book brings her influential ideas on everyday and environmental aesthetics into a deep dialogue with our ethical lives. Drawing on ethics of care, Japanese aesthetics, and concepts such as engagement, relationality, and social aesthetics, she creates a new direction for the field by articulating the mutually enhancing commonalities between aesthetic experience and caring relationships. * Emily Brady, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Care Ethics and Aesthetic Experience: Shared Commonality 2. Relationality: Aesthetic and Ethical Consequences 3. Expression of Care in Social Aesthetics 4. Care Relationship and Activities with the Material World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe decisive role of Britain's wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the existing historiography has framed Britain's newspapers as mouthpieces of state propaganda, readily conforming to the wishes of the wartime coalition. Tim Luckhurst challenges this through an analysis of illuminating and largely forgotten controversies which underscore the function the press held as guardians of democracy and propagators of dissenting opinion in British politics and society - from the overseas evacuation of children to the Allies' carpet bombing of German cities.Reporting the Second World War is a timely and important intervention that duly recognises the place of national, regional and specialist titles in speaking truth to power in a democracy at war.Trade ReviewTim Luckhurst’s magisterial Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945 does two things: It provides a scholarly, deeply-researched account of how British journalists reported the Second World War, and, in doing so, it shines a light on the practices of journalism. That a history book should succeed in doing both things is a mighty achievement. * Journalism *Reporting the Second World War is a book which makes you feel good and proud to be a journalist and leaves you with the feeling that the history of journalism itself can be written with so much more optimism, truth and inspiration. * The Journal: Magazine of the Chartered Institute of Journalists *One of the very best journalism history books ever written. Outstanding research into the story of the Second World War through a critical, inspirational and brilliant study of the newspaper reporting by courageous British journalists still holding power to account while fighting to protect their country's democracy and freedoms. * Tim Crook, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *Tim Luckhurst is that rare creature, a Professor of Journalism who actually believes in a free press. He charts with brilliant clarity how, after abdication and appeasement, it was the radical and irreverent tabloids, led by the Mirror, which reminded ordinary Britons that freedom means a press which serves its readers, not their rulers. * Peter Wright, Editor Emeritus, Daily Mail Group Media, UK *An engrossing critical history of journalism through one of the most profound periods of the 20th Century. Addressing contentious issues of the time, Tim Luckhurst provides original insight and compelling evidence into how our wartime newspapers shaped readers' opinions and challenged government. * Robert Lynes, Professor, CMG. Stephenson College, Durham University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. A Very Brief History of Newspapers 3. The Press Barons, the Abdication of Edward VIII and the Era of Appeasement 4. Newspapers in the Phoney War 5. Churchill, Norway and Dunkirk 6. Overseas Evacuation 7. Battle of Britain 8. The Blitz 9. Morale, Intimidation and Censorship 10. Britain and Russia: ‘One Touch of Hitler Makes the Whole World Kin’ 11. Banishing Want from Cradle to Grave: A Symbol of a New Britain 12. Peculiar Problems: Reporting the American Presence 13. 'Bomb Back and Bomb Hard': Allied Bombing of Germany 14. Auschwitz, Belsen and Buchenwald 15. ‘What a hair-trigger business the world has become’:Victory in Europe, a General Election, Atomic Bombs and VJ Day Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores immigration into the United States and the effect it has had on national identity, domestic politics and foreign relations from the 1920s to 2006. Comparing the immigration experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Cubans, Central Americans and Vietnamese, this book highlights how the US viewed each group throughout the American century, the various factors that have shaped US immigration, and the ways in which these debates influenced relations with the wider world. Using a comparative approach, Montoya offers an insight into the themes that have surrounded immigration, its role in forming a national identity and the ways in which changing historical contexts have shaped and re-shaped conversations about immigrants in the United States. This account helps us better understand the implications and importance of immigration throughout the American century, and informs present-day debates surrounding the issue.Trade ReviewIf a historian’s job is to challenge established narratives, then Benjamin Montoya has certainly delivered. This work offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of US immigration policies, skillfully weaving together domestic elements—from legislation to citizenship—and the longstanding racial biases in immigration with the intricate dynamics of international relations. The outcome is a compelling and fresh perspective on the making of the USA into “a nation of immigrants.” This book deepens our understanding of a pivotal aspect of US society - and politics. It merits a broad readership on both sides of the Atlantic. * Christoph Rass, Professor of Modern History and Historical Migration Research, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrueck University, Germany *In this thoughtful, analytical, and humane new book, Benjamin Montoya demonstrates how U.S. foreign policy decisions have shaped the migration choices of millions—and vice versa. Drawing on case studies of European, Asian, and Latin American migrants, and spanning more than two centuries of history, this book offers a valuable overview for students and fresh insights for scholars. * Christopher Capozzola, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I–Laws and Systems 1. A synthesis of U.S. juridical immigration law, 1780s-2010s 2. A synthesis of U.S. congressional immigration restriction, 1880s to 2000s 3. A synthesis of the parallel developments of the international and the U.S. refugee resettlement regimes, 1921-1980 Part II–Case Studies 4. Japanese, 1900s-1920s 5. Mexicans, 1920s 6. Jews, 1930s-1940s 7. Chinese, 1930s-1950s 8. Vietnamese, 1970s 9. Cubans, 1960s-1980 10. Central Americans, 1980s-1990s 11. Mexicans, 1980s-2000s Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Everyday Acts of Design tells the story of how the university's design school reacted to the crisis: not with despondency or despair, but by promoting a series of radical teaching experiments. Working together, students, alumni, teachers, and staff embraced hope as a method, demonstrating that it is possible to find positive answers even in a situation of imminent collapse. The case histories narrated in the book provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, but also prove that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom. Deprived of the activity of creating for an imagined future, design can still assert a way forward through practices of making and experimenting. Drawing on their persoTrade ReviewZoy Anastassakis and Marcos Martins take us on a personal journey through the challenges of leadership, management and teaching in a design school during times of uncertainty, precariousness and government neglect in Brazil. Weaving together stories of everyday experiences demonstrating at once alternative ways of thinking design acts, the resilience of educators and students, and the bonds that are developed when a situation and a state is on the brink of collapse, this book is an urgent read for all design students and educators. -- Dana Abdullah, University of the Arts London, UKIn this account of a present intensively lived, Anastassakis and Martins reveal the individual struggles and collective actions of ESDI’s prodigious community of precarious lives. Reimagining the first and foremost design education institution in Brazil, Latin America and the Portuguese language demanded shuffling functions, challenging privileges and questioning conventions. But also claiming resistance, vulnerability, care, interdependence, coexistence and solidarity as essential terms of a design lexicon they generously share with us in this momentous book. -- Frederico Duarte, University of Lisbon, PortugalHope is perhaps the element to be harnessed in a time that insists on oppressing and in which different ways of doing things are designed to circumvent the investments of domination. In these margins, scribbling is the act of imprinting life, whether it be to inscribe battles and continuity, or to strike through the logics that paint a world obsessed with a single, exclusive method. Education, when it becomes an inventive and radical stroke of life, affirms itself as an ordinary task, as everyday acts that give other contours to the margins. -- Luiz Rufino, Rio de Janeiro State University, BrazilTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, Timothy Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK) Acknowledgements Historical Background Map and ESDI Ground Plan Introduction 1. Landing 2. Curriculum 3. A Land-slipping panic 4. Drawing Together 5. Crisis 6. Design Research 7. Impasses and Correspondences 8. How do you get to the university? 9. Walking barefoot Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences. In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite escapism at best, and dangerous guilty pleasure at worst. Despite this cultural anxiety, little work has been done on the genre's real audiences. Guilluy addresses this gap by presenting the results of a major qualitative study of the genre's reception, based on interview research with rom-com viewers in Britain, France and Germany, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). Throughout the interviews, participants attempted to distance themselves from what they described as the typical rom-com viewer: the uneducated, gullible, overly emotional (American) woman. Guilluy calls this fantasy figure the phantom spectatrix. Guilluy complementsTrade ReviewThose who study the rom-com as a genre will benefit from the fresh outlook on how these films are appreciated on the fringes of fan culture. Additionally, scholars focused on European reception studies will enjoy Guilluy’s deft articulation of how different European audiences respond to the comedy stylings of contemporary Hollywood. * EuropeNow *At last, a serious study of romantic comedy, so often dismissed as 'chick lit' for frivolous feminine filmgoers. Alice Guilluy explores with great subtlety the pleasures and problems of female rom-com consumption through three European viewing groups, addressing one exemplary film, Sweet Home Alabama. The result is an original and lively contribution to audience studies, offering new insights into the role of romance in women's imaginative lives -- Helen Taylor, University of Exeter, UKThere is much pleasure to be gained from Alice Guilluy’s absorbing investigation of European viewers’ consumption of the Hollywood romcom, and no guilt, since this book fully justifies its readers’ attention. Guilty Pleasures delivers a provocative and robust defence of an often-derided genre, and in so doing both brings to light the tacit assumptions about taste, gender and class that underlie such critical snobbery, and casts doubt on their validity. -- Tamar Jeffers McDonald, University of Kent, UKThis is a fascinating exploration of the romantic comedy’s feminist viewers and the cultural taboo of ‘woke’ audiences enjoying the ‘guilty pleasure’ of watching these movies. -- Maria DeBlassie, University of New Mexico’s Honors College, USAEmbrace the politics of pleasure in Guilluy’s groundbreaking feminist fieldwork and brilliant analysis on rom-com audience reception, where viewers negotiate the heady pleasure of critique and heart-tingling delight of emotional and social engagement! Gratification guaranteed for film and gender scholars alike. -- Catherine M. Roach, The University of Alabama, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions Series Editors' Foreword Introduction: ‘Lights, action… and pure treacle’ 1. ‘Health warning: high-sugar content’: The Rom-com and the Critics 2. ‘The pudding works splendidly’: Genre, Emotions and Pleasure 3. ‘Candy-pink cage?’ Gender, Feminism and the Phantom Viewer 4. ‘Chomping on a burger with a glass of coke’: the Americanness of Romantic Comedy Conclusion: ‘Cinder-fuckin’-rella’ Endnotes Works Cited Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Questions Appendix 2: Participant Tables Appendix 3: Sweet Home Alabama Synopsis Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, acclaimed historian David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece''s modern history. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal: children starved on the streets of Athens; the Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust; heroic acts of resistance were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil war, as conflict flared between the British and American-sponsored government and communist-led rebels. In Greece, The Decade of War, Brewer expertly analyses these events and in doing so provides a compelling military and political history.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue 1. The Albanian Gateway to Greece 2. Mussolini's War on Greece 3. The German Invasion 4. The Battle for Crete 5. The Occupation Begins 6. Hyperinflation and Starvation 7. The Emergence of the Communists 8. Early Resistance 9. SOE, the Andartes and Gorgopotamos 10. Village and City 11. The Destruction of the Jews 12. The Fractured Resistance 13. The Question of the King 14. The Cairo Conference, August 1943 15. The Italian Armistice and the First Communist Offensive 16. The Resistance in Crete 17. Upheaval in the Greek Government 18. Liberation 19. Towards Sunday December 3rd 1944 20. The Battle for Athens 21. Dhamaskinos, Churchill and the Varkiza Agreement 22. The Government, the Communists and the Elections 23. The Truman Doctrine 24. 1947 – Civil War and American Involvement 25. Terror from Left and Right 26. The Plight of the Greek Children 27. The Marshall Plan 28. The Ending of the Civil War Epilogue Chronology Notes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book is the essential guide to understanding the historical influences that have shaped our ideas about infancy and infant care today. It introduces the key theories, themes, and concepts that have shaped the history of infant care and invites readers to explore how events, approaches, traditions, studies and stories have shaped modern day practice. From foundlings to wetnurses, community care and edu-carers, it introduces topics about family life, professional roles, and educational settings. The book includes short vignettes, imagery, and case studies as well as extended reflective questions. Each chapter introduces a different topic including pregnancy, parental relationships, developmental studies, the role of the professional and community services available to infants.Trade ReviewThis is a very important book for students of early childhood education: it offers a holistic and comprehensive overview of infant care in the past and demands the reader to reflect on their own practice as they read. It is both academically rigorous and heartwarming – a winning combination! * Abigail Gosling, Course Coordinator for BA (Hons) Early Childhood Education and Senior Lecturer Education Studies (Early Years), University of Bedfordshire, UK *This book presents a historical context for contemporary studies and views about infant care and family life. Authentic narratives emphasize women’s roles and experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood over time. The author’s deep passion for the book’s focus is evident throughout, as is the depth of her knowledge of European/Western sources. * Dana Gross, Professor of Psychology, St Olaf College, USA *Dr. Norman’s book centres the relationship among infant(s), parents, and professional(s) within a richly woven tapestry of historical and contemporary ideas. Her thoughtful use of questions, narratives, and cases makes the text accessible, particularly to those who are new to considerations of infanthood within the landscape of early childhood education. * Wendy A. Crocker, PhD. Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University, USA *This rich text draws together research, historical account and individual stories to powerfully illuminate the complex landscape of infant care and development. It effectively provokes the reader to consider connections between historical and contemporary practices and experiences. It is an invaluable resource for all interested in infant care and development. * Anne Chappell, Head of Department and Reader in Education, Brunel University London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Infant at Home 1. Historical Reflections and Contemporary Practice 2. Transitions to Parenthood 3. Parenting and Family Life 4. Infant Development and Holistic Care 5. The Professionalisation of Infant Care Part II: The Infant Beyond the Home 6. A Caring Community 7. Communication, Love and Care 8. Edu-care and Play 9. A Cross Disciplinary Approach to Studying Infants Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the first scholarly exposition of Maria Montessori's moral philosophy, Patrick R. Frierson presents an empirically-grounded ethics that takes its start from our tendency to strive for excellence and emphasizes mutual respect, social solidarity, and love. Laying out a compelling, Montessorian approach to ethical life, Frierson constructs an account of human agency based on children, who when attentively at work on self-chosen tasks, have agency worthy of respect. Through this interpretation of children's agency, he introduces the core concept of Montessorian character: in Montessori's ethics, character provides the ultimate value worthy of direct respect, and those with character have a natural tendency to respect others. Character is enhanced through corporate forms of agency that Montessori calls social solidarity. Weaving this educationalist's ethics with theory from Nietzsche, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Frierson places Montessori in the context of the history of philoTrade ReviewMaria Montessori revolutionized pedagogy by encouraging the teacher to "follow the child," rather than the other way around. In this detailed reconstruction of her philosophy, Frierson argues that the ideas underlying her practice can revolutionize our understanding of ourselves and our ideals. An original, rigorous, and provocative study that should be of interest to educators and philosophers alike. * Tamar Schapiro, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Moral Sense 2. Character and Agency 3. Respect for Others 4. Solidarity and Obedience 5. Adulthood, Abstraction, and Reflective Deliberation 6. Paternalism 7. Embodied Ethics 8. Love Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow has the fashion industry responded to turn-of-the-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with queer, trans and ageing subjects? Fashion, Identity, Image unpacks these questions and many more in relation to clothing and representation, identity and body politics in British, European and American culture between 1990 and 2020. Jobling, Nesbitt and Wong explore issues of intersectionality and inclusivity through groundbreaking shows, including Maria Grazia Chiuri's We Should All Be Feminists' catwalk show for Dior (Spring-Summer 2017), Alexander McQueen's The Widows of Culloden' collection (Fall-Winter 2006), and the role of transgender models such as Oslo Grace since 2015. Looking to the future of our relationship with fashion, there''s also an investigation of the android as a redemptive figure in Alessandro Michele's cross-cultural cyborg collection for Gucci (Autumn-Winter 2018/2019) and the impact of the ageing pTrade ReviewGives currency to the importance of fashion as an arbiter of change at a time when the multiplicity and fragmentation of gender is affecting the ways we perceive and experience our bodies and our identities. Its contents will incite ideas and heated debates and I am sure it will be a book whose pages will be well-thumbed and whose subject matter will make for long and passionate arguments and conversations. -- Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New ZealandUtilizing recent and historic examples, the authors offer a robust account of the role of the fashion industry in creating age, race, gender, and posthuman identities, both actual and fantastic. I finished this book with inspiration for my teaching and research. -- Andrew Reilly, University of Hawai`i, Manoa,Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Authoring Fashion, Intersecting Sex and Gender Introduction Maria Grazia Chiuri’s ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ T-Shirt for Christian Dior: Branding, identity and authorship Between the womb and the gay parade: Alexander McQueen’s ‘The Widows of Culloden’ as poetic text Subverting the symbolic order: McQueen’s abject woman Conclusion: Squaring up to the phallic mother Notes 2. Written on the body: Fashion, clothing and age Introduction ‘Active ageing’, youthfulness and fashion ‘Fashion For All Ages’ and the new old model army Race and reversing convention Conclusion: From idiotic methods to the realities of time and place Notes 3. (Un)Gendering the runway Introduction Forerunners of transgender and non-binary identities in fashion The advent of transgendered models The abject trans-model Between abjection and acceptance ‘Come into the (trans)garden’: The heterotopia of fashion The authentic self Other models: Intersectionality and wider diversity in the fashion industry Tokenism versus activism Conclusion: Between tokenism and authenticity Notes 4. Loving the alien: Fashion and cyborg identities Introduction Andrea Giacobbe and ‘Simplex Concordia’ Alessandro Michele and the Gucci Cyborg Compromising race and diversity A ‘genuine cyborg manifesto’? Conclusion: Towards emancipatory possibilities Notes Epilogue

