The Everyday
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
Relativism-Relativity
This revisionary work challenges stereotypes of an absolutist Enlightenment. Cutting across science, philosophy, and art, it traces modern notions of complexity, non-linear reality, and relativity back to the pioneering thought of Leibniz, Sterne, and D’Alembert.
Experts on vulnerable workers and precarious work from all over the world examine different aspects of these topics, showing the need for developing further research in these areas.
Visa Stories
This volume introduces the visa narrative, a new literary genre recovering migrant voices. Through powerful testimonies, it counters the myth of global free movement, revealing a stark reality of immobility, distrust, and misunderstanding.
Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator’s art and process.
Multilingual Trends in a Globalized World
Explore evolving language education trends as globalization shifts the focus to multilingualism. This book presents the latest controversies and case studies from South East Asia and other diverse contexts around the world.
This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual’s engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.
Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots
This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.
This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.
This book casts new light on adult L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar (UG) by comparing them with child L2 learners. Focusing on the acquisition of English reflexives, the study shows that adult L2 grammar is constrained by UG, with full access possible.
Performance and Ethnography
This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.
Media/Democracy
The mass media have a crucial role in democracy, but is their influence constructive? This collection explores media’s impact on democratic structures worldwide, from the press in Britain to social media in the Arab Region, and asks if we can become active citizens.
Authored by international researchers, this collection addresses radicalization, terrorism, and conflict from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. It analyzes how players become radicalized and how terrorism manifests globally, offering new findings and policy ideas.
Songs of Innocence and Experience
This book offers insight into Frank Capra’s multidimensional romantic universe. It demonstrates how his films fit the genre of romance by interpreting them as paradisal, purgatorial, and infernal comedies, as inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.
South Sudanese Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand
This collection of contemporary research offers crucial insights into the South Sudanese resettlement experience in Australia and New Zealand. Diverse scholars examine the challenges, opportunities, and successes of one of the region’s fastest-growing communities.
Synergies Created by a Strategic Fit between Business and Human Resource Strategies
How can HR demonstrate its value in unstable sectors like agriculture? This book uses empirical evidence to show how integrating business and HR strategies achieves sustainable competitive advantage, making it a useful tool for managers, consultants, and scholars.
This book explores how L2 learners of Japanese acquire nominal modifying constructions. Special attention is drawn to why learners insert a non-target-like *no*, a phenomenon also seen in L1 acquisition, as Fujino puts forth an account on phonological grounds.
Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation
In this final volume on Hegel as theologian, we discover the reconciliation of Mind with itself as the nerve of Hegel’s thought. Subtitled “Logic as Form of the World,” this work identifies faith with rationality and man as the form of the world.
For engineers and students, this volume presents articles by international experts on themes at the interface between engineering and society, including ethics, education, and the future of engineering. Each chapter contrasts distinct perspectives to develop critical thinking.
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 1
This two-volume series explores the East Central European émigré experience of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the reasons for migration and initial adaptation to the later negotiation of new identities while maintaining ties to the old country.
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