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Microenseñanza como estrategia de mejora en la práctica docente
Authors: López Madrid Linda Citlalli , Duarte Pérez Teresita de Jesús , Garibay López Jesús Leobardo
Published: July 2024

La práctica docente ha presentado cambios a través del tiempo, cambios que están en constante adaptación de estrategias acordes con las necesidades de la sociedad. Una de las estrategias implementadas con el propósito de mantener en línea a estos cambios al personal docente, ha sido la microenseñanza. Esta estrategia ha sido implementada con éxito en diversos centros educativos y prestigiosas Universidades. Hasta la actualidad se han podido sumar ya más de 60 años y gracias a su poder transformador, mantiene vigencia y efectividad. Los objetivos del presente estudio son identificar las áreas de oportunidad en la práctica docente de los maestrantes de la 16 generación de la Maestría en Docencia en Ciencias de la Salud mediante la implementación de un taller de microenseñanza. De la misma manera, se pretende desarrollar en esta población de profesores, habilidades que favorezcan su labor docente. Para ello, se realizó una intervención educativa en la que se explican los momentos y elementos de cualquier clase áulica ordinaria en la intensión de que se conozcan tales elementos y momentos para que de esa manera puedan ser desarrollados de manera cabal. Metodología: La muestra se compone por ocho maestrantes, quienes realizaron presentación de clases de cinco minutos en tres sesiones, posterior a ello una autoevaluación y coevaluación. En los resultados se identificaron las fortalezas y las áreas de oportunidad. La conclusión hace evidente que se recomienda seguir la implementación de esta práctica como método de evaluación personal para seguir la mejora continua en la práctica docente.
ANALISIS TINGKAT PEMAHAMAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP PELAKSANAAN ZAKAT PERTANIAN DI DESA NGALI KECAMATAN BELO KABUPATEN BIMA
Authors: Samusiah Samusiah , Fathurrahman Fathurrahman , Katman Muhammad Nasri
Published: July 2024

Latar belakang dari penelitian ini adalah zakat merupakan rukun Islam yang wajib dilaksanakan bila sudah tiba nisab dan haulnya. Zakat pertanian adalah sala satu zakat yang wajib dikeluarkan pada masa panen dan nisabnya sama dengan padi. Pemahaman merupakan kemampuan menerangkan dan menginterprestasikan sesuatu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat pemahaman masyarakat di Desa Ngali Kecamatan Belo Kabupaten Bima terhadap zakat pertanian. Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah. Bagaimana tingkat pemahaman masyarakat di Desa Ngali Kecamatan
 
 
Belo Kabupaten Bima terhadap zakat pertanian . Subjek penelitian ini adalah masyarakat Desa Ngali Kecamatan Belo Kabupaten Bima sedangkan objek dalam penelitian pemahaman masyrakat terhadap zakat pertanian di Desa Ngali Kecamatan Belo Kabupaten Bima. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah jenis lapagan. Sumber data yang digunakan adalah data primer dan sekunder. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data adalah obsevasi, angket dan dokumentasi, Untuk menganalisi data menggunakan metode deskriptif  kualitatif. Jumlah populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah 229 orang mengunakan rumus slovin, berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang menujukan melalui jawaban responden dapat disimpulkan, analisis pemahaman masyarakat terhadap zakat pertanian di Desa Ngali Kecamatan Belo Kabupaten bima banyak menjawab “baik” tentang zakat pertanian degan presentase 64.70% diperlukan sosialisasi kepada masyarakat agar masyarakat memahami zakat pertanian.
MANAJEMEN PEMBERDAYAAN EKONOMI BERBASIS PONDOK PESANTREN: STUDI DI PONDOK PESANTREN DARUL QUR’AN AT-TAQWA DDI JAMPUE KABUPATEN PINRANG
Authors: Heriyani Heriyani , Putra Trisno Wardy , Masse Rahman Ambo
Published: July 2024

