This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
An International Humanitarian Organisation
Parker discusses the current approach to the climate crisis and gives a clear view of the history of the failed protocols and promises. He studies why solutions only emerge by changing the international structure of governance, a structure now conditioned by out-dated modes.
Based on over fifty years of fieldwork, this book investigates contemporary Egyptian society. It explores folk customs of the lifecycle, from childbirth and marriage to funerary rituals, as well as social stratification and violence.
At heart, this is a tale of humanity’s poignant relationship with nature. Told in illustrated vignettes, it explores the role of plants in love, murder, and the rise and fall of empires, selecting moments from history and science that amaze, shock, or move us to disbelief.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
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.
Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea
This anthology delves into the shared Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, showing how the experience of being surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean has been a constant in the islanders’ history and identities.
Sport Tourism
This volume provides important theoretical and applied insights into sport tourism. A collective work written by specialists in the field, it provides new insights into this rapidly expanding field, which is in constant change and challenged by globalization.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
A World Beyond Global Disorder
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
Media Theory and Cultural Technologies
Media theory is now one of the most influential trends in contemporary thinking, namely within cultural studies, the arts and humanities. This anthology examines recent developments in the field brought about by concepts such as “cultural techniques” and “operative ontologies”.
This collection presents perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on the journey to build and redefine identity. It explores the human needs required to foster respect and allow individuals to develop the potential they contain.
This publication explores what is new and valued about the digital media environment. Investigating a range of key questions, it is accessible to scholars in a range of academic disciplines, including communication and media studies, sociology, cultural studies and the arts.
‘And there’ll be NO dancing’
Fourteen essays by scholars from Australia and Germany examine contexts and discourses of the “Northern Territory National Emergency Response” and subsequent policies impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007 from various perspective including history, law, and literature.
Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse
This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.
The Unity-Based Family
Danesh and Nasseri discuss creating loving and united marriages, nurturing and happy families, and rearing healthy and successful children. They provide new concepts and practical strategies on how to achieve these noble objectives in our rapidly changing and challenging world.
Ageism in Youth Studies
Scholars fault youth for being apathetic, ignoring their leadership in global uprisings. This book exposes ageism in youth studies, shifting focus from sub-cultures to economic barriers. Based on interviews with 4,000 young people, it asks: Are Millennials “Generation We or Me”?
Since the “cultural turn” in the 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to ideological concerns and gender issues in translation studies. This volume is a further illustration of this trend, offering insights into various cross-cultural, geographical and historical contexts.
Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The first book to situate the Saudi woman in a broader cultural context, this monograph explores a variety of themes, historical developments, and taboos. It also investigates a range of writing by Saudi women, and discusses their social, economic, and religious contributions.