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The Book of the Mirror
An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural Story of the Mirror
Essays from art, literature, history, and science give new insights into the mirror as a material object and cultural image. This book demonstrates the active role imagery and technologies have always played in our thoughts, lives and worlds.
Essays from art, literature, history, and science give new insights into the mirror as a material object and cultural image. This book demonstrates the active role imagery and technologies have always played in our thoughts, lives and worlds.
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Travellers, Gypsies, Roma
The Demonisation of Difference
This volume explores new areas of enquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani and Migration Studies. In a rapidly changing Ireland, increased acknowledgement of diversity makes dialogue between mainstream society, older minorities and newer immigrant communities necessary.
This volume explores new areas of enquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani and Migration Studies. In a rapidly changing Ireland, increased acknowledgement of diversity makes dialogue between mainstream society, older minorities and newer immigrant communities necessary.
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Culture, Trauma, and Conflict
Cultural Studies Perspectives on War
Using Cultural War Studies, this book analyzes the constructions that glorify killing and make us forget its trauma. It explores how media, torture, and memory shape our understanding of war, revealing the cultural durability of conflict.
Using Cultural War Studies, this book analyzes the constructions that glorify killing and make us forget its trauma. It explores how media, torture, and memory shape our understanding of war, revealing the cultural durability of conflict.
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Modernity, Postmodernity, and Posthumanity
Life is the Fiddle
Communism has not been defeated, only its immature 20th century form. This text argues for a sophisticated 21st century communism, a task for those who would live dangerously, fitting dialectics within contemporary scientific discoveries like chaos theory.
Communism has not been defeated, only its immature 20th century form. This text argues for a sophisticated 21st century communism, a task for those who would live dangerously, fitting dialectics within contemporary scientific discoveries like chaos theory.
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Seeking Identity
Language in Society
Language defines who we are. Our choices reflect not only how we see ourselves, but how we are viewed by society. This book explores how identity is constructed through language, from ethnicity and gender to the influence of advertising and the media.
Language defines who we are. Our choices reflect not only how we see ourselves, but how we are viewed by society. This book explores how identity is constructed through language, from ethnicity and gender to the influence of advertising and the media.
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Road Memories
Aspects of Migrant History
This volume explores the image of the Traveller/Gypsy, the migrant, and the “Other.” In an age of mass migration, diaspora communities such as Travellers and Gypsies disrupt dominant cultural narratives and serve to hybridise the discourse.
This volume explores the image of the Traveller/Gypsy, the migrant, and the “Other.” In an age of mass migration, diaspora communities such as Travellers and Gypsies disrupt dominant cultural narratives and serve to hybridise the discourse.
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Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness
Interrogating Influential Representations
This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.
This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.
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Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions
Images of the Indian Diaspora in Malaysia
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
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Cyberfeminism in Northern Lights
Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic Context
This book explores cyberfeminism from a Nordic perspective, challenging dominant Anglo-American research. It argues that feminist studies of digital media must become more inclusive and aware of their own geographical and cultural biases and limits.
This book explores cyberfeminism from a Nordic perspective, challenging dominant Anglo-American research. It argues that feminist studies of digital media must become more inclusive and aware of their own geographical and cultural biases and limits.
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Bonds Across Borders
Women, China, and International Relations in the Modern World
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
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The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.
The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.
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Women Moving Forward Volume Two
An Intersectional Lens for a Tapestry of Diverse Voices
A weaving of stories about hope, fortitude, and resilience. This collection shares narratives of the global movement of women towards empowerment, exploring the challenges they face as they move forward. This profound volume both inspires and challenges.
A weaving of stories about hope, fortitude, and resilience. This collection shares narratives of the global movement of women towards empowerment, exploring the challenges they face as they move forward. This profound volume both inspires and challenges.
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Racisms in the New World Order
Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity
In our globalized world, racism is constantly changing. This book moves beyond traditional ideas to examine contemporary racisms, their intersection with other prejudices, and their link to the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Islamaphobia’. It presents strategies for action.
In our globalized world, racism is constantly changing. This book moves beyond traditional ideas to examine contemporary racisms, their intersection with other prejudices, and their link to the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Islamaphobia’. It presents strategies for action.
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Francophone Women Coming of Age
Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
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Eastwards / Westwards
Which Direction for Gender Studies in the 21st Century?
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
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Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
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Mapping Appetite
Essays on Food, Fiction and Culture
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
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Material Worlds
Proceedings of the Conference held at Glasgow University, 2005
This volume examines how the intangible is made real, how culture mediates our experience of the world, and what about the real resists transcription. Analyses include attempts to inscribe the soul and the material manifestations of capitalism and empire.
This volume examines how the intangible is made real, how culture mediates our experience of the world, and what about the real resists transcription. Analyses include attempts to inscribe the soul and the material manifestations of capitalism and empire.
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Loss, Hurt and Hope
The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children
What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma? Untreated, it causes devastating loss. *Loss, Hurt and Hope* gathers the wisdom of professionals, providing the tools to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal.
What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma? Untreated, it causes devastating loss. *Loss, Hurt and Hope* gathers the wisdom of professionals, providing the tools to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal.
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The Dialectics of Late Capital and Power
James, Balzac and Critical Theory
This essay offers a provocative new theory on the dialectics of capital, cruelty, and power under late capitalism, as seen in the novels of Henry James and Honoré de Balzac. It introduces concepts like true power as ‘un-power’ and capital as ‘un-capital’.
This essay offers a provocative new theory on the dialectics of capital, cruelty, and power under late capitalism, as seen in the novels of Henry James and Honoré de Balzac. It introduces concepts like true power as ‘un-power’ and capital as ‘un-capital’.
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