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis bagaimana perencanaan, pelaksanaan dan pengawasan pemberdayaan ekonomi di pondok pesantren Darul Qur’an At-Taqwa Ddi Jampue Kabupaten Pinrang. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan yaitu “kualitatif” dengan menggunakan pendekatan “fenomenologi. Adapun sumber data penelitian adalah
pimpinan pondok dan pengelola usaha pesantren. Selanjutnya metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Kemudian teknik pengelolaan dan analisis data terdapat tiga tahapan: pengumpulan data, pengolahan data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa saat ini pondok pesantren Darul Qur’an At-Taqwa Ddi Jampue Kabupaten Pinrang belum efektif dalam menjalankan manajemen pemberdayaan ekonominya. Perencanaan pemberdayaan ekonomi belum terstruktur dengan baik, termasuk dalam hal penentuan tugas dan tanggung jawab, serta kejelasan visi dan misi, namun pada tahap pelaksanaan kegiatan ekonomi di pondok pesantren telah berjalan dengan baik, walaupun dana yang diperoleh masih belum mampu sepenuhnya mendukung pemberdayaan pesantren. Untuk pengawasan di pondok ini telah dilakukan dengan cukup baik, mereka telah membentuk tim pengawas dan mengadakan rapat secara berkala. Implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah: a) Bagi pihak pesantren dan pengelola usaha pondok pesantren Darul Qur’an At-Taqwa DDI Jampue Kabupaten Pinrang agar dapat menggali lebih jauh potensi usaha yang dapat dikembangkan di daerahnya untuk memberikan kesempatan kepada seluruh santri yang ada di pondok pesantren. b) Bagi santri dan santriwati supaya lebih aktif dan antusias dalam proses pemberdayaan ekonomi, karena pelatihan keterampilan finansial merupakan nilai tambah yang bisa didapat dari pesantren
ANALISIS PERILAKU KONTROL DIRI DENGAN IMPULSIVE BUYING PADA MAHASISWA PENGGUNA PLATFORM TIKTOK SHOP DI UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI WALISONGO
Authors: Fitriani Nova , Adhavia Febrina Beta , Melia Dea , Zikrinawati Khairani , Fahmy Zulfa
Published: July 2024

Pembelian impulsif merupakan pembelian yang terjadi secara tiba-tiba tanpa direncanakan terlebih dahulu. Saat sedang berlangsung biasanya seseorang terlihat untuk memiliki suatu barang secara menggebu-gebu dengan rasa bahagia dan bergairah. Dengan adanya kontrol diri seseorang mampu mengarahkan dan mengantar perilaku dengan kuat sehingga meminimalkan resiko negatif yang terjadi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis adanya kontrol diri terhadap pembelian impulsif pada mahasiswi Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif yaitu penelitian yang menggambarkan atau mendeskripsikan objek yang akan diteliti. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah 5 mahasiswi dalam kategori usia 18 tahun - 25 tahun. Penelitian ini secara umum dapat disimpulkan bahwa bahwa para mahasiswi UIN Walisongo Semarang melakukan pembelian di platform tik tok dengan alasan yang beragam. Pada subjek Y, Subjek P, Subjek X memiliki kontrol diri yang baik dalam memutuskan pembelian suatu produk. Sedangkan pada subjek L dan subjek S memiliki perilaku kontrol diri yang lemah dalam memutuskan pembelian suatu produk karena mudah terpengaruh oleh fitur platform tik-tok. Mahasiswi menunjukkan pemberian impulsif seperti membeli dan melihat barang-barang menarik yang dipajang di platform tiktok shop kemudian dimasukkan keranjang untuk check out. Mereka mudah terganggu oleh stimulus yang ada, selain itu pada umumnya para mahasiswi melakukan pembelian impulsif karena mereka memiliki motif tertarik terhadap warna, model, harga, diskon, kebutuhan serta ketidakmampuannya menghentikan diri sehingga ia ragu dan menambah jumlah barang yang dibeli untuk menghindari kesalahan. Selain itu alasan mereka melakukan perilaku pembelian impulsif karena mudah dipengaruhi oleh orang lain terkait informasi sehingga pembelian berlangsung tanpa ada pertimbangan.
DAMPAK HARGA LOGISTIK YANG TINGGI BAGI KOMODITI BERAS
Authors: Nurakhdan Radithya , Dwihanggara Maynard Dias , Pratama Iqbal Ardyas , Wikansari Rinandita
Published: July 2024

Penelitian ini fokus pada evaluasi dampak dari biaya logistik yang tinggi terhadap perdagangan beras di Indonesia dalam konteks perkembangan industri yang pesat dan era digital 4.0. Data harga beras dari berbagai negara diolah untuk menelaah keterkaitannya dengan biaya logistik. Temuan utama menegaskan bahwa biaya logistik yang tinggi di Indonesia menghambat proses ekspor-impor beras, terutama pada tahap pengadaannya. Faktor-faktor seperti biaya transportasi, penyimpanan, dan administrasi logistik berperan dalam mengubah dinamika perdagangan beras. Perbandingan biaya pengiriman antarnegara memperlihatkan kesulitan yang dihadapi industri logistik Indonesia, dengan proporsi biaya logistik terhadap PDB yang masih tinggi jika dibandingkan dengan negara tetangga. Kekurangan infrastruktur logistik, defisit sumber daya manusia yang terampil, dan sistem distribusi yang kurang efisien juga menjadi pemicu utama biaya logistik yang tinggi di Indonesia. Karena itu, langkah-langkah konkret dari pemerintah sangat dibutuhkan untuk memperbaiki infrastruktur dan sistem logistik, guna mereduksi biaya logistik yang tinggi agar perdagangan dan stabilitas harga beras terjamin di Indonesia.
The Legal Exhibitionist
Authors: Silverman Joel
Published: July 2024

Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration—what he called “exhibitionism”—to transcend his insecurities and his part-time legal training to become one of America’s most famous lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1933 cemented Ernst’s reputation as the top progressive attorney of the era. To promote himself, Ernst befriended newspaper writers, authors, actors, politicians, and practically anyone whose work carried some weight in popular culture. But his hunger for respect and recognition, together with his need for excitement, led Ernst to lavish praise on J. Edgar Hoover and to publicly defend—and profit from—a Dominican dictator. In the process, Ernst undermined his own credibility and largely fell out of favor with the public. By examining key moments of his life and career, The Legal Exhibitionist: Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer describes how Ernst’s exhibitionism led to his rise and fall and suggests how his strategy of exaggeration anticipated the emergence of today’s celebrity lawyers.
Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style
Authors: Belliotti Raymond Angelo
Published: July 2024

This is an interdisciplinary work that philosophically analyzes concepts such as heroism; practical wisdom; honor; Nietzsche’s notions of will to power, the overman, and the three metamorphoses; Plato’s understanding of love; creating meaning in life; the issue of morally dirty hands in political administration; the relationship between political means and ends; the proper role of positive duties in society; the aspirations of grand strivers; and the linkages between biological, biographical, and autobiographical lives, all in the context of explaining and evaluating the lives and works of fourteen historically significant Italian: Gaius Julius Caesar, Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri, Caterina Sforza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Francesca Cabrini, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Antonio Gramsci, Salvatore Giuliano, Oriana Fallaci, Giovanni Falcone, and Paolo Borsellino.

By dissecting the lives and philosophies of the figures discussed in this work, by extracting moral, political, and existential lessons from their aspirations and enterprises, by reflecting on their ideals from the vantage point of our divergent social context, by evaluating their virtues and vices from a wider perspective, and by confronting the conceptual puzzles and social impediments hampering the exercise of practical wisdom and heroism, we may confront the people that we are and reimagine the people we might become.
Light As Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
Authors: Herrstrom David S.
Published: July 2024

In Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, David S. Herrstrom synthesizes and interprets the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from medieval to modern times. The true subject of the book is making sense of the individual’s relationship with light, rather than the investigation of light’s essential nature, while telling the story of light “seducing” individuals from the Middle Ages to our modern times. Consequently, it is not concerned with the “progress” of scientific inquiries into the physical properties and behavior of light (optical science), but rather with subjective reactions as reflected in art, architecture, and literature. Instead of its evolution, this book celebrates the complexity of our relation to light’s character. No individual experience of light being “truer” than any other.
Trump and Mussolini
Authors: Hostert Anna Camaiti , Cicchino Enzo Antonio
Published: July 2024

Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists compares two historic men of power and influence, Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini, to analyze the commonality of practices and mannerisms between the two. From rhetoric to body language, to their control over oral and written communication and analogous power strategies, they both possess an unusual talent for new technologies which they utilize to their advantage in unique moments in history. Mussolini lived at the beginning of mass society, Trump at the height of social media, both controversial leaders finding means to utilize these periods of time and the tools surrounding them to further their own agendas and influence society, culture, and authority. The authors examine a plethora of topics and themes such as outward personalities and consuming charisma, means and tools of communication and propaganda, and treatment of women, just to name a few, in order to define the relationship and similarities between these two controversial figures.

This book was written before the Capitol Hill assault on January 6th 2021. Mussolini in November 1922 in front of the Parliament said: “I could have made a bivouac of this gloomy gray hall: I could have shut down the Parliament and formed a Government exclusively of Fascists; I could have done so, but I did not wish to do so, at least not at this moment.” Trump, however never said anything like this, but indeed, tried to do it.
Marco Paolini
Authors: Perissinotto Cristina
Published: July 2024

Marco Paolini: A Deep Map breaks new ground in the field of Italian political theatre by outlining the unique approach of one of Italy’s most celebrated playwrights, Marco Paolini, whose work has hitherto remained mostly inaccessible to English-speaking audiences. This book is the first substantial study of Paolini’s corpus in English. Additionally, it offers an in-depth analysis of Paolini’s unique methods by focusing on the recovery of collective cultural memory through theatre and in-depth historical and political context. Author Cristina Perissinotto engages critically with art and politics in Italy specifically but also considers implications and relevance on a global scale. Perissinotto’s multidisciplinary approach simultaneously draws upon memory studies, history, and poetry. She demonstrates how Paolini’s plays use techniques already in use to ancient Greek theatre, which called for the engagement of actors in political commentary from the stage, connecting them directly with the public on social and ethical issues.
The Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy
Authors: Pedersen Kusumita P.
Published: July 2024

