This book examines the aftermath of eSwatini's fiftieth anniversary of independence and the COVID-19 pandemic, when many citizens of this last absolute monarchy in Africa took to their communities in unprecedented protests for democratic reform.
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.
This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism.
This book provides an account of the origins and development of iconic and symbolic representations in our evolutionary lineage, the hominis, and of the cognitive capacities and brain structures that support such a development.
Since the 1960s, liberal values such as nondiscrimination, equal participation of all in social, political, and cultural spheres, and individual freedom have driven processes of democratization in Western societies - a trend that has recently been countered by the resurgence of illiberal forces, right-wing populism, and authoritarianism.
This book offers a cross-civilizational and interdisciplinary approach to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) research to mitigate the problematiques of extant literature.
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality.
The concept "e;we"e; is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of "e;who we are"e;, leaving its basic conceptual operations undertheorized.
Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' over time, and the rules governing the conversation.
Amid countless prescriptive self-help manuals, The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine emerges as a refreshing intellectual cornerstone in contemporary psychology and personal development literature.
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country.
Holocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to a growing subfield of philosophical research, which spans traditional and contemporary debates about the nature of time, as well as a diverse set of historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.
In Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist's work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking.