This volume deliberates over the relationship between monarchy and tourism development in Southeast Asia. It explains the importance of the need to shift the tourism and monarchy focus from European to Asian royalty.
Artists and Migration 1400-1850
This collection thematically analyses the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution. It studies the influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country and their own oeuvre and native culture.
Zulfiqar examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. In so doing, she demonstrates how African women’s literature engages with political issues and revisits Fredric Jameson’s controversial assumptions on third-world texts.
Waiting Territories in the Americas
Given the prominence of population displacement today, this title assesses the forms that waiting territories take, in order to better understand their juridical statuses, their relationships with the spatial environment, and the economic and social relationships they foster.
Seeing Whole
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
Growing Up a Woman
The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.
Labour Law in Russia
Russia’s transition to a market economy required new employment laws, but many issues remain unaddressed. The papers in this volume consider recent developments from a historical and comparative perspective to provide insights and examine current challenges.
D. H. Lawrence
Offering a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, the essays here provide new readings of Lawrence’s work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, while others focus on translation.
The first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region, the essays here deal with representations of queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years, with a specific interest in belletristics.
This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.
Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city’s real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?
Exploring Political and Gender Relations
Offering a contemporary, multicultural approach to the relationship between politics, media and society, this publication investigates such links from various perspectives. It brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed.
Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
Explore Czech culture’s evolution after socialism. This volume reveals the diverse trajectories of popular culture and subcultures, showing what truly changed and what surprisingly endured from the late socialist era.
Reflections on Gender from a Communication Point-of-View
This text offers students’ reflections as they grapple with gender issues while intersecting with their identities, sexualities, race and ethnicity, and nationalities. It explores standpoints on gender, internalizing ideas about selfhood and scrutinizing understandings of gender.
Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States
This collection explores Southeast Asian American subjectivities through the interplay of memory and vision. Authors examine diverse homes, creativities, and queer sexualities to provide new visions that link Southeast Asia to America in creative and purposeful ways.
Writing New Worlds
This book analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era, showing how authors, scholars and artists between the 15th and 17th centuries responded to the challenges of modernity.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
A Pacifist’s Life and Death
Using written and oral sources, Gkotzaridis’s study weaves a narrative of the life and death of Grigorios Lambrakis, Greece’s most committed defender of democracy and peace of the post-Civil War period, highlighting political divisions and obstacles to peace in Cold War Greece.
The Shaping of Persian Art
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.