Researching Work-Family Discourses
This book uses qualitative methodologies to research work-family discourses, unveiling hidden social messages about gender roles. The complex discourses are retrieved from the British TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
Learning from Memory
This book, with contributions from international social scientists, explores the link between body, memory, and digital technologies. It outlines a sociology of memory, throwing light on human behavior and the neurobiological factors that underpin it.
This volume explores how audiovisual media shapes identity in Southeastern Europe. Using photos and sound recordings, scholars offer a comparative and historical view on how self-images are constructed and negotiated through postsocialist change.
Academic Mobility and Migration are a reality for most in higher education. This unique volume explores their impact on institutions and people, considering underexplored aspects like virtual mobility, North-South mobility, and questions of identity.
“A Zoo of Lusts…A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”
Why does on-screen sexual violence escalate when the victim isn’t white, straight, or middle class? This historical interrogation of rape in film reveals what its changing portrayal says about our culture.
Economy in Changing Society
Within the frame of globalisation and post-socialist transformation, this book analyzes how actors, relations, and institutions drive economic processes. Empirical studies explore transition economies, new markets, consumption, and corporate behavior.
Selling One’s Favourite Piano to Emigrate
In this book, academics from various European countries describe migration not only as an economic, but mainly as a social process. Texts consider migration’s social consequences for migrants, their families and societies, offering unique insight into human flows.
This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, to form, develop and maintain professional business networks and manage social capital.
Vulnerable families face multiple challenges, but our service system is siloed, often with devastating effects. This book captures the challenges and hope for the future, presenting promising programs and research from over 40 Australian experts.
The Astronaut
Analysing diverse cultural representations, this book reveals how the astronaut became a revered icon. It shows the construction of a mythology through which the astronaut embodies American ideological values and an idealised, hegemonic masculinity.
This book follows migrants from challenging homelands into even more challenging new worlds. Spanning historical periods, these essays use diverse approaches to reveal the experiences of immigrants, providing a fresh perspective on today’s immigration issues.
This book critically examines Australia’s counter-terrorism measures and their impact on human rights and Australian Muslims. It explores the recent shift from a coercive approach to one of community engagement focused on building trust with diverse communities.
The Surplus of Culture
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
Selling James Bond
Selling James Bond offers an in-depth “behind the scenes” look at the series’ history of product placement. It charts the practice’s progression, drawing correlations to cultural events and showing how brands became embedded in the film narrative.
Uncertain Lives
Uncertain Lives examines the impact of neoliberal policies on everyday life in Australia. It explores the persistence of race and racism as multicultural values have been replaced, charting how race has influenced everything from daily life to border control.
This study explores African/Caribbean boys’ educational experiences in the UK. It contrasts narratives of racial exclusion in mainstream schools with the positive support of supplementary education, highlighting what the former can learn from the latter.
Few studies have analyzed anti-social behaviour in Northern Ireland. This book fills that gap, considering the Troubles, the role of paramilitary groups, and the impact of the political settlement to offer insight into how to respond to the problem.
Women’s Memory
This book brings together researchers to address the problems of sources and archives in women’s studies. The articles examine perceptions of women in collective memory through oral, written, and visual culture, aiming to form accessible international archives.
Continuity and Change
This book highlights contemporary gestalt therapy through the lens of the tenth biennial conference of a unique organization, the AAGT. It includes papers and presentations from the most compelling thinkers and practitioners in the world of gestalt therapy.
This book explores how the study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform debates on globalization. It marries theoretical abstraction with the everyday, using examples from music, film, migration, and education to illustrate daily life in a globalized world.