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Combining an ethnographic gaze with insights from urban planning, architecture, geography, social sciences, and migration studies, this book invites us to look closer at the interactions between people, practices, and places as migrants land in Europe.

This book investigates the concept of human dignity in relation to our present world system of wars, economic injustice, and pervasive environmental destruction. It shows how and why an understanding of human dignity grounded on dignity can truly transform our human condition into one of freedom, peace, justice, and sustainability.

This volume brings together specialists from different disciplines and continents to discuss descriptive/diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics tools and how they might be used to investigate 'black swan' occurrences like the COVID-19-related worldwide catastrophe and the ramifications for managers and policymakers.

This book weaves the stories of activists, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars who shaped Little Saigon in Orange County, California, into a cherished haven for Vietnamese refugees. Each narrative resonates with a history of pain, beauty, disunity, solidarity, failure, and resilience, reimagining community building through storytelling in the US.

In The Fundamental Voter, John H. Aldrich, Suhyen Bae, and Bailey K. Sanders explain why the notion that we are divided into tribal loyalties is, at best, only partially correct, and discuss how the divisions rest on much more substantive politics than they once did. In the past, the American public based voting primarily on partisan loyalties; today they do so on five fundamental forces: party, ideology, issues, race, and economics. Since the 1980s, these fundamentals have grown increasingly important, such that voters are now sorted into two bitterly divided sides. Voters have come to deeply dislike the opposition, a state of affairs that threatens the peaceful progress of democratic politics in the United States.

From a global historical perspective and drawing on a vast array of sources, this innovative study of cultural nationalism in British India discusses Romantic nationalist traits such as the relationship between language and identity, historicism, artistic revivalism and hero worship.

Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs examines teaching and research practices under feminist new materialisms and response-ability through literary and visual products. It is an invaluable resource to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in literary, film, and feminist studies.

This volume highlights and examines how Indigenous Peoples continue to inhabit the world in counter-modern ways. It illustrates how communalist practices and cooperative priorities of many Indigenous communities are simultaneously key to their cultural survival while being most vulnerable to post-colonial erasure.

Revised and updated, this book reverses the tendency in gender studies to portray men as villains and women as victims in a bi-polar paradigm, presenting data and studies from the US, Canada and the UK in the development of a comparative and revised perspective on gender.