This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), who became well known during his lifetime as the exponent of a dynamic spirituality of integral transformation, which he set forth in an extensive body of writings in both prose and poetry, mostly in English but also in his native Bengali. He held that all fields of human endeavor can be venues of spiritual transformation when founded in aspiration and contemplative practice. He is noted not only as a spiritual teacher but also as an advocate of peace, a composer and musician, an artist and a sportsman who created innovative programs promoting self-transcendence and understanding between people of all cultures and walks of life. This study of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy refers to these diverse activities, especially in the biographical first chapter, but is mainly based on his written works. The book’s aim is to give to the reader a straightforward and unembroidered account of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy. It makes every attempt to allow Sri Chinmoy to speak for himself in his own words, and thus provides ample quotation and draws on his poetic works as much as on his other writings.
Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture
Authors: McCree J. Woodrow
Published: July 2024

Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture: Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship challenges long-standing views of Washington Irving. He has been portrayed as writing in the 18th century style of Addison and Goldsmith, without having much substance of his own. Irving has also been accused of being insufficiently American and adrift in an identity crisis. The author argues that Irving addressed the American cultural context very extensively—he was a writer of substance who articulated an ethic of world citizenship that was found in the philosophy of ancient Greek cynics and stoics. This ethic was united with a love of picturesque travel, which emphasized variety and texture in experience, resulting in an extraordinary affirmation of the value of cultural diversity in the new Republic. Irving was, in fact, a liminal figure straddling Romantic and neoclassical modes of writing and acting. The author draws attention to Irving’s success as a writer in the pictorial mode. Irving also expressed a critique of cultural loss and environmental destruction like that articulated by the artist Thomas Cole. The work embraces an interdisciplinary approach, where insights from philosophy, religion, art history, and social history shed light on an underestimated writer.
Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects
Authors: Sheikh Faraz Masood
Published: July 2024

What forms can a religiously informed, ethical Muslim life take? This book presents two important accounts of ideal Muslim subjectivity, one by 9th century moral pedagogue, al-Harith al-Muhasibi (d. 857) and the other by 20th century Kurdish Quran scholar, Said Nursi (d. 1960). It reconstructs Muhasibi’s and Nursi’s accounts of ideal Muslim consciousness and analyzes the discursive practices implicated in its formation and expression. The book discusses the range of psychic states and ethical relations that Muhasibi and Nursi consider critical for living an authentically Muslim life. It highlights the importance of discursive practices in Muslim religious and moral self-production. The author draws on Foucault's insights about ethics and practices of self-care to examine familiar Muslim discourses in ways that enrich contemporary conversations about identity, individuality, community, authority, moral agency and virtue in the fields of religious studies, Islamic studies and Muslim ethics. The book deepens our understanding of the fluidity and fragility of both the more familiar, obligation-centered ethics in Islamic thought and the less familiar, belief-centered modes of religio-moral being.
Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials
Authors: Hobbs Priscilla
Published: July 2024

The publication of the Harry Potter series in the United States coincided with the coming-of-age of its main target audience, the millennial generation. Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the appeal of Harry became a lifestyle, a moral compass, and a guiding light in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony. As a new phenomenon at the time, Harry Potter provided comfort through the heroism of the main characters, showing that perseverance and “constant vigilance,” to quote one of the professors, could overcome the darkest of times. Hobbs argues that Harry Potter prepared an entire generation for the chaotic present marked by the 2016 Election and 2020 Pandemic by shaping the political attitudes of its readers, many of whom were developing their political identities alongside Harry. Her analysis focuses on both the novels themselves and the ways in which fans connected globally through the Internet to discuss the books, commiserate about the events swirling around them, and answer calls to action through Harry Potter-inspired activism. In short, Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials examines how Harry Potter became a generation's defining mythology of love, unity, and transformation.
Postrevolutionary Iran
Authors: Asaadi R. R.
Published: July 2024

