Dramatising Disaster
As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
Selling Sex Short
Pornography and sexology are redefining sexuality, but is the model they promote selling sex short? This book investigates the connections between these industries, revealing they promote a sexual ideal resembling prostitution for couples to mimic.
Ending hostilities does not bring normality. Fractured societies face a twilight between war and peace as the world’s attention moves on. This book offers multi-disciplinary insights into this grey space, exploring interventions for positive post-conflict reconstruction.
The Possibility of Love
Is love actually possible, or is it an illusion? This book explores the obstacles to love, the consequences of its absence, and our unquenchable desire for it through an interdisciplinary analysis of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and poetry.
This book explores how digital technologies contribute to the expression, construction, and enactment of identities. Drawing from various disciplines, it examines the nearly limitless opportunities for staging and transforming the self in our modern world.
This book explores how race and ethnicity influence public memory. Nine provocative investigations address how our collective remembrance shapes racial and ethnic identities—and why this often leads to conflict in the United States.
For millennia, philosophy has failed to define art. This searching critique reveals why and proposes a new philosophy, demonstrating that art is quintessentially involved in the meaning of life, our impulse for self-knowledge, and understanding the human condition.
Crisis, Globalization and Governance
As globalization challenges old business practices, this book tackles how to reinvent governance at private and public levels. It provides strategies to reorient globalization for a safer future, promoting public interest and social democracy.
This collection of scholarly articles explores Strindberg on international stages and in translation. Essays analyze performances, translation problems, and postdramatic theatre, posing key questions for modern Strindberg scholars, directors, and enthusiasts.
The Impact of the Subprime Crisis on Global Financial Markets, Banks and International Trade
This book analyzes financial stability risk across international financial markets, banks, and trade. It offers innovative research and suggests new policy approaches to deal with three major crises: the debt crisis, an ageing population, and climate change.
Literature and Politics
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
The Gift of Logos
The Continental tradition emphasizes the Logos, which these essays celebrate as a gift that overcomes existential alienation. To give a gift is to befriend. This collection argues that true transformation is our greatest gift, and giving it voice is the gift of Logos.
A Just World
Scholars from diverse disciplines offer a multi-disciplinary analysis of social justice. Addressing today’s most pressing problems, this volume reveals deep-seated causes and provides practical, sustainable solutions toward a more just world.
The City and the Ocean
Throughout history, cities have been locations of human encounter, especially along shorelines where water has both separated and connected communities. A group of diverse scholars maps key encounters between peoples, past and present, and their urgent consequences.
Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland went far beyond his famous *Irish Journal*. This book charts his deep personal and literary connections, from his second home on Achill Island to his translations of Irish authors and the controversies he caused.
Weapons Upon Her Body
This study reinterprets the biblical stories of Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth, and Bathsheba. It finds women who use deception, resolve, and cleverness to their own benefit, saving themselves through pluck and ingenuity. They are a new kind of hero.
Beyond Boundaries
This collection of essays explores East-West cultural exchanges across centuries and disciplines. It examines the mutual influences of the visual arts and material culture of Asia, Europe, and the US, seeking to inspire new ideas and scholarly debate.
Gendering Christian Ethics presents ethical reflections by a new generation of researchers. Versed in feminist theory and building on foundations laid by pioneers, contributors address the inner dynamics of the church and Christian engagement with the wider world.
Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse
International experts present cutting edge research on language and gender. This collection explores femininity, feminism, and gendered discourse, analyzing how we perform and negotiate our identities in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts.
Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
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