Trilogies as Cultural Analysis
This book views three universal themes—sea-crossing, human-animal relations, and father-son relationships—to show how passing between worlds has become the human condition. It invites readers to re-imagine writing styles that can travel beyond our “bubbles” and gain a hearing.
How can we understand and manage our epoch’s complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
The Disaster of European Refugee Policy
This volume addresses the 2015-2016 arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and the resulting crisis of response. It explores why people fled and critiques state reactions, linking the crisis to the rise of hate speech, racism, and authoritarianism.
This ground-breaking work, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois’s great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane III, among others, is the first devoted exclusively to Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives, and serves as a blueprint for today’s continuing struggle for a post-racial society.
This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part explores issues related to the social application of musical research.
Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse
This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.
This title presents an analysis of core issues such as the role of the media in educating, protecting and promoting human rights, and the challenges facing the media and human rights. It also contains suggestions and measures to increase awareness on human rights.
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.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
This volume explores how a dialogue between diversity and migration research can deepen understanding. It highlights challenges in host societies, from exclusion to anti-migrant attitudes, and points toward solutions through diversity management and legal reform.
Over the past century, Americans transformed from citizens to consumers, their identities defined by how they spent money. This history argues that while unsustainable, consumer culture has consistently served as a principal source of meaning and purpose in people’s lives.
Alcohol and Alcoholism in Russia
Focusing on Russia since 1970, this book argues that alcoholism is used to veil healthcare failures by blaming victims. It exposes the unstable quality of legal beverages causing lethal poisonings, crimes against alcoholics to steal their property, and their overtreatment.
Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals do not Become Rhetoric
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has stalled, with only 12% of targets on track. To ensure the SDGs are not reduced to mere rhetoric, a new strategy is needed. This book argues for a shift to a common household database, with real examples of progress.
Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times
This essay turns intercultural concepts inside out, pointing out their shortcomings and dissecting the real obstacles to communication: identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and exclusionary differences. It is a call for us to become culturally resilient and readjust our mirrors.
Child Obesity
This book investigates the complex facets of childhood obesity, analyzing evidence on epigenetics, ultra-processed foods, and food marketing. It concludes with recommendations for health professionals, parents, and policy makers to create change for our society’s future health.
TOTalitarian ARTs
This collection represents a tool to broaden our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. It opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
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.