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For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have...

As the home video market upended traditional film industry models, media libraries emerged as important sources of ancillary revenue. The inflection point for media library exploitation came in 2007,...

This collection explores diverse protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into motivations, tactics, and responses to protests. It sheds light on post-colonial regimes' brutality and...

This book explores the intersection between society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts day-to-day life.Author: Kathryn BurrowsPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date:...

This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical...

In the aftermath of a traumatic disaster, Mennonite Disaster Service arrives to help. Established in 1950, associated volunteers have gone into devastated communities to pick up debris, muck out...

This book explores the historical role of sport as a prescription for mental and physical health through the epidemic of neurasthenia, a debilitating neurological disorder that afflicted American...

Mentoring While White: Culturally Responsive Practices for Sustaining the Lives of Black College Students provides a provocative and illuminating account of the mentoring experiences of Black college...

This book critically examines the current status of Mexicano and Latino Politics in the United States and how both represent a dysfunctional and failed mode of politics. Two change models are...

Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country's first African American first lady. The result of these...

The book aims to explore how the migration phenomenon has changed from the Ottoman times to contemporary Turkey. It analyzes the migration through different and broad perspectives, hence it also taps...

Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and...

In Misinformation Studies and Higher Education in the Postdigital Era: Beyond Fake News, Paul Cook argues that the epistemological complexity of the postdigital age demands a new, metadisciplinary...

This book investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music festivals, city parades, rural rituals, and contemporary...

This book presents a speculative analysis of G.W. Leibniz's theory of relations through the lens of his theory of folds. Jeff Lambert argues that Leibniz's approach to folds and relations are...

Moving Beyond Theoria Towards Theosis focuses on the telos of man as understood in Plato's theoria, envisioned in the allegory of the cave, and early Christian reinterpretation of theoria as theosis...

Inspired by ongoing movements for social justice, equality, accountability, and truth, the scholars in this volume resituate Much Ado About Nothing in a contemporary critical context. From fake news...

This book extends the ethnographic approach to animals and animate and inanimate natures. The focus is on developing a method suitable for holistic and interdisciplinary research, and to fulfill this...

Music Education on the Verge is a collection of narratives by music teacher-educators describing how they responded to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter offers examples of...

This book uses glocalization theory and the methods of historical ethnomusicology to interpret the life and times of a notable European composer, Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) in his...

Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon is a study of the role of myth and ideology in the formation of social identity, focusing on a variety of communities of practice involving...

This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what happened to...

Consisting of contributions from international scholars in diverse fields, Beauclair and Toth's collection asks how humanity might free "nature" from the demands of human action and human thought...

Athletes might face a myriad of psychosocial difficulties when they retire from professional or elite level competition. This book explores the nuances of those struggles, focusing on identity...

There is a long history of immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States that began in the 1880s. Since that time, significant diaspora communities have developed in the United States. The...

Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato's most read dialogue. The book argues that to read the Republic through the...

This book contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory by presenting the work of marginalized theorists of color, including authors from African...

Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics scrutinizes Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen's theory of capability, which rose as a critique of the modern American...

Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers' practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family...

This book explores how Disney's Star Wars films leverage popular discussions about the representations of marginalized communities in U.S. media to gain political and economic profit. Abigail Reed...