Radio Relations
This book explores how radio builds affective relations and reinforces a sense of community. It features erudite essays from world-famous figures like Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, alongside perspectives from brilliant young researchers and practitioners from around the world.
The thirteen highly personal essays in this volume anatomize the elements of our lives—the habits that make us what we are. Readers will emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions: daily life.
Violent Extremism in the 21st Century
This anthology provides global insights into violent extremism, questioning how and why it arises and what can be done about it. It contributes models, analyses, and practical tools for first-liners working to prevent extremism and rehabilitate those returning to society.
Offering powerful perspectives about legalized termination and reduction, using allusions to cult films and images from pop culture, this text will serve to persuade students, educators, politicians, lawmakers, and community leaders in the debate on abortion.
Dysthanasia
Monteiro highlights the various facets of the controversial ethical dilemma of the end of life. It provides a historical background to this discussion, its philosophical underpinnings and the perspectives of various religions on this journey along treatment obstinacy.
The central theme here is the under-studied link between the canon of Francis Bacon’s and Isaac Newton’s scientific and philosophical thought and Samuel Johnson’s critical approach that can be traced in a textual study of his literary works.
Exhausted Globalisation
This volume shows that there is an underestimated normative conflict between the transatlantic West and its ideas of 1789, revived in 1989, and the Chinese claim, outlined by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, to shape the world economy on the basis of a newly developed meritocracy.
Exploring Intervention
Drawing on nine case studies and innovative empirical material from various regions of Uganda, this edited volume focuses on the interplay between humanitarian, economic and academic intervention on the one hand and mobility, permanent transit and (re-)settlement on the other.
The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Vila-Cabanes explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory and history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the nineteenth century.
What is the American Dream? This family history, spanning four centuries, finds an answer in the preserved, untold stories of the author’s Mormon ancestors. Their dream was a cautionary tale: a nightmare where coming to America was often not worth the sacrifice.
Political Correctness in the Era of Trump
This collection explores the intense debates surrounding “political correctness.” It argues that in the era of Trump, the term has been employed as an ideological scapegoat to delegitimize and roll back progress on gender and racial equality, human rights, and democracy.
A Mashup World
Hybridity is a hallmark of our age. In our new “post-reality,” the internet fuels the spread of fake news, where make-believe events have real-life effects. This book provides the analysis needed to differentiate this manipulated non/reality from authentic stories.
The Age of Unproductive Capital
This book offers a direct analysis of today’s greatest challenges: reducing inequality, protecting the planet, and mobilizing financial resources from tax havens. It reveals how sensible policies are dismantled by global finance and captured political power.
Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this collection showcases international research findings from such diverse fields as education, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and physiotherapy.
This book explores our spiritual and emotional connection to trees. It challenges the historical view of trees as resources to be used, calling for a shift from domination and irreverence to respect, care, and even kinship.
This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
This book explores what it means to re-assert an African identity to counter neo-colonialism. Drawing on Pan-Africanism and the spirit of Ubuntu, it revisits the dream of an African rebirth to inspire youth to build a better life on the continent.
Pop Culture Matters
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy
These detailed, yet concise, essays on the nature of sports coaching provide a critical ‘snapshot’ of the current literature in coaching pedagogy. They cover a wide array of sports and techniques and their insights are essential for any serious students of the discipline.
This book discusses methods to reduce and prevent environmental problems. It explores land use planning, pollution control, environmental law, and engineering, and is useful to anyone interested in solutions to today’s turbulent environmental situation.