How is Iran governed? Is the state accountable to its society? How have Iran’s political institutions evolved since the 1979 revolution? In short, Postrevolutionary Iran: the Leader, the People, and the Three Powers argues that the answers to these critical questions are neither as certain nor as fixed as much of the existing literature on this topic would lead one to believe. Part 1 of the book (chapters 1–3) analyzes what Iran’s Constitution refers to as “the Three Powers”: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government along with the unique mediating institutions of the Guardian and Expediency Councils. In each chapter, the author describes the unique structure and function of the governing institution as outlined in Iran's Constitution, then explains how the institution has evolved in practice over time. Several trends emerge from this analysis, including, among others, the growing influence of the military in politics, the expanding power of the Guardian Council at the expense of the parliament, and the widening asymmetry of executive power favoring the supreme leader at the expense of the president. In Part 2 of the book (chapters 4–6), the analytical focus shifts from Iran’s formal political institutions to consider instead the relationship between state and society more broadly, with chapters on Iran's military and economic structure, social movements, and public attitudes and the media. Finally, in the concluding chapter, the author offers a comprehensive view of what this analysis of Iran’s political institutions in theory and practice reveals about both the resilience of Iran’s political system and its capacity for meaningful change.
Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination
Authors: Fong Jack
Published: July 2024

Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination: How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and its utopianisms affect one’s ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning. By critically assessing the ideals of modern institutions, the motives of their pundits, and their political ideologies as expressions born from the social decay of exhausted dreams and projects of modernity, Jack Fong assembles Nietzsche’s existential sociological imagination to empower actors to emancipate the self from such duress. Illuminating the merits of creating new meaning for life affirmation by overcoming struggle with one’s will to power, Fong reveals Nietzsche’s horizons for actualized and empowered selves, selves to be liberated from convention, groupthink, and cultural scripts that exact deference from society’s captive audiences.
Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan
Authors: Galanti Sigal Ben-Rafael
Published: July 2024

In Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti examines American occupation of Japan during World War II and the evolution of Japan’s political parties to highlight the country’s struggles for a democratic and peaceful “Japanese Japan.” Using a dynamic analysis approach, Galanti examines the pre-war, pro-democratic ideals and legacies that built Japan’s political parties and the parties’ evolving views on regime matters, socioeconomic structure, international relations, and security both during and after the country’s occupation by American forces.
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government
Authors: Schmiedecke Natália Ayo
Published: July 2024

Focusing on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73), Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government situates the discourses and artistic production linked to the Chilean New Song movement, in order to demonstrate that the musicians were part of the committed intelligentsia. Thus, they actively participated in the discussion and proposal of ways to integrate culture in the revolutionary process, playing an important political and cultural role. The analysis is mainly based on the government-friendly press and on records released between 1970 and 1973, verifying how the main trends observed in the cultural debate were expressed in the movement; the extent to which the positions defended by the musicians have been in tune with governmental purposes; and if they have in fact influenced the cultural policies debated and pursued by Popular Unity.
Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia
Authors: Bowers Tom
Published: July 2024

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Where is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully realized? As this book argues, rather than falling into one of these familiar environmental categories, contemporary space is configured as heterotopia, as in-between spaces of dissonance, where encounters with waste are a daily occurrence and where dirty matter refuses to submit to human demands and intentions. Through an exploration of a series of spaces in which acts of leisure and recreation are configured alongside vibrant dirty matter, Tom Bowers explores how contemporary heterotopia offers entanglements with a dirty other that promote novel opportunities for humans to ethically respond and be responsible to the continued presence of waste and to generate a sense of ecological care for a dirty world. In doing so, the book urges readers away from a utopian vision of what the environment should be and instead asks how we can ethically exist within and around the dirtied environment as it is. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, environmental rhetorics, and environmental ethics.
Resettling Displaced Communities
Authors: Partridge William L. , Halmo David B.
Published: July 2024

Global trends suggest that the number of people involuntarily displaced will increase exponentially in the coming decades. The authors argue that when the agency, time-tested adaptations, innovative capacities, dignity, and human rights of displaced people are respected as full participants in the rebuilding of their communities, livelihoods and standards of living, resettlement outcomes are more positive. The goal of resettlement must be the sustainable social, economic and human development of affected communities, requiring a praxis of ethical commitment to effective, actionable recommendations based on empirical observation. The authors draw on case examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas. This book will be of interest to resettlement specialists, planners, administrators, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, development studies, and social policy.
FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980
Authors: Gutiérrez José Angel
Published: July 2024

A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
Sociology in Post-Normal Times
Authors: Thorpe Charles
Published: July 2024

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, Thorpe contends that sociology's “society” is no longer viable because globalization has put an end to social reform, thus the assumptions and goals of sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity. In the face of the pandemic and climate change, Sociology in Post-Normal Times demands no less than the birth of a global humanity beyond nation states as the precondition for human survival.
American Propaganda from the Spanish-American War to Iraq
Authors: Brydon Steven R.
Published: July 2024