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Book SynopsisNow in its 2nd edition, this book serves as companion to Freire's seminal work, supporting the application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today. The new edition includes a new chapter called Teaching Pedagogy of the Oppressed with additional dialogue questions and activities designed to support students and instructors. It also includes an updated Bibliography and further reading list. Antonia Darder closely examines Freire's ideas as they are articulated in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, beginning with a historical discussion of his life and a systematic discussion of the central philosophical traditions that informed his revolutionary ideas. Darder explores Freire's fundamental themes and ideas, including issues of humanization, teacher/student relationship, reflection, dialogue, praxis, and his larger emancipatory vision. The book also includes a chapter-by-chapter close reading of the text with sample questions to pr

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Book SynopsisPeter Iver Kaufman shows that, although Giorgio Agamben represents Augustine as an admired pioneer of an alternative form of life, he also considers Augustine an obstacle keeping readers from discovering their potential. Kaufman develops a compelling, radical alternative to progressive politics by continuing the line of thought he introduced in On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization. Kaufman starts with a comparison of Agamben and Augustine's projects, both of which challenge reigning concepts of citizenship. He argues that Agamben, troubled by Augustine's opposition to Donatists and Pelagians, failed to forge links between his own redefinitions of authenticity and the coming community and the bishop's understandings of grace, community, and compassion. On Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links sheds new light on Augustine's political theology, introducing ways it can be used as a resource for alternative polities while supplemeTrade ReviewKaufman’s analyses take us back in time—but also strangely back to ourselves—in the name of a vexed and even traumatic desire for political alternatives. In this journey Kaufman shows himself to be the historian of Christianity able to send vivifying shockwaves through the many contemporary discussions of political theology in critical theory and continental philosophy. No one who attends to Kaufman’s Augustine will ever see Agamben—or indeed their own political situation—in the same way again. -- Ward Blanton, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsPreface 1. Alternative Poleis: Touring with Giorgio Agamben 2. Agamben, Augustine, and Compassion 3. Agamben, Augustine, and Grace Conclusion Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisKant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship. Challenging this view and reconceptualising Kant's religion along rationalist lines, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on its affinities with the ideas of the radical Enlightenment, originating in the work of Baruch Spinoza and understood as a critique of divine revelation. Distinguishing the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of such a critique, Tomaszewska shows how Kant's defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. She aligns him with other early modern rationalists and German Spinozists and reveals the significance for contemporary political philosophy. Providing reasons for prioritizing freedom of thought, and hence religious criticism, over an unqualified freedom of belief, Kant''s theology approximates the secularising tendency of the radical EnlighteTrade ReviewAnna Tomaszewska’s book offers an accurate, original, compelling reassessment of Kant’s thinking about religion, against the background of the radical Enlightenment and its impact on Kant’s mind. This masterly account, which has mastered Kant in many ways, provides fresh food for thought on the relationship between the Enlightenment and religion. * Diego Lucci, Professor of Philosophy and History, American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria *By examining Kant’s religious thought through the lens of recent debates about the Enlightenment, Tomaszewska offers valuable insight into the relationship between divine transcendence and human autonomy. Impressively grounded in the sources, the work challenges current views concerning Kant’s religious thought and, more broadly, concerning the very idea of secularization. * Gordon E. Michalson, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Humanities, New College of Florida, USA *This book offers a valiant attempt to synthesize traditional interpretations of Kant’s theory of religion, as radically reductionist, and recent readings emphasizing his moderate, affirmative tendencies. Skillfully balancing various divergent interpretations of Enlightenment approaches to religion, Tomaszewska judiciously assesses how Kant’s position relates to those of his forerunners, especially Spinoza. * Stephen R. Palmquist, Independent Scholar (D.Phil., Oxford University), UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Towards the Radical Enlightenment: Setting the Stage for a Debate 2. Spinoza’s God in Kant’s Pre-Critical Writings: A Departure from Theistic Metaphysics 3. The Moral Atheist and a Schwärmer. Kant’s Critique of Spinoza 4. The Primacy of the Practical in Kant and Spinoza 5. Kant’s Religious Rationalism and Spinoza 6. The Enlightened Church. Kant’s Contribution to Debates on Secularization 7. The Divinity of Reason in the Opus postumum Concluding Remarks Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBecause This Land Is Who We Are is an exploration of environmental repossession, told through a collaborative case study approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities in Canada (Anishinaabe), Hawai''i (Kanaka Maoli) and Aotearoa (Maori). The co-authors are all Indigenous scholars, community leaders and activists who are actively engaged in the movements underway in these locations, and able to describe the unique and common strategies of repossession practices taking place in each community. This open access book celebrates Indigenous ways of knowing, relating to and honouring the land, and the authors'' contributions emphasize the efforts taking place in their own Indigenous land. Through engagement with these varying cultural imperatives, the wider goal of Because This Land Is Who We Are is to broaden both theoretical and applied concepts of environmental repossession, and to empower any Indigenous community around the world which is struggling to assert

