Downscaling Culture
As globalisation makes fixed ideas of culture obsolete, this volume updates intercultural communication theory and practice. It utilises a theory of scales to ‘downscale culture’, showing how it might—or might not—be relevant in any given interaction.
Human psychological skills are our most precious capital. This book analyzes the organization which incubates this capital: the household. It emphasizes positive psychological aspects, exploring how the family fosters the skills necessary for a successful life and career.
Migrants and Minorities
Europe is being irrevocably changed by immigration. This book pinpoints the trends shaping its future, exploring EU-level regulations, the challenges of Islam and xenophobia, and how different nations are integrating migrants and minorities.
Inspired by the ‘Historicising the Lesbian’ conference, this collection of essays covers a wide period in history, from the medieval to the modern. The chapters explore a huge range of subjects to widen our knowledge of lesbian history.
Agents of Space
This collection investigates the potentialities afforded by space in eighteenth-century art and visual culture, and underscores the ways in which agency can be productive to multifarious lines of artistic, cultural, and historical inquiry.
Digitalization, Economic Development and Social Equality
This book is an outcome of the WCSA Conference “Turbulent Convergence.” It gathers research from international scholars to provide a forum for valuable discussion.
Contested Histories and Politics of People
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.
These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.
Current Latin American post-feminist writers propose a transgressive new social order. This critical text explores how their narratives seek a dignified life for women by overcoming dominant social, political, and cultural structures.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.
This book offers a new cultural perspective on Slovak immigration, going beyond economic analysis. It compares British and Slovak understandings of class, religion, and ethnicity to reveal how these factors shape the integration of children within UK education.
Mapping Migration
This anthology considers culture and identity in Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and the UK. It shows how cultural practices, including the use of performance, food, and religion, demonstrate how traditions are preserved, as well as adapted, in new contexts.
Tourism Research
This book compiles research on tourism from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing fields like geography, architecture, and culture. From a diverse group of international authors, this volume will interest faculty and postgraduate students of tourism.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Celebrity Colonialism
Celebrity Colonialism explores the entanglements of fame and power in colonial and postcolonial settings. It demonstrates the ambivalent roles played by famous personalities, providing a powerful lens for understanding what colonialism was and what it has become.
Diverse Spaces
An interdisciplinary group of scholars interrogate how ‘Canadian-ness’ is represented, disputed, and negotiated in public culture. This volume examines official spaces and alternative narratives that assert voice, highlighting the conflicts and successes that emerge.
Yesterday’s Tomorrows
In 2012, a year of crises and forebodings, the world became a stage for new beginnings and utopian movements. The essays in this book discuss utopia and dystopia in literature and film, using science fiction, gender politics and social sciences to understand the present.
The Beginnings of International Soccer
Why did England’s fortunes turn against Scotland in the late 19th century? Was it the founding of Corinthian FC or the onset of professionalism? This book brings together the narrative of early international soccer in Britain, comparing the four competing home nations.
Perceived Threats in Turkish Politics
This analysis of contemporary Turkey reveals how perceived threats shape its national identity, policy-making, and nationalism. Unpacking the ‘security-nationalism’ paradigm, it offers a unique insight into the mechanisms driving the politics of a major geopolitical player.