Transcultural Encounters amongst Women
This collection explores how women from the Hispanic and Lusophone world cross cultural boundaries in literature and film, examining their experiences through the powerful themes of identity, conflict, and values.
Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction
Using literature as a key, this book unlocks the vibrant dialogue between Indian and American cultures, revealing how migration and gender forge the transcultural identities of our time.
This volume of innovative research in Iberian Studies extends beyond Spain and Portugal to explore transnational connections with Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit.
Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other
In our age of globalization, migration sparks passionate debate. These essays use the concept of transculturality to rethink cultural difference, investigating how migration creates not just conflict, but also negotiation, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
This book analyses the complex problems shaping our modern world. It explores the impact of digital technologies, social crises, and environmental threats on our communities, personal lives, and global consciousness in the age of globalization.
Transformative Power in Motherwork
This book explores Australian mothers (1950-1965) as agents who resisted patriarchal constraints. It argues that the mother-child relationship is a transformative power that empowers both, turning the child into an adult and the mother into a skilled agent.
Transforming Magazines
This book is a vital contribution to Magazine Studies, showing the urgent need for industry and academia to find solutions for the challenges magazines face transitioning to digital. With global contributions, it offers fresh research for scholars and professionals alike.
Since the “cultural turn” in the 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to ideological concerns and gender issues in translation studies. This volume is a further illustration of this trend, offering insights into various cross-cultural, geographical and historical contexts.
Transmission Image
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
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.
Transnational Resilience and Change
This global collection explores the strategies Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities use to preserve their identities and cultures. It examines cultural maintenance but also takes a critical stance on the implications of cultural isolation for these groups.
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.
Travel and Intercultural Communication
This conference proceedings brings together texts focusing on going north from several geographical points of departure, from a wide range of genres, and explores a range of intercultural aspects such as issues of identity, othering, and cultural perceptions of the north.
Travellers, Gypsies, Roma
This volume explores new areas of enquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani and Migration Studies. In a rapidly changing Ireland, increased acknowledgement of diversity makes dialogue between mainstream society, older minorities and newer immigrant communities necessary.
Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
As Halloween spreads across Europe, is it rampant cultural imperialism or a welcome treat? This book examines the phenomenon from its origins to its arrival in Europe, revealing a complexity characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership.
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.
Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management
This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics reshaping sport and leisure and the responses of key organisations. It brings together contributions that pinpoint advances for theory and practice, ultimately expanding the frontiers of sport and leisure management.
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.
This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.