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Book SynopsisHow did Nietzsche and Sartre come to represent alternative modes of philosophy as antithetical thinkers? What exactly is their philosophical connection and how far does it extend? Tracing the connections between the existentialist philosophies of Nietzsche and Sartre, Nik Farrell Fox provides new readings attuned to questions of the self, politics and ethics. From their earliest to final writings, Fox brings into critical view the full trajectory of their lives and philosophy to reveal the underexplored parallels that connect them. Through engaging with new Nietzsche and Sartre studies as authoritative strands of interpretation, this book identifies both philosophers as twin thinkers of a deconstructive and paradoxical logic. Fox further re-examines their work in light of contemporary debates concerning posthumanism, vibrant materialism, quantum theory and speculative realism.The Parallel Philosophies of Sartre and Nietzsche presents two iconic existentialists as thoroughly conTrade ReviewThe title of the book delivers what it promises. With these parallels, Nietzsche and Sartre – and this is a very important reference from Farrell Fox – are of particular interest to a modern, post- and transhumanist philosophy ... and inspiring read. * Sartre Society (Bloomsbury Translation) *A beautifully-written tour de force, Nik Farrell Fox’s study of Sartre and Nietzsche goes far beyond simple comparison to illuminate previously unexplored aspects of both philosophers’ works and their unexpected and liberating influence on twenty first-century thought in the Age of the Anthropocene. An impressive and imaginative work. * Christina Howells, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: An Imaginary Contamination Chapter 2: Reading Nietzsche and Sartre Chapter 3: Heidegger, Derrida and the Metaphysical Charge Chapter 4: The Decentred Self Chapter 5: A Creative Ethics Chapter 6: Smooth Ontology Chapter 7: Posthuman Progenitors Chapter 8: Lebensphilosophie Conclusion: Twin Philosophers of Paradox Index

