From Here to Diversity
From Here to Diversity sees interculturalism as movement without borders. It examines the dynamics of cultural interaction by amplifying new voices: women, non-occidentals, the non-powerful, and forgotten narratives of a past as intercultural as the present.
These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.
This book examines agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic, challenging prominent syntactic theories. Based on new data, it argues that the deficit is not a loss of structural knowledge, but a processing issue where access to entirely intact grammar is blocked.
Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.
Becoming the Other, Being Oneself
For millennia, the Wangazidja people have absorbed cultural influences from across the Indian Ocean. This book examines their strategies for negotiating this encounter, incorporating a variety of influences while remaining “authentic.”
Academic writing instruction is often boring. This self-help guide addresses this by discussing essay components in terms—such as film—familiar to today’s generation, enabling students to see the subject from a new perspective and develop their skills.
A Queer Eye for Capitalism
This study examines the reality show Queer Eye, revealing how its representations of queer culture reinforce binaries and serve commercial interests. The show transforms “queer” into a commodity, redefines masculinity through wealth, and depicts queerness as asexual.
Health Sector Reforms in Orissa
This book proposes a new framework for analysing health sector reforms. As private participation in health care increases, states must regulate the private sector to ensure universal access to quality health care and protect democratic values.
Community College Finance
This book explores resource development at Mississippi’s Community and Junior Colleges, determining if fundraising adequately serves their needs. Fundraising in a recession is necessary, and colleges that survive will learn invaluable lessons.
Consumer Australia
How did Australia become a “consumer society”? Leading scholars explore the ways selling, buying, and exchanging have defined Australian life from the 19th century on, charting the growth of consumption and asking where it is headed.
World Governance
Do we need a world government to ensure peace and well-being? While security and sustainability are strong arguments for it, many fear it would become tyrannical. This book explores the necessary components of an effective and just global order.
This volume explores the prospects and challenges of using technology in education. It addresses how students and academics can benefit from e-tools like blogs and wikis, and how technology is causing a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods.
This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.
Polish Migrants in Belfast
Based on an ethnographic study of Polish migrants in Belfast, this book explores identity construction. It investigates the tension between preserving one’s culture of origin and the urge to cross its boundaries, and the role of religion in shaping identity.
The Taylor Effect
The Taylor Effect presents a diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. With contributions from philosophy, theology, literature, and political science, this is a central reference point for any future discussion of Taylor’s work.
International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
This pioneering study applies generative grammar to Lithuanian in a contrastive analysis of small clauses in English and Lithuanian. The work addresses whether these constructions express a subject-predicate relationship and function as a clause.
Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.
This collection explores the British labour movement’s neglected relationship with imperialism from 1800–1982. It engages with themes from trade union interaction with empire to post-colonialism, making a substantial contribution to the debates on imperialism’s legacy.
Sustainable Development in Mechanical Engineering
Engineers have a responsibility to safeguard public health and safety. This book presents fifteen practical mechanical engineering cases that integrate design principles with environment, health, and safety risk management to prepare future engineers.