Border Folk Balladeers
This book contains critical studies on Américo Paredes, a founder of Mexican American Studies. Renowned scholars analyze his pioneering work on border culture, from the traditional Texas-Mexican corrido to its contemporary offshoots like narcoballads and narconovels.
Max Weber on China
Cotesta throws light on the problem-riddled Max Weber, a man lacerated by tragic contradictions, a great intellectual, nationalistic yet cosmopolitan. This investigation of his private life reveals a tender man, who, at a time of overwhelming conflict, sought true life in love.
Victorian Cultures of Liminality
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
Forensic Communication in Theory and Practice
This collection brings together, for the first time, contributions on forensic communication. It combines theoretical and methodological studies with professional capabilities, investigating forensic discourse analysis, voice, and transcription methods.
Modern Legal Interpretation
Legalism depicts judges as merely applying pre-existing rules. But is this theory too naïve? Can such a formalist approach withstand critiques from Dworkinian interpretivism or legal realists? Prominent legal philosophers discuss these and other issues of legal interpretation.
Didactics of Translation
Bnini gathers empirical evidence for the didactic value of translating texts in context through an experiment involving students who study translation as part of their curriculum. A number of theoretical frameworks are invoked in the study.
Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs
Media, fictional and non-fictional texts, feature prominently in producing and propagating cultural difference and stereotypes in ideologically effective ways. This text analyses media representations from various angles, dealing with ethnic groups from three world areas.
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.
Malewska-Szałygin argues that common-sense convictions of rural Polish citizens are “post-peasant” or “post-agrarian”, rather than post-socialist or post-communist, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the early 2000s in the highland region in the south of Poland.
This edited text, gathering established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration.
This book explores the dangers emerging economies face from the digital divide, highlighting the present insecurities in e-business and e-commerce. It details how vital assets may be secured as these economies expand into our technological world.
Remembering Home in a Time of Mobility
In an age of displacement, this volume explores how we use memory, nostalgia, and melancholy to cope with the loss of home. It examines the politics of these strategies and their intersection with identity positions such as gender, class, and sexuality.
Picart gives a critical legal analysis of how American self-radicalizing terrorists become what they are. She illustrates, through cutting-edge studies on terrorism, how the internet allows a self-activating terrorist to first self-radicalize with an organized terrorist network.
Honour killing is considered the worst form of domestic violence against human beings, particularly against women. This book allows the reader to understand precisely the menace of honour killing and to consider how it can be addressed to save innocent lives.
Exploring Intervention
Drawing on nine case studies and innovative empirical material from various regions of Uganda, this edited volume focuses on the interplay between humanitarian, economic and academic intervention on the one hand and mobility, permanent transit and (re-)settlement on the other.
Labour in the 21st Century
This compendium investigates and discusses the different aspects of the major transformations that have characterized the world of work in recent years. It claims that in order to propose solutions to cope with such changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics.
Nature and Life
Explore contemporary trends in environmental philosophy and applied ethics. An essential reference for researchers and general readers, this book examines the ethical issues transforming our lives, uniquely focusing on both Western and non-Western approaches.
This title delves into a variety of problems connected to philosophy and philosophy of law. It discusses monism-pluralism in philosophy, philosophy of post-positivism and postmodernism, and dialectics as a methodological basis of scientific cognition and philosophy of law.
Reflections on Society and Academia
Herbst addresses a wide spectrum of concerns within the social sciences, as well as higher education and design and planning issues. His work allows for an easy and holistic assessment of publications that cover various themes and were written during the past two decades.
This edited volume investigates Alice Munro’s art as a storyteller and the processes she performs on the contemporary short story genre in her creative anatomical theatre from a variety of different critical perspectives ranging from post-structuralism to cultural studies.
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