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Book SynopsisSimone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Obedience collects together Weil''s poetry and autobiographical writings translated into English for the first time. It offers a rare glimpse into a more personal and introspective Weil than we usually encounter. She was writing and re-working her poems until the end of her life and in a letter from London to her parents, dated 22 January 1943, she expressed the wish for her verses to appear together in print in chronological order, a wish which this volume honours.Weil was a thinker who wrote with discipline and spareness and cherished the poetic form for its power to compress language and distill meaning. In these poems and literary writings, we see her own efforts to craft poems as essential expressions of thought, bringing into view another aspect of Weil's quest for beauty and truth.Table of ContentsTranslators’ Biographies Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Simone Weil as Poet Chapter 2: Simone Weil and Literature List of Abbreviations Further Reading Poems À une jeune fille riche / To a Rich Girl Vers lus au Goûter de la Saint Charlemagne / Verses Read at the Feast of Saint Charlemagne Éclair / Lightning Promethée / Prometheus À un jour / To a Day La mer / The Sea Nécessité / Necessity Les astres / The Stars La porte / The Gate Four Excerpts from Venice Saved Jaffier 1-3 Violetta Selected Prose Conte: Les Lutins du feu / Tale: The Fairies of the Fire Le conte des six cygnes dans Grimm / The Tale of the Six Swans in Grimm On the Translation Translators’ Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book you can trust to guide you through your teaching career, as the expert authors share tried and tested techniques in primary settings. For this new edition Dominic Wyse, with Andrew Pollard, has worked with top practitioners from around the UK, to create a text that is both cohesive and that continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's primary school teachers. Reflective Teaching in Primary Schools uniquely provides two levels of support: - practical, evidence-based guidance on key classroom issues including relationships, behaviour, curriculum planning, teaching strategies and assessment - evidence-informed principles' and ''concepts'' to help you continue developing your skills. New to this edition: - More case studies and research summaries based on teaching in the primary school than ever before - New reflective activities and guidance on key readings at the end of each chapter - Updates to reflect recent changes in Trade ReviewThis text provides a superlative exploration of the myriad aspects of primary school education. There is value in its pages for everyone, from the trainee starting out, to the experienced school leader. It continues to reserve its worthy place on my bookshelf. * Daniel Ayres, University of East London, UK *Table of ContentsHow to Use This Book Introduction Part I: Becoming a Reflective Professional 1. Identity. Who Are We, and What Do We Stand For? 2. Learning. How Can We Understand Learner Development? 3. Reflection. How Can We Develop the Quality of Our Teaching? 4. Principles. What Are the Foundations of Effective Teaching and Learning? Part II: Creating Conditions For Learning 5. Contexts. What Is, and What Might Be? 6. Relationships. How Are We Getting On Together? 7. Engagement. How Are We Nurture Positive Behaviour? 8. Spaces. How Are We Creating Environments For Learning? Part III: Teaching For Learning 9. Curriculum. What Is To Be Taught and Learned? 10. Planning. How Are We Implementing the Curriculum? 11. Pedagogy. How Can We Develop Effective Strategies? 12. Communication. How Does Language Support Learning? 13. Assessment. How Can Assessment Enhance Learning? Part IV: Reflecting On Consequences 14. Outcomes. How Do We Monitor Student Learning Achievements? 15. Inclusion. How Are We Enabling Learning Opportunities? Part V: Deepening Understanding 16. Expertise. How Do We Take A Holistic View? 17. Professional Learning. How Can We Nurture Career-Long Reflective Teaching? 18. Professionalism. How Does Reflective Teaching Contribute to Society? List Of Case-Studies, Checklists, Figures and Research Briefings Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThe book you can trust to guide you through your teaching career, as the expert authors share tried and tested techniques in secondary settings. For this new edition Caroline Daly, with Andrew Pollard, has worked with top practitioners from around the UK, to create a text that is both cohesive and that continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's secondary school teachers. Reflective Teaching in Schools uniquely provides two levels of support: - practical, evidence-based guidance on key classroom issues including relationships, behaviour, curriculum planning, teaching strategies and assessment - evidence-informed principles' and ''concepts'' to help you continue developing your skills. New to this edition: - More case studies and research summaries based on teaching in the secondary school than ever before - New reflective activities and guidance on key readings at the end of each chapter - Updates to reflect recent changes in curTrade ReviewReflective Teaching in Secondary Schools is an essential read for student teachers. The research briefings and reflective activities offer excellent support for day-to-day classroom practice. In addition, the breadth of topics covered provides help with ideas for assignment writing. I would recommend this book to any of my student teachers. * Sarah Davies, Nottingham Trent University, UK *The sixth edition of Reflective Teaching in Secondary Schools is innovative and timely. I recommend that all teachers seeking to develop deeper understanding of the principles and concepts underpinning outstanding learning and teaching read this book. Teachers, mentors and those training to teach will benefit from the expertise shared by teacher educators and practitioners. * Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Plymouth Marjon University, UK *This comprehensive, rigorous and thoughtful book provides wise advice, stimulation, and research evidence to support the successful development of those embarking one of the most important jobs in the world. Developed over three decades, it is a cornerstone of preparation for teaching excellence. * Becky Francis, Education Endowment Foundation, UK *Table of ContentsHow to Use This Book Introduction Part I: Becoming a Reflective Professional 1. Identity. Who Are We, and What Do We Stand For? 2. Learning. How Can We Understand Learner Development? 3. Reflection. How Can We Develop the Quality of Our Teaching? 4. Principles. What Are the Foundations of Effective Teaching and Learning? Part II: Creating Conditions For Learning 5. Contexts. What Is, and What Might Be? 6. Relationships. How Are We Getting On Together? 7. Engagement. How Are We Nurture Positive Behaviour? 8. Spaces. How Are We Creating Environments For Learning? Part III: Teaching For Learning 9. Curriculum. What Is To Be Taught and Learned? 10. Planning. How Are We Implementing the Curriculum? 11. Pedagogy. How Can We Develop Effective Strategies? 12. Communication. How Does Language Support Learning? 13. Assessment. How Can Assessment Enhance Learning? Part IV: Reflecting On Consequences 14. Outcomes. How Do We Monitor Student Learning Achievements? 15. Inclusion. How Are We Enabling Learning Opportunities? Part V: Deepening Understanding 16. Expertise. How Do We Take A Holistic View? 17. Professional Learning. How Can We Nurture Career-Long Reflective Teaching? 18. Professionalism. How Does Reflective Teaching Contribute to Society? List Of Case-Studies, Checklists, Figures and Research Briefings Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is rapidly becoming a competitive space for geopolitical rivalries. The growth in China-U.S. strategic competition is creating deep anxiety among Southeast Asia leaders, China''s rising power is felt across every corner of Southeast Asia, and many leaders are worried about the long-term implications of rising Chinese influence in the region. The United States'' increasingly assertive approach towards China is welcomed by some governments, but the growth in tensions is creating deep anxiety about a possible new Cold War. How can the region prevent a repeat of the divisions and bitter rivalries of the previous Cold War?This book argues that Southeast Asia is emerging as an open, autonomous region, where small and middle powers can maintain their sovereignty and shape the regional order. Despite new superpower pressures, the region is moving towards a multi-polar order, with greater agency for Southeast Asian countries. The key to Southeast Asia''s future may be

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Book SynopsisLook it's two-two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It's really not that deepHoled up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent though she's got a lot to say. On the internet, actions don't always speak louder than wordsseven methods of killing kylie jenner explores cultural appropriation, queerness, friendship and the ownership of black bodies online and IRL.Jasmine Lee-Jones's award-winning play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2019 and transferred to the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in June 2021.Trade ReviewJasmine Lee-Jones’s debut play is dazzlingly original, searingly articulate and savagely funny * Times *Lee-Jones’s writing is genuinely hilarious * Time Out *A blistering debut * The Stage *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the 2020 Olivier AwardsIn 1611 Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by a woman in England. The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets and the rest of HerStory has been erased by History.Morgan has taken what we know of Bassano, and her poetry, to create this lively, witty play.

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Book SynopsisSince the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: to freely associate, to form opinions, and to express them online without fear of violence or arrest. The authors of this compelling open access volume have brought to life this dramatic struggle for the digital realm between citizens and governments; documenting in vivid detail how citizens are using mobile and internet tools in powerful viral global campaigns to hold governments accountable and force policy change.With contributions from scholars across the continent, Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech. This book dramatically expands our understanding of the vast and growing arsenal of tech tools, tactics, and teTrade ReviewThis is an outstanding collection of rigorous investigations on how African citizens are negotiating digital technologies. Eschewing epistemic colonialism, the authors develop concepts grounded in the experiences and languages of African citizens in their everyday struggles for rights and justice. The collection brings an inspired perspective on activist citizenship performed with digital technologies. * Engin Isin, Professor emeritus, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Timely… An interesting and thought provoking read… the first in a series of useful books * Irish Tech News *Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributors Foreword - Francis B. Nyamnjoh Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Spaces of digital citizenship in Africa - Tony Roberts and Tanja Bosch 2 Ethno-religious citizenship in Nigeria: Ethno-religious fault lines and the truncation of collective resilience of digital citizens: The cases of #ENDSARS and #PantamiMustGo in Nigeria - Ayobami Ojebode, Babatunde Ojebuyi, Oyewole Oladapo and Marjoke Oosterom 3 Digital crossroads: Continuity and change in Ethiopia’s digital citizenship - Atnaf Brhane and Yohannes Eneyew 4 Internet shutdowns and digital citizenship - Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts 5 Feminist digital citizenship in Nigeria - Sandra Ajaja 6 Digital citizenship and cyber-activism in Zambia - Sam Phiri, Kiss Abraham and Tanja Bosch 7 Digital citizenship and political accountability in Namibia’s 2019 election - Mavis Elias and Tony Roberts 8 Citizenship, African languages and digital rights: The role of language in defining the limits and opportunities for digital citizenship in Kiswahili-language communities - Nanjala Nyabola