In this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brydon argues that many of these wars were fought based on false or misleading narratives, beginning with blaming Spain for the sinking of the Maine and continuing, most recently, with charges that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11. Research has shown that well-told stories can affect the public’s beliefs, attitudes, and actions, and Brydon has identified some of these recurring stories that have been told to support and sustain each war during this time period. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, Brydon critically evaluates these “war stories” to determine if they possessed narrative coherence and fidelity that provided good reasons to go to war, rather than simply the appearance of these qualities. The responsibility, Brydon stresses, is on the media and on academics to view future war narratives through a critical lens, in order to best inform the American people. Scholars of media studies, history, military studies, American studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.
Reducing Recidivism
Authors: Cowling Cathy
Published: July 2024

Preventing recidivism can strengthen neighborhoods, save taxpayers money, and reduce trauma that comes with crime. Instead of focusing on punishment, our system should focus on rehabilitation. This book argues that reducing recidivism is possible through education availability, rehabilitation and cognitive behavioral therapy, employment programs, reentry initiatives, faith-based instruction, along with social capital provided by family and friends.
The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook
Authors: Bullert Gary , Bullert Gary B.
Published: July 2024

The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook examines the sixty-year career of one of the foremost public intellectuals in the United States. Sidney Hook’s convictions were widely disseminated through books, academic journals, newspapers articles, lectures, and several organizations that he founded. Hook’s legacies include being a leading Marxist-Leninist scholar, his long-standing commitment to secular humanism, his legacy as a legendary polemicist, his cultural conservatism if not neoconservatism, and his defense of democracy and John Dewey’s pragmatic and Cold War liberalism. Bullert concludes that Hook’s core philosophy is best typified by his Deweyan pragmatism, vigilant anti-communism, and secular humanism.
Self-Made Women in the 1920s United States
Authors: Teorey Matthew Niven
Published: July 2024

Women of the 1920s led a revolt against the old standards of womanhood that were dominating US culture. Flappers and feminists, they spoke and acted out, inspiring other women to follow. This book analyzes the work of eleven important 1920s female authors who chronicled this revolt: Anzia Yezierska, Anita Loos, Mae West, Josephine Lovett, Nella Larsen, Mourning Dove, Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Bessie Smith, and Dorothy Parker. These trailblazers wrote counter-narratives to the sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia women faced during the Jazz Age. The author brings their novels, poems, plays, film scenarios, and blues lyrics into conversation with each other for the first time to show different approaches female readers could take to become autonomous individuals and full citizens. The works also encouraged readers to maintain supportive relationships with other progressive women. The author argues these works presented female readers with examples of how they could act individually and collectively to attain the political power, social status, economic independence, sexual freedom, and artistic recognition they deserved.
The Many and the One
Authors: Ge Yonghua
Published: July 2024

How God relates to the world lies at the heart of the most intense debates in modern theology and philosophy. Movements of Nouvelle Théologie, process theology, radical orthodoxy, modern Trinitarian theology and postmodern theology (i.e. Jean-Luc Marion) all seek to reconsider God’s relation to the world as a corrective of what they perceive as problematic. Of particular significance is the recent revival of the theology of participation, as promoted by Radical Orthodoxy in UK and Hans Boersma in North America. Facing excessive secularism and fragmentation of the modern Western world, Radical Orthodoxy and Boersma resort to the pre-modern theology of participation as the way forward. Relying heavily on Platonism, however, their participatory theology, as critics pointed out, tends to compromise the intrinsic goodness of the creation. In this book, Ge proposes that a distinctively Christian theology of participation anchored in creatio ex nihilo, developed by Augustine and brought to the fore by Aquinas, provides a more promising solution which not only secures the unity of things in God but also the goodness of creaturely plurality.

Since participation in its origin is a solution to the problem of the One and the Many, Ge employs Gunton’s framework of the one and the many in his discussion of Augustine and Aquinas’s theologies of participation. By reshaping their concepts of participation in the light of the doctrine of creation, Ge argues, these thinkers have profoundly transformed the metaphysics of participation, making it finally more suitable for describing the unique relationship between God’s unity and creaturely plurality. This Christian metaphysics of participation is not only an advance on Radical Orthodoxy and Boersma, but also superior to competing theories of reality such as pluralism and reductionist physicalism. The book will also bring out implications for modern science-religion dialogues, the core of which concerns how God relates to the world.
Debate As Global Pedagogy
Authors: Voth Ben
Published: July 2024

Debate as Global Pedagogy: Rwanda Rising illustrates that the teaching of debate offers an ideal educational approach for the prevention and remediation of genocide. As the antithesis of propaganda, debate and argument instruction promotes the critical thinking necessary to resist processes of propaganda that enable injustice and human rights abuses. Case studies of argumentation instruction and deliberative forums worldwide demonstrate how environments of discursive complexity can be fostered through education in debate and argumentation. The central example of Rwanda recovering from genocide in 1994 with help from innovative pedagogy by iDebate Dreamers Academy provides a model for how argumentation instruction can reduce and prevent social injustices.
Charles-Simon Catel's Treatise on Harmony and the Disciplining of Harmony at the Early Paris Conservatory
Authors: Masci Michael J.
Published: July 2024

