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Hikers have been walking the Appalachian Trail since 1948, when Earl Shaffer completed the first hike. Some hike just to enjoy the scenery, while others experience the trek as a spiritual journey. In American Camino: Walking as Spiritual Practice on the Appalachian Trail, Kip Redick engages in a phenomenological exploration of the relationship between long-distance hiking-in this case, hiking the Appalachian Trail-and spiritual pilgrimage. Thi...

In this book, Sarah Mayberry Scott analyzes contemporary films to investigate how the history and values of the Deaf world provides opportunities for how the concepts of voice, silence, and listening can be expanded to include a diverse plurality of embodied experiences.

Unlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as "Imperial." It is in contrast with Plato-a teacher whose dialogues challenge his students to think for themselves-that William H. F. Altman presents Plotinus as a master, who uses a seductive form of rhetoric throughout the Enneads to persuade his disciples to ignore...

The authors compare the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public opinion and the dynamics of party politics in Taiwan, along with some of its strategic neighbors. The book provides profound implications for understanding the interactions between the COVID-19 pandemic and politics for scholars worldwide.

While much focus has been placed on Black Lives Matter activism in response to police and civilian murders of Black men and women, the contributors argue that Black activism in this era has addressed a broader range of issues in a wide array of settings, both on the street and inside institutions and communities. This Era of Black Activism includes chapters on this era of Black activism from 2000-2022. It describes how previous activism has in...

Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying how names function and convey meaning in works of literature and in genres including poetry, novels, science fiction, and fantasy.

This book offers contemporary perspectives on the different forms of gender-based violence in Africa through a legal, cultural, and sociological lens.

This book explores and explains unsustainable mass consumption in affluent contexts by stressing the social nature of consumption.

The book provides analysis of causes of democratic backsliding in Poland. The authors propose to take a closer look at historical and identity aspects, economic factors, social and political polarization, institutions, parties and role of external factors (e.g. European Union) - as issues strongly contributing to this process.

Through an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the multi-layered dimensions of Germany and Korea's historical and contemporary relations and interactions as witnessed in migration flows, media representations, cultural trends, and the field of academia.

A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars surveys the history of the Tatar people living along the Volga river and argues that the Volga Tatars were Russia's first colonized people.

In international politics, states often strive to maintain their position through either cooperation or force. Soft power theory has emerged as a non-violent approach for states to achieve national interest by utilizing intangible resources. China and India have both successfully employed soft power strategies to expand their influence, , and Pakistan is a relevant case study for examining the soft power of China and India, as it neighbors of ...

HIV Endurance: Women's Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging offers an autoethnographic analysis of the lived experience of disclosing HIV to others, incorporating HIV into one's identity, challenging HIV stigma, and aging with HIV. Charlene F. D'Amore combines her autoethnographic writing with the voices of seventeen other HIV positive women. The women offer advice to others on disclosing HIV, coping with HIV, challenging HIV stigma through educat...

The Ethics of Animal Beauty provides a novel account of the aesthetics of animals and explores the ethical implications of recognizing and admiring their beauty. Samantha Vice argues that animation, the aesthetic property of being an individual with a subjective perspective on the world, is fundamental to any meaningful appreciation of animal beauty. If we properly appreciate animation, we are called on to respond to animals with respect, care...

A Culturally-Centered and Intersectional Approach to Reproductive Justice investigates and challenges assumptions and pre-existing notions regarding reproductive justice by grounding this work in a more inclusive and culturally informed context. Throughout history, contributors argue, reproductive justice movements have centered white, cisgendered, and non-disabled women in the West. Along with women in the Global South being underrepresented ...

Police violence is spiraling out of control all across the globe. Towards Anti-policing dares to imagine what kind of world might be possible in the absence of policing and clears a radical path for communities to follow beyond the long, dark shadow of the thin blue line.

The rise of the Internet and mobile phone usage can work in support of traffickers, helping them to keep a low profile and facilitating human trafficking rings on a global scale-especially for commercial sex exploitation, where traffickers use the Internet as a tool to target vulnerable women and children. Based on the theoretical and empirical evidence from Northeast India, Use of Social Networking Technology in Sex Trafficking leads the way ...

This book studies the interactions between presidential candidates and hosts on broadcast late-night talk shows in the United States. Using Discourse Analysis, we develop a comprehensive understanding of the Entertainment-Political Interview as a cultural, interactional, and ideological genre.

Freshly out from under French colonial rule in 1960, the West African nation of Dahomey (now Benin) became home to the largest number of coups d'état in history, earning the reputation of the "sick child of Africa." Country politics eventually aligned with Marxist and socialist ideologies stimulating French opposition that resulted in mercenary intervention. Opération Crevette: Benin, Mercenaries, and the Survival of a New State brings togethe...

This volume offers distinct insights from local feminist scholars into Russia's conflict in Ukraine, with a particular emphasis on its gendered dimensions, shedding light on often marginalized perspectives. It amplifies the voices of typically silenced communities, unveiling their experiences amidst the events of the war.