While most books on the Olympics focus on economics or management, this collection remains faithful to Coubertin’s original vision of youth, sport and education. Leading academics and young researchers analyse Olympism as a philosophical and educational idea.
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.
“That’s how we do it…we treat them all the same”
With dementia admissions to hospitals rising, this book describes the real experience from the perspectives of patients, carers, and staff. It proposes a model for improving care that is underpinned by a belief in the personhood of staff and patients alike.
This collection explores the intersections of feminisms and rhetorics. The chapters speak to the challenges and diversities of feminist discourse in public life, the academy, and the media, spanning international, racial, and religious contexts.
Everlasting Countdowns
Politics, not demographics, is at the core of censuses. This book argues that there is no objective method for counting social identities. Using studies from Latin America, it shows how ethnic and racial categories are defined by states to serve political goals.
The Logics of Change
In a world of constant change, inequality and poverty challenge well-being. This volume brings together researchers from different disciplines to shed light on theories, methodologies, and concrete applications of change concepts referring to poverty, place, and identity.
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 1
This two-volume series explores the East Central European émigré experience of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the reasons for migration and initial adaptation to the later negotiation of new identities while maintaining ties to the old country.
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis
This volume explores the everyday as a site of micro-political power struggles. By connecting theory with feminist research practice, contributors show how to disentangle daily routines, scrutinize entrenched power relations, and energize new forms of recognition.
Applied Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences: Sociology offers a collection of studies explaining complex phenomena like migration, culture, and identity. This volume provides material for professionals and is accessible to the public interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.
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.
Proverbs are gems of folklore that offer insight into human behaviour and a culture’s philosophy. As Francis Bacon said, “The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs”. This collection contains over 1000 Greek and English proverbs with translations.
Threads of Hope
This book uses a collaborative narrative research process to explore the lived experiences of one specific group of community members who responded to a traumatic event by setting up, and running, a therapeutic project to support the community between 2012 and 2014.
Creighton Peden’s book provides a background to the development of Humanism. It considers a range of important figures in the movement in the 19th century, including R. W. Emerson, F. E. Abbot, William J. Potter, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, and G. B. Foster.
Departing from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere, this text identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular.
This collection addresses linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim from the fifteenth century to the present. Essays reveal how Sephardim worldwide position themselves and explore the development, endangerment, and revitalization of Judeo-Spanish.
Gender and Work
Given growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance women’s work, this collection explores current research on gendered work environments and all the nuanced meanings of “work” in the context of feminism and gender equality.
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.
The thirteen contributions here bring together insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
This book articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and highlights the prejudicial assessments which ensure such epistemological systems are denigrated or ignored, even on the African continent.