This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajiro’s urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called “accidental beauty.”

This study leads the way to comprehend the need for further research on technology security in the fight against sex trafficking, exploring the ways the Internet and social media can both enable and combat against sex trafficking.

This book examines the collective action of the courageous family members of the disappeared amidst Mexico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth explores commonly perceived limitations to living nonviolently. Centering nonviolence as a sacrosanct ideal and calling for a radical reconceptualization of how violence is understood, Sanjay Lal shows that the value of a nonviolent approach to ethics has been needlessly under-emphasized.

Hilary Newman traces Virginia Woolf’s examination of the Brontës across a wide variety of genres: juvenilia, novels, essays, feminist polemics, diaries, and letters. This book adopts a Woolfian approach to the Brontë sisters’ novels, by opening debate about them rather than offering any particular perspective or argument.

Native and introduced hallucinogens channel hemispheric tensions between European, pre-Columbian, Black, and Indigenous values. This book explores those encounters by analyzing their depictions in media, arguing that artists used their mixed heritage to navigate porous boundaries ranging from consumer culture to political dissent.