From the demon-killing Minamoto no Yorimitsu to the immortal poet Ono no Komachi, find out about the fascinating world of Japanese warriors and folk-heroes.
Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, theories, debates, and developments in gendered Islamophobia, unpacking how Western, Orientalist constructions of Muslim men and women affect the lived experiences of Muslim men and women; impact social, legal, and criminological policies, practices, and discourse; and give rise to resistance against gendered Islamophobia.
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face.
*; Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America*; Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time*; Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest DestinyWhile Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North Americaor Turtle Islandstretch back millennia.
An essential guide for Black Americans to understanding the criminal justice system, and why it continues to see Black men as targets and as dollar signs.
Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression.
In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.
In 'Zuni Mythology', Frank Hamilton Cushing delves into the rich and complex world of Zuni cosmology, offering readers a comprehensive look at the myths and legends of this Native American tribe.
Rosa Luxemburgs 'Massenstreik in Deutschland' ist ein wegweisendes Werk, das sich mit der Rolle von Massenstreiks in politischen Bewegungen auseinandersetzt.
Acknowledging efforts to dismantle racism at multiple levels, Racism and Anti-Racism Today examines racism and anti-racism as interconnected rather than isolated issues and proposes a framework for effective anti-racist policy and practice.
This volume fully illuminates the role of diversity in media representation, dissemination, and effects across various platforms, including social media.
The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique, multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in the social sciences, medicine, and literature, combining high-quality academic research with professional recommendations.
The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique, multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in the social sciences, medicine, and literature, combining high-quality academic research with professional recommendations.
This expose investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions.
Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles weaves together historical narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space, politics, and economic conditions--not simply an abstract "e;race conflict"e;--all structure the form and virulence of urban rebellions.
This fascinating book provides a groundbreaking resource for innovative approaches to qualitative inquiry that address equity and justice and equip readers with tools to enact these approaches in their own work.
The book critically examines the epistemological disparities between colonialism and capitalism-critical cultural practices and Western art institutions.
Die Neuauflage des Standardwerks zum Bundesberggesetz enthält die umfassendste Darstellung und Kommentierung des gesamten in Deutschland geltenden Bergrechts.
A comprehensive synthesis tracing 1,300 years of cultural transformation in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley, from Late Woodland societies to the modern era.
This book examines how states justify the creation of physical, policy and legislative barriers of entry for migrants by drawing on a concept of sovereignty.
Teacher Preparation as Social Activism at Historically Black Colleges and Universities offers new insights into the historical educational perspectives of teacher preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Immerse yourself in the rich cultural heritage and timeless wisdom of the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest with Chief William Shelton's The Story of the Totem Pole: Early Indian Legends.
How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades?
Based on interviews and conversations in the Bosnian Federation with women survivors of war rape, children born of armed conflict, leaders of NGOs who work with survivors, and people who lived through the war and who experienced it in different ways, this book challenges one-dimensional representations of the Yugoslav war and subsequent peacebuilding processes.
Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.
Video Abstract for 'Immigration Detention and Social Harm' - Dr Michelle PeterieThis interdisciplinary edited collection is the first internationally to comprehensively explore the harms immigration detention imposes beyond the 'detainee'.
One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus.
Max Schelers Werk 'Die Ursachen des Deutschenhasses' ist eine tiefgreifende Analyse der sozialen und politischen Dynamik, die zur Entstehung von Hass gegen Deutsche führen kann.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and 'The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin' are seminal works in American literature that provide a powerful and thought-provoking commentary on the abolitionist movement.
In Bertha von Suttner's Antikriegsroman 'Martha's Kinder' dreht sich die Handlung um die Hauptfigur Martha, eine engagierte Pazifistin, die sich leidenschaftlich für den Frieden und die Vermeidung von Krieg einsetzt.
Immanuel Kants Werk 'Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht' ist ein bahnbrechender Text, der die Disziplin der Anthropologie aus einer philosophischen Perspektive beleuchtet.
Für den Leser, der an der Philosophie der Aufklärung und der Geschichte des Gedankenexperimenten interessiert ist, ist 'Ein Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand' von John Locke ein unverzichtbares Werk.
