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• Necessary but not Sufficient: Improving Community Living for Youth After Residential Mental Health Programs

  Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help. Despite engaging with residential care, moving from residential mental health programs to life in the community, many youth still confront disturbing prospects. Incorporating vignettes, chapter summaries, as well as theory and evidence in fields such as education, juvenile justice, child welfare, independent living, supporting families, and positive youth development, this book proposes a template that is both credible and feasible for improving community living outcomes for youth leaving residential mental health programs.
• Anthropocene Geopolitics

  We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth’s major extinctions. The rapid, large-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways.
• Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe Everyday Encounters with Newcomers

  Xenophobic and anti-immigrant movements have grown across Europe and North America, rejecting the value of cultural, ethnic and religious plurality. Yet, at the same time, civil society initiatives have proliferated with the aim of welcoming migrant and refugee newcomers. This edited collection brings together academics, artists, and members of civil society organizations to reflect on what it means to live together and to share the practices and projects they have found for opening up their communities to newcomers.
• Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice

  Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence challenges our assumptions about war and about women. Biases about women as peaceful and innocent prevent us from "seeing" women as war criminals—and prevent postconflict justice systems from assigning women blame.
• Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

  Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze the issue of wild animal suffering (WAS), Johannsen explores how a collective, institutional obligation to assist wild animals should be understood. He claims that with enough research, genetic editing may one day give us the power to safely intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals’ liberties.
• Asian Philosophies and The Idea of Religion: Beyond Faith and Reason

  With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines a variety of thoughts and self-transformative practices that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion.
• Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze

  Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld.
• The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

  Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. The Death of Asylum won the 2020 Globe Award from the Association of American Geographers for advancing public understandings of geography.
• Drought Challenges: Policy Options for Developing Countries

  This book provides an understanding of the occurrence and impacts of droughts for developing countries and vulnerable sub-groups, such as women and pastoralists. A multi-sectoral perspective of the human dimensions of drought in developing countries is presented, featuring the latest research by scholars from drought-affected countries in Africa and Asia. The impacts of droughts on livelihoods are a key factor in development in many dryland and agriculturally-dependent nations. This is a co-edited volume with contributions primarily from emerging scholars in Africa and South Asia, which represent the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (Mapedza/South Africa), the Secretariat for the Convention to Combat Desertification (Tsegai/Eritrea) and the German Development Institute (Bruentrup/Germany).
• A National Project: Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Experience.

  Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada: A National Project is a detailed examination of the experiences of refugees and receiving communities during Canada's Operation Syrian Refugee from 2015 to 2016.
• Beyond the Finish-Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish

  In the 1880s photographers and sports enthusiasts confidently declared the end of dead heats in sporting competition. Reflecting a broader social belief in technology, proponents of the camera stressed that the device could provide definitive proof of who won and who lost. Yet despite this remedy for the inadequate human eye, competitive races between horses, boats, and bicycles ended too close to call a sole champion. More than a century later, when cameras can subdivide the second into ten-thousandths and beyond, athletes continue to cross the finish line in ties.
• Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty In Governing

  Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority. The text begins by examining some of the basic levels at which the body interacts with media, and then expands the scope of the analysis to consider the use of CCTV in urban environments and how that affects the experience of space. This shows how the determination of the subject and the observer is affected by interaction with and exposure to images produced by cameras.
• Decolonizing Educational Assessment: Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO

  This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.
• Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the contradictions of capitalism became more apparent than at any other time since the 1920s, numerous films gave allegorical form to the crises of contemporary capitalism. Some films were overtly political in nature, while others refracted the vicissitudes of capital in stories that were not, on the surface, explicitly political. Rumble and Crash examines six particularly rich and thought-provoking films in this vein.
• Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration

  The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes. Although The West has wished to revisit politics concerning migration policies, refugee status, integration, secularism, and the dismantling of communitarianism, events like the Syrian refugee crisis, terrorist attacks in France in 2015-16, and the 2008 economic crisis have resurrected concepts such as national identity, integration, citizenship and re-shaping state policies in many developed countries. Analyzing the cultural and political tensions between minority groups and the state in light of political events that question ideas of citizenship and belonging to a multicultural nation, the chapters in this volume serve as a testimonial to the multiple views on the political and public perception of multicultural practices and their national and international applicability to our current geopolitical context.
• Deleuze in Children's Literature

  Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of children's literature, whose implied readership masks much paradox. She focuses on children’s texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, André Dhôtel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and Michel Tournier.
• Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited

  Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers and proposes new directions for the study of films produced by American motion picture studios between 1917 and 1960.
• Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare

  Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama. The book explores the intersections of adaptation studies, film studies, Shakespeare studies, and disability studies to analyze twentieth- and twenty-first-century representations of both physical disability and "madness" in global cinematic film, television film, and digital broadcast cinema in Shakespeare’s works.
• Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

  Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens.
• W.G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator

  W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator considers the possibility of redemption in the work of one of the twentieth century’s most significant authors.
• Community Music at the Boundaries

  Community Music at the Boundaries explores how music enhances lives in community. Some of the topics explored in the volume include education and change, music and Indigenous communities, health and wellness, music by incarcerated persons, and cultural identity. By shining a light on boundaries, this volume, which includes multiple contributors from Laurier, provides a wealth of international perspectives and knowledge about the ways that music enhances lives.