Wiley-Blackwell (
2022)
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Foreword by Aaron Ehasz
Introduction: “We are all one people, but we live as if divided”
Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt
Part I The Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender
1 Native Philosophies and Relationality in ATLA: It’s (Lion) Turtles All the Way Down
Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Clementine Bordeaux
2 Getting Elemental: How Many Elements Are There in Avatar: The Last Airbender?
Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa
3 The Personalities of Martial Arts in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Zachary Isrow
4 The End of the World: Nationhood and Abolition in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Nicholas Whittaker
5 The Bending World, a Bent World: Supernatural Power and Its Political Implications
Yao Lin
Part II Water
6 Avatar: The Last Airbender and Anishinaabe Philosophy
Brad Cloud
7 “Lemur!” – “Dinner!”: Human–Animal Relations in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Daniel Wawrzyniak
8 On the Moral Neutrality of Bloodbending
Johnathan Flowers
9 On the Ethics of Bloodbending: Why Is It So Wrong and Can It Ever Be Good?
Mike Gregory
10 Mystical Rationality
Isaac Wilhelm
11 “I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me”: Repairing the World Through Care
Nicole Fice
12 Spirits, Visions, and Dreams: Native American Epistemology and the Aang Gang
Justin Skirry and Samuel Skirry
Part III Earth
13 Time Is an Illusion: Time and Space in the Swamp
Natalia Strok
14 There Is No Truth in Ba Sing Se: Bald-faced Lies and the Nature of Lying
Nathan Kellen
15 The Rocky Terrain of Disability Gain in ATLA: Is Toph a Supercrip Stereotype or a Disability Pride Icon?
Joseph A. Stramondo
16 The Earth King, Ignorance, and Responsibility
Saba Fatima
17 The Middle Way and the Many Faces of Earth
Thomas Arnold
Part IV Fire
18 The Battle Within: Confucianism and Legalism in the Nation, the Family, and the Soul
Kody W. Cooper
19 Not Giving Up on Zuko: Relational Identity and the Stories We Tell
Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap
20 Uncle Iroh, from Fool to Sage – or Sage All Along?
Eric Schwitzgebel and David Schwitzgebel
21 Being Bad at Being Good: Zuko’s Transformation and Residual Practical Identities
Justin F. White
22 Compassion and Moral Responsibility in Avatar: The Last Airbender: “I was never angry; I was afraid that you had lost your way”
Robert H. Wallace
Part V Air
23 The Fire Nation and the United States: Genocide as the Foundation for Empire Building
Kerri J. Malloy
24 Anarchist Airbenders: On Anarchist Philosophy in ATLA
Savriël Dillingh
25 A Buddhist Perspective on Energy Bending, Strength, and the Power of Aang's Spirit
Nicholaos Jones and Holly Jones
26 Ahimsa and Aang’s Dilemma: “Everyone … [has] to be treated like they're worth giving a chance”
James William Lincoln
27 The Avatar Meets the Karmapa: Interconnections, Friendship, and Moral Training
Brett Patterson