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This is the first book that combines intermedial studies with ecocriticism in order to critically reflect upon the risks and possibilities of representing the climate crisis in several different media and art forms.

The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history. Carsten Wergin offers a timely discussion of the sociocultural and political relevance of heritage and tourism for ecological preservation and the wider decolonial project in Australia and beyond.

Gautam, Pinheiro, and Wilson analyze the spread of financialization in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the ideational origins of financialization outside the region, its effects on government budgeting and social inclusion, and options for increased inclusivity.

This book examines how Generation Z, defined by their orientation as ¿social media natives,¿ grew up in a media system centered around social media. D. Jasun Carr and Mitchell T. Bard explore how Gen Z consumes news media differently than other cohorts, and how this shift in consumption affects both the members of Gen Z, the media, and media scholarship. The authors take a media ecology approach to laying out the new media landscape in which Gen Z was raised, before looking at how this new ecology affects many of the traditional theories and underpinnings of media effects, media psychology, and journalism. Through the use of original experimental research and the compilation of extant theory and survey data, Carr and Bard argue that while members of Gen Z eschew the more traditional structures of the media ecosystem in favor of those that incorporate a social element, they nevertheless behave, in many ways, similarly to those who came before. Scholars of communication, media studies, social media, and journalism will find this book of particular interest.

This book explores how Disney¿s Star Wars films leverage popular discussions about the representations of marginalized communities in U.S. media to gain political and economic profit. Abigail Reed argues that Disney uses these narratives to support a model of resistance that benefits their position as a global media conglomerate.

Doughty examines twenty-first century children¿s and young adult literature featuring royal characters, exploring different ways that authors reshape traditional folktale and Disney royals to create new royals that transform the traditional roles. She explores royals in terms of gender, queerness, and race and ethnicity.

This book analyzes popular American films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal gendered cultural wounds, while affirming the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, self-sacrifice and transcendence as an antidote to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition.

Jewish American Queer Strangers: Ashkenazi Jewish American Women and Non-Binary Queer Figuresin Contemporary Popular Culture by Amy Tziporah Karp explores LGBTQIA+ Jewish American identity in the United States and the queer Jewish stranger figures who live in between incorporation and estrangement. She establishes that despite the near-ubiquitous portrayal of Jewish American assimilation as a finished project completed in the wake of World War II in academic disciplines and throughout popular culture, many LGBTQIA+ Jewish figures in contemporary popular culture inhabit stranger positionalities. In these stranger spaces, characters are forced to either perpetually attempt to assimilate or inhabit this interstitial stranger identity that is often viewed as a nowhere, or homeless, space. Those who pursue assimilating endlessly try to fit in to no avail, such as Showtime's popular The L Word's Jenny Schecter who is ultimately killed off on the show, possibly murdered by her LGBTQIA+ community of friends. Karp shows that those who attempt to make a home in a stranger positionality align themselves with other estranged and othered peoples, such as characters throughout Sarah Schulman's novels, and that this constitutes an ethical stance against the ways in which assimilation often inadvertently supports the workings of violent hegemonies in the United States.

This book argues for a rethinking of the role of world literature through new readings of Orhan Pamuk. Drawing on the intrinsic connection between the bridge metaphor and Pamuk¿s work, the author identifies the new metaphors that are better suited for the discipline of world literature.

The book contributes to the current debate over Islam in a globalizing world by drawing on the contemporary and historical justice discourse within the Islamic traditions, and by examining policies and practices of global powers towards Muslim populations in the global south.

African Pentecostal Theology: Modality, Disciplinarity, and Decoloniality explores research methodology, theological disciplines, and contextualization as important aspects in the process of studying Pentecostal theology in an African context. Mookgo Solomon Kgatle outlines different data collection and data analysis methods, including the skills of interpreting and presenting research findings in a responsible manner. This book illustrates that Pentecostal theology, given its pneumatological approach, goes beyond conventional theological disciplines in transdisciplinary research. The development of knowledge in African Pentecostal Theology should recognize African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS), African oral and traditional cultures, and African indigenous languages to be relevant to Africans. Pentecostal theologians from different theological disciplines in Africa and globally will find this book a worthwhile read.

