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Culture and Tactics
(October 2019)
Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice
Robert F. Carley - Author
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Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.
While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Carley argues by contrast that tactics are, above all, what social movements do. They are not mere means to an end so much as they are a public form...(Read More) |
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Stories of School Yoga
(September 2019)
Narratives from the Field
Andrea M. Hyde - Editor
Janet D. Johnson - Editor
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Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.
The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it with children and youth. As the movement has grown, so has the need to understand how yoga works and its effects on individuals, gro...(Read More) |
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Postnormal Conservation
(June 2019)
Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance
Katja Grötzner Neves - Author
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Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.
Since their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In Postnormal Conservation, Katja Grötzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution ha...(Read More) |
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The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
(May 2019)
Roberta G. Sands - Author
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A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.
Spiritual transformation is the process of changing one’s beliefs, values, attitudes, and everyday behaviors related to a transcendent experience or higher power. Jewish adults who adopt Orthodoxy provide a clear example of spiritual transformation within a religious context. With little prior exposure to traditional pract...(Read More) |
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Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World
(April 2019)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Christopher R. DeCorse - Editor
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Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-Western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has demonst...(Read More) |
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The Distortion of Nature's Image
(April 2019)
Reification and the Ecological Crisis
Damian Gerber - Author
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Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.
The global ecological crisis is upon us. From global warming to the long-term implications of ocean acidification, air and water pollution, deforestation, and the omnipresent dangers of nuclear technology the future of our planetary home is threatened. Yet in the midst of the unfolding crisis, the conventional ideologies of the twentiet...(Read More) |
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Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
(March 2019)
Saladdin Ahmed - Author
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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) |
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Militant Acts
(January 2019)
The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles
Marcelo Hoffman - Author
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Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.
Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into the conditions and struggles of the oppressed and exploited to stimulate their political mobilization and organ...(Read More) |
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Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature
(January 2019)
Critical Theory, Moral Authority, and Radicalism in the Anthropocene
Andy Scerri - Author
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Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.
In Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature, Andy Scerri offers a comprehensive overview of the critical theory project from the 1960s to the present, refracted through the lens of US politics and the Amer...(Read More) |
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