Books published by Lexington Books

This book explores the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern diasporic literature, spanning the landscapes of Canada and France while breathing life into an array of mesmerizing texts authored by luminaries including Wajdi Mouawad, Khaled Osman, Rawi Hage, Denis Villeneuve, and Soha Béchara whose literary roots span Lebanon and Switzerland.

Hyoungah Park interviews fifty-eight North Korean migrants in China and analyzes their stories, exploring why they decided to escape North Korea despite the risks, how they escaped, and their experiences being victimized by human trafficking.

Philosophy of Language in Uruguay examines works of philosophy of language through epistemology, linguistics, and cognitive sciences to discover how philosophy of language has developed in Uruguay in the last two decades.

Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion demonstrates various interpretations and phenomena of the ¿environmental hope¿ from a multi-disciplinary perspective to enhance the prosocial characteristics of religion in the humanities and the social sciences.

The author examines the current populist, charismatic, but divisive president of Turkey and arguably the most consequential Turkish leader since Kemal Ataturk--was again reelected in May 2023 despite so many negative factors working against him such as a terribly faltering economy, deadly earthquake, and authoritarian reputation, among others.

This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poets¿ botanical awareness of the vegetal agency and their attentiveness to the ethical standing of plants in human life.

Looking primarily at the twenty-first century boom in superhero media, this collection provides insights into the overlap between data, the internet, and the superhero. Multiple disciplinary approaches investigate what can be learned from the superhero genre and its use and involvement with networked technology.

Literature¿s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice explores two of the fundamental institutions in human existence and social democracy that attend to philosophical consideration and critical discussion of how literature interacts with the phenomena of justice.

Despite a new era, we are stuck with a 40-year-old education system whose purpose is obsolete. New Era ¿ New Urgency presents a historical case for the need to repurpose education given the challenges of the new century. Merlino and Pomeroy describe their work repurposing education in Egypt and elsewhere.

This book explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War.

This essay collection addresses past and current debates surrounding colonial relics and monuments, colonial vestiges, heritage, gender, narratives of independence, nationhood and national identity. Caribbean enthusiasts, scholars and students will appreciate the diversity of views of these academic post-colonial narratives.

In this volume, twelve scholars focus on the challenges of preserving and editing the writings of a leading but deceased religious figure. The authors examine editorial authority and overreach, noncompliance with scholarly standards, and untransparent editorial changes that have arisen in the books of the Indian master, Swami Prabhup¿da.

This edited collection centers the Cabo Verdean Community in the United States in the last thirty years and explores topics such as race, identities, health, culture, gender relations, education, and immigrant community solidarity from new, critical perspectives.

This collection explores how immersive technologies affect newsmaking and the positive and negative impacts they may have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection.

This volume discusses issues and themes surrounding communication, social media, online protests, policing, criminal justice reform, and freedom of speech. The contributors offer analyses embracing social justice in the areas of educational and criminal justice reform, as well as communication principles grounded in Africana praxis.

This book examines the lives of Muslim women living in Deccan, an area in south India, and collects observations and findings in the field focusing on issues of history and culture, family, education, work, and health.

This book provides a rich analysis of U2¿s songs, unveiling the light of hope amid the darkness of trauma and provide close interpretations of the band¿s lyrics and performances through the lenses of trauma and memory studies.

Explore the transformative potential of international students in shaping the politics of higher education. Moving beyond a focus on the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the international student experience, this book breaks new ground by examining diverse forms of international student activism, advocacy, and political engagement.

Drawing off ninety years of survey data, Zachary Cook argues that younger voters, as a function of the life cycle, tend to believe that government should do more to regulate the business sector to help provide high quality jobs for all.

Athletes might face a myriad of psychosocial difficulties when they retire from professional or elite level competition. This book explores the nuances of those struggles, focusing on identity reconstruction and the processing of grief related to the loss of self and sport.

This book examines the depiction of girls with extraordinary abilities in 2000s Disney sitcoms aimed at tweens. The author argues that a double standard forced the girls, unlike their male counterparts, to hide their superpowers and highlights the impact of these series on cultural ideas of gender and childhood.

In Visions of Statesmanship: A Statesman¿s Imagination and Autonomy, I provide a critical examination of the figure of the statesman as it has been presented in the philosophical reflections of three key thinkers: Plato, Yannis Markrygiannis, and Cornelius Castoriadis.

The authors analyze the impact of COVID-19 on both public administration and the survival of democracy in Eastern Europe. They conclude that the more democratic states in the north, better handled administrative challenges such as corruption, accountability, trust, disease deaths, and election stability than did the states in the south.

This study explores how opposing ideological work, intended as a counterterrorism strategy decodes and defuses al-Qaedäs role in the current radicalization process in conflict and non-conflict areas. In this context it promotes to theological counterterrorism paradigm for current fundamental terror threats.

Politics today appears driven by processes of denomination: 'my' people, community, nation, is external to, even opposed to, yours; and my allegiance is owed to my denomination. This book argues for a deconstruction of the violence embedded in such denominational borders in favour of nonviolent, equitable and sustainable 'neighbourhood democracy'.

Hilary Putnam¿s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life offers a faithful illustration of the trajectory of Putnam¿s thought to show how, despite the shifts in opinion on issues of central philosophical importance, his thought reveals a systematic backbone and strong continuities.

This volume explores the many unique motivations driving the rapid growth of the esports industry from a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points. Contributors examine the traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that factor into decisions to play and watch esports.

Excavating Whiteness follows a group of White teachers as they learned about the role of race in education through an intensive summer course. Each teacher¿s journey is represented in their own words as they worked to understand how White identity is constructed and often misunderstood as a part of teaching.

This book reimagines what it means to be Latina beyond borders and the ¿baggage¿ of cultural categories, definitions, and labels.

This book examines citizen engagement at the local level in Cuba through projects initiated by the community since the 1990s to provide an understanding of the relationship between citizens and the state in Cuba.