Books published by Lexington Books

Education and International Development, 2000-2020 advances the claim that there exists a liberal theory of international education. The author argues that the assumed harmony of this model is the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development.

The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher's filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer.

This book examines psychedelic rave music and culture with an emphasis on the multiday phantasmagoric festivals.

Concentrating on economic incentives, climate extremes, and fear of violence factors, this book presents a complete picture of what happens to migrants from the time they leave to the time they arrive in the United States-as well as the difficulties encountered by those deported back to their countries of origin.

This book explores Africa's complex environmental security issue using a multidisciplinary, historical, regional, theoretical, and spatial approach. The scope and gravity of the topics explored by the contributors illustrate why environmental security is an existential threat to the development and survival of Africa.

Drawing on theories of affective governance, securitization, surveillance, and neoliberal risk management, this book analyzes efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities.

This book explores entrepreneurship as both a pathway out of poverty and a vehicle for enhancing personal well-being.

This anthology outlines a cadre of alt-right groups, conspiracy theories, and other forms of stigmatized knowledge threatening our society and presents a compelling case for the continued relevancy of the Frankfurt School of Critical Social Theory.

This book makes the case for a new theorisation of Song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act, one that has implications for songwriters, scholars, and the way in which we think about music and song.

In the early 20th century, Pacific Rim governments urgently needed to rethink European colonialism. Aschenbrenner explains the strange history of 'adaptation to survive' that marked the struggle between arriving and resident populations in Australia, Japan and Canada and in the US territories (Hawaii and Alaska) from 1850 to 1974.

Refiguring the Sacred offers perspectives on Ricoeur's life-long reflections about religion. This collection includes two essays by Ricoeur and new interpretations of some of his most significant writings by several noted Ricoeur scholars.

This book discusses herbal medicine, indigenous governance, and judiciary among the Swahili, Kamba, and Kikuyu communities of East Africa as well as the role which African languages play in preserving these indigenous knowledge forms.

This book identifies and parses through ten domains of equality. The book explores the meta question how a state might govern itself to maximize equality for all. It provides an understanding of equality, its importance, and what is required to pursue and establish equality in a democratic state.

Using works by Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman as illustrations of blackness and literature in the early twentieth century, the author investigates how these works reflect Black Americans' changing views during the New Negro, the Harlem Renaissance, and Harlem's Literati movements.

David Apolloni defends a modern version of Plato's argument for the immortality of the soul and argues the soul is non-physical. The book also defends a version of Gödel's ontological argument for God's existence. Using the results, he supports accounts of the afterlife from those who have had near-death experiences.

This book intricately intertwines institutional and attitudinal factors, elucidating the window of opportunity for reckoning with the past. While spotlighting Portugal as a unique case study, the book probes how the emergence of 'norm-breaking' parties along with the end of old stigmas and biases, may rekindle transitional justice debates.

While the work of Sofia Coppola has often been dismissed as being stereotypically feminine and placing more focus on spectacle over substance, Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far): Anxious and Effervescent draws attention to common characteristics present in Coppola's films to present an authorial signature and aesthetic that are both familiar yet evocative of Generation X's perception in the public consciousness. In analyzing Coppola's films from The Virgin Suicides (1999) to Priscilla (2023), this book argues that her filmography acts as a reflection of her generation's evolving mindset and self-image from its prominence during the late 1980s to its current sentiment of discomfort with its fading influence.

This work, by incorporating insights from the social sciences, advances a comprehensive understanding of violent extremism in order to improve prevention and intervention efforts. Although focusing on and using data from Nordic countries, it provides empirical guidelines for policymakers, researchers, and security professionals worldwide.

In this book, four authors reflect on whether the US Constitution embodies certain "principles." They conclude that it does not, at least not directly, and that it's a good thing that it and other constitutions do not.

This book analyzes how concepts of race and religion were interpreted in the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, the first case to provide race-based legal protection to American Jews. The author examines how the judges viewed the White-perceived Jews as well as the congregants' reactions and embodied experiences.

The post-truth world threatens our collective commitment to rationality but must not become the norm. Synthesis of the scholarship on anti-intellectualism and personal attributes informs educational practices to promote development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.

This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of four salient epistemological orientations in the field - positivism, relativism, interpretivism, and intersubjectivism - to identify the characteristics of a theoretically-informed epistemology for social science.

The book explores the ways collective memory, religion, and sexist beliefs are used to silence sexual assault survivors and protect the powerful. It delves into how justice is denied in sexual assault cases and why and how American society is perpetuating and protecting a dangerous culture of sexual violence.

