This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s.
Torturing Environments explores how contemporary practices of coercion have evolved beyond overt physical torture, increasingly relying on psychological pressure, structural violence, and the manipulation of social and economic conditions.
First published in 1991, Sharing the Difference reflects on the depth and wealth of Dutch feminist theories and the dynamism of the women's movement in the Netherlands.
This book highlights and explores in depth the moral and conceptual problems invoked by the continued use of "e;blackness"e; and "e;black"e; as modern identity realities for continental and diaspora Africans (CADA).
This book highlights and explores in depth the moral and conceptual problems invoked by the continued use of "e;blackness"e; and "e;black"e; as modern identity realities for continental and diaspora Africans (CADA).
First published in 1991, Sharing the Difference reflects on the depth and wealth of Dutch feminist theories and the dynamism of the women's movement in the Netherlands.
Analysing Soviet economic history through the lens of Marx's critique of political economy, this book argues that the Soviet Union was a young capitalist country and, further, explains the collapse of the Soviet Union as the result of a capitalist crisis.
This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s.
While global justice is a hot topic in political philosophy, the place of children and children as a particular group of agents has been largely ignored.
Analysing Soviet economic history through the lens of Marx's critique of political economy, this book argues that the Soviet Union was a young capitalist country and, further, explains the collapse of the Soviet Union as the result of a capitalist crisis.
The volume explores how nonhuman animal lives are entangled with human interests, conflicts, and desires, highlighting the role of performance in these interactions.
Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, The Ethics of Sports Coaching examines the key ethical issues at the centre of sports coaching practice.
This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century.
Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, The Ethics of Sports Coaching examines the key ethical issues at the centre of sports coaching practice.
The volume explores how nonhuman animal lives are entangled with human interests, conflicts, and desires, highlighting the role of performance in these interactions.
This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state.
This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state.
Many oppose dogma fearing that heresy accusations lead to violence; similarly, opposition to claims of infallible church authority stems from fears of fanaticism, closed-mindedness, and blind obedience.
First published in 1964, Meditation by Bradford Smith draws on his extensive experience to provide clear guidance on how to practice rewarding meditation.
The debate about vivisection is over 150 years old yet until this book was published in 1987 there had been few studies of the historical context of the vivisection controversy.
First published in 1985, Feeling and Reason in the Arts raises an important question-how can a central role for the arts, and in particular the arts in education, be justified?
First published in 1985, Feeling and Reason in the Arts raises an important question-how can a central role for the arts, and in particular the arts in education, be justified?
This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship.
Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp's conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride.
Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders.
The concept of recognition has moved to the forefront of philosophical research in recent decades, particularly in political and social philosophy but also related areas, including philosophy of race and gender, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and aesthetics.
While global justice is a hot topic in political philosophy, the place of children and children as a particular group of agents has been largely ignored.
This book offers a thought-provoking defence of social science - and particularly the discipline of sociology - and its relevance for 21st-century challenges to democratic societies.
The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers 43 chapters-written specifically for this volume by a team of leading international scholars-that survey a wide spectrum of research on the nature, purpose, and promise of argument and the associated practice of argumentation.
This book offers a thought-provoking defence of social science - and particularly the discipline of sociology - and its relevance for 21st-century challenges to democratic societies.
Phenomenology in Clinical Practice introduces core concepts of Husserlian phenomenology and applies them to the understanding and treatment of affective and personality disorders in clinical settings.
