Building Socialism, Constructing People
This book explores the radical shift in Romanian identity during the Sovietisation of the 1940s-50s. Analyzing the press as a propaganda tool, it reveals how “cultural colonisation” deconstructed and reconstructed personal and political identities.
Digital Diversities
Digital Diversities is a study of the ‘digital turn’s’ impact on global mobility and everyday life. It explores the shift to remote relationships, new forms of political expression, and intercultural encounters in the digital global hive.
Good Governance and Civil Society
Governance provides an answer to the challenges of globalization by combining cooperative forms of governing with the private sector and social partners. This book offers interdisciplinary research and case studies to analyse the many facets of this concept.
Mythologizing the Vietnam War
As the Vietnam War evolves from memory into history, it has been changed into a set of mythologies. This collection of critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the war, reassessing the role of visual media in its coverage, memorialisation, and memory.
The Birth of a Celestial Light
This book examines Iranian women who are neither conventionally religious nor secular, but explore spirituality. It investigates the feminist potential of the “Inter-universal Mysticism” movement for women seeking to transform their lives and construct their own selves.
A Different Germany
A Different Germany looks at film, popular literature, and theatre to show how diverse communities are thriving. The authors argue that Germany is much more than the few tropes that circulate through the Cold War lens in the English-speaking world.
Intercultural Dialogue
This book offers a philosophical analysis of intercultural dialogue as an alternative to “culture wars.” Drawing on diverse philosophical traditions, it argues that solutions to world problems require a dialogical transformation of society for a cosmopolitan order of peace.
I Am
I Am: Remix Your Web Identity shows how to regain control of your digital identity. Design a personal website that aggregates your blog and social network posts in one location using RSS, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 to become a true “web author.”
Income Justice in Ukraine
This book presents an empirical study of distributive justice attitudes in post-Soviet Ukraine. Bringing together fundamental theory and unique data, this study contributes to inequality studies and post-communist transformation research.
This collection explores different types of space—exile, borderlands, the open road—to unpack the intricacies of Latino/a subjectivities. At issue is the freedom to self-define and travel across physical and metaphorical barriers.
Fairytales—A World between the Imaginary
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales’ female characters.
This multidisciplinary collection offers new perspectives on Celtic culture, literature, and linguistics. Scholars address established themes and unexplored areas, highlighting connections between academia and popular culture to broaden the horizon of Celtic scholarship.
This volume re-thinks culture by examining those who change cultures. It re-examines integration, questioning if it is a choice or a euphemism for cultural uniformity, and explores strategies for cultural survival and shared multiculturalism.
Conceptualizing our Interpersonal Impressions
Psychoanalysis is rich in theory but poor in evidence. This book breaks the mold, clarifying a 70-year-old problem with the first scientific evidence of psychoanalytic phenomena in everyday life—not from the analyst’s couch.
Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
How is sexuality socially constructed, confined, and defined? This multidisciplinary collection tackles the major theoretical and methodological problems confronting sexuality studies, exploring masculinities and femininities in relation to power, race, and class.
Recent global crises, from financial collapses to revolutions, are rooted in failures of governance. This book focuses on governance and accountability in the shadow of turmoil, exploring their relationship to sustainable development across different cultures.
Language – Nation – Identity
How does language define one’s national identity? This volume explores the relationship between language, nation, and identity from a 21st-century perspective, analyzing its changing role across different historical, social, and linguistic contexts.
Antiziganism
This volume explores the discrimination and persecution of Romanies, focusing on the theoretical understanding of ‘antiziganism.’ Essays analyze the historical continuity of stereotypes and the counter-discourse of Romanies, providing necessary readings.
Facts and Fantasies
This work analyzes debates on women’s rights in the popular press of 1920s Turkey, following them into obscene literature. In these popular stories, urban women who defied the new patriarchal social order were often depicted as heroines.