Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy
A vital new resource for rhetoric and composition teachers. While other collections are not updated to reflect current research, the field needs this book. Rhetoric now has an official meta-pedagogy resource to call its own. — Cynthia Haynes, Clemson University
Sacred Space
Sacred space within contemporary contexts has received scant attention. This collection of interdisciplinary essays presents a new perspective on an important theological and philosophical concept.
This book provides a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse. Topics include rhetorical strategies, the relation between discourse and society, analysis methods, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.
Collision
Interdisciplinary art has been largely ignored. This collection charts the radical explosion of interarts practices, exploring collisions of body, technology, space, and aesthetics, alongside perspectives from law, political activism, and spirituality.
Co-operatives in a Global Economy
In the global economy, cooperatives face a trade-off between their principles and economic viability. Critics argue they are irrelevant, while advocates see a sustainable, equitable alternative. This collection examines the debate about their future roles.
Migration, Development and Environment
This book explores the pressing linkages between migration, development, and environment. Focusing on environmentally-induced migration and its relation to development, prominent scholars offer answers to today’s most urgent challenges.
Sapphists and Sexologists contributes to the debates on lesbian lives and histories. This international collection features reflections by author Emma Donoghue, an exclusive conversation with Joan Nestle, and scholars questioning established sexual histories.
Buildings are analysed for their construction, but what about their end? This innovative book explores the complex meanings of destruction across time and cultures, asking what it is, who defines it, and how it is remembered or forgotten.
These essays explore how Maine’s unique identity was constructed through its literature as a place imagined primarily through its “nature” and landscape. Discussing writers from Thoreau to E.B. White, this collection shows how this image was formed and endures.
Irish Studies
This collection of essays explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and geography in Irish studies. From Magdalen laundries and prisons to the domestic garden, it examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance.
Canada
These essays debate literature, language, immigration, and culture in Canada, Ireland, and Europe. From the place of hockey in literary consciousness to mapping minority languages, the focus is on exploring culture in its widest sense.
Europe and its Regions
As Europe gets closer, understanding its regional data is a major challenge for social sciences. This volume improves insight into the rich stock of European datasets, highlighting socio-economic cross-border studies and powerful analysis tools.
Structures as Argument
Structures as Argument assesses museums, places of worship, and monuments as means of visual persuasion. It argues that structures can influence viewers as much as speeches or ads, and to miss this essential feature is to fail in understanding their cultural roles.
Ireland is changing so rapidly that many wonder where it is headed. This book probes the geographical, historical, social, and political currents at play, offering cogent insight into these changes and well-founded projections about the future.
Computation, Information, Cognition
This book explores the philosophical and scientific questions at the intersections of computing, information, and cognition through essays on bioinformation, cognitive science, ontology, computational linguistics, ethics, and education.
What cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish? This path-breaking collection brings together scholars and activists to explore the multiple meanings and performances of global networks.
TechKnowledgies
This collection of essays, art, and installations explores how science and technology interact with the arts and humanities. This fusion breaks down disciplinary silos to produce new imaginaries and integrated knowledges—what we call new TechKnowledgies.
Cultures of Trade
The pre-colonial Indian Ocean hosted the first global economy, a history repeated today. Contributors narrate the cultures of exchange, showing how culture adds value to commodities and how trade created the complex religions and ethnicities of the region.
Crossing Places
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.