This book asserts that there is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, or politically engaged entertainers appear in public, they make or constitute political representation by performing it…

How do we - and how should we - engage with the natural environment through the concepts of rights and responsibilities? Michael Cox develops a theory and practice of environmental…

Contemporary Security Studies offers a uniquely engaging introduction to Security Studies, addressing key theories and contemporary issues in the field. A team of expert scholars strikes a careful balance between…

This book illustrates that mediated popular culture and science-based knowledge systems, entangled and compromised as both have become, are still a robust crucible for system change for the future when…

"This book presents pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism and sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism"--

Investigates the ways German-speaking Europe's cultural narratives reflect histories of entanglement with the colonial world. Drawing from an impressive range of sources, Patricia Anne Simpson decodes the ironclad colonial logic…

Since the explosion of the buzzword "globalization" in academic and public discourse more than thirty years ago, theoretical explorations of worldwide interconnectivities and mobilities have proliferated across major academic disciplines…

Upper level textbook on the science and technologies needed for renewable energy. It looks at energy transmitted from the sun as radiation through the Earth's atmosphere. The book covers turbine…