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This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev, as well as examinations of lesser-known figures.

This book is an investigation of the role of myth and creation of social identity in martial arts, looking at historical contexts and important movements in East Asia and the West, from ancient times to the present day.

Through an in-depth analysis of transport infrastructure and governance, this book lays out the likely trajectory of Eurasian supply chains following the invasion of Ukraine. Uniquely, the author brings Ukraine's future role as a logistics platform into the broader discussion of Eurasian trade integration.

Focusing on minoritized and marginalized groups around the world, this interdisciplinary project aims to shed light on the misinterpretation, misrepresentation, and erasure of the lives and deaths of the most vulnerable members of society.

This book explains the rights of vegans as supporting the animal protection movement. It explores some of the issues vegans face, the principles that ground their legal rights, and how legal provisions have been used to adapt policies that support compassionate living and a future, compassionate, inclusive, system of justice.

This book examines the effects of ecotourism on Indigenous peoples chronicling the costs and benefits of ecotourism from a comparative and anthropological perspective.

Drawing on the rich, qualitative-interview-based data from Japanese firms and dual-career workers, the author discusses Tenkin, cultural and gendered corporate transfers, workers' agency, and argues the need to incorporate the concept of care in career management.

This book offers a reflection on Tu Weiming's legacy and deals with Confucianism and New Confucianism and Tu Weiming's contribution to both of these Chinese philosophical traditions, studies how Confucianism has been received, especially in Asia, and considers Confucianism in connection with contemporary challenges.

The Autonomy of Reference: On the Relational Structure of Nominals provides a new account of the relational structure of nominal reference. On this account, linguists are entitled to use reference as a full-blown technical term even if they can provide only a reverse-style explanation for this entitlement.

This book explores the need to interrogate and subvert the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in the reiteration of norms through the construct of accompaniment, both within black spaces and across the color line, with a critical awareness that values collective experience of shared vulnerability in everyday life.

Drawing on data from France, Germany, and China, this book explores how the interaction between time and autonomy has reshaped work and examines the impacts of these trends in different socio-economic contexts.

In 2024, Lebanon entered the fifth year of a crippling economic crisis, a crescendo of many decades of state fragility. The Fragility of the Lebanese State explores the causes of this fragility and suggests practical solutions.

This book emerges from conversations between scholars interested in discussing all the pains, crises, and difficulties on the path to establishing themselves in academia, and encourages the practice of ethical human relations between linguists and each other, and with their students.

This book explores petitions and the trend of petition writing by Igo individuals in colonial southeastern Nigeria. It brings together transnational, historical, geographical, and gender perspectives, highlighting petition writers' agency and engagement with colonial administration.

The irreconcilable claims of Compact Theory and Nationalist Theory underlay countless constitutional debates, including recognition of a federal common law. The push for federal common law jurisdiction and the assertion that American nationhood preceded the states come together in the thoughts of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story.

This anthology introduces literary theories developed in Japan from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. In rendering it in English, the translators have attempted to make visible the conceptual realignments taking place when theories travel back and forth between the West and Japan.

This book addresses the characteristics of communication systems and communication practices that inhibit or enhance democratic life and how both can be altered to make democracy thrive.

This book is about the legendary fight and resistance of Ukraine against Russia's invasion in 2014-24. The book tells of the situation in Ukrainian cities and villages during the war and the fate of objects of cultural and educational heritage, which are under the intensive fire of the Russian invaders.

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines the link between American political culture and superhero narratives as well as the genre's global reach and transformations in various national and cultural contexts.

This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since its inception in the 1960s.

Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture explores anxiety from the perspective of Lacan's claim that anxiety is a "signal of the Real." Showing how our relationship with anxiety is intertwined with our fantasies, Felder unpacks how anxiety is related to the gaze, sex, race, and our capacity for social change.

This book explores gender debates on African social media platforms and the political, social, and cultural discourses surrounding them. It examines topics such as gender-based violence, gender in political and economic spaces, gender activism, challenges in the African LGBTQIA+ community, and gender harassment.

This book explores rock and pop music lyrics of the last seventy years to elucidate a broad spectrum of themes about the collective human experience.

This book fills a gap in Yorùbá history and religion to provide an extensive analysis of two deities: O¿bàtálá and Olókun. Drawing from oral accounts, chants, folk songs, praise poems, and verses from the Ifá corpus, the authors provide new insights into the worlds of both deities hitherto missing in the literature.

This innovative collection of essays on contemporary migration literature and culture in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality. The authors address the role of integration, waiting, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures in narratives of the European refugee crisis and migrant border-crossings.

Pandemic Playlist explores a selection of popular music recorded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing songs by Bono, Cardi B, Kid Rock, Van Morrison, Juvenile and many more. Through rhetorical analysis of these songs, Kevin Farrell considers how the pandemic shaped the music of 2020, 2021, and beyond.

This book documents research based on real classroom examples of how educators could design and combine practices from culturally responsive teaching and self-regulated learning pedagogies to support all learners' motivation and engagement in multicultural classrooms.

In Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism, Amanda Hernandez argues that white supremacy influences the perception of feminism and faith as contradictory. In this sociological study, the author uses a variety of methods to explore this important topic.

This book analyzes mind-game films and TV series featuring male protagonists who retreat into imagined realities to cope with trauma and grief. It examines their stories of intersecting crises of reality and crises of masculinity within the context of U.S. culture wars over the way that manhood should be enacted.

The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse offers a re-evaluation of Herbert Marcuse's Critical Theory and argues for its continued relevance in the twenty-first century.