This book explores the transformative role of social media in fostering reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, a region still grappling with unresolved conflicts and ethnic divides.
*; Explores more than 400 species of lichens, alongside full-color photos*; Shows the ways that indigenous peoples of North America have traditionally used lichens for food, clothing, dye, paint, and medicine*; Explains in detail the scientific research behind the potency of lichen chemicals to heal many human conditionsLichensa symbiosis of fungi, algae, bacteria, and yeastcan grow on nearly any surface and thrive in an extremely wide range of environments, including on the International Space Station.
This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses.
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.
This book explores how the critical discursive breakthrough of social movements in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia disrupted the post-socialist transitional status quo.
The "e;final offensive,"e; an insurgent campaign fought after El Salvador's coup of 1979, clearly demonstrated the strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, and behavior of the Salvadoran officer corps.
Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws.
This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.
Narrative Medicine in Action: Lessons from the Maternal Mortality Project addresses the United Statess ongoing maternal health crisis by extracting findings from eighteen underrepresented womens interviews using narrative medical research that is analyzed through the reproductive justice framework.
The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white "e;conductors"e; and black "e;passengers.
Timely in its contribution to on-going debates on the decolonization of education, this novel volume charts the development of a scheme of postgraduate transnational education that saw British students sent to Indian and South Asian Universities while political decolonization was still ongoing.
A fascinating glimpse of life in Japan in 1920 as experienced through the eyes of an observant and sensitive American missionary whose travels took him beyond Tokyo to the mountainous Tohoku region and to the cities of Sendai, Kobe, and Osaka.
La interlocución entre Antonio Cassese y el periodista Giorgio Acquaviva forjó un análisis de las cuestiones actuales más relevantes de las relaciones internacionales y de la situación de los derechos humanos, que solo la sencillez y el criterio de un maestro jurídico y un intelectual humanista como Antonio Cassese permiten acometer con la pedagogía necesaria para entablar un diálogo profundo, entretenido y fluido con quien lee.
Meet the Founder ofTanzaniaPetroleum DevelopmentCorporation (TPDC) as he takes you on a journey through his careerintheoilandgassector, and how important events and warsintheindustry impactedTanzaniainthe 1970s.
Crossing Borders examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating.
This book explores the role of "e;home"e; in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and temporary workers.
A powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls "e;a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.
Health in the Mexican-American Culture: A Community Study by Margaret Clark offers an insightful examination of health beliefs and practices within the Mexican-American community, set against the backdrop of societal changes and cultural intersections in California.
Aspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success.
This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement.
This book examines the ways in which Albanian men, women, and families who have migrated from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States understand and make sense of their mobility and settlement.
*; Examines the Path of Souls or Trail of Ghosts, a Native American model for the after-death journey*; Demonstrates how psychoactive plants were used to evoke the liminal state between life and death in initiatory rites and spirit journeys*; Explores the symbology of the large earthwork mounds erected by the Indigenous people of the Mississippi Valley and how they connect to the Path of SoulsThe use of hallucinogenic substances like peyote and desert tobacco has long played a significant role in the spiritual practices and traditions of Native Americans.
Introducing the concepts of d-ecocinema and d-ecocinema criticism, Monani expands the purview of ecocinema studies and not only brings attention to a thriving Indigenous cinema archive but also argues for a methodological approach that ushers Indigenous intellectual voices front and center in how we theorize this archive.
Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance: Courage, Contributions and Compliance recognises calls from the United Nations (UN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
