Social Sciences

The Life and Death of Privacy in the West: the Ethnography of a Social and Aesthetic Concept

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Chicago, Professor, D/English University of Minnesota. Author of CULTURES OF MEMORY (Bethesda, Academica Press, 2011)

The Life and Death of Privacy in the West consists of four chapters: Privacy and the Private, Public and Private, Invasions of Privacy: Surveillance and Voyeurism, and the Erosion of Privacy. The first chapter tries to locate this entity (“What is privacy and why does it belong to us?

Market: 
Concept of Privacy, Social and Public Theory of interaction, Privacy in Western Literature, Aesthetics of Privacy, Voyeurism, Surveillance, Decartes, Sarte, Lacan, Bourdieu, Habermas, Foucault, Deleuze, Narcissism and Celebrity in popular culture, Hawthorne on voyeurism
Release Date: 
12/15/2012
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-53-0
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

War and Peace in Africa: Philosophy, Theology and the Politics of Confrontation

Author: 

Lutz, David W. ,Ph.D (Holy Cross College (USA) and The Catholic University of Eastern Africa) with Paul M. Shimiyu, George Ndemo Osengo and Opiyo A Oguta

Credentials: 

Editors are senior scholars and PhDs and conributors are Ph.Ds and MAs in East African /Central Africain Institutions.

This work is a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa by Africans with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice. The voices are overwhelming African and the locus of contributors includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi. Some of the contributors, as well as the editors, have experienced war first hand and have played honorable roles in rebuilding or re-energizing intellectual communities in Africa that have been affected by atrocities, destruction and inter-tribal hatreds.

Market: 
African Studies, War and Africa, Moral Philosophy, Peace Studies [Africa], Terrorism and Violence in Civil Societies, Peace and Reconciliation, Theology (Catholic), Development Studies, East Africa, Justice and Community Studies, De-colonization and its aftermath
Release Date: 
February 15th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-09-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Racism and The Baptist Bible Fellowship: Segregation, Anti-Communism and Religious Fundamentalism in the American South 1950-1965

Author: 

Lavoie, The Reverend Jeffrey D.

Credentials: 

LL.D, Ph D[History] Exeter University

This research work for the first time discusses the Baptist Bible Fellowship and its connections with segregation during the 1950sand beyond. It includes an examination of some of its key founders and their views of segregation and observes some of the crucial figures who fought for racial equality and integration within this organization. Though many of the founders of this Baptist denomination were segregationists (which could be considered racist in and of itself) some of these individuals held blatant racist views of white supremacy.

Market: 
American Religious history, 20th century, Baptist Church history, Segregation and White Supremacy, Racism in America, Civil Rights History, Southern Regional history 1945-1965, the Black Baptists, Martin Luther King, Anti Communism in American domestic politics
Release Date: 
10/19/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-50-9
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
304
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Bakhtin and Interactivity: A Conceptual Investigation of Advertising Communication

Author: 

Karimova, Gulnara Z.

Credentials: 

Ph.D D/Communication, Eastern Mediterranean University; Lecturer, Malaysian Univerity of Science and Technology

Dr. Karimova addresses current issues within the theory of interactivity. Such problems as defining interactivity and measuring level of interactivity have recently attracted a great interest among researchers. In spite of attempts of previous research to solve these problems, the field has not moved far from its preliminary phase. This book is an attempt to move away from this preliminary phase by applying Bakhtinian concepts of ‘dialogic relationships,’ ‘polyphony,’ ‘carnival,’ and ‘chronotope’.

Market: 
Communication and Media Studies, Social Sciences, Michael Bahktin theory/philosophy, Marketing, Cybernetics , Print Advertising & Product Branding
Release Date: 
July 15 2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-46-2
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Recolonization of Africa Today: With Neither Guns nor Bullets (Revised Edition)

Author: 

Mentan, Tatah

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Wisconsin

The need for a revision of this well received and reviewed work was obvious to all serious observers of sub Saharan Africa: The emergence in the last decade of the enormouspolitical, economic and social clout of China, the desire of Magrebi states and Egypt to continue a “southward” policy that includes conversion to Islam, Arab investment and especially control of oil and agricultural lands.

Market: 
African Studies, History of Post Colonial Africa, Sub Saharan Africa,African Economics, Macroeconomics, Development Studies, UN
Release Date: 
03/15/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-17-2 / 978-1936320-17-7
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Homophobic Bullying in Irish Secondary Education

Author: 

O’Higgins-Norman, James, Ph.D

Credentials: 

Ed.D; School of Education, Dublin City University

This research monograph is an exploration of students, parents and teachers experiences regarding sexuality and homophobic bullying in National (ie public) as well as private secondary institutions. The work discusses settings that run the gamut of tough inner city schools to historical entities with distinguished graduates and first rate instruction and provides solid research statistics as well as an historical overview of pedagogies that have been heavily influenced by religious and sectarian agendas.

Market: 
Education, Irish Secondary Education, Bullying, Homophobic Behaviors
Release Date: 
7/21/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-45-4
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Caribbean Liberators: Bold and Black Personalities and Organizations 1900-1989

Author: 

Teelucksingh, Jerome

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad

This ambitious research monograph discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements) in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid to the Pan-African Movement and its linking of Black Africa and the diasporic Black world of the British West Indies.

Market: 
Modern Caribbean History, Afro-Caribbean organizations, Independence movements in Anglophone Caribbean, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Labor Movements, Liberation Movements 20th c, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados
Release Date: 
03/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-35-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Rise of Militancy in Waziristan: The Inside Story of Facing A Faceless Enemy 2001-2012

Author: 

Khan, Ghulam Qadir, MA, FTC

Credentials: 

MA, FTC

Foreword by Professor Akbar S Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University, Washington,DC

Waziristan has been declared the most dangerous place on earth and the next major attack on Europe and America will be planned here. To fight terrorism we need to know the people, the area and why they plan to attack Europeans and Americans.

Market: 
Islamic Studies, Pakistan and the Afganistani Wars, Waziristan, Pushtun society, mores and culture, Modern Terrorism. Jihadi militancy, Tribal governance, Jinnah and Modern Pakistan, U.S.Policies in South Asia, socio-politics of violence and repression
Release Date: 
2/14/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-38-7
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Understanding Contemporary Capitalism: A Marxist Historical / Materialist Interpretation

Author: 

Mentan, Tatah

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Wisconsin; author of The Recolonization of Africa (Bethesda, 2011)

Is capitalism coming to an end in a manner somewhat similar to communism in the USSR? Events certainly bode ill for the classic view that capitalism will prevail as the greatest source of economic growth and stability. Dr. Mentan maintains that the study of contemporary capitalism must entail both the interrogation of the capitalist mode of production as an abstract-formal object and investigation of the diverse historical forms that capitalism has taken across time and space.

Market: 
Marxist Studies: Marxism, 20th century; historical materialism, Capitalism, neo liberal economics, Economics and the State, African Socialism, Karl Marx
Release Date: 
1/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-37-0
Price: 
$42.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Sacred Dance of the Irish Circus: Rural Ireland and Traveling Shows and Showpeople, 1922-1972

Author: 

O'hAodha, Michael

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History, University of Limerick

A visual history of the Traveling circuses and shows that traveled the roads of Ireland between the 1920s and the arrival of television in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Cultural and Performance Studies ,20th century Ireland, Irish History, Connaught,20th century.,Gaeltacht
Release Date: 
04/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-34-9
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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