Philosophy for Children has spawned diverse practices and theories, leading to different conceptions of its purpose. This collection explores the field’s many directions, revealing the tensions and synergies between competing agendas.
Ethnicity and religious confession generate intense controversy. Diversity can lead to either cooperation or conflict. We face discrimination, marginalization, and the inequitable distribution of power. Intercultural dialogue is essential to build a multicultural society.
Regarding the Mind, Naturally
This book asks philosophical questions about the mind in the context of recent developments in cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Using naturalistic approaches, it explores the mind’s place in the world and re-examines traditional philosophical issues.
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”.
De-Centring Cultural Studies
This volume proves that cultural studies is blooming, even in Southern and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary essays explore the borders between popular and canonical culture, studying film, pop music, and literature from the perspectives of gender and age.
Imaginaries Out of Place
These bold essays engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those interested in migrant cultures, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
This collection offers lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. These essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
This collection of essays shares personal and professional stories by language teachers in diverse Australian contexts. See how their narratives shape classroom practice, offering a practical resource and case studies for teachers and educators.
In 19th-century Italy, suicide transformed from a rare sin into a widespread phenomenon. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account, exploring it through literature, art, and politics, and examining major figures like Leopardi and Salgari.
This volume considers the European contexts framing cultural contact. Essays explore encounters far afield and ‘contact within’ Europe, as the arrival of other peoples displaced interaction from distant beaches to European towns and cities.
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective
This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized to unsettle the conventional understanding of human rights. Drawing on Decolonial Thinking and Third World approaches, it constructs a new history and theory to decolonize human rights.
In the Mirror of the Past
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
Un-Australian Fictions
Un-Australian Fictions analyses literary works from 1988-2008 that challenge the national ethos and mythology. These texts reflect the destabilisation of once certain borders of Australianness, asking what it means to be Australian in a new millennium.
The Moral Psychology of Terrorism
Why do terrorists kill? This volume moves beyond politics to explore the psychology, morality, and beliefs that fuel terrorism. With perspectives from many disciplines, it probes the minds of terrorists to understand this tragic path to violence.
The Famished Road
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
The United States has played a pivotal, controversial role in China-Japan relations since WWII. This volume provides a multi-faceted overview of America’s interaction in East Asia, highlighting the obstacles to improved bilateral and regional integration.
The Measure of All Things
This book reviews man’s relationship with the forces of evolution in a biological and spiritual sense. It is an innovative excursion into the arguments between evolutionists and creationists regarding the fate of man.
Terror Truncated
To distinguish fact from myth, this book traces the crimes and leaders of the widely misunderstood Abu Sayyaf Group. It concludes that the group has been in decline since 2002, and by 2012 existed as fragmented cells rather than an organised entity.
The Threat and Allure of the Magical
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
Past and Future Vision of Veterinary Research
Based on extensive data research, this book details a new approach to enhancing racehorse welfare. It introduces an integrated technology for monitoring training and biometrics to assess injury risk, optimizing safety, performance, and racing integrity.