Discourses and Practices of Othering
This book investigates how ‘others’ are manufactured and anchored in collective memory. Through analysis of film, news, and social media, it sheds light on the institutional, political, and social forces that form and transform the discourses and practices of othering.
Discourses in Co(n)text
This book offers a holistic view of specialised and professional discourse. It analyses the language of medicine, sports, and academia from a variety of perspectives, showing the practical applicability of its analyses and connections to other disciplines.
Discourses in Traffic
As China became a nation of drivers, it encountered immense traffic-related problems. This book zeroes in on the authentic discourses in Chinese traffic, demonstrating the interaction between signs and new drivers in Guangzhou to reveal the country’s shift to modern traffic.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
This collection explores Western representations of Egypt from 1750-1956, a fascination sparked by Napoleon’s expedition. Essays analyse works by writers like Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, alongside perspectives from explorers, painters, and colonial administrators.
Discourses on Disability bridges academic and personal voices from India to deconstruct ableism. Narratives from people with disabilities examine how it feels to exist in a world of cultural taboos, challenging the systemic silence around disability in India.
Discourses on Immigration in Times of Economic Crisis
This book examines the discursive and visual elements that reproduce ethnic and racial prejudices in press discourse on immigration, particularly in times of economic crisis when immigrants are often framed as a “people-problem”.
Discourses That Matter
Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field’s capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.
This book discusses the most important issues facing librarianship today. Librarians ensure the authenticity of information and are committed to information literacy. The book is richly illustrated with clear diagrams for simple understanding of the subject matter.
Discovering New Educational Trends (V3)
This textbook of articles and narratives assists educational professionals and students across diverse disciplines—from education and health to psychology and the humanities. It is an excellent resource for university coursework and a supplemental reading tool.
Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939
This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.
Disfellowshipping and Discrimination of a Religious Minority
This book assesses the Norwegian Government’s policy of denying Jehovah’s Witnesses state grants and registration through the lens of the European Convention on Human Rights, focusing on the overarching principles of religious autonomy and state neutrality.
Dislocating Anthropology?
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
This essay collection analyzes recurring images of dismemberment on the western stage, from Classical Tragedy to contemporary drama. Contributors ask what a dismembered body means, revealing how drama’s dismemberment as a form challenges representation itself.
This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
Disobedient Histories in Ancient and Modern Times
Tired of Cold War analysis and history as only war? Disobedient Histories breaks tradition by considering alternative international relations theories from societies in Europe, Africa, and Asia, suggesting the UN’s goals for global peace, prosperity, and dignity are viable.
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity
Using the disappearing art of reportage to analyse some of the most defining issues of our time – namely the global refugee crisis, the conflicts displacing these masses of humanity and their causes ¬– this text provides the oft forgotten human stories behind the suffering.
Dispersion of Meaning
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
Displaced Women
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
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