Populism and Professional Wrestling in the Sunbelt South: From Rasslin¿ to Sports Entertainment traces the history of professional wrestling in the South within the Trans-Mississippi Region between the 1950s¿1990s. Examining professional wrestling through the lens of kayfabe, also known as the perception of the realism and the suspension of disbelief among fans, this book discovers that the dissolution of kayfabe occurred simultaneously with significant political, social, and cultural events in Southern history, including the Civil Rights Movement and technological and economic modernity. Christopher L. Stacey determines that the same political, social, economic, and cultural forces of modernity in the Sunbelt South reflected a new form of southern and national populism embedded within the professional wrestling industry. New forms of populism were reflected within characters, storylines, gimmicks, and angles of several territories in the Trans-Mississippi region. Through autobiographies, biographical information, and shoot interviews, Stacey provides a closer look into the business of professional wrestling during the mid-twentieth century and how it connects to racial, gender, class, and national identity.

This collection examines ethics in the writings of Augustine of Hippo. By placing Augustine into conversation with contemporary fields of ethical concern, from incarceration to health care, the goal is to demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Augustine¿s account of ethics across historical, cultural, and religious boundaries.

This book examines the intriguing correlation between the surge of Marian apparitions witnessed by marginalized rural women and children, and the emergence of secular ideologies among urban elites in the same countries in Latin America.

This book represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to assess the worldwide scope, effects, and the residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The People¿s Money shows how sovereign money creation through public banking, as pioneered by nineteenth century American populists, can reduce inequalities of wealth and power and help restore prosperity and democracy in America.

This book examines the destructive politics of Trump and Trumpism expressed as the amplification of pre-existing forms of hate and violence, supported by segments of middle and upper classes oriented toward a dress rehearsal for fascism.

This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green. It examines multicultural literature to transcend ethnic and national boundaries, thereby voicing for a multiplicity of human experiences in relation to an eco-globalist imagination.

Investigating Babyn Yar tells the story of the murder of Kyiv¿s Jews using available fragmentary evidence. The book follows the trail of discarded property to identify the killing site in the ravine. Aerial photographs, ground photographs, and eye-witness testimony are interwoven to explain what happened at history¿s largest mass shooting.

This book demonstrates the key role The Leftovers played in the development of early twenty-first-century television, while also unpacking its central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of the family and home.

This book explores the intersection between society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts day-to-day life.

New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children¿s literature, film, and video games to explore the ways in which everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. In many ways, the essays show, the narratives blur traditional lines between children¿s and adult content, taking children series as subjects while also guiding them through the processes of dealing with the particular challenges. Collectively, the essays develop a more contemporary construct of the American child and offer new insights into what that construction might mean for contemporary American society and culture.

Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor¿s oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity.

This book identifies food addiction behaviors and characteristics in historical and current food advertisements for ultra-processed foods. By using thematic analysis, the concept of ¿happy eating¿ is introduced and explored in relation to food advertisements for unhealthy food.

Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States provides insight and awareness concerning crises that exist in underserved Black and brown communities in the United States.

With a focus on Works of Love, this book argues that for Kierkegaard the living of the life of faith and love is a kind of art, involving skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual¿s life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues.

This book is about staying together, living together, the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, non-human studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness.

In a post Roe society where abortion is becoming increasingly difficult to access, abortion clinic escorts ensure patient safety and comfort. This qualitative study highlights the challenges and motivations escorts experienced at clinics across the country both pre and post Dobbs. Drawing on interviews with clinic escorts, the author examines how increasing abortion restrictions, lack of police support, massive clinic closures, and upticks in anti-abortion protesting from Christian organizations impact the clinic escorts¿ work and their perceived ability to keep the sidewalks of their clinics peaceful for patients seeking abortion care.

Spurred by encounters with gender diverse persons in his care, and employing a scriptural framework, the author urges caregivers of all kinds to look within and wrestle with the complexities of their own gendered selves, opening doors to emerging as affirmative pastoral caregivers beyond gender binaries.

In this edited volume twelve scholars of philosophy, political theory, and theology consider the role of religious ideas in several modern films. The authors explore how these films grapple with themes such as sin and judgment, grace and reconciliation, and the confrontation of good with radical evil.