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Book SynopsisWhat I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and I love them, and I love you infinitely (Bernard Steigler April 1952- August 2020).When Bernard Stiegler writes I love you in the quote above, he openly provokes us to question or experience the meaning or contact of these words. He also invites us to question the relationship between a thinker''s life and their thought. For Stiegler, they were inextricable. His life was one that focused on friendship but not friendships at a purely social level but ones that produced philosophy, politics, and existential truths.Bringing together scholars who knew Stiegler, including Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, Divya Dwivedi, Peter Szendy, and Emily Apter, this volume provides an original - and personal - insight into his life and philosophy. Each piece gives a sense of the wide range of Stiegler's work and how it affected the praxis of the philosopher iTable of Contents1. Introduction: Deconstruction: The Portrait of the Family, Shaj Mohan (India) 2. Preface, Jean-Luc Nancy (Marc Bloch University, France) 3. To Live, Cellulairement – In memory of Bernard Stiegler, Emily Apter (New York University, USA) 4. Memories, Didier Cahen (France) 5. Sysiphus, Michel Deguy (France) 6. Of Adoption and Inheritance: For Bernard, Divya Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) 7. A Thinking of Suspension: Melancholy and Politics Where There Is No Epoch, Erich Hörl (Leuphana University, Germany) 8. The Wind Rises – In Memory of Bernard, Yuk Hui (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 9. The Universal Right to Breathe, Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa) 10. A Good Night for Long Walks: For Bernard Stiegler, Shaj Mohan (India) 11. Melancholia, Jean-Luc Nancy (Marc Bloch University, France) 12. I Will Have Been Late, Peter Szendy (Brown University, USA) 13. Psychoanalysis and Technè, Esther Tellermann (France) 14. The Spirit of Bernard Stiegler, Colette Tron (France) 15. Bernard Stiegler: Friendship and Fellowship, Maël Montévil (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Notes on Contributors Biblography Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the stories of diverse Christians in Shanghai, this book uses the city as a model to highlight how a minority religion in a city has interacted with other religions as well as social, cultural, political, and economic changes. Susangeline Y. Patrick illustrates how the history of Shanghai Christians sheds light on why and how Christians have accommodated social and political changes, and gives valuable insights into multiculturalism, globalization, sinicization, and ecclesiology. The interreligious dialogues between Shanghai Christians and other traditions such as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism throughout history provide worthy reflections on the roles of Christians in a multi-religious space.Trade ReviewLike other global cities, Shanghai is a dynamic hub of Christianity. The city acts as a pair of lungs, inhaling believers from across China and around the world, then exhaling them to embark on new and surprising trajectories. Patrick outlines the significance of these movements, illuminating the strategic role that Shanghai has played in shaping World Christianity for the past four centuries. * Daryl Ireland, Research Assistant Professor of Mission, Boston University, USA *With rich knowledge of mission history and valuable insight into the social and cultural context, Dr Patrick skillfully depicts a kaleidoscope of the rises and falls of Shanghai Christians over recent centuries. This book provides a window into the living faith forged under pressure in this vibrant cosmopolitan city that invites revival and renewal of Chinese Christianity with a global vision. A must-read resource! * Rev. Xiaoli Yang, Honorary Research Associate, University of Divinity, USA and author of 'A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke' *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shanghai and World Christianity 1. Catholic Shanghai 2. The Protestant Century and Holistic Mission 3. The Shanghai Orthodox: Russian, Armenian, and Chinese 4. Indigenous Christians and Globalization 5. The Multicultural Church and Cosmopolitan Shanghai 6. Interreligious Encounters 7. Beyond the Borders Conclusion: What Shanghai Christians Offer in World Christianity Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMariko Frame is an international political economist whose research focuses on critical political economy perspectives on the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, USA.Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA.Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).

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Book SynopsisKey to teacher education is the knowledge base of the teacher educator, and the ways in which knowledge is conceptualised. This book explores how ideas about knowledge are used in teacher education to critically examine what knowledges are valued across research, policy and practice. The authors explore international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of knowledge (and what counts as knowledge) and how these perspectives on knowledge translate into teacher education, with a final chapter dedicated to exploring consequences for practice.

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Book SynopsisAriadna Ripoll Servent is Professor for Politics of the European Union at the department of Political Science at the Salzburg University and Academic Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies.Neil Nugent is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

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Book SynopsisRussia's invasion of Ukraine presents a major challenge for Russian studies. It has demonstrated the imperative to search for better ways to understand Russia. At the same time, the war has spotlighted Russian imperial ambitions and colonial attitudes toward countries around it and ethnic minorities within it, raising uncomfortable questions about whether our own views of these countries and peoples reflect this biased Russian gaze.Understanding Russia is more important than ever and diverse perspectives are needed. With a stronger focus on informal institutions, marginalised voices and de-centering of Russian studies, Developments in Russian Politics 10 brings together a diverse author team to offer fresh viewpoints on a rapidly evolving subject. Discussing established topics such as executive leadership, parties and elections as well as newer issues of national identity, protest, and Russia and Greater Eurasia, this new edition analyses the political systeTrade ReviewBy a long distance the best available undergraduate text on contemporary Russian politics. The impressive writing team have succeeded in producing a text which is both fully up to date and an excellent summary of developments in the field over the recent period. * Dr Matthew Wyman, Keele University, UK *Written by renowned scholars in the field, this book provides readers with a comprehensive analysis of the key issues shaping political developments in Russia. It is an invaluable publication for students who wish to understand how Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy are intertwined. * Professor Peter Vermeersch, KU Leuven, Belgium *This is an exceptional volume showcasing the insights of established and upcoming scholars of Russia alike. It makes sense of the shifting sands of politics in reaction to Russia’s brutal and senseless invasion of Ukraine. It does so with nuance and acumen, providing a bottom-up, societal approach to complement its analysis of the vagaries of Russia’s ‘patronal’ high politics. * Professor Luke March, University of Edinburgh *Table of ContentsPreface – Henry E. Hale, George Washington University, USA; Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada; and Tomila Lankina, LSE, UK 1. Putin and the Dynamics of Russia’s Political System – Henry E. Hale, George Washington University, USA 2. Russian Imperial and Soviet History – Kristy Ironside, McGill University, Canada 3. How Russia’s Past Influences Current Politics – Tomila V. Lankina, LSE, UK 4. Nationalism, Identity, and the Russia–Ukraine War – Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King's College London, UK 5. Russia’s Gendered Politics – Valerie Sperling, Clark University, USA 6. Russia’s Economic Policies – Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada 7. Russia’s Informal Economy – Yoshiko M. Herrera, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA; and Evgeniya Mitrokhina, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA 8. Formal Institutions of Government – Grigorii V. Golosov, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia 9. Authoritarian Mechanics – David Szakonyi, George Washington University, USA 10. Federalism and Centre–Periphery Relations – Vladimir Gel’man, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia 11. Chechnya – Marat Iliyasov, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA 12. Inequality and Marginalized Groups – Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University, Denmark 13. Protest and Civil Society – Katerina Tertytchnaya, University College London, UK 14. Climate Change – Debra Javeline, University of Notre Dame, USA 15. Russia's Invasion and Ukraine's Resistance – Maria Popova, McGill University, Canada; and Oxana Shevel, Tufts University, USA 16. Russian Foreign Policy – Kathryn Stoner, Stanford University, USA

