Books published by Lexington Books

In this book, Morten Bay provocatively questions whether or not truth in media is lost and, furthermore, whether humans can perceive objective reality or, as many neuroscientists and philosophers now believe, we all perceive different realities constructed through predictive processing. As affective polarization continues to render American democracy increasingly dysfunctional - a situation largely inflamed by media - Bay calls for a cultural shift in which these two conditions are reconciled. Drawing on political philosophy, this book presents an ethics that holds up responsible media conduct as a democratic duty of all media users. This shift in ethical frameworks carries with it different implications for a variety of audiences, including individuals, media platforms and corporations, media practitioners and journalists, media studies scholars, and society more broadly. Each stakeholder involved will need to reconsider their approach to media and reality - individuals must accept that everyone's perceptions of reality are different; platforms and corporations must cease irresponsible practices that dissociate realities and stoke division; practitioners and journalists must develop more nuanced epistemologies beyond 'The Truth', and scholars must redefine media by foregrounding epistemology, pluralism, and physicality in media theory. Collectively, Bay argues, we must come to a new understanding of reality as a plurality of realities - a plureality.

This book argues how by relying on unnatural discourse to relate to the natural world, coexistence becomes much more difficult to achieve.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the diversity of Socialist Literature worldwide through the lens of Minor and Small Literature, exploring the multifaceted dimensions and complexities of World Literature and Socialist World Literature.

There is a long history of immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States that began in the 1880s. Since that time, significant diaspora communities have developed in the United States. The members of these groups have developed businesses, participated in their local communities, attended colleges and universities, and shared their culture. Even with such active participation and growth in American life, little is known about the individual community members. Often these communities are forgotten within the fabric of American life. Navigating Education as a Forgotten Immigrant tells the stories of these community members.Each chapter shares the story of a member of the Eastern European community living in the United States. Some stories are from the perspective of a first-generation immigrant, while others are from second-generation immigrants. Their stories highlight their commitment to life in America, the challenges they face, their evolution of identity, and what it means to live in two worlds simultaneously.

This book focuses on the Italian mafia organization, 'Ndrangheta, and its pervasive influence on the region of Calabria, aiming to provide a criminological roadmap for effectively combating 'Ndrangheta and liberating Calabria from its grip.

From Ideology to Nostalgia aims to draw attention to the political theoretical relevance of works written by Hungarian authors. By analyzing the novels of Arthur Koestler and Sándor Márai, Miklós Bálint Tóth seeks to understand the complex nature of political phenomena related to the concept of political order.

This book offers an exploration of the intersections between carceral systems, environmental concerns, and political ideologies. It examines how prison literature and narrative witness reveal the complexities of our contemporary world, shedding light on the systemic issues that link environmental degradation with carceral practices.

A collection of essays assimilating and applying philosopher David Walsh's new "personalist language of persons."

This book offers a reconsideration and re-evaluation of the philosophical exchange between Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. Angela Ales Bello highlights the depth and breadth of the philosophers' thinking on questions related to subjects such as ethics, religion, personhood, and psychology.

How is Hollywood shaping the American public's thought about politics? Winning The Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films analyses the philosophies of power and the good life found in some of the smartest popular films of recent years.

Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation covers all aspects of Türkiye-Britain relations including the historical background, political relations, and key areas and issues. This project has a claim to be the most comprehensive work ever written on the subject.

Through analyses of Hollywood films, Thai genre cinema, and Thai art films, this book considers the ways in which Thailand and its people have been represented in films distributed to the Western marketplace.

The Black Electoral Dichotomy: An Assessment of Black Republican Electoral Behavior and Political Attitudes during the 2016 Presidential Election examines the political perspective of Black Republican voters contrasted to Black Republican leadership in North Carolina. The study used data collected through the PEW Research Center's 2017 Political Typology Study and data collected on the voting behavior of North Carolina registered voters. Specifically, this approach looked at the social, political, and economic influences that contributed to how North Carolina Black Republicans voted during the 2016 presidential election. Through a survey of Black Republican leaders and registered voters who voted during the 2012 and 2016 presidential election cycles, this study seeks to identify the determining factors that speak to Black voters' reason for supporting the Republican Party. Furthermore, The Black Electoral Dichotomy examines the various factors that shape the political premise of North Carolina's Black Republicans and informed their support for Donald Trump.

This edited volume explores the practices of health and science journalists covering conflicts, displacement, and global pandemics amid evolving media landscapes and new communication technologies. Contributors highlight shared challenges like funding cuts, public mistrust, and online harassment.

Assata Zerai reflects on three decades of scholarship and examines ways in which scholars and professors have begun to move their disciplines from a focus on traditional canons of the modernist era to embrace decolonial sensibilities in research, teaching, and institutional transformation, bringing about change within higher education.

In this book, Aidan Kestigian argues that political communities are in a critical thinking crisis, which inhibits high-quality reasoning in public deliberation. Substantive educational and political reform is needed to bring public decision-making closer to the ideals imagined in democratic theory.

Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context.

This book examines the life of the Sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.

In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.

"This book uses ideas from Mead, Burke, and Bakhtin to analyze how individuals interact through communication and applies Burke's "grammar of motives" to various social phenomena"--

"This book presents an in-depth exploration of Korean migration to and within the Global South, offering new insights into how migrants adapt to diverse political and economic contexts in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa"--

"This study, based at a community garden in a small town in Minnesota, explores different factors that affect the acculturation process of twenty Somali refugee women. Using Berry's framework of acculturation patterns, the study also looks at how social capital complements the process of acculturation"--

"Critical Mixed Race Philosophy reimagines mixed race studies, challenging commonplace beliefs about the social effects of mixedness and arguing for a non-essentialist conception of mixed race identity and kinship rooted in feminist and queer thought"--

"Using the theory of the encryption of power, this book explores whether it is possible to decrypt justice as it has been predominantly shaped by Western hegemony. Decrypting Justice argues that envisioning and creating a more just world, founded on new communalities, is not only possible but necessary"--

"This book explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the "golden age" of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also examines the Mahåayåana Buddhist ideas that motivated the growth of early modern woodblock publishing and the religious use of books during that period"--

This book explores the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, focusing on the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and its implications for Australian constitutional law and politics.

"This book brings more understanding to Fitzgerald's famed novel by revealing the hidden subtext of its literary foundations of classical and modern writers. Elmore challenges the interpretation of Gatsby as a tragic failure of the American Dream, demonstrating the enduring national belief in the possibilities of the future"--