This collection explores different types of space—exile, borderlands, the open road—to unpack the intricacies of Latino/a subjectivities. At issue is the freedom to self-define and travel across physical and metaphorical barriers.
Migration and Exile
This volume challenges the boundaries between American studies, exploring exile and migration. It asks how crossing borders affects notions of home, nation, and language, charting new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.
Crisis, Globalization and Governance
As globalization challenges old business practices, this book tackles how to reinvent governance at private and public levels. It provides strategies to reorient globalization for a safer future, promoting public interest and social democracy.
Young Children as Active Citizens
Young Children as Citizens explores how children can participate in civic life as social actors with rights. It presents research-based case studies where policy-makers and educators listened to children’s views on public issues, enhancing a democratic society.
This book follows migrants from challenging homelands into even more challenging new worlds. Spanning historical periods, these essays use diverse approaches to reveal the experiences of immigrants, providing a fresh perspective on today’s immigration issues.
Culture, Communion and Recovery
This study argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides a model for understanding the transformative relationship between religion and culture, and an unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.
Amid corporate scandals and environmental concerns, the relationship between organisations and society is under scrutiny. This book explores the vital topic of Corporate Social Responsibility, examining the social contract between a business and its stakeholders.
This collection of essays explores how visual and Internet culture interact, examining how we use virtual imaginings to construct who we are. It treats Internet images as contested sites of cultural activity and transformation, raising questions for future scholarship.
The World as a Global Agora
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.
Sex has long been ignored by tourism and leisure scholars. This book brings the topic into the light of academic debate, highlighting emerging cross-disciplinary work and providing insights into a broad array of sex-related issues and environments worldwide.
Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
Trauma, Media, Art
This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.
Diaries of a Forgotten Parent
An intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Ten American fathers share intensely personal reflections of guilt, pain, and pride, deconstructing the societal myth that fathers are less valuable parents than mothers.
Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
Family
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
Songs at Twilight
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire
Across the vast Portuguese colonial empire, women were silenced, mystified, and erased from history. This collection of essays questions these historical gaps, uncovering the real roles of those whose voices were systematically written out of the record.
American Dreams
This collection offers contemporary definitions for the “American Dream”—or rather, Dreams. Multidisciplinary selections from international scholars reflect current developments and approaches in US Studies, helping to broaden the scope of the field.