This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
From mythological satyrs and wicked imperial stepmothers to misbehaving students and obstreperous old Athenians, this volume investigates attitudes to age in the ancient world, exploring intergenerational relationships and the intersections with gender, class and status.
This book highlights marine pollution in Tunisia’s Bizerte Lagoon, offering insights into contamination sources. It presents the first study of pesticides in the aquatic ecosystem, assessing the lagoon’s environmental quality against global health standards.
Curating Organizational Memory
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
Dementia Caregiving East and West
This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.
Combining “light” verses with theoretical issues, this book studies the children’s poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Reeves through Reader-Oriented Theories. It offers a new perspective to scholars, teachers, critics, and readers of these beloved poets.
This collection on Homo Kybernetes frames the technosphere as an aesthetic problem. It reflects on cybernetic thinking as a condition for digital aesthetics and explores the transition of human existence through transhumanism and the posthuman condition.
The Personalist Social Contract
How can we survive with a broken humanity? Our urgent existential threats demonstrate how dangerously divided we are. This book proposes the Personalist Social Contract (PSC) as a common moral language to bring together our sciences and societies for shared survival.
Navigate global standards for ballast water management. This guide covers the technology, regulations, and risk strategies to prevent marine bio-invasions and addresses the urgent need to manage existing threats, even in the Arctic.
Race and Agency in Thomas Sowell
This book exposes the ideological dogmatism behind Thomas Sowell’s attacks on Black culture and calls to end preferential policies, revealing them as a direct threat to the ideal of an ethnically integrated society.
Labor and Writing
This book highlights the act of writing—humanity’s greatest cultural investment. It is the labor we use to record our past and construct our future. The essays within explore writing’s role at the heart of all enterprise, from identifying things to inventing new realities.
This book explores non-governmental organisations empowering women in Saudi Arabia. Given the unique cultural context, this empowerment follows unconventional paths, revealing the tactics and negotiation processes used by these organizations and by women in their daily lives.
This volume explores the transformative humanities, a vision for transforming cultures, individuals, and society. Through scholarly essays on topics like posthumanism and film studies, it offers new perspectives to innovate and transform the world we live in.
These essays explore Claire Messud’s fiction and its complex narration of cosmopolitan entanglements. Foci include emigrant identities, 1960s Pop Art, and 9/11 trauma. This collection also provides an interview with the author.
This study engages the Afropolitan debate through the literary flâneur—an aimless city wanderer. Analyzing texts set in African and global cities, it addresses issues of belonging and gestures towards new ways of understanding what it means to be an African in the world today.
Organ Shortage Today
Society can solve an urgent health crisis: the unjust death of patients waiting for an organ. In this book, leading specialists from 10 countries analyze the medical, ethical, and social problems surrounding organ donation and offer proposals to save lives.
Maurice Moynihan and the Irish State, 1902-1999
He was the elusive civil servant at the heart of the new Irish State. A former Civil War opponent of Éamon de Valera, Maurice Moynihan became his most trusted advisor, writing the 1937 constitution and wielding immense influence over the government he helped create.
This book discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected working environments, learning, and personal lives. It considers policy making, workplace changes, and the pandemic’s impact on specific groups such as LGBT individuals, people in romantic relationships, and victims of abuse.
Japan is the world’s third-largest economy, yet surprisingly little-known. This book charts its journey from the rapid modernization of the Meiji Period to its postwar “economic miracle,” and reveals how its growth outpaced the West even during the so-called “lost decade.”
This volume explores Utopia from diverse, contemporary perspectives. From literature to media and philosophy, its interdisciplinary character is a main asset. As leading authority Lyman Towers Sargent states, “Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied… varies.”