Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
"This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about ......
This monograph offers a close reading of the financial story of Netflix, exposing the central importance of narrativity, performative language, and affect, which drive the speculative worlds of global finance, technology, and now television.
Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
This book examines play and religion in American literature, exploring a unique kind of modern piety that arises not based on fixed doctrines or ecclesiastical structures, but on a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly adapts to new perspectives and revises fixed assumptions in the light of new experiences.
"This edited collection analyzes trends of corruption in countries throughout the Americas. The contributors examine the main actors involved in corruption as well as the linkages between organized crime and state institutions"--
Creation as Participation in Augustine and Aquinas
Ge argues that by transforming participatory ontology in light of creatio ex nihilo, Augustine and Aquinas have developed a distinctively Christian metaphysics that offers a promising solution to the modern dialectic of the One and the Many.
"Decolonizing Queer Experience draws from research around the post-socialist world to argue that understanding LGBT+ experience in the region cannot be limited to oppression and violence. Using a decolonizing lens, the contributors explore performance, identity, and political affiliations as essential parts of LGBT+ communities"--
Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine
This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.
Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War. The contributors demonstrate the importance of the Soviet Union to the neutral states of Europe during the Cold War and vice versa.
"A engaging dialogue with the modern "axionoetic" proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relationality. This relationship Whitehead calls "mutual immanence.""--
