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This book scrutinizes the challenges faced by IQACs in Bangladeshi universities, emphasizing the crucial role of quality education for societal progress. Ferdous identifies impediments like autonomy issues and inadequate infrastructure, offering key insights and recommendations to elevate the quality of higher education in the country.

This book discusses the conflicts and crises in the former Soviet space and reconstructs Russia's fragmented approaches on how to deal with them. The case of Georgia, with its violent conflicts between 1991 and 2008, serves as an illustration of Russia's take on conflict management and peacebuilding in the former Soviet space.

This collection brings together internationally renowned literary scholars to develop a literary theory for the age of new materialism. It draws on the key concepts of entanglement and speculation i to highlight literature's timeliness and urgency in the Anthropocene.

This book reengineers the conceptual relationship between nature and politics by crafting the terms of a new philosophy of nature and exploring its consequences for political thought. These consequences include major theoretical reformulations of some indispensable political concepts, including freedom, obligation, and the subject.

Reading the Bible Amid the Environmental Crisis challenges traditional interpretations by intertwining biblical texts with trauma theory, affect theory, ethics, and animal studies. Sébastien Doane invites readers to reimagine discipleship, eschatology, and the Bible's role in addressing the pressing ecological crisis.

"Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who participated in the Cracow ghetto resistance. The author teases out the contours of personal narrative from the collective voice of this family of testimonies"--

This book discusses consciousness using the teachings of Freud, William James, and recent neuroscientists, as well as the narrative techniques that Henry James devised to represent consciousness: ghosts and Free Indirect Discourse. By applying these scientific terms of memory, emotions, and empathy, a new reading of Henry's novels is achieved.

This book brings together original research and analysis by emerging and established scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a profoundly transformative understanding of the history and experience of Kashmir and the Kashmiri.

This book tells the stories of twentieth century Jewish intellectuals and activists who converted to Islam. Some were motivated by religious reasons, others by political considerations. The book reveals whether the geopolitical events of the twentieth century confirmed, complicated, or refuted their aspirations.

This anthology challenges prevailing notions of world literature by showcasing marginalized voices from diverse backgrounds and regions from the global north to the global south. It seeks to dismantle the dominance of Western-European-centered minor and small literature, fostering genuine literary biodiversity and ensuring more inclusive discourse.

Using the Edo ne Ekue as a case study, this book examines Edo people during the pre-colonial period by shedding light on their political institutions, trading networks, and associations affiliated with the Benin royal imperial court while simultaneously being distinct from the court.

An inquiry on how one of the most conservative Christian faiths adapts to the digital technological realities, facing secularization and theories that portray religion as doomed to extinction. An atypical process for the hierarchical East-European Orthodoxy, in which believers, as Ortho-bloggers, set the norms of the digital Orthodoxy.

In nine personal essays that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction, Andrea Jeftanovic explores border regions with a luminous, perceptive voice, covering diverse sociohistorical contexts including the Balkan wars, the border between Chile and Peru, Clarice Lispector¿s Brazil, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and 1970s California.

This book explores the gradual and long-lasting integration of contested memory in the cultural memory of Ukraine. Epistolary expressions by Mykola Hohol, Taras Shevchenko, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko illustrate the circulation of contested memory sponsored by Russia through memory policies and social forgetting.

Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork at Fairfax County, Virginia, and Daechi-dong, Seoul, Korea, Korean Kirogi Families explores how transnational activities of kirogi families influence their sense of place and belonging.

Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together a collection of essays in conversation with each other surrounding a widely untapped field of study in children's and young adult literature.

Rein Vihalemm's philosophy of science left two prominent philosophical legacies: a methodological distinction of scientific disciplines and the practical realist philosophy of science. The diverse perspectives in this book explore some of the ideas that have sprung from Vihalemm's philosophy of science, and the applications of these approaches.

Agency and Bodily Autonomy in Systems of Care examines how humans and their bodies become enmeshed in systems of care. This book establishes the need for advocacy and policy change to improve health outcomes by re-envisioning systems of care as spaces that include individual agency and bodily autonomy.

This book explores the link between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Seneca Falls Women¿s Rights Conference of 1848, and the Women¿s Suffrage Bill, unveiling Catherine Paine Blaine¿s journey within the Suffragist movement, highlighting her advocacy within the Suffragist history in Washington State and the Western US.

This volume considers Dostoevsky's The Gambler from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its psychological, cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects. Dostoevsky presents gambling as a fundamental problem of human existence, with implications in the realms of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.

This book examines the role that the American Film Institute had in supporting experimental and independent cinema at a key moment of change in the history of American film. Gracia Ramirez provides a rich contextualization of the institution¿s history and offers a grounded assessment of its achievements and shortcomings.

Beyond Death and Jail explores death and the institutional machinery of policing, surveillance, and containment which breeds it. It seeks to explain why homicide, accompanied by an apparatus of jails, detention centers, prisons, and criminal courts haunts segments of America's Black population, Black boys, Black male youth, and Black men.

Assuming a historico-political-science approach, the author argues that Orbánism can be understood not from Viktor Orbán himself but an analysis of the longer processes of Hungarian political development. Understanding is not acquiescence but a more complex interpretation than mainstream approaches afford.

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents' daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major citiesMadrid, Montevideo, and Mexico Cityto reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.

Communicated Stereotypes at Work highlights the pervasiveness and complexity of stereotypes in the workplace by analyzing the role they play in a variety of professional settings. Contributors explain how and why stereotypes are communicated, explore the role each of us plays in perpetuating them, and suggest alternative modes of discourse.

This book reveals how sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Each chapter delves into how those identities-such as race, gender, disability, and sexuality-have developed and influenced social change.

Smi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic unpacks the theological significance of North Smi indigenous Christianity, demonstrating how the tension between Smi nature-centered Christianity and official Norwegian Lutheranism has broad theological relevance. Focusing on Christian cosmological orientation, the author argues that this is not fully given within the Christian faith itself. It is partly shaped by the religio-philosophical frameworks that various historical receptions of Christianity were filtered through. The author substantiates that two different types of Christian cosmological orientation are negotiated in the North Smi Christian experience: one reflecting a Smi historical reception of Christianity primarily filtered through the egalitarian world intuition of the Smi indigenous tradition; another reflecting official Norwegian Lutheranism, primarily filtered through a Greek hierarchical world construct passed down among European intellectual elites. The argument is developed through thick description of local everyday Christianity among reindeer herding, river, and sea Smi communities in Finnmark, Norway; through critical engagement with historical and contemporary Lutheranism; and through constructive dialogue with African and Native American theologies. The author suggests that the egalitarian, multi-relational logic of Smi nature-centered Christianity points beyond the hierarchical binaries delimiting much of the theological imagination of dominant Christian theologies.

This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender, and indigenous political institutions. Contributors study how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational ';poetics of failure' rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.