Charles-Simon Catel's Treatise on Harmony and the Disciplining of Harmony at the Early Paris Conservatory traces the formation of the discipline of harmony at the early Paris Conservatory, focusing on the 1801 treatise of Charles-Simon Catel. By examining the forces that shaped Catel's text, Michael J. Masci reconstitutes the contours of the dynamic “disciplinary network” that determined the content and scope of the study of harmony in Paris, expanding our understanding of practical harmony traditions.
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene
Authors: Cera Agostino
Published: July 2024

A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita presents the Anthropocene not only as a geological epoch, but rather as the potential métarécit of our age and the most faithful expression of the current zeitgeist. Insofar as the Anthropocene establishes that the human agency as technological omni-power represents a “global geophysical force” capable of altering the destiny of the Earth system, the coming of this new epoch shows that technology now embodies the subject of both history and nature. In this totalized form, technology achieves the status of an integral epochal phenomenon: the new environment for human life. Agostino Cera argues that the “technisches Zeitalter” (age of technology) outlined by twentieth-century philosophical thought is fully realized in the Anthropocene and that a more appropriate name for this planetary framework is, therefore, Technocene. The book develops along four basic directions: epistemological, ontological, anthropological, and ethical. It argues that the Anthropocene is something radically new, a terra incognita or an “epistemic hyperobject with a (geo-)historical barycenter,” giving rise to: an unprecedented form of reification of nature (“pet-ification of nature”); an unexpected version of anthropocentrism (“Aidosean Prometheanism”); and an unpredictable ethical paradox (“paradox of omni-responsibility”).
Crosscurrents
Authors: Gold Martin B.
Published: July 2024

Locked in a common fight against Imperial Japan, the United States and Nationalist China became allies, but significant fissures in their relationship soon developed. Neither ally would accommodate each other’s core interests in strategies necessary to win the war. This disconnect continued after Japan’s surrender, as the United States pressed Chinese Nationalists and Communists to join a coalition government that neither wanted. During the civil war, the United States supported the Nationalists, but never to the degree they thought mattered. After the Communist triumph, America served its national security and anti-Communism, by helping the Nationalists defend Taiwan, but hedged against assisting Chiang Kai-shek to reconquer the mainland. Twice in the 1950’s tensions in the Taiwan Strait nearly expanded into nuclear conflict.
Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature
Authors: Johnston Don
Published: July 2024

Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature is a fresh and needed intervention into the study of postcolonial literature and the postcolonial condition. Deleuze's notion that literature is an enterprise of health, and that great authors consequently are diagnosticians of their culture, can be applied to postcolonial literature. The methodology, however, goes beyond the Deleuzian approach and offers a rich synthesis of Deleuze and Guattari with a range of different frameworks including health and human rights issues, the capabilities approach of Sen and Nussbaum, and the quantitative formalism of Moretti. This book majorly seeks to combine the study of postcolonial literature (a field in which Deleuze and Guattari are often used) with social sciences and quantitative methods. The work is genuinely interdisciplinary and breaks new ground both for the study of postcolonial literature and applications of Deleuze and Guattari. It does this while maintaining a focus on 'health', broadly conceived in as an assemblage, in Deleuzian fashion.
Gentleman Samurai and Internationalist
Authors: Gubler Greg
Published: July 2024

This book examines Satō Naotake’s remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his integrity and realistic approach to diplomacy, which were particularly evident in his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.
The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria
Authors: Nwagbara Ucheoma
Published: July 2024

In The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria, Ucheoma Nwagbara argues that despite Nigeria’s oil wealth and arable agricultural land, Nigerians are not any better today than they were before independence. Nwagbara examines Nigeria’s struggles with corruption, reckless government spending, poverty, inequality, crime, and violent insurgency to show how successive Nigerian leadership has failed to utilize the country’s enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens’ lives, eradicate poverty, and deliver broadly shared prosperity, especially to the middle class and the poor. Through his analysis, Nwagbara demonstrates that the nationalist ideals of dedicated and accountable leadership behind the struggle for independence in Nigeria have been betrayed as the emergent post-colonial leadership cared only for personal survival and gain. Despite these failures, Nwagbara reveals that Nigeria may still have a chance to improve and recover if Nigerians unite and demand real change through political and social activism.
Language Creativity
Authors: Casini Simone
Published: July 2024

In Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective, Simone Casini aims to frame the concept of creativity within a linguistic dimension by developing a theoretical reflection with constant references to contact languages and to the educational plan. Semiotic creativity abandons the condition of the linguistic property inter pares and rises to the rank of theoretical and first principle by which languages define themselves, function and interact in the negotiation of meaning in relation to the social uses. Casini considers creativity as a premise for the rule changing of boundaries of meaning and creation of language and meaning. The work progresses starting from the historical-critical concept of creativity, discussing the most philosophical and linguistic theories in the North American and European context.
Haruki Murakami and His Early Work
Authors: Mori Masaki
Published: July 2024

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work first discusses Murakami Haruki’s real-life activities and interests, such as his self-identity as a Japanese novelist, his position in the Japanese literary canon, music, translation and running. In this context, three short stories as pivotal to his early writing career are examined, including “The Second Bakery Attack,” “The Elephant Vanishes,” and “TV People.” Written in an easy style to read, and with the content full of references to select contemporary popular culture and consumer products, his fiction in general tends to invite criticism of irrelevance and frivolity. Against their nonsensical, even humorous appearance, however, the book’s close analysis reveals his persistent concern with the plight of today’s humanity in postindustrial reality. Through the bewildering stories, Murakami delivers a covert critique of aspects of the sociopolitical system, including unbridled consumerism, relentless pursuit of efficiency, and electronic media saturation, that brings people into total submission without their realization of the plight in which they are placed. In this respect, these short stories rival his acclaimed novels while showing his essential concerns and literary creativity more succinctly.
John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy
Authors: Cerovac Ivan
Published: July 2024

John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy explores the epistemic, or cognitive, character of democratic institutional practices and the protection of basic liberties in Mill's political thought. Mapping Mill's theory of representative democracy and critically engaging Mill's more controversial issues, Ivan Cerovac identifies the epistemic criteria within these proposals and uses them as a basis for unifying Mill's political thought. The book addresses the epistemic role of wide democratic participation on the one hand and institutional mechanisms used to filter the public will—such as political representation, plural voting proposals, partisanship, division of epistemic and political labor—on the other, and it analyzes how Mill tries to resolve the conflict between political and epistemic values. Characterizing Mill as both a political instrumentalist and an epistemic democrat, Cerovac sets Mill's theory in a broader explanatory framework and compares it with contemporary accounts of epistemic justification. Emphasizing Mill's normative considerations regarding franchise and the exercise of political power over others, this book discusses how to implement the epistemic ideal in real-world politics. It will be a fascinating read for anyone interested in democratic decision-making.
Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology
Authors: Shin Yoon
Published: July 2024

In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology, Yoon Shin critically builds on James K. A. Smith’s postmodern Pentecostal epistemology with the aid of Reformed epistemology. It takes the reader through an interdisciplinary journey that exposits and illumines the relationship among Pentecostal spirituality, continental and analytic philosophy, postliberalism, moral psychology, and philosophy of emotion. This work clarifies misunderstandings of Smith, in Smith, and between continental and analytic epistemology, constructively and coherently synthesizing the sources through interdisciplinary analysis and thereby demonstrating the value of mashup philosophy. The resulting epistemology strengthens the mostly descriptive epistemology of Smith with the warrant criteria of Alvin Plantinga.
Bringing Good Even Out of Evil
Authors: Keltz B. Kyle
Published: July 2024

The question of whether the existence of evil in the world is compatible with the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God has been debated for centuries. Many have addressed classical arguments from evil, and while recent scholarship in analytic philosophy of religion has produced newer formulations of the problem, most of these newer formulations rely on a conception of God that is not held by all theists. In Bringing Good Even Out of Evil: Thomism and the Problem of Evil, B. Kyle Keltz defends classical theism against contemporary problems of evil through the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his interpreters. Keltz discusses Aquinas’s thought on God, evil, and what kind of world God would make, then turns to contemporary problems of evil and shows how they miss the mark when it comes to classical theism. Some of the newer formulations that the book considers include James Sterba’s argument from the Pauline principle, J. L. Schellenberg’s divine hiddenness argument, Stephen Law’s evil-god challenge, and Nick Trakakis’s anti-theodicy.
Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato
Authors: Moreno Hugo
Published: July 2024

In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing—a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges’ ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambrano’s poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionary’s poetizing technique. Paz’s poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses.

In the appendix, Moreno shows that Plato's Republic is a forerunner of this way of philosophizing in literature. Moreno suggests that in the Republic, Plato reconciles philosophy and poetry and creates a rational prose poetry that fuses argumentation and narration, dialectical and analogical reasoning, and abstract concepts and poetic images.