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.
This book is a chorus of practices that use music to build resilience. Academics and practitioners share projects from health, education, and social work, asking: Can music build measurable resilience? Can we replicate these outcomes in diverse groups?
Ending hostilities does not bring normality. Fractured societies face a twilight between war and peace as the world’s attention moves on. This book offers multi-disciplinary insights into this grey space, exploring interventions for positive post-conflict reconstruction.
Leading experts on Sudan analyze its chronic history of conflict since 1956 and the international efforts for peace. As the nation faces the separation of South Sudan, these essays offer compelling lessons from six decades of war. Must reading for what unfolds.
Testing the Boundaries
Progressive movements are challenging how we understand the Divine. In Testing the Boundaries, ten scholars explore faith, our image of Self, our relation to the religious Other, and more, testing the boundaries of traditional theology where possibilities gather.
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.
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.
This book analyzes land tenure in Papua New Guinea, arguing for replacing the customary system with private individual ownership. It demonstrates the economic advantages of this change and provides answers to cultural, social, and philosophical objections.
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.
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.
In, Out and Beyond
These essays from international scholars examine border experiences. Redefining the borderland beyond the territorial, this collection explores cultural, political, and personal encounters through an interdisciplinary discussion between the humanities and social sciences.
If It Was Not For Terrorism
This book investigates the power elites and media wield through the “War on Terror” discourse. International case studies debate the construction of “terrorism,” the creation of “us” vs. “others,” media framing of civil liberties, and resistance.
This collection of essays by an international panel breaks new ground in ecopolitical thought. Moving beyond techno-science fixes, these writers use cultural reflection—from poetry to architecture—to bring new understanding to our planet’s ecological crises.
Overlapping Territories
In a chaotic, interdependent world, traditional categories of identity and culture are called into question. The Asian voices in this book use Western philosophy to find their Asian positions, and Asian reality to problematize the Western framework.
Gender and Trauma
These interdisciplinary essays explore the intersection of gender and trauma. Contributors analyze the links between the effects of trauma and the performance of gender, examining the roles of sex and sexual identity within this complex relationship.
Sense of Emptiness
The absence of something can be as significant as its presence, impacting how we perceive the world. While the perception of presence is universal, the prominence of absence—or emptiness—varies across cultures. This volume identifies what emptiness is like.
Intermedial Arts
These essays position intermediality as a way to challenge our notion of art. Writers examine the relations between the arts—reference, combination, or transformation—to help us grasp their changing relationship in our contemporary medial age.
Meštrović provides critical insights into the defining questions of our age, tracing the imbalance between market globalisation and society to contradictions within capitalism. He searches for a new commons and a movement towards freedom beyond the market’s restrictions.
Rhetoric and Politics
This volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Combining various disciplines, the case studies provide an empirically rich account of politics as a persuasive achievement.
How Writing Touches
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.