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Book SynopsisAn epic, moving graphic novel set in ancient Athens about the birth and the rise of democracy from the illustrator behind the bestselling Logicomix''Impressive ... Simultaneously a standout historical examination and a compelling story'' Booklist''It's fun, it's heartbreaking, it's thought-provoking, and it's tragic and it's absolutely one of the greatest graphic novels I expect to read all year'' i09It is 490BC and Athens is at war. Leander, trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow's battle against a far mightier enemy, begins to recount the story of his own life. Having witnessed the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and the rise of a new political system, Leander tells a tale of danger, bravery and big ideas, of the death of gods and the tortuous birth of democracy.Through a series of breathtaking scenes, we see that democracy was forged from chance and historical contingency but also through the cunning and courTrade ReviewImpressive ... Simultaneously a standout historical examination and a compelling story * Booklist *It’s fun, it’s heartbreaking, it’s thought-provoking, and it’s tragic – and it’s absolutely one of the greatest graphic novels I expect to read all year * i09 *A colorful love letter to Greek history * Kirkus *Probably the best and certainly the most extraordinary graphic novel I have ever come across * Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times on LOGICOMIX *Logicomix is highly original, a rich and enthralling encounter with myth, maths, theatre and the giants of twentieth-century philosophy * Posy Simmonds on LOGICOMIX *An extraordinary piece of work... Its great subject is the historical desire to make the world totally understandable by reason, and it itches us inside the debate * John Walsh, Independent on LOGICOMIX *

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Book SynopsisExploring key ethical concerns in the engineering industry, this 2nd edition of Ethics Within Engineering is fully revised and updated to educate a new generation of engineers in ethical decision-making. By focusing on critical issues concerning tracking harm, contract work, and collective action, Wade L. Robison provides educational tools and solutions that match the complexity of the engineering landscape today.Two new chapters on the responsibility of the engineer and the ethical issues that arise when teams work together to solve design problems, together with new material on tracking harms in the design process, provide a fuller comprehension of risk and harm in engineering. Robison further enhances this new edition with contemporary examples that highlight the enduring necessity of ethics to engineering. These range from the Boeing 737-MAX to General Motors' controversial 20-gallon fuel tanks. Using real life examples that bring the theory to life, this student-Trade ReviewWith Ethics within engineering, Wade Robison has written an accessible textbook about all the ethical choices that engineers make when engaged in design activities. His illuminating discussion of error-provocative design will be of interest to a broader audience of readers who are interested in how people interact with technology. * Neelke Doorn, Professor ethics of water engineering and Director of Education School of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands *The second edition of Wade Robison’s Ethics Within Engineering retains the central argument of the first, that ethics is internal to engineering design. This edition adds a detailed analysis of ethical problems engineers face when working in teams with others. His arguments are first-rate and fundamental. * Michael S. Pritchard, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, USA *In this compact, approachable update to the first edition of this volume, Wade Robison draws on both classic and new cases of engineering failure to raise a window for engineering students to discover how design choices necessarily involve ethical choices as well, including decisions regarding sustainability and fairness to all users. Robison also widens the aperture of this new edition to consider ethical issues faced by practicing engineers working on teams and in corporate contexts. Given today’s ever-quickening pace of technological innovation, here is a book that engineering educators would be well-advised to adopt. * Diane P. Michelfelder, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Macalester College, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Prefaces Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Analyzing Accidents 2. Error-provocative Designs 3. Airliner Crashes 4. Moral Responsibility: Intent Is Not Necessary 5. Permitting, Encouraging, and Provoking Errors 6. Harms and Design Solutions 7. Role Morality 8. Forms of Life 9. Working With and For Others 10. Engineering and Ethics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereignty and a truncated notion of human rights that leaves little room for citizens' engagement or socioeconomic justice.The Global South needs democracy, but the US model does not address issues of national oppression or economic injustices by raising living standards and ensuring national sovereignty. However, the US international liberal order is increasing being challenged, and a multipolar world is emerging that provides opportunities for people in the Global South to construct systems of democracy that meet their needs rather than those of the US.Trade ReviewA brilliant exposure of the flawed theory and practice of democracy promotion as a tool of US foreign policy. Poorly practiced at home, US ‘democracy’, embedded in global capitalism produces failed states in the global south, where stronger national sovereignty is necessary to achieve authentic democracy rooted in local cultures. * Stephen McBride Professor, McMaster University, Canada *This is a captivating analysis of how the system of governance has evolved in Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan and the common features among them. A must read for those interested in the politics and economics of the Global South, especially the Horn of Africa. * Lam Akol *It is the most fascinating, detailed and timely book that demonstrates the global decline of Western democracy and how it lost its soul when it abandoned its core values: citizen’s engagement, accountability, and socio-economic justice and became ‘the best democracy money can buy.’ The book further demonstrates how while declining at home, western powers still export its ideals to countries in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Three of these countries face national self-determination claims albeit to varying degrees with Ethiopia hosting countless national liberation front’s demanding a more robust consociational arrangements. The book shows how western model of democracy is misplaced and even if the ideals were to be pursed with vigor, it is trumped by concerns with security and other regional interests as it deed in Sudan in 2019, South Sudan and Ethiopia following the protests in 2018 where popular demands for democracy got aborted. The author’s most outstanding critic however is that western democracy that grew in a different context cannot prosper in a different soil in the Horn of Africa where demands for national self-determination and socio-economic justice take center stage, more so when it is ailing at home. The book is a must read for those interested in the political developments in the Horn, be it academics, students or regional and international actors * Assefa Fiseha, Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Rise and Decline of US Democracy 2. Horn of Africa Relations in the Wake of US Decline 3. Ethiopia and the Challenge of Democracy 4. Sudan, the United States, and the Propagation of Democracy 5. South Sudan: Another Failed US Democracy Project Conclusion Final Words

