This book is an urgent invitation, provocation, and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species.Despite the production of several policies, coalitions, and doctrines, the root causes of environmental violence, such as the reckless expansion of cities, roads, highways, shopping complexes, and residential areas, remain unaddressed. This book unpacks the da...

«Tapping into our own shadows, waste becomes a source of self-knowledge for a species at risk of self-annihilation. This book is a must read to raise consciousness in the era of the Anthropocene. Inspiring. Timely. Original.»(Francesca Ferrando, author of The Art of Being Posthuman)«In this provocative and socially engaged book, garbage becomes a kaleidoscope through which Sayan Dey invites us to view contemporary Indian society. Through the fertile concept of "gar...

This book studies the importance of adopting Green Academia as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID era and beyond. It argues that anti-nature and capitalistic knowledge systems have contributed to the evolution and growth of COVID-19 across the globe and emphasizes the merits of reinstating nature-based and environment-friendly pedagogical and curricular infrastructures in mainstream educational institutions....

This collection of interviews fromfrom various decolonial researchersand academicians across the worldcentrally reflects upon upon twocrucial aspects - the differencesbetween the concepts of postcolonialityand decoloniality, and the multifariousforms of decolonial thinking and doingthat are taking place in thecontemporary era.

This book engages with how the Siddis in Gujarat and the South African Indians in South Africa perform different forms of creolized socio-cultural practices in the contemporary era. Since the precolonial times, India and South Africa have developed commercial relations through sharing clothing materials, minerals, precious stones, and spices. Besides exchanging physical objects, varieties of cultures, traditions, and rituals were also exchanged between these countries. With the emergence o...

Food as a tangible construct could be appreciated in terms of its organoleptic aspects and also from the premise of social contexts, cultural systems and spaces as well. Kitchen, cooking utensils, and dining areas are not mere physical places but also the site of cultural production and exchange where meanings are invented and negotiated. Thus, food and its significance as both cultural artefact and a political space of discourse speak to multiple histories, identities, and social relation...

Food, being a great mnemonic, nourishes, sustains, and elevates human experiences. It is deeply intertwined with one’s identity, culture, community, and history. Be it a humble family recipe or a grand feast or a nursery rhyme on food, it is always aspirational. This book is a collection of essays written by scholars and academics specializing in niche areas of food and cultural studies research. It explores how food narratives in different genres—novels, short stories, children’s books, c...

Women and the word marginalization have never remained oxymoronic – the cross-cultural texts and Engels interest on subjugation make a perfect recipe for this incongruity. Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multiculturalist and marginalized sections. The fourteen chapters relate key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectru...

IoMT Applications in Healthcare 5.0 introduces the concept of Healthcare 5.0, emphasizing the transformative potential of intelligent diagnosis, remote treatment, and smart health management. Sections define IoMT and its multi-tiered architecture, discussing its pivotal role in improving electronic device productivity in healthcare, explore IoMT applications in Healthcare 5.0, discuss remote physical therapy using IoMT in Healthcare 5.0, delve into the security and privacy considerations o...

This book explains basic ideas behind several methods used in artificial intelligence-based knowledge management techniques. It also shows how these techniques are applied in practical contexts in different education sectors. The book discusses AI-based knowledge management applications, AI-empowered knowledge management in primary and higher education, and technical and ethical challenges and opportunities.

Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of existence, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, philosophy of human sciences, aesthetics, and decolonization.Gordon's expansive output ranges across phenomenology, anti-Blackness, activist thinkers, sexuality, Fano...

This book engages with the ways in which our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. With diverse contributions from India, South Africa, Colombia, the United States, United Kingdom, and Jamaica, it discusses themes including modernity as a stuffed gourd; decolonising food in Colombia; culinary colonialism today; trijunction of colonialism, Hindu/India resis...