New Media Politics
New Media Politics explores the challenges of cyberspace, from cyber-activism and resistance to cyberterrorism and national security. This collection uses international case studies to debate the clash between civil liberties and government regulations.
Meaning and λόγος
This volume brings together approaches from across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences to explore the theme of “meaning and λόγος.” Topics range from Urartian archaeology and Roman sculpture to Peppa Pig, brain imaging, heavy metal, and Belfast murals.
Practising the Good Life
This collection explores lifestyle migration and the pursuit of ‘the good life’. Through global case studies—from Spain to Nepal—it provides interdisciplinary insights into the everyday practices of community, identity, and home-making.
Social Sector in India
This volume explores India’s education and health sectors. Despite considerable progress, glaring failures and wide disparities persist. Eminent Indian scholars examine key social issues, from healthcare disparity to universal education and child labour.
Both Swords and Ploughshares
This collection of essays explores the mythos of America as a place of religious freedom, yet one imbued with a socially-imposed civil religion and underpinned by a presumption of Protestant dominance.
The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
Eating the Other
In contemporary societies, migration, travel, and communication expose local food identities to global influences. What happens to food habits and meanings when they are carried from one culture to another? This book explores the logics and effects of eating the Other.
A New Social Question
Bringing together papers presented at a conference on “Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia, Globalization and Revolution”, this volume provides analyses of how recent events such as the economic crisis have impacted upon societies across the world.
Facets of Urbanisation
Increasing urbanisation is a dominant global trend with numerous social and environmental implications. This volume analyzes its various facets, including cultural adaptation, migration, gender, slums, and human rights, from a cross-cultural perspective.
Health Sector Reforms in Orissa
This book proposes a new framework for analysing health sector reforms. As private participation in health care increases, states must regulate the private sector to ensure universal access to quality health care and protect democratic values.
Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered
In post-war Australia, planners and architects envisioned ideal environments for children. But for the children who grew up there, these abstract spaces were places imbued with personal meanings, a perspective markedly different from the expert notions of the era.
Horizons North
In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.
This book presents research on knowledge and language in Middle Eastern societies, examining their role in politics, conflict, identity, and religion. Spanning diverse languages, faiths, and periods, these studies highlight the substantial commonalities that unite the region.
From the national border to the individual home, questions of who can be where are at the heart of politics. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how power structures inequality through space, and explores the forms of resistance that emerge.
Conflicts in Africa, from complex wars to community disputes, share common dynamics. This volume shows that lessons in conflict resolution are applicable across all scales, offering case studies and new ideas for peace, justice, and security in Africa.
Centres and Peripheries
These essays explore centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas. Academics and journalists discuss issues from regional news agendas to the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.
Prominent scholars from a wide array of disciplines unpack the complex factors underlying terrorism and political violence. This volume brings together global perspectives to provide a more nuanced understanding of this critical and timely issue.
Media and The City
Our age is defined by urbanism and communication, but how are they intertwined? This volume presents the latest cross-disciplinary research on their relationship, scrutinizing issues of conflict, art, identity, and mobility in urban space.
It takes a virtual village to raise a child. Millions of mothers worldwide are creating online communities to construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the multifaceted lives they live online and the new space they create to maintain sanity.
This book offers a unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern Europe from an intersectional perspective of gender and agency. It analyzes the rapid changes since the collapse of socialism, using case studies to reveal gendered practices and activism.