Projecting Words, Writing Images
This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.
This collection synthesizes research in Mayan linguistics, balancing recent linguistic theories with rich, new empirical data gathered from fieldwork. The findings have implications for understanding Mayan grammars and for universal linguistic theory.
Byron’s Romantic Politics
Byron exists as romantic myth: a passionate lover, staunch friend, and fighter for democracy. This book proves the truth is the opposite. Using letters never before transcribed, it argues Byron was an unscrupulous sponger who despised democracy and the Greeks.
The Future of Post-Human Chemistry
Is chemistry the central science? This book moves beyond conflicting views to provide a better way of understanding chemistry’s future. It offers a new theory that will fundamentally change how we think about the field, with enormous implications for humanity.
Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered
In post-war Australia, planners and architects envisioned ideal environments for children. But for the children who grew up there, these abstract spaces were places imbued with personal meanings, a perspective markedly different from the expert notions of the era.
The Astronaut
Analysing diverse cultural representations, this book reveals how the astronaut became a revered icon. It shows the construction of a mythology through which the astronaut embodies American ideological values and an idealised, hegemonic masculinity.
This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
Florida Studies
This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. Sections explore pedagogy; Old Florida texts from the 1540s-1950s, including evaluations of Hurston and Rawlings; and contemporary Florida’s place in larger cultural traditions.
This interdisciplinary study explores the 800-year-old sonnet and its relationship to the self. It asks why the form persists across diverse cultures by looking at the self from the limit points of the body, mind, world and language.
This book bridges academic scholarship with activism to examine Irish society from the viewpoint of those fighting attacks on workers’ rights. Diverse scholars and activists provide a Marxist analysis, showing that the class struggle continues unabated.
Vulnerable families face multiple challenges, but our service system is siloed, often with devastating effects. This book captures the challenges and hope for the future, presenting promising programs and research from over 40 Australian experts.
This collection of accessible articles explores spirituality and faith in the works of masters of world cinema. It examines canonical directors like Godard and Kurosawa alongside contemporary auteurs, broadening the understanding of faith on film.
The Archaeology of Politics
This collection of essays examines political practice in the past through the analysis of material culture. It reconceptualizes politics not as a structure (like the State) but as a dynamic set of practices entangled with the material world of people and objects.
Though the Indian Constitution provides for local self-government, state politics often undermine it. This book, a study of Karnataka, examines the gap between policy and practice in decentralised planning, with lessons for other states and developing countries.
The Supportive School
With young people’s wellbeing in decline, how do schools affect them? This book uses over 300 studies to identify the key factors, from peer relationships to academic pressure, and shows how a strong culture of support can make a profound difference.
Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy
This book presents new paradigms in Hispanic literary, cultural, and linguistic studies. It explores artistic manifestations of social change and democracy alongside groundbreaking research on topics from Puerto Rican identity to the pragmatics of humor in film.
The Future of Ecocriticism
How can we mitigate society’s destructive behaviors? The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons brings together the latest articles from leading scholars, offering a special focus on Turkish ecocriticism and a concluding dialogue among the editors.
The “I” and the “Eye”
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
This book is an empirical investigation of the EU’s growing external challenges. Exploring security policy, military operations, and relations with powers like Russia and China, it argues for the need for the EU to develop innovative external action.
(Dis)Agree
This book challenges the existence of Agree as a grammatical operation. It argues that Agree is not conceptually necessary, and that what appears to be long-distance agreement in diverse languages is, on closer inspection, an instance of a local relation.