How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration? As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster reach unprecedented levels worldwide, states also step up their mechanisms of border control. In this, they rely on digital technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, ......
This book examines politics and international relations in Central Europe three decades after the fall of communism. It analyzes some of the most recent trends, including the European disagreements on migration and multiculturalism, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on political discourses in the region.
Deuteronomy's core theology expressed in the Shema forms the structure of the book: What does it mean to "hear"? Who is "all Israel"? How does the identity of the one Lord shape ethics? The competence to be God's people, to know God, and to do God's will comes only through hearing the transforming Word of God in Scripture.
As Europe goes astray, deeply conflicted about where it is both within and with the world, it does not know what it wants to know about, or do, with the racial subject. It is into this context of anxiety, and the Muslim subject as its most intense source, that I write Islamophobia. Islamophobia represents not merely a species of the racism ......
The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations
Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parson...
Covers the important finds at Tall al-'Umayri, an archaeological dig site in western Jordan, in 2006. Includes a summary of the cumulative results of all excavation seasons to date, from 1984 through 2006.
This edited collection enriches scholarship on Arendt by considering her contributions to and reflections on the history of thought. The chapters bring Arendt into new conversations with her contemporaries, as well as examining the themes of Arendt's writing in light of her engagement with philosophical and literary history.
Towards a Realist Philosophy of History argues for the radical-at least in contemporary historical theory-view that historians are by and large successful in their goal of providing accurate knowledge and understanding about the historical past.
A protracted Rohingya crisis is not desirable, both from the host country's and international community perspectives. Thus, a precise understanding of ongoing predicaments might persuade others to engage in early crisis intervention, resulting in a negotiated conflict resolution.
