The Shaping of Persian Art
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
The Sochi Predicament
Sochi was an unlikely host for the Winter Olympics, a prestige project for Russia. This book analyzes the profound challenges of identity, security, and ethnic relations from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian, and Circassian perspectives.
Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
Diverse Spaces
An interdisciplinary group of scholars interrogate how ‘Canadian-ness’ is represented, disputed, and negotiated in public culture. This volume examines official spaces and alternative narratives that assert voice, highlighting the conflicts and successes that emerge.
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 2
This two-volume series examines the East Central European émigré experience. The first volume focuses on the reasons for migration and adaptation, while the second explores the negotiation of new identities and maintaining ties to the abandoned homeland.
Cases of Intervention
Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study in British cultural studies. In this volume, the method takes centre stage as scholars apply theory to diverse topics like the cup of tea, CCTV, and monarchs on film.
Combat stress and burnout in caring professions. This guide explores the vital role of supervision, drawing on quantitative research with 400 social workers, educators, and medical staff.
Heimat Goes Mobile
The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.
Peace education provides the skills to move from a culture of war to one of peace. This book lays a foundation for students, teachers, and peace educators to explore the elements necessary to create a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
This book gives an insightful account of Nigerian international migration. To harness migration for development, we must understand the forces of emigration, return, and kinship networks. A vital resource of theoretical and practical importance for nations worldwide.
Strange Brew
How did words and music become a magic potion that fueled a cultural revolution? Strange Brew traces psychedelic metaphor from its 1960s roots to its lasting influence, revealing its power to shape the songs that define us.
Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
In memory of Charles E. Timberlake, this volume by his colleagues and students explores liberalism, Orthodoxy, and civil society in Russia and Eastern Europe from the late imperial era to the post-Soviet period.
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.
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.
South Sudanese Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand
This collection of contemporary research offers crucial insights into the South Sudanese resettlement experience in Australia and New Zealand. Diverse scholars examine the challenges, opportunities, and successes of one of the region’s fastest-growing communities.
Multilingual Trends in a Globalized World
Explore evolving language education trends as globalization shifts the focus to multilingualism. This book presents the latest controversies and case studies from South East Asia and other diverse contexts around the world.
Visa Stories
This volume introduces the visa narrative, a new literary genre recovering migrant voices. Through powerful testimonies, it counters the myth of global free movement, revealing a stark reality of immobility, distrust, and misunderstanding.
Relativism-Relativity
This revisionary work challenges stereotypes of an absolutist Enlightenment. Cutting across science, philosophy, and art, it traces modern notions of complexity, non-linear reality, and relativity back to the pioneering thought of Leibniz, Sterne, and D’Alembert.
Identity
This book explores how identity is refashioned in our globalized world. It examines the intersection of “who we are” with mass media, the nation, and social practice, from advertising and sports to activism and online life.
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