Indian Ocean Futures
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
Languaging Diversity Volume 2
This collection explores the relationship between language and identity from various perspectives. The chapters deal with such issues as professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities and national stereotypes in language practice and discourse.
On Time
Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.
The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
Stories of Peace Volume II
The chapters within this collection highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace, proposing that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. They present stories to inspire the reader to work for peace.
The Neo Abu Sayyaf
East follows the rise of criminality in the greater Mindanao region regarding the participation of major players in the suppression of the Moros—indigenous Muslims. He contemplates, among other things, why a murderous group such as the Abu Sayyaf has so much local support.
Studies by young researchers explore art’s response to social decline, transformation, and rebirth. The book entails diverse perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, architecture to moving pictures, and the USA to Yugoslavia.
The Feathers of Condor
López explores why the South American military set up Operation Condor to transnationalize state terrorism beyond South America. He argues they wanted to eliminate any kind of opposition, especially if it was involved in the denunciation of human rights violations.
The Golden Age
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
Envisioning Sustainabilities
The essays within consider the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. They present a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’, arguing for the value of the social sciences in considering sustainability.
Conserving Fortified Heritage
Bringing together papers from a heritage conference, this title examines solutions to the problems faced in site management and interpretation of fortifications. Areas covered include conservation and management challenges and interpretation and tourism challenges in forts.
Keyboard Warriors
Geddes explores the kind of Islamophobic identity that is produced by supporters of the far-right English Defence League within networking sites, and discusses on how this identity is constructed around insecurities that are central to the lives of this population.
Play allows the fulfilment of dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to social norms. Traditional play preserves culture across generations, while contemporary forms integrate communities. Play invalidates social divisions and imparts meaning to our reality.
Engaged Learners and Digital Citizens
Garner encourages teaching faculty to adopt a proactive stance to technology through engaging digital tools that promote skill acquisition. He delineates a model for digital learning, providing examples of digital tools and their possible applications for teaching and learning.
Lemus explores resistance to the change from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He argues IFRS should act as a singular accounting language, promoting a better economic position in the world financial market.
Odih identifies the biopolitical basis of adsensory wearable technologies, arguing that the paradoxical feature of adsensory technologies is the proliferation of risk. It also deals with the neoliberal construct of the entrepreneurial lifestyle insurance subject.
Literature in Exile
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
The Outback Within
Byrne explores the evolving national mythology of the Australian outback, discussing why narratives of outback journeys are so often suffused with the aura of death. He argues for a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth in this environment.
The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity
Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.
A collaboration by Indigenous scholars and non-Indigenous allies, this book champions the importance of Indigenous Knowledges for social work. It argues colonial structures can only be dismantled through reliance on Indigenous knowledges and practices.
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