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This book examines employers' role in creating, upholding, and legitimating race-gender inequality on trains, planes, and cruise ships and focuses on employer's actions and statements related to racial and gender hierarchies among their workers.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship: Recentering the Voices of Marginalized Communities in Africa analyzes the limitations of top-down intervention programs designed by the state to address the problem of unemployment among marginalized communities in Africa and foregrounds the centrality of IKS in fostering entrepreneurship. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Innocent Moyo, and Lethiwe Zondo examine the solutions to these problems within the ongoing debate on decolonization of knowledge and epistemic justice. The contributors argue that when the voices of the marginalized communities are taken into consideration in the design of employment and entrepreneurship policies, there are possibilities that such policies could be more effective, affirming the agency and rights within these communities. Using case studies and theoretical research, this book investigates how a better engagement with marginalized communities and indigenous knowledges in the design of entrepreneurship and employment policies could foster more positive outcomes? This book enriches the conversation on how recentering the voices of indigenous youths in the design of entrepreneurship programs can be done in due regard to the interests, priorities, and challenges of the communities.

Through a series of African case studies, this book critically examines the complexities of recent resource discoveries of mineral, oil, and gas to determine whether Africa stands on the cusp of a post-resource-curse era or if historical patterns of the resource paradox will continue to persist.

This book investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music festivals, city parades, rural rituals, and contemporary bachelorette parties, this volume creates a rich panorama of Poland's cultural, social, and political transformations.

This book offers various cases of "literary recycling" that set the term free from the derogatory vision that associates it with repetition and creative exhaustion. It studies recycling as a transformative process breathing new life into the remnants of the literary text and generating new circuits of meanings.

This book takes the city of Trieste as a starting point to think critically and comparatively about migration, border regimes, and memories of displacement.

For too long, the human heart has been treated as no more than a physical organ that pumps blood. Recently, scientific evidence has emerged to show the heart is so much more. Zara Yacob's Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism adds to the groundbreaking argument that the heart is also a thinking organ, a function that is always attributed to the human brain. The argument is marshalled with evidence and spiritual compartment. Following an insight from seventeenth-century Ethiopian philosopher Zara Yacob, and in conversation with both Kemetian (ancientEgyptian) thought on the philosophical status of the human heart and contemporary discussions on the hard problem of consciousness, Teodros Kiros argues that the heart is both a physical organ that pumps blood and a spiritual organ that originates thoughts, which it shares with the brain. Together they empower us to be compassionate, empathetic, generous, and sincere.

This collection explores the shift in focus towards South Korea as a beacon of future societies, and examines South Korea's transformation into a smart country with advanced industrial capitalism and explosive soft and hard power effects, positioning it as a key architect of societies to come.

This book demonstrates the intersection of poetry and the practice of Jungian analysis through the metaphor. It enriches language in the emotionally alive psychoanalytic process and establishes that interpretation uses the metaphorical process in the client and the analyst to restore the diminished metaphor capacity.

Consisting of contributions from international scholars in diverse fields, Beauclair and Toth's collection asks how humanity might free "nature" from the demands of human action and human thought without mendaciously reinscribing humanity's distance from it or denying a proximity that is only traversable by artificial means.

This work critically examines the influence of Western multinational companies in South Asia. The author analyzes television commercials and demographics in Bangladesh, arguing that companies exploit cultural differences to create deceptive advertising in developing countries and revealing a symbiotic relationship between stakeholders.

Digital Technology and Communication Policy in Korea: From Infrastructure to Artificial Intelligence explores the overlap of politics, policy, and digital development in Korea. Despite attention to digital development and its socio-economic effects across the nation, more research must be devoted to studying how Korean communication policymakers and authorities have coped with innovative technologies and a rapidly changing communication landscape. Chang Yong Son argues that communications policymakers must balance regulatory safety and security commitments against the promotion of innovation and growth in the communication market. Scholars of communication, media studies, technology studies, and Asian studies will find this book of particular interest.

Education and International Development, 2000-2020 advances the claim that there exists a liberal theory of international education. The author argues that the assumed harmony of this model is the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development.

The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher's filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer.

This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under the Stalinist rule. It is written as a group biography of five authors, whose literary home was in Kyiv, the capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1934 to 1991.

This book examines psychedelic rave music and culture with an emphasis on the multiday phantasmagoric festivals.

Concentrating on economic incentives, climate extremes, and fear of violence factors, this book presents a complete picture of what happens to migrants from the time they leave to the time they arrive in the United States-as well as the difficulties encountered by those deported back to their countries of origin.

This book explores Africa's complex environmental security issue using a multidisciplinary, historical, regional, theoretical, and spatial approach. The scope and gravity of the topics explored by the contributors illustrate why environmental security is an existential threat to the development and survival of Africa.

Drawing on theories of affective governance, securitization, surveillance, and neoliberal risk management, this book analyzes efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities.

This book explores entrepreneurship as both a pathway out of poverty and a vehicle for enhancing personal well-being.

This anthology outlines a cadre of alt-right groups, conspiracy theories, and other forms of stigmatized knowledge threatening our society and presents a compelling case for the continued relevancy of the Frankfurt School of Critical Social Theory.

This book explores science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect.

This book makes the case for a new theorisation of Song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act, one that has implications for songwriters, scholars, and the way in which we think about music and song.

Through the work of three politically persecuted women writers and two modern poets, this book analyzes loss in contemporary Albanian literature explored in relation to pain, grief, memory, death and freedom, questioning the meeting point between life writing and poetry, and the point where they part ways.

In the early 20th century, Pacific Rim governments urgently needed to rethink European colonialism. Aschenbrenner explains the strange history of 'adaptation to survive' that marked the struggle between arriving and resident populations in Australia, Japan and Canada and in the US territories (Hawaii and Alaska) from 1850 to 1974.

Refiguring the Sacred offers perspectives on Ricoeur's life-long reflections about religion. This collection includes two essays by Ricoeur and new interpretations of some of his most significant writings by several noted Ricoeur scholars.

This book discusses herbal medicine, indigenous governance, and judiciary among the Swahili, Kamba, and Kikuyu communities of East Africa as well as the role which African languages play in preserving these indigenous knowledge forms.

This book identifies and parses through ten domains of equality. The book explores the meta question how a state might govern itself to maximize equality for all. It provides an understanding of equality, its importance, and what is required to pursue and establish equality in a democratic state.

Using works by Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman as illustrations of blackness and literature in the early twentieth century, the author investigates how these works reflect Black Americans' changing views during the New Negro, the Harlem Renaissance, and Harlem's Literati movements.

David Apolloni defends a modern version of Plato's argument for the immortality of the soul and argues the soul is non-physical. The book also defends a version of Gödel's ontological argument for God's existence. Using the results, he supports accounts of the afterlife from those who have had near-death experiences.