This title is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making today. It offers an array of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, architectural historians and urban thinkers.
The Future of Asian Feminisms
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.
Female Beauty in Art
Female Beauty in Art examines the role of female beauty in art, history, and culture. These essays consider how the discourse of beauty can generate empowering insights into womanhood, female destiny, and female identity.
This book assembles essays that explore sex and sexuality in historical and contemporary times. Using feminist lenses, these articles reevaluate familiar topics from early religious practices and medieval literature to current films and advertising.
Mother-Texts
Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.
As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
This volume examines critical aspects of global migration—from the rule of law and climate refugees to human trafficking and integration. It explores how the situation might evolve over the next 20 years, offering a broader perspective on this complex phenomenon.
Models of Social Intervention
This book analyzes the challenges and opportunities in the practical training of social workers. Contrasting the perspectives of students, supervisors, and lecturers, it identifies key gaps and proposes foundations for improving the quality of these training processes.
Amidst fundamental social change, our relationship to ourselves and others is being transformed. This anthology discusses this transformation through the perspectives of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, analyzing structures of control within society and the individual.
This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
Coaching and Teaching Soccer
This book introduces an innovative, evidence-based model to coach soccer. It provides practical examples and useful resources for physical education teachers and coaches to systematically develop players’ technical ability, tactical knowledge, and overall game competence.
Trauma, Media, Art
This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.
This book provides the context, guidelines, and tools for covering health, pandemics, and development in Africa. It is an essential resource for journalists, students, public health communicators, and international development agencies.
The Boom Femenino in Mexico
This collection of essays explores the “boom femenino,” the surge of women’s writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term’s cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.
Patrick White Centenary
Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.
University PR and Efforts to Prevent Research Misconduct
University PR departments and research integrity offices evolved at the same time, but are they interrelated? Is there a risk that universities, to protect their reputations, might develop illiberal traits and distance themselves from classic academic virtues?
This collection of essays addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment. It highlights the inter-relation of topics, connecting well-being with health, bioengineering, and the natural and social environment, and concludes with an ethical analysis of these challenges.
Following great thinkers on human happiness from antiquity to today, this book argues that as active creators, we can amend the world and make it a safe place for all. It includes primary sources on happiness in their original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, with translations.
We are surrounded by risks, but the media’s presentation of them is just as important. From causing public worry to legitimizing foreign policy, this book explores how the media covers risk and the profound consequences of its coverage.
Understanding the City
This book moves beyond the theoretical discussion of Henri Lefebvre. It presents empirical case studies from different cities, using his key concepts to propose new comprehensions of the contemporary city and empower shared desires for just urban outcomes.