Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities
In multicultural societies, identity is a battleground between myths of purity and the need to belong. This book explores how people use the politics of memory to forge personal and communal narratives of self-definition and belonging.
How Writing Touches
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.
Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.
CLIL pedagogy is a revolution in language education but involves complex challenges. This publication provides a collection of original papers covering essential aspects of CLIL. It is a helpful handbook for teachers, student teachers, and teacher trainers.
This collection examines women’s identities and bodies through literary and historical accounts. Using the colonial past to analyze contemporary issues, it explores the female body as a site of abuse and discrimination, but also of knowledge and cultural production.
The Future of Asian Feminisms
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
News as Changing Texts
This book focuses on the interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’, exploring the evolution of news as a textual type across the centuries in Britain. Through linguistic analyses of corpora, it examines news in its continuous process of adjustment and renewal.
Making Peace In and With the World
This study of the Gülen movement explores contemporary Islamic thought on eco-justice. It argues that true peace requires two dimensions: peace between differing human communities and peace between humanity and nature, challenging exclusivist views.
The 1960s in Australia
The 1960s is a heavily mythologised decade. This collection challenges that myth, showing that not everyone in Australia experienced it the same way. Expert historians explore the complex social realities, power, and politics of this significant time.
Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan
This book examines Chris Ware, a preeminent comics creator who fortifies and expands the genre. It analyzes comics in relation to literature and film before focusing on his magnum opus, Jimmy Corrigan, contextualizing it alongside other prominent figures.
Rhetoric and Politics
This volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Combining various disciplines, the case studies provide an empirically rich account of politics as a persuasive achievement.
Professional Ethics
This book addresses the ethical dimension of professional development. With contributors from a variety of fields, it explores inter-professional ways of working and developing an ethical response to changing contexts. Useful for practitioners, managers, and scholars.
Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre
This book introduces “paleo-postmodernism” to define Tom Mac Intyre’s unique literary project: fusing Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction to unearth Ireland’s mythological unconscious.
This book examines the triangular relations between China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It argues that Southeast Asian states are not strategic pawns, but instead actively manoeuvre between these great powers, driving East Asian multilateralism.
Episodes from a History of Undoing
This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.
Divided Eastern Europe
In 1938, new borders divided Eastern Europe, creating the foundation for conflict. This collection of articles by international researchers explores national border changes from 1938 to 1947: population transfers, interethnic purges, and their modern legacy.
Meštrović provides critical insights into the defining questions of our age, tracing the imbalance between market globalisation and society to contradictions within capitalism. He searches for a new commons and a movement towards freedom beyond the market’s restrictions.
Historical Knowledge
This book offers theoretical and methodological building blocks for historical research. It addresses the challenges of evidence and interpreting the past, featuring texts by eminent historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, and Giovanni Levi.
Renaissance Tales of Desire
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
Intermedial Arts
These essays position intermediality as a way to challenge our notion of art. Writers examine the relations between the arts—reference, combination, or transformation—to help us grasp their changing relationship in our contemporary medial age.