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This book examines Ghana's foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah, providing new insight into Nkrumah's attempts to reinforce, articulate, and communicate his vision of Pan-Africanism.

This book captures the voices and lived experiences of Black fathers, offering a strengths-based perspective on the significant roles they play in the lives of their children and families. The volume examines three key areas: health, parenting, and community.

Tracing the origins and examining the dimensions of homeland security challenges, this book analyzes these crises, deepens understanding of the Nigerian security dilemma, and seeks pathways to a more secure homeland.

Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth explores commonly perceived limitations to living nonviolently. Centering nonviolence as a sacrosanct ideal and calling for a radical reconceptualization of how violence is understood, Sanjay Lal shows that the value of a nonviolent approach to ethics has been needlessly under-emphasized.

Polycentric Governance and the Good Society is the first extended academic work to explore in depth what it means, not only from an economic and organizational standpoint but also from a broader ethical, sociological, and anthropological perspective, to live in a polycentric political system.

This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their understanding of topics like place, crime, and identity.

A Hero in All of Us?: Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV helps us better understand twenty-first century heroism in the United States through the lens of popular television shows. Contributions explore how the concept of heroism has been simultaneously both elevated to the supernatural and democratized to the mundane.

By drawing parallels between the global indigenous rights movement and the Kurdish struggle, the book critically analyses the discourse about Kurdishness constituted by the Kurdish political movement in Turkey from an indigeneity perspective.

This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors question literature's manifold relationship to trauma is undertaken in a conscientious dialogue with ethics and politics.

This book is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of contemporary Russian intelligence operations targeting American-Russian academics and promoting Russian state interests in the ongoing war against Ukraine.

This book examines Taylor Swift's art, her public image, and Swiftie fan communities.

Affective Imageries examines the political use of images depicting wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict contexts. It explores how poetry, photography, and art construct affective images. The book analyses the creation and mobilisation of these images, shaping perception and international response, particularly in Timor-Leste.

This book analyzes Jewish themes, characters, and contributions in science fiction and fantasy of the post-Holocaust period, from the U.S., Europe, the Soviet Union, South America, and Israel. The author explores the ways in which comic books, parody films, and emerging literary subgenres contested prejudice and embraced counterculture.

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of "emergent metalepsis" that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events. Christopher Carter situates this rhetoric within debates about the Anthropocene, highlighting the irony whereby our most trenchant self-analyses become mass commodities.

This book analyzes information published by the news website Sputnik Srbija during the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to explore contemporary Serbian media and the connection between Russian propaganda and Serbian nationalism.

This book investigates the complex art of television drama screenwriting, bridging a crucial gap between theory and practice by exploring both the structure and character developments models of the genre.

This edited book focuses on the concept of health acculturation from a multidimensional communication perspective. Contributors theorize and apply the concept of health acculturation in a variety of cultural contexts at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.

Deep Perception draws on analytic, continental, and Eastern philosophy to argue that direct perceptions of the being or essential character of a person, thing, or situation are possible. These perceptions are also enactments of our own being. Jeremy Barris explores their nature, logic, and practice.

This book explores Ngugi wa Thiong'o's epistemic journey from a communalist, communist, nationalist, post-colonial theorist, and ultimately an established decolonial spokesperson of the Global South. This book offers a fresh perspective for scholars and readers interested in decolonial theory and African philosophy.

The Meaning of Death: A Philosophical Investigation analyzes death and dying, the biotechnical quest for immortality, the afterlife, and the rational of self-chosen death. Life is valuable not only because of its uniqueness and unrepeatability, but also because of its finitude. Death bestows value on life.

This book presents a speculative analysis of G.W. Leibniz's theory of relations through the lens of his theory of folds. Jeff Lambert argues that Leibniz's approach to folds and relations are connected through a common operation of inclusion that ultimately produces a unique form of "intimacy" for related subjects.

Paul Ricoeur and Environmental Philosophy expands the scope of Ricoeur's hermeneutics to issues of environmental philosophy and discusses the ways in which Ricoeur's hermeneutics has the potential to restructure the discourse and dialogue surrounding environmental issues.

Questions surrounding the nature of artistic communication are often approached from one angle, such as linguistics, art theory, evolutionary biology, or philosophy. Art as Communication takes a new approach, one that combines disciplines and centers its account on the theory of communication known as the sender-receiver model.

Through a varied selection of novels, films, rap and stand-up comedy, Emma Chebinou exposes the necessity in examining negative stigmas created by the institutional discourse and by space and gives a broader interpretation of the banlieue.

The environmental histories of Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans provide provocative case studies of the role of water in shaping urban realms and political ecologies. This book discovers common ground for rethinking the futures of these places in the impact of colonialization on indigenous American bioregions and hydro-social territories.

This book argues that composition studies has not adequately addressed the complex contexts and causes of student resistance. The author highlights ways for instructors to understand the origins and purpose for a student's resistance, before giving students the tools to uncover and investigate their reasons for resistance themselves.

This book explores the relationship between romantic love and personal identity by examining work in both areas by philosophers in the continental and analytic traditions. Foster finds a promising connection between love and identity in the Sartrean influenced notion of embodied love.

This book examines the collective action of the courageous family members of the disappeared amidst Mexico's ongoing humanitarian crisis.

This book critiques how wolves and other animals thought unlikeable are negatively portrayed and become targets of violence in materials directed toward young consumers. The author counters these portrayals by discussing materials that articulate harmonious animal-human interrelationships.

This book is a timely examination of contemporary US political culture and communication and the specific forces, factors, and dynamics that have contributed to the increasing democratic dysfunction and violence. The four key vectors in the 4P theoretical model are (1) post-truth; (2) polarization; (3) [social media] platform; and (4) populism.