Western Weird

Western WeirdThe 2015 theme for Manifest Wests annual anthology is Western Weird. The works in this collection reflect both myths and suspected truths about the part of the United States we call the West. But this years edition focuses entirely on the tradition of the strange. To borrow from Jeff VanderMeers definition for speculative fictions New Weird, this volume creates a new parallel genre for work that subverts the traditional romanticized ideas about place,

One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization

The primary contribution of this book is found in the way in which it defines and describes ethos as the basis of interpreting ethical agency

Bringing together scholars and activists across fields

Along with strong construction management

Through a range of interdisciplinary responses that simultaneously investigate film practices and technologies

and offers an assessment of their efficacy

Microbial application for locust control

international diplomacy

Each case follows a step by step

The analyses in the book theorize generosity in terms of intercorporeal relations where the self is given to others

perhaps as an allegory of Hong Kong as another post-colonial society

Cass offers an index to measure the domestic salience of international norms and compare the level of salience across states and within states over time