This book examines two sites of destruction that have been physically transformed through acts of cultural destruction and their contested reconfiguration in new, highly politicized contexts. In 1993,
This book explores military intervention in Libya through the categories of space and time, to provide a robust ethico-political critique of the intervention. The author questions the ways in which mi
This book challenges the prevailing metro-centric view of globalization. Cities are a crucial part of the infrastructure of globalization, yet in the so-called "developing" world, cities have largely
In Japan, people often refer to August 15, 1945 as the end of "that war." But the duration of "that war" remains vague. At times, it refers to the fifteen years of war in the Asia-Pacific. At others,
This book offers a systematic and detailed analysis of the integration of gay and lesbian personnel into state militaries, and the implications of this for feminist scholarship. Existing research in t
In this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the ‘homosexual propaganda’ laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role o
Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume, Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to
This book defines a posthuman approach as one that has a starting point in complexity thinking, promotes a non-Newtonian approach to the study of the social world, and advocates a non-anthropocentric
In the face of the late modern crisis of Western science and culture, The Analogical Turn recovers Nicholas of Cusa's alternative vision of modernity, and, in doing so, develops a fresh perspective on
While many of his generation saw their fortunes revived with the Second Vatican Council, Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) remained marginalized until far more recent years, but n
Sharp, thoughtful critique of a highly respected theologianStanley Hauerwas?s work is well known and much admired, but Nicholas Healy believes that it has not yet been subjected to the kind of sustain
