Decolonising the University
De Sousa Santos considers the nature of the transformation that the university is undergoing today, arguing that some of the current reforms are so radical that the question of the future of the university may well become the question of whether the university has a future.
Decolonization and the Other
Histories of the British West Indies focus on decolonization from the top down, ignoring the impact on local populations. This book explores local perspectives by using West Indian literature to supplement the historical record and understand these events.
This volume examines the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline underwent a rapid paradigm shift after scholars were called upon to rethink the field in the face of a crisis.
Decolonizing Science
Science denial is rising, partly because science, falsely portrayed as a European invention, alienates most of the world. This book traces how colonial agendas shaped science’s history, embedding racial and gendered prejudices into its concepts and divorcing it from reality.
Deconstructing Dreamscapes of Femininity
This book explores the interplay of two dimensions of consciousness: This World and The Otherworld. Together, they create the archetype Lolita, in the Mist—a protective dreamscape where a girl can explore her budding sexuality through film and social imagery.
Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Western Tradition
Western art has often portrayed women as objects of desire or inspirational muses. This multidisciplinary volume challenges these roles, presenting womanhood from new perspectives and highlighting characters who have been neglected, misrepresented, or reduced to the margins.
Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning
Explore the latest research on Romanian syntax, semantics, phonology, and acquisition. This comparative volume draws on diverse theoretical frameworks, making it a vital resource for linguists in Romance studies and beyond.
This book explores how to read and teach Nabokov’s Lolita with Jacques Derrida. Using deconstruction to analyze literary issues, it offers teaching guidelines for Nabokov specialists, students, and anyone interested in literary theory.
Deconstructing Reaganism
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of teacher education, analysing its concepts, debates, and practices. It compels readers to reflect on alternate views and the socio-political factors affecting the field. An essential reading for students, teachers, and policymakers.
This volume explores 20th- and 21st-century Italian experimental works that challenge the literary canon. It proposes that literary experimentation can break with tradition, giving literature the same freedom as other arts and allowing it to intersect with those art forms.
How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial “Other.”
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
Defending against Climate Risk
The climate wars are not fiction. This book teaches you how to engage in the debate by thinking coherently about climate risk. It presents lessons in risk management drawn from the author’s experiences working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
Defining and Redefining Space in the English-Speaking World
Focusing on contacts, frictions, and clashes, this collection explores their spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of (re)definitions of space. It examines how efforts, such as defining and mapping spaces, lead to geographical, social, political, and aesthetic definitions.
Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology
This collection draws on the wealth of work currently being undertaken by contemporary archaeologists in Australia, contextualising the fringe dwellers that operate on the periphery of accepted academia.
Definiteness Effects
This volume explores the definiteness effect in grammar from typological, diachronic, and second language acquisition perspectives. It provides an overview of syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic approaches in European and non-European languages.
Defoe and the Dutch
This first book to examine the presence of references to, and influences of, the Dutch in Defoe’s novels investigates the perceptions of English readers of fiction of the Dutch, in an era during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought and a Dutch king took over the English throne.
In the first collection devoted to Deleuze and Asia, Asian and Western scholars explore Deleuzian concepts in philosophy, religion, film, art, and literature, mapping new directions in East-West research that reveal new dimensions of Deleuze’s thought.
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