Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provo…
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"Analyzing twelve recent case studies of violence between native citizens and foreign migrants, Mandel analyzes the conditions inflaming hate-based violence and provides policy recommendations for managing it in an interdependent, globalizing world"
People everywhere are more dependent than ever on foreign migrants, products, and ideas--and more xenophobic. Intolerance and hate-based violence is on the rise in countries from Hungary to South Africa, threatening global security. With Interdependent Yet Intolerant, Robert Man…
"Analyzing twelve recent case studies of violence between native citizens and foreign migrants, Mandel analyzes the conditions inflaming hate-based violence and provides policy recommendations for managing it in an interdependent, globalizing world"--
"Analyzing twelve recent case studies of violence between native citizens and foreign migrants, Mandel analyzes the conditions inflaming hate-based violence and provides policy recommendations for managing it in an interdependent, globalizing world"--
"The historical sweep covers Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern Era. Antisemitism receives special attention because of its longevity and centrality to the Holocaust, but it is analyzed here within the much broader framework of racism and xenophobia. The plur…
At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate images of the 'other' as…
Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a hist…
