Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Bringing together the perspectives of the people on small, remote islands in the South Pacific, the aid organisations who help after a disaster, and the governments, Johnston investigates how the appropriate responses to natural disasters for small communities.
The seventeen chapters brought together here provide a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism held in 2015, and offer insights into code-switching, the linguistic landscape, language policy, and bilingual education, among other topics.
Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of music’s interaction with ancient Greek culture since the nineteenth century, through scrutiny of various cases, from the Romantic era to experimentations of the twentieth century.
Given the strong connection between Leibniz’s thought and contemporary hermeneutics and its authors, this work explores the philosophical connection of the hermeneutical approach with Leibniz’s concepts.
Karakoç and Ersoy bring together papers which examine how the post-Arab uprisings period, with its diverse issues and actors, challenges existing policies and national borders in the Middle East, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the ongoing social changes.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects
This volume explores temporality in literary studies and the humanities. Contributions engage with the discipline’s past, its present condition, and the possibilities for its survival in an age where the relevance of the humanities is being disputed.
The European Diaspora in Australia
This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and integration.
Dwelling in Days Foregone
Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.
What makes housing feel “homey”? This book explores how to make housing for the “Third Age” feel homier, using inhabitant-based research. The most crucial factors proved to be human relationships and independence, as well as functionality, aesthetics, memories, and feelings.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
Private Military and Security Companies
Calazans investigates the application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in addressing the business conduct of Private Military and Security Companies during armed conflicts.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
Radical Contra-Diction
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
Gender and Work
Given growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance women’s work, this collection explores current research on gendered work environments and all the nuanced meanings of “work” in the context of feminism and gender equality.
Fostering Culture Through Film
The book highlights the theories and practical applications by which instructors of foreign languages and cultural studies use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities.
Education as Jazz
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
Christian Humanism and Moral Formation in “A World Come of Age”
Does Christian humanism matter in our secular age? This book brings theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and writer Marilynne Robinson into conversation with current ethical issues, demonstrating the profound affirmation of human dignity that defines their work.
Taxation and Revenue Collection in Ancient India
In the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through an analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, Sharma shows how Ancient Indian writing can contribute to active knowledge today.
Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century
Offering insights into various under-explored phenomena, the studies here deal with literary, cultural and linguistic history in Europe and the US during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the numerous advances made during that period.
Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
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