Practices of Proximity
This study investigates the appropriation of English in the literary contact zone between ‘white’ and Indigenous Australia. It insists on the multilateral ownership of the language, seeing Indigenous literature as a space to rethink co-habitation and sovereignty.
Lawfare
While promoting a definition of aggression, the Soviet Union and Russia used international law as a weapon. This work demonstrates their program of “lawfare”—the manipulation of the legal system to supplement military and political objectives.
What are our ethical commitments to our family and the broader community? These essays provide ethical analyses of issues from same-sex marriage to licensing parents, covering love, sex, marriage, and the influence of technology on family life.
This book examines the role of the Personal Home Page (PHP) as an information resource, using English professional football as a case study. While rich with unique information, these fan sites are often underused. This study proposes a new blueprint for a communal website.
Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations
A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.
Republican, First, Last, and Always
B. Carroll Reece, a 35-year congressman and RNC Chairman, pushed anti-communism to the forefront of Republican politics. Believing capitalism was America’s strongest defense, he attacked any threat—from government projects to powerful foundations.
The human body is always changing its meanings. Why did Puritans stop addressing God as Mother? How did Victorian women’s sports grow? How transgressive was the ‘dandy’? This lively volume explores the variety of body-studies and their answers.
Rockin’ the Borders
This volume investigates how rock music has shaped identities and lifestyles since the 1950s. It offers a comparative perspective on rock’s role in everyday life in the USA and Europe, including states on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
This collection of essays examines new millennium Italian cinema, from established masters like Nanni Moretti to new directors like Paolo Sorrentino. Their films reveal an Italy of converging social and political forces where individuals struggle for self-realization.
The essays in this volume discuss philosophical theories of mind from the early-modern period, a time unparalleled for originality. Featuring the best contemporary research, these all-new essays examine Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and others.
Anthropological Fieldwork
The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.
Florida Studies
This volume contains essays about Florida literature and history. Topics range from slave shipwrecks and Zora Neale Hurston to Stephen King and the “Dexter” novels, as well as Florida ecocriticism, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
Migrants and Cultural Memory
This volume explores representations of the Traveller, Roma, and migrant “Other”. It shows how the migrant experience is echoed in the hybrid and diverse discourses of Western countries, pointing to the ongoing reconfiguration of dominant cultural narratives.
This “Self” Which Is Not One
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
After the Postsecular and the Postmodern
A vanguard of scholars asks what comes after the postsecular and postmodern in Continental philosophy of religion. This volume argues philosophy must liberate itself from theological norms and mutate into a new speculative practice to confront the challenges of our time.
Reconceptualising the Divide
Despite vibrant economic relations, Sino-Japanese relations remain strained. This book focuses on the neglected “ideational” forces—memories, identities, and nationalism—that synthesize with domestic politics to shape the future of these two giants.
Knowing and Being
Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.
For students of translation, linguistics, and languages, this book explores the relationship between translation and globalization. International scholars cover cultural communication, ethics, and media, blending theory with practice for a truly global perspective.
Event and Decision
This book unites the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead on the concept of the event. For all three thinkers, the event necessitates a radical politics, revealing humanity as constituted by a multiplicious cycle of infinite creation.
Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy, 1880-1939
Leading scholars explore the ‘new diplomacy’ conducted before, during, and after the First World War. These essays examine its origins, the changing view of war as a diplomatic tool, and how the Paris Peace Conference was viewed inside and outside Europe.