Degradation Rituals

Lisiunia A. Romanienko, (BA Rutgers University; MS New School University, PhD Wroclaw University) has received fellowships, grants, awards, and teaching appointments from Wroclaw University in Poland, Graz University in Austria, Suez Canal University in Egypt, Rutgers University, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, and Southern University of New Orleans [HBCU]. Her previous book Body Piercing and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) received numerous awards from a variety of professional associations.

Foreword PART I: REGULATING CONVENTIONAL CULTURE 1. Deconstructing Degradation Rituals 2. Degradation Rituals in Incarceration 3. Degradation Rituals in Biotechnology 4. Degradation Rituals in American Higher Education PART II: REGULATING ALTERNATIVE CULTURE 5. Degradation Rituals in Off-Road Motorcycling in Africa 6. Degradation Rituals in Mobile Squatting in Poland 7. Degradation Rituals in the Bedroom 8. Degradation Rituals in Ecological Sustainability PART III: REGULATING REGIME: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE 9. Degradation Rituals in Chinese Cultural Museums 10. Degradation Rituals in German Holocaust Compensation 11. Degradation Rituals among Islamic Intellectuals of Egypt 12. Degradation Rituals in One World Governance