Care and Culture
This book gives voice to mental health carers, placing personal experiences centre stage. It explores how cultural notions of family shape carers’ motivations and presents a new model for understanding their relations to patients, professionals, and the state.
This book investigates social policy in Iraqi Kurdistan, introducing a “clientelistic model of policy implementation.” It argues that politicians interfere, distributing social security benefits based on socio-political status, not socio-economic need.
Researching the Stereotypes of People Around Me
This textbook guides international students with little prior experience through writing a research thesis on stereotypes. It uses a hands-on project to develop essential skills in qualitative research, critical analysis, and thesis structuring.
Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America
This book presents research on public policies in Latin America from a cognitive perspective. It asks what paradigms have shaped these policies, how they have changed over time, and who the new actors and coalitions influencing agendas are today.
Gendering the Narrative
This volume of critical essays explores gender discourse in Indian English fiction. Investigating feminism, masculinity, and homosexuality, it is an indispensable companion for any scholar of gender studies interested in these perspectives.
Islamic Postcolonialism
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.
Made in Oceania
This volume brings together papers from a symposium on the social meanings, conservation and presentation of Oceanic tapa, or barkcloth, in 2014, and offers insights into current museum practice, connecting historical research with recent cultural developments in the Pacific.
Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time
This volume presents a rich mosaic of current strategies for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). International educators highlight the diversity of present-day teaching processes in a global environment where English is a lingua franca.
This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
Solway Country
The Solway Country is a little-known world on the Anglo-Scottish border, its identity rooted in landscape and a turbulent history. This book captures its spirit, exploring a hybrid culture of ballads born from the theft and mayhem of the border reivers.
Normalization in Translation
This book provides a diachronic, corpus-based study of normalization in 20th-century English–Chinese fictional translation. It compares texts from two historical periods to explain, not just describe, how and why translation behavior has changed over time.
This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
This book explains the links between human capital management and an organisation’s performance. Chapters provide an accurate picture of relevant topics in human resource management, including commitment systems, social networks, and happiness at work.
Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence
This book analyzes the translation of diplomatic discourse, which conveys uncertainty. Using the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision as a case study, it establishes a three-dimensional model for configuring implicitness in language and re-expressing it through translation.
Income Justice in Ukraine
This book presents an empirical study of distributive justice attitudes in post-Soviet Ukraine. Bringing together fundamental theory and unique data, this study contributes to inequality studies and post-communist transformation research.
Britishness is a challenging term to define. This volume enhances our understanding of modern national identity by exploring historical ideas of Britishness through essays on literature, philosophy, music, art, and design, revealing its rich forging.
The Word made Visible in the Painted Image
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World (Volume I
This collection of essays in two volumes examines the concepts of authority and displacement within English language regions. This first volume investigates the European context, exploring authors such as Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy.
This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.
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