Recent Books
God’s Own Land: Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy, and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya
James G. Lochtefeld
God’s Own Land follows the tectonic shift from traditional religious pilgrimage in the early twentieth-century to contemporary pilgrim tourism, in which ever-burgeoning visitor numbers have brought both benefits and challenges to the Garhwal region of India—the source of Hindu India’s sacred river, the Ganges.
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Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency
Stephen Lee Naish
Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency offers a vibrant and accessible collection of essays that explore how films and changes in the media industries reflect and influence our political, cultural, technological, and ecological moment.
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Living Rome: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging
Isabella Clough Marinaro and Will Haynes
Living Rome: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging looks beyond the romanticized image of Rome, towards a kaleidoscopic view of the city shaped by inequalities, socio-political challenges, and acts of resistance and solidarity.
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Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma
Ian Barnard, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Jada Patchigondla, Aneil Rallin, Morgan Read-Davidson, Ethan Trejo and Kristi Wilson
Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma brings theory and praxis to examine the ideological underpinnings and pedagogy around trigger warnings and trauma, offering multiple heuristics for classroom implementation.
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