Books published by Rowman & Littlefield International

Explores the theory that digital technologies have multiplied and amplified inequalities rather than levelling the playing field as was promised and foretold

The book reflects a productive (knowledge) agency as it's authored by scholars based in Africa

This edited volume explores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the performance and production of radical democratic citizenship in Europe.

The book reflects a productive (knowledge) agency as it's authored by scholars based in Africa

This book employs Heidegger's work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger's thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts.

This book discusses the shifting landscape of field sites and the resultant emerging research methodologies and is aimed at both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork and those who are seeking ways to undertake it.

A timely interrogation of the concept of 'expertise' in cultural work, exploring the characteristics of aesthetic expertise in the digital age, and its relation to inequalities in the cultural sector.

This book analyzes the support that should be given to minority views, reconsidering classic debates in Science and Technology Studies and examining numerous case studies.

This book provides a round-up of the state of the sub-discipline of social geography, capture recent themes and directions, and chart new questions and challenges for theory, politics and practice.

This second volume of David Kleinberg-Levin's study of Heidegger's phenomenology of perception sheds light on how Heidegger works, both critically and constructively, with seeing and hearing. The author explores how these capacities address the ills illuminated by Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the nihilism devastating the Western world.

The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives is required. Trapped by History highlights a fundamental issue that the Australian nation must confront to develop a genuine relationship with Indigenous Australians.

This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes.

This book opens new perspectives on cinema, arts, and the media. It provides a rereading of the past and explains the challenges facing artists today.

This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.

This book analyses the relationship between second wave feminist media production and capitalism.

This book offers narrative analysis theory as a vehicle to understand indigenous mediation.

This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism.

The chapters in this manuscript explore, through applications to issues within the United States and internationally, contemporary issues in public policy through the theoretical framework of knowledge problems and market process economics.

This book reflects upon the implications, social relevance, and ethical challenges of the growing field of Resistance Studies.

This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.

In this important new book, leading Heidegger scholar William NcNeill provides a concise and systematic appraisal of the fate of phenomenology in Heidegger. He shows how the issue of "letting be" is already central and prominent in Heidegger's early phenomenology and examines Heidegger's phenomenological approach in relation to art and poetry.

This important new book by a major voice in the Social Imaginaries movement offers the most systematic attempt to establish conceptual and historical links between the idea of modernity as a new civilization and the notion of multiple modernities. Arnason demonstrates a theory of globalization that is still compatible with the emphasis on unity and diversity of modernity as a civilization.

Combining the methodologies of art history, aesthetics and cultural history, this book opens up new ways of looking at the phenomenon of ruins.

This collection provides an analytical approach that combines postcolonial thought and governmentality to understand power, identity, inequality and insecurity.

Beyond the tropical paradise and beyond the fear of climate change effects, the Maldives is a fascinating island country that faces social, cultural, economic and environmental transformations. Atolls of the Maldives: Nissology and Geography provides a spatial analysis on some key challenges the Maldivian society has to deal with, and guides the reader in the discovery of the human and environmental geography of this Indian Ocean archipelago. Geographers, political scientists, sociologists, geologists, biologists and experts in environmental policies help the audience to move through the complex systems of interrelations, connections and disconnections that shape the environment and the geography of this extraordinary archipelagic country.

This book traces the genealogy of the Western political subject in major literary, philosophical, juridical and political texts.