The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts
This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.
Media Theory and Cultural Technologies
Media theory is now one of the most influential trends in contemporary thinking, namely within cultural studies, the arts and humanities. This anthology examines recent developments in the field brought about by concepts such as “cultural techniques” and “operative ontologies”.
Ogbonnaya examines varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. He shows that the centrality of culture for world Christianity showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.
Although comparative exercises are used both explicitly and implicitly in a large number of archaeological publications, they are often uncritically taken for granted. As such, the contributors here reflect on comparison as a core theme in archaeology from different perspectives.
Ebewo’s text represents a compendium of discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered include ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, and the funeral rites of Nelson Mandela.
Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff
Ilmonen highlights Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff’s literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. She also considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics.
Statistics can be unappealing. This book brings statistical issues closer to the reader using a science-fiction world, heroes, and everyday language to present an easy-to-follow account of formulas, numbers, and symbols.
This monograph draws on structural issues underlying the on-going dispute between China and Japan concerning the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands, along with the concomitant, multifaceted challenges that need to be investigated, in order to provide insights into Sino-Japanese relations.
Cultural Heritage in a Comparative Approach
Adopting a comparative approach, looking at a variety of experiences developed for the management of cultural heritage since the emergence of the protectionist movement, Ragusa analyses UNESCO cultural heritage legislation.
The EU at a Crossroads
This book summarises the dilemmas the European Union faces during its multilevel crisis. The first part concerns EU constitutional issues, the second is on public governance issues, the third details issues of the EU market and trade, and the fourth is on the Eurozone crisis.
Iranian Women in the Memoir
This book investigates how Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis empower Iranian women to reclaim their agency, transgress trauma, and reconstruct womanhood, portraying them not as victims but as active participants rewriting their own stories.
This collection presents perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on the journey to build and redefine identity. It explores the human needs required to foster respect and allow individuals to develop the potential they contain.
A History of the Lie of Innocence in Literature
Tracing history of the “lie of innocence” as represented in literary texts from the late 18th century until today, Le Cudennec explores the relationship between fathers and sons, arguing that the shedding of paternal ties represents the possibility of an “innocence of becoming”.
The publication offers a unique starting point when dealing with linguistic complexity, under the assumption that what is simpler is acquired earlier than what is complex, and allows deeper insight into the factors determining complexity in different populations of acquirers.
Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts
Altvater looks at three areas of concern around baptism as a sacrament—incarnation, initiation, and baptism within the Church—and the images that embody that religious discussion. She argues baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian.
This publication explores what is new and valued about the digital media environment. Investigating a range of key questions, it is accessible to scholars in a range of academic disciplines, including communication and media studies, sociology, cultural studies and the arts.
‘And there’ll be NO dancing’
Fourteen essays by scholars from Australia and Germany examine contexts and discourses of the “Northern Territory National Emergency Response” and subsequent policies impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007 from various perspective including history, law, and literature.
Nietzsche and Transhumanism
This collection deals with the question of whether or not Nietzsche can be seen as a precursor of transhumanism or not, addressing a variety of issues to show if there is a close connection between transhumanist concerns for progress and technology and Nietzsche’s ideas.
Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism
Cremation was not the final rite. The archaeological record shows the dead—flesh and bone—were incorporated in other rituals. Bones leave traces of practices unseen in the contemporary world, including cannibalism. This book fleshes out prehistoric religions in Scandinavia.
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