‘Philosophy’ – After the End of Philosophy
This work rethinks philosophy for our interconnected times, proposing a new “critical philosophy” with an emancipatory thrust. It takes aim at bullshit and offers compelling analyses to grapple with the serious challenges facing our globalizing world.
This book examines how EU water directives engender “Other Spaces” of feminist ecological alignment. Drawing on ethnographies of river restorations, it shows how activism challenges neoliberal governance, revealing urban waterways as intriguing gendered heterotopias.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
The discourse of education for sustainability is a self-centred discourse, refusing to acknowledge insights from other fields. It needs a radical paradigm shift to become communal learning in a real place, facing tough questions about its prevailing insularity.
This social history of the modern Middle East covers the last 100 years, focusing on everyday life rather than sensational events. It explores key issues including urbanization, gender identities, migration, and the social consequences of the Arab Spring.
Innovation in Financial Services
Synthesizing academic research and practitioner insights, this book explores innovation in financial services. It analyzes success factors, strategy, and the challenges facing an industry in need of vision and strategic foresight.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
Media, Power and Empowerment
This collection of original research maps trends in CEE media, providing insight into the region’s shared history and politics. It also discusses the differences among the countries, the consequences for their media scenes, and the lived experiences of their people.
Knowledge in Action
With authorship from community partners and universities, this book highlights the challenges of university-community engagement and outlines how Australian universities defy these obstacles through innovative projects that create positive socio-economic change.
Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America
This book presents research on public policies in Latin America from a cognitive perspective. It asks what paradigms have shaped these policies, how they have changed over time, and who the new actors and coalitions influencing agendas are today.
A definitive reference for the theory and practice of Islamic finance. Explore global banking innovations and understand their vital role in today’s volatile economy.
Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History
A unique comparative study of Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk. This book uses their historical novels to examine fictional depictions of reality, exploring how the text confronts a world of facts and how this affects the autonomy of the fictional space.
Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
The Flâneur Abroad
This volume offers new perspectives on the flâneur, mapping the figure’s travels beyond Paris. It explores the flâneur in international cities and across visual media, revising stereotypes and reconsidering the nature of this cultural icon.
On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency
Scholars explore the fundamental importance of Augustine and Luther for questions of human identity and destiny. This volume examines Luther’s apocalyptic worldview and how he adapted Augustine’s understanding of the self for a new era.
Leading scholars pose fundamental questions about contemporary art in the global age. This volume maps current debates on archives, politics, labor, and the post-natural condition, providing a cartography of the conceptual intersections in global art studies today.
PIERIDES IV
This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
The British Indian Army
This work explores the British Indian Army: a unique partnership of imperial and South Asian cultures. An instrument of expeditionary war that enjoyed its greatest triumph defeating Japan in 1945, it paradoxically became a potent vehicle for a free India.
Virtual Teacher
Today’s educational system is failing. This book bridges cognitive science, neurobiology, and AI to offer a solution. It shows how to build intelligent tutoring systems that place students in an active role, as opposed to the passive one they have today.
Distinguished scholar Ali A. Mazrui discusses how Islam shapes identity, differentiating Muslims from non-Muslims and each other. These essays provide context for the challenges of modernity and multiculturalism faced by Muslims in light of current upheaval.
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