Books published by Rowman & Littlefield International

This book challenges dominant assumptions about the BRI by placing it in the context of the historical economic relationship and trading networks between China and its neighbours.

This anthology explores the archipelagic as both a specific and a generalizable geo-historical and cultural formation, occurring across various planetary spaces including: the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, the Caribbean basin, the Malay archipelago, Oceania, and the creole islands of the Indian Ocean.

Bringing together leading Heidegger scholars in critical dialogue, this timely collection of essays provides widely divergent interpretations about the controversial political significance and contemporary relevance of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.

Bringing together leading Heidegger scholars in critical dialogue, this timely collection of essays provides widely divergent interpretations about the controversial political significance and contemporary relevance of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.

This book offers a genealogical account of the origins of the modern economy out of Christian life and practice.

This important new book explores the thriving field of practice-based artistic research from a theoretical point of view. It presents a comprehensive overview of artistic research in the context of specific artistic practices, ideal for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as to scholars, researchers and artists alike.

This important new book explores the thriving field of practice-based artistic research from a theoretical point of view. It presents a comprehensive overview of artistic research in the context of specific artistic practices, ideal for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as to scholars, researchers and artists alike.

This volume offers an accessible intellectual dialogue on the very nature of critical thought and on its social and political translations. Castoriadis is pushed to address challenges raised by decolonial thought, by critiques of ethnocentrism, and broadly by the international context of radical critical thought.

This volume seeks to contribute to this new line of research and develops a theoretical framework to study the consequences of clientelism for democratic governance.

William Rasch offers a reading of Carl Schmitt that avoids rehashing the controversies of the Weimar era in favour of examining a broader historical context. He examines Schmitt's notion of political theology, eschewing theocratic intention but taking seriously the 'secularization' of patterns of thought derived from Medieval theology.

The scope of the book is confined to Asia: China, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.

This collection provides a clear analytical framework for comparison across cases that will allow us to draw useful theoretical and empirical conclusions and explore the dynamics of intersectional practice in a variety of institutional, cultural and policy making contexts.

This book explores new phenomenological research on the structural disruptions of spatiality, temporality, and understanding in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders. It offers critiques of mainstream psychopathology, taking a transdisciplinary approach to the relationship between mental illness and self-constitution.

Exploring the possibilities of American philosophy from the perspective of translation, and in turn elucidating the dynamism and tension within American philosophy, this book invokes the idea of philosophy as translation as human transformation and presents a broader concept of translation as internal to the nature of language and of human life.

This book will provide a cutting-edge, theoretically innovative, and analytically detailed response to significant developments occurring in the fields of indigenous governance.

This book shows how the notion of civil disobedience has evolved.

This book closes an important gap in the literature and offers a fresh perspective on EU energy studies, and it will be an important contribution to the debate on the development of European integration and the EU's role in international relations.

Offers an original analysis of the role of journals in the institutionalization of critical and cultural theory in Canada and the USA.

Focusing on the triangular relationship of precariousness, trade unions and social movements, this book draws on a range of exciting cases, both comparative and country case studies, in order to understand how the shadow of the crisis still haunts organized labour in Europe.

Drawing on the voices and experiences of community-based peace leaders around the world, this book envisions a new way of working together as a truly local and global peacebuilding field.

Autonomy, Refusal, and The Black Bloc argues that the inventive strategic and organizational contexts that give rise to the black bloc tactic constitute a new political expression of class and, more forcefully, constitute the meaning of class politics for the late 20th and 21st century.

In this collection of essays Tariq Modood argues that to grasp the nature of the problem we have to see how Muslims have become a target of a cultural racism, Islamophobia.

This volume brings together architects, urban designers and planners and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come, in the wake of Deleuze and Guattari.

By highlighting the complex set of factors and their interactions that have shaped Arab-Iranian relations, the book hopes to be a corrective to the simplistic and reductionist interpretations of these relations.

Offering a critical examination of Lewis Gordon's work by international scholars engaging in radical epistemological transformation for social change, this volume explores the importance of radical theory and thinkers to push for projects of change in the area of Black Existentialism.

This book opens the institutional Pandora's box of conflict management in Latin America.

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to the extensive corpus of Jean-Luc Marion's ideas, including a discussion of contemporary French phenomenology and critical appraisal of Marion's ideas by leading scholars in the field. The contributors apply Marion's thought to various fields of study, including theology, art, literature and psychology.

This book provides a systematic, philosophical account of the main issues that pertain to the aesthetics of modified environments, as well as new insights concerning the generation and appreciation of landscapes and environments that fall between (non-human) nature and (human) culture, including gardens and ecologically restored landscapes.

This book looks at the structural, economic and political reasons why the current media system fails urban educated young professionals in Turkey and led them to a month long resistance and protest through the use of social media during OccupyGezi movement.

This book provides a systematic, philosophical account of the main issues that pertain to the aesthetics of modified environments, as well as new insights concerning the generation and appreciation of landscapes and environments that fall between (non-human) nature and (human) culture, including gardens and ecologically restored landscapes.