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences and that which he might have sought himself to exercise in a pedagogical and practical manner. The first part of the book comprises six essays in which their authors explore Kojève's understanding of art, religion and atheism, and his reception of the thought of Hegel, Marx, and Carl Schmitt. The book's second part is made up by two contributions that tackle respectively Kojève's conceptions of the "end of history" and "empire" in the light of his notion of Sophia or "Wisdom", and his understanding of the relationship between philosophy and power in the light of an exegetical reading of the debate he held with Leo Strauss. The authors of the final three essays set out to explore the extent to which Kojève's previous processing of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences might have resulted in three increasingly concrete outcomes, namely: his notion of authority; the Lacanian mirror-stage; and global trade.

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world causing physical, emotional, economic, and social upheaval in every part of the globe. It also catalyzed a renewed interrogation, by music education faculty in higher education, of philosophies and practices that had long gone unexamined.Music Education on the Verge: Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change is a collection of narratives by music teacher-educators describing how they responded to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic with, and for, their students. Through these stories, the authors step back and reflect on the events, challenges, triumphs, and innovations discovered as they prepared the next generation of music educators in this time of crisis. They tell stories of reexamining old frameworks, discovering new affordances of technologies, humanizing pedagogy, deepening culturally responsive and sustaining experiences, and creating space for democratic practices. Each chapter offers examples of innovative music pedagogy that can be adapted and applied by music educators and music teacher educators with their students. Collectively, they paint a picture of possibilities, challenging music teacher-educators-- and educators in all fields-- to seek out openings and pursue pedagogies of change as we move forward into a post-pandemic world.

Satiricized by Strauss II to highlight the deceptive aristocratic class, under Schoenberg, Mahler, and Webern's pens the waltz became the pivot between the conscious and unconscious, forcing a paralytic "second state" analogous with the stagnation of the Habsburg Empire. The Viennese Waltz shows how, between 1864 - 1928, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificeto the link between man and nature and between Viennese and "Other." Hood wields the Freudian concepts of the uncanny and the doppelgänger to explain this revolution from the simple signification of a dance to the psychological anxiety of a subject's place in society.

In Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic, Mark Christian presents a Black British study within the context of the transatlantic and Liverpool, England. Taking a semi-autoethnographic approach based on the authors Black Liverpool heritage, Christian interacts with Paul Gilroys notion of the Black Atlantic. Yet, provides a fresh perspective that takes into account a famous British slave ports history that has been overlooked or under-utilized. The longevity of Black presence in the city involves a history of discrimination, stigma, and a population group known colloquially as Liverpool Born Blacks (LBBs). Crucially, this book provides the reader with a deeper insight of the transatlantic in regard to the movement of Black souls and their struggle for acceptance in a hostile environment. This book is an evocative, passionate, and revealing read.

No historical figure is more synonymous with establishing American democracy than Thomas Jefferson. Revolutionary, iconoclastic, yet pragmatic, the legacy of Jefferson as an intellectual and politician continues to reverberate across academic and public circles. However, Jefferson's writings on power, authority, and politics point to a different understanding of self-government than dominant liberal and republican interpretations suggest. Dean Caivano's interpretation of Jefferson's political, anthropological, and sociological meditations on power reveals an unknown Jefferson, who conceives the American nation-state as a network of dynamic autonomous communities enacted by a politics of all. Caivano pointedly argues that this unknown Jefferson fittingly aligns with historical and contemporary projects of radical democracy, stressing the need for constant resistance, inquiry, and dialogue. In a period, fraught with political division and hyper-partisanship, this timely, innovative reading of Jefferson invites a reappraisal of how we understand a vital founder of the American republic and what is at stake in the battle to save American democracy.

The phrases "scripture says" and "as it is written" in early Christian literature appear unremarkable, little more than throwaway lines. Tailoring Scripture with Citation Formulae: Clues about Early Christian Views of the Holy Books and the Holy God contends, however, that they provide much to remark on. Current discussions of scriptural intertextuality either neglect or instrumentalize citation formulae. Within a world of expensive books and widespread illiteracy, though, the formulae would not only have signaled the presence of an upcoming citation. At times they also situated and interpreted a quoted passage. Further, close attention to the formulae yields three interesting clues about early Christian views of the holy books and the holy God. First, the media of the formulae in the Gospels cuts precisely counter to expectations, with the pre-Synoptic tradition indicating a textual view of scripture and Matthew, an oral one. Second, the wellspring of prosopological exegesis, that is, discovering the triune God speaking in Israel's sacred writings, is best attributed to the Epistle to the Hebrews. Third, while the undisputed Pauline letters say little about the nature of scripture, the apostle's citation formulae in Romans and Galatians indicate that it operated as a divine hypostasis for him. This book is a comprehensive study including an analysis and catalogue of early Christian formulae.