Kassis describes American perceptions of the Nordic countries which contributed to the construction of the 19th-century American national identity. He explores how Nordic unity and the Americanisation of Northern Europe link to Americans’ utopian reflection on Nordic societies.
Tracing the Path of Tolerance
This work traces the history of tolerance from the wars of religion to the modern age, analysing tolerance in different epochs and places. It considers how words as tolerance and intolerance have developed over time and debates whether they are still relevant today.
Sports and Violence
The essays collected here reflect on the confluence of violence within organized sports. They detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offers ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence.
Culture and Power
This collection explores identity and identification in cultural studies. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on topics such as gender politics, postcolonialism, and the nation.
This collection of articles considers how popular cultures create a global cultural exchange, precipitating new adaptations and connections. The collection demonstrates that the everyday lives of ordinary people are unified through their expressions of shared humanity.
These essays use social psychology theories to explore new research on vulnerable groups and mental health. This book is a useful tool for professionals in psychology, education, and social work, and accessible to a wider audience.
This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.
Community Policing as a Public Policy
Many community policing initiatives fail. This book explains community policing not as a philosophy, but as a sustainable public policy. It provides a model with challenges and recommendations to serve as guidelines for policymakers and implementers.
Social Issues presents the social problems confronting Romanian society after the fall of Communism. Essays analyse national and international migration, the construction of identity in physical and virtual spaces, and the health of vulnerable populations.
Mother-Texts
Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.
As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
About The Boys
To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.
Press, Propaganda and Politics
This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.
These interdisciplinary essays explore race and ethnicity in Ecuador, highlighting understudied Afro-Ecuadorian perspectives alongside Indigenous ones. Examining politics, culture, and gender, they reveal the richness, complexities, and promises facing the country.
Visible Women
Why do stories of older women becoming invisible persist? This moving exploration challenges that myth, weaving the author’s own journey with the poetic lives of women aged 50-70 to discover what other, more visible, stories can be told.
Feminist Cyberspaces
This collection of essays explores how new media technologies are used in the feminist classroom. Using practical experience as a basis for feminist theorizing, it seeks new ways to foster provocative, creative, and non-hierarchical learning.
Contemporary Television Series
This volume proposes an interdisciplinary approach to worldwide television series, analyzing the invisible barriers between fiction and reality. Readers can explore unique insights into the impact of television on reality and on their own lives.
Humorous Garden-Paths
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.