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Children and Childhoods 1
Perspectives, Places and Practices
Investment in early childhood results in high returns. This book presents current research that reflects the transdisciplinary nature of childhood, examining multiple perspectives, places and practices through explorations of playgrounds, hospitals, and museums.
Investment in early childhood results in high returns. This book presents current research that reflects the transdisciplinary nature of childhood, examining multiple perspectives, places and practices through explorations of playgrounds, hospitals, and museums.
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Migration and New International Actors
An Old Phenomenon Seen With New Eyes
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
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Spirit, Faith and Church
Women’s Experiences in the English-Speaking World, 17th-21st Centuries
Women are represented as inferior creatures or as privileged vessels for the divine. This volume questions how women have negotiated their spiritual roles in male-dominated institutions and reacted to perceptions of their bodies as facilitating or impeding access to God.
Women are represented as inferior creatures or as privileged vessels for the divine. This volume questions how women have negotiated their spiritual roles in male-dominated institutions and reacted to perceptions of their bodies as facilitating or impeding access to God.
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Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.
Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.
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Locality, Memory, Reconstruction
The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-Industry Communities
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
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EU reforms promote the US university system as a model for economic growth. This book demonstrates that this contradicts basic European values, ignores the social costs of copying an elite system, and neglects crucial issues of elitism and democracy.
EU reforms promote the US university system as a model for economic growth. This book demonstrates that this contradicts basic European values, ignores the social costs of copying an elite system, and neglects crucial issues of elitism and democracy.
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Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety
An Interdisciplinary Examination of Contemporary and Historical Human Challenges
This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.
This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.
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Re-Constructing Place and Space
Media, Culture, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas
This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.
This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.
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Fandom At The Crossroads
Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships
As “aca-fans” of the television show Supernatural, the authors go behind the scenes with fans, writers, and actors. Their intimate examination explores fan psychology, passion, and shame, revealing the passionate relationship between a cult show and its fans.
As “aca-fans” of the television show Supernatural, the authors go behind the scenes with fans, writers, and actors. Their intimate examination explores fan psychology, passion, and shame, revealing the passionate relationship between a cult show and its fans.
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The Crisis of the Human Sciences
False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity
Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.
Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.
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Visible Women
Tales of Age, Gender and In/Visibility
Why do stories of older women becoming invisible persist? This moving exploration challenges that myth, weaving the author's own journey with the poetic lives of women aged 50-70 to discover what other, more visible, stories can be told.
Why do stories of older women becoming invisible persist? This moving exploration challenges that myth, weaving the author’s own journey with the poetic lives of women aged 50-70 to discover what other, more visible, stories can be told.
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Feminist Cyberspaces
Pedagogies in Transition
This collection of essays explores how new media technologies are used in the feminist classroom. Using practical experience as a basis for feminist theorizing, it seeks new ways to foster provocative, creative, and non-hierarchical learning.
This collection of essays explores how new media technologies are used in the feminist classroom. Using practical experience as a basis for feminist theorizing, it seeks new ways to foster provocative, creative, and non-hierarchical learning.
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Signs of Hope
Deafhearing Family Life
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
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Episodes from a History of Undoing
The Heritage of Female Subversiveness
This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.
This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.
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The Future of Asian Feminisms
Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflicts and Neo-Liberalism
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
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Out of the Ordinary
Representations of LGBT Lives
This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.
This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.
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With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.
With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.
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Bodies and Culture
Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
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Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book's contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
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Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.
Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.
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