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Book SynopsisThe past decade has seen a vast expansion of resilience pedagogies, policies, and products in public education, from the Every Student Succeeds Act to social and emotional learning to grit. Educational apps, avatars, and games as well as behaviorist techniques, meditation programs, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber schools, education brokers, global democracy promotion companies, and dropout recovery firms promise schools resilience to disaster and disruption. The Disaster of Resilience shows how resilience discourse is interwoven with the new digital directions of educational privatization. Saltman argues that resilience has provided the justification for new educational profiteering, creating a climate which individualizes collective responsibilities, depoliticizes and dehistoricizes knowledge and curriculum, and falsely grounds its politics in a mashup of pseudoscience and human capital theory. He argues that we must Trade ReviewTeachers, students and parents are required to be excitedly resilient in the face of radical reforms that are destroying their relationship with each other in schools and communities. Saltman shows in detail the relationship between seemingly benign interventions about bodies and practices, and the unfolding disasters occurring as a result of the relocation of responsibility to the private world of the individual. This book is shockingly important for understanding and explaining the dismantling of public education. -- Helen M. Gunter, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester, UKIf you’re excited about promoting resilience among the youth, read this book. Educators, parents, students, and researchers all need to consider what Saltman unveils. Resilience pedagogy, no matter what its form, may just be that trojan horse for even more privatization, and even less democracy. -- Mark Garrison, Professor of Education, West Texas A&M University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Resilience and Disaster 1. Microschools, UberEd and the Dropout Recovery Industry 2. From Venture Philanthropy to Digital Privatization: New Schools Venture Fund, Leap Innovations and the Selling of Digital Student Resilience 3. Democracy International, Inc.: Selling Resilience and Education in the Global Influence Peddling Industry 4. Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Grit, and Biometrics: The Denial of Educational Politics and Racial Politics 5. Student Resilience, Social Emotional Learning, Testing as Teaching, and the Displacement of Intellectual Traditions Conclusion: From the Disaster of Resilience to Becoming Resilient to Resilience References Index

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Book SynopsisWith this book Henry A. Giroux argues that insurrection has become a dominant motif for the USA and other countries torn between the promises and ideals of democracy and an emergent authoritarianism. He argues that education is central to the idea of insurrection, showing how on the one hand it contributes to an insurrectional authoritarianism, wedded to a fascist legacy that calls for racial purity, militarism, ultra-nationalism, and state terrorism. On the other hand he presents the idea of insurrectional democracy which has a long legacy in the battle for racial justice, economic equality, and a politics of inclusion. The book explores how both positions are motivated by specific visions, values, and particular understandings of education and agency. He also shows how powerful images, social media, and the internet are in merging political education, power, and cultural politics. Giroux makes an impassioned call for an insurrectional democracy that makes education central to politicTrade ReviewInspiring! Henry Giroux is essential reading in today’s political climate when democracy is at risk, and Insurrections lays it all out. Giroux makes startlingly clear that the insurgent forces of anti-democracy need our attention immediately. Right-wing extremism and White Supremacy must be met by organizing common cause against catastrophes ranging from environmental collapse and armed mobs overtaking our national institutions to racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia. Most fundamentally, Giroux spotlights the Right’s central strategy of reimagining education in line with a Goldman Sachs vision through book banning and “Anti-Woke” legislation, and the urgent imperative that educators have to fight back. As Giroux outlines our dire need for critical thought, there is no thinker with more of a finger on the pulse! * Robin Goodman, Professor of English, Florida State University, USA *To say this book is topical and socially important would be vast understatements as the stakes include democracy itself. This book is excellent for typifying Giroux’s habitually careful scholarship, hard-hitting and compelling arguments, analytic and systematic thought, wide-ranging use of critical scholarship, literary references, and mass media, and devising of new terms to describe new social realities and imagine alternatives. A terrific read, an extremely important intervention. I can’t wait to teach it. * Kenneth J. Saltman, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, USA *The James Baldwin quote that comes at the end of Insurrections: Education in an Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics might easily have been one of its beginning epigrams: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” In this latest book, Giroux fearlessly stares down the implications of the extremely alarming conditions that led to the January 6th attack on the Capital and analyzes the very real threat they pose to democracy. This is an extremely brave, startlingly lucid and terrifying book that nonetheless offers a path forward and a much-needed infusion of hope. * Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, USA *In this courageous and urgent book, Henry Giroux sets out an unsparing overview of the ghastly forces now coalescing into a merciless and uniquely American fascism. He shatters any grounds for complacency or resignation and persuasively outlines the forms of collective action and imagination essential for resistance. * Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USA *Henry Giroux's phenomenal book couldn't be more urgent, as it calls us to imagine, dream, learn, act, and build against ascendant fascism. Vitally, Insurrections also illuminates a vision of insurrectional democracy grounded in critical education, lighting a path forward in these perilous times. Brilliant! * Maya Schenwar, editor-in-chief of Truthout and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name, USA *Insurrections is a passionate argument for an “insurrectional democracy” to counter-act and triumph over today’s massively violent anti-democratic forces. Erudite, encyclopedic, and carrying forth Giroux’s unflagging indictment of violence, this book is an indispensable tool-kit for hope, health, and radical education. * David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, author of Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voices Back, USA *Table of ContentsPart I: Politics in the Age of Counter-Revolution 1. Introduction 2. Necropolitics, and the Politics of White Nationalism 3. The Rebranding of Fascist Politics in the Digital Age 4. The Threat of Remembering 5. Counter-Revolutionary Politics Part II: Social Media and The Fascist Threat 6. Social Media as a Disimagination War Machine 7. Capitalism’s Observation Posts and the Politics of Denial 8. Politics as Civil War and the Culture of Violence 9. Weaponizing Culture 10. Civil Wars and the Politics of Ethicide Part III: The Public Imagination Under Siege 11. Cultural Apparatuses and the Politics of Commonsense 12. Anti-Capitalist Consciousness and the Crisis of Education 13. Politics Under Siege 14. The Necessity of a Comprehensive Politics Part IV: Toward an Insurrectional Democracy 15. Hideous Freedoms— Lessons to be Learned from the Convoy Movement 16. Making Education Central to Politics and Everyday Politics 17. Insurrectional Democracy and the Politics of Education 18. Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Material Culture of Tableware is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the USA. This book undertakes a visual analysis of Johnson Brothers patterns of tableware pottery, with reference to comparable designs by other British companies, such as Spode and Adams. It examines how this practical genre reflected the aesthetic values, sense of identity and aspirations of the American consumers who purchased its products. The study also sheds light on British opinions and understandings of American culture. The book's chronological organization shows how tableware designs reflected the cultural developments of American society during the long 20th century. From status-seeking 1890s beaux-arts patterns and the nostalgic historical scenes of the 1930s, to whimsical 1960s patterns and the contemporary motifs of the 1970s, The Material Culture of Tableware tells a compelling story about who 20th-century middle-class Americans were and wanted toTrade ReviewA welcome addition to the existing body of literature ... Succeeds in expanding on the fact-based approach that such books usually boast. * Journal of Design History *Zarucchi serves up wonderful insights into the transatlantic tableware trade, which celebrates the influence of British design on American culture. * Rob Kesseler, Professor of Art, Design and Science at Central Saint Martins, UK *A rigorous survey of Staffordshire printed tableware and its export to America, across three centuries of this special cultural relationship. * Stephen Dixon, Professor of Contemporary Crafts at Manchester School of Art, UK *If you ever wondered where your dinnerware or antique souvenir plate was produced, this fascinating book is sure to inform you. * Anna Calluori Holcombe, Professor of Art at the University of Florida, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The “Picture” in the Shop Window 1. Old World Style for the New World 2. Allies in War and Trade 3. American History (the British Version) 4. Commemoratives and Souvenirs 5. Prosperity and Nostalgia 6. Modern Style, New Traditions Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings References Index

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