Beyond Bergson
(April 2019)
Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson Andrea J. Pitts - Editor Mark William Westmoreland - Editor Leonard Lawlor - Foreword by
From News to Talk
(April 2019)
The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in US Journalism Kimberly Meltzer - Author
Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.
Black Women and Social Justice Education explores Black women’s experiences and expertise in teaching and learning about justice in a range of formal and informal educational settings. Linking historical accounts with groundbreaking contributions by new and ris...(Read More)
Malleable Mara
(March 2019)
Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil Michael D. Nichols - Author
Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.
This is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Māra, who appears across Buddhist traditions as a personification of death and desire. Portrayed as a combination of god and demon, Māra serves as a key antag...(Read More)
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
We live today within a system in which state and corporate power aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform, for only then can it be truly controlled. The gaze of power and the commodity form are capable of infiltrating even the darkest of corners, and often, we invite them into our most private spa...(Read More)
Coming Together
(February 2019)
Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization Attila Gyucha - Editor
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.
The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms “urban” and “city” has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise ...(Read More)
Rumble and Crash
(February 2019)
Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film Milo Sweedler - Author
Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the contradictions of capitalism became more apparent than at any other time since the 1920s, numerous films gave allegorical form to the crises of contemporary capitalism. Some films were overtly political in nature, while others refracted the vicissitudes of capital in stor...(Read More)
