This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning, and greed ensured Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread destruction. Using a multifaceted approach, it includes first-hand accounts, expert analyses, and data to suggest future responses to disasters.
Conflict, Trauma and the Media
These essays study the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. They consider not only the motivations behind such work, but also the psychological consequences of witnessing extreme suffering.
Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
How the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics, is explored here. The text invites a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities.
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
This work offers a cross-analysis of the development of tourism in Bali, combining international and intercultural and inter-generational research. It questions the capacity of tourism, to be a vector of sustainable development.
How can we understand and manage our epoch’s complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
This book examines why South Asian immigrant women must change how they mother in Canada. It reveals the stressful disjuncture between their work and institutional expectations around mothering, schooling, and employment, complicating their settlement experience.
Bulut addresses the constitutional journey of religious minorities in modern Turkey, specifically the Lausanne minorities, who have been blacklisted in the official records for decades. He focuses on the non-Muslim citizens who have maintained their lives with confidential codes.
Rethinking Social Capital
The essays here offer reflections and case studies from all over the world. They step out of well-known paths of discourse and discuss the phenomenon of social capital in manifold ways and from new perspectives, with a particular focus on its practical application.
Poland in Transatlantic Relations after 1989
This book brings together a number of scholars to examine the transformation of Poland within the context of regional and global power relations, focusing in particular on analyses of the country’s political and social development in the area of transatlantic relations.
This collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of supernatural phenomena.
Is intercultural exchange truly possible in societies riddled with tensions? This collection of studies addresses the challenges posed by diversity and inequality in the construction of inclusive societies.
This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part explores issues related to the social application of musical research.
Women in Art and Literature Networks
This anthology examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centres on the idea of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories.
Contemporary Research and Analysis on the Children of Prisoners
The papers here cover many of the themes in the wider literature on the children of prisoners. Advocacy themes include moving towards child-friendly prison systems, using mass incarceration to influence wider social change, and the effects of pre-trial detention on families.
This title provides leading contemporary thought and research on how to address inequalities in participation in Higher Education across the “student lifecycle”, highlighting a range of practices in widening access, including chapters on financial support and mature students.
Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
Male Bodies and Sexual Difference
Anemtoaicei addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicitly feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others.
Wilkes follows the development of modern State theory, from Gramsci and Nicos Poulantzas to Stuart Hall and Pierre Bourdieu. He provides the reader with a fresh interpretation of these very important ideas, allowing a clear and precise interpretation of the original texts.
This book uncovers the disturbing link between snakes, Medusa’s gaze, and symbols of female fear. It traces a lineage of reptilian hybrids—from goddesses to monsters—to explore the powerful things that never happened but have always been.