Social Sciences

Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance

Transnational Perspectives

Edited By: Matthew Isaac Cohen, Laura Noszlopy

£39.99

This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.

Contemporary Studies in Environment and Tourism

Edited By: Recep Efe, Munir Ozturk

£70.99

As a result of the recent serious academic interest in tourism as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment, this volume brings together case studies from different parts of the world, focusing on tourism and its interactions with the environment.

Contemporary Studies in Sciences

Edited By: Recep Efe, Isa Cürebal

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Bridging diverse disciplines from the genesis of the Maldives to robotic agriculture, this book presents cutting-edge research from leading experts. It offers vital recommendations for future work, making it essential for academics, students, and practitioners.

Contemporary Television Series

Narrative Structures and Audience Perception

Edited By: Silvia Branea, Bianca Mitu

£44.99

This volume proposes an interdisciplinary approach to worldwide television series, analyzing the invisible barriers between fiction and reality. Readers can explore unique insights into the impact of television on reality and on their own lives.

Content, Consciousness, and Perception

Essays in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

Edited By: Conor McHugh, Ezio Di Nucci

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What sort of thing is the mind? This collection of eleven new essays by today's most promising philosophers explores mental content, consciousness, and perception, offering a state-of-the-art overview ideal for students and specialists alike.

What sort of thing is the mind? This collection of eleven new essays by today’s most promising philosophers explores mental content, consciousness, and perception, offering a state-of-the-art overview ideal for students and specialists alike.

Contentious Connections

Social Imagination in Globalizing South Asia

Edited By: Klaus Karttunen, Sirpa Tenhunen

£44.99

This multidisciplinary volume analyzes how transnational connections are re-imagining politics, gender, and public culture in South Asia. It explores the relationship between local worlds and global flows, questioning the role of power, the state, and agency.

Contest(ed) Writing

Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Competitions

Edited By: Mary Lamb

£44.99

This collection explores writing contests as a cultural practice, asking if they over-emphasize individual achievement over shared goals. Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach, it examines contests from ancient Greece to modern podcasting competitions.

Contested Boundaries

New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison

Edited By: Maxine L. Montgomery

£39.99

Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.

Contested Histories and Politics of People

Theorizing Subalternity

By: P. Prayer Elmo Raj

From £32.99

Subaltern Studies unearths subsumed narratives and subjugated knowledges to counter hegemonic domination. It critiques power manipulated by colonialism and elite nationalists, and challenges the neo-colonial politics that continue to alter history.

Contested Histories in Contemporary Travel Writing on India

By: Antara Datta

From £29.99

This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.

Contested Identities

Literary Negotiations in Time and Place

Edited By: Roger Nicholson, Gertrud Szamosi, Claudia Marquis

£52.99

These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.

Contested Minorities of the Middle East and Asia

Edited By: Attila Kovács, Katarína Šomodiová

£58.99

This text offers valuable insights into the issue of minorities in various geographical and political settings, from the Uyghurs of China and the modern Christian movements of India to the Romas and Dervishes of early 20th century Iran and the Muslims of Western Europe.

Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels

Reading for Space

By: Şemsettin Tabur

£61.99

Tabur discusses the ways in which the work of Toni Morrison, Dionne Brand, Jhumpa Lahiri and Carolyn See engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk.

Contested Tourism Commodities

What’s for Sale

By: Konstantinos Tomazos

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This book explores tourism’s contested niches, from slum tourism to trophy hunting. It traces how marginal pursuits explode into the mainstream, causing controversy as they are commodified, packaged, and sold while the lines between acceptance and outrage blur.

Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries

Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits

By: Krishnamurthy Alamelu Geetha

£41.99

This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.

Contexts for Teacher Education

The Significance of Content and Pedagogic Knowledge

By: Bengi Sonyel

£66.99

Good teaching is more than mastering technique. It is proactive, emotional work, infused with pleasure, passion, creativity, and joy. Continuing professional development is necessary for all educators to keep pace with change and to renew their knowledge, skills, and visions.

Contextual Identities

A Comparative and Communicational Approach

Edited By: Leo Loveday, Emilia Parpală

£47.99

This interdisciplinary, intercultural book brings the concepts of “identity,” “comparativism,” and “communication” together to reinterpret postmodernism. It investigates multiple identities in discursive contexts and will interest those in image and literary studies.

Contextualising English as a Lingua Franca

From Data to Insights

Edited By: Xavier Martin-Rubió

£61.99

This volume collects ten papers testifying to the great scope of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research. The contributions analyze computer-mediated communication, social issues in diverse contexts, and new pedagogical initiatives, situating ELF in its multilingual future.

Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora

Edited By: Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Alloy Ihuah, Felisters Kripono

£47.99

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent's chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

Contextualizing the Pedagogy of English as an International Language

Issues and Tensions

Edited By: Nugrahenny T. Zacharias

£44.99

This book addresses the complexities of English as an International Language (EIL) in the classroom. It brings together narratives of the realities, struggles, and tensions EIL practitioners face, exploring pedagogical challenges in diverse contexts.

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