Ties to the Homeland
Ties to the Homeland examines the connections maintained across national borders by the children of migrants. Case studies explore their transnational practices, their impact on cultural identity and belonging, and challenge key assumptions about transnationalism.
American “Outsider”
This book jettisons preconceptions of America, throwing back the curtains on the hidden lives of Irish-American Pavees. Journey with these “people of the road”—shy migrants who live in the shadows of rumour, hearsay, and a hot summer sun.
This collection of essays on ‘Border Studies’ offers innovative approaches to intercultural encounters, with comparative explorations of American, Latin-American, European, and Post-Colonial literature, as well as Linguistics, History, and Education.
The Globetrotting Shopaholic
This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada’s West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.
Place
This book explores tensions between global new media and local practices, focusing on artists in indigenous cultural settings. Through analysis of art and film, it asks how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context.
Privilege and Prejudice
Twenty years after Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay on white privilege, these essays reveal how sexism and racism persist. This text explores enduring inequality in higher education, technology, and media, even in systems trying to address these problems.
Popular Media and Communication
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
The English Malady
These essays examine hysteria in 18th-century Europe, revealing it as a key Enlightenment metaphor. Writers of the period considered hysteria not only a curse but also a blessing, an expression of ambivalence about the emergence of modernity.
Research Communication in the Social and Human Sciences
Social and human science research addresses society’s most pressing problems, yet it remains largely invisible to the public. This book brings together researchers developing solutions to communicate across boundaries, from media dissemination to stakeholder engagement.
Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
From One Shore to Another
Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.
What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
Women Moving Forward
These are the deeply moving narratives of women who uprooted themselves to seek a better life. United in their quest for a self-constructed future, they persevere and prevail. These are the stories of everyday heroes, a treasure that cannot be missed.
Corporate Citizenship
As globalization deepens, it is necessary to ensure business activities make a positive contribution to communities. This book underlines the big-picture thinking on the roles business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.
Participation and Media Production
This volume critically examines media participation. It provides analyses that reconcile the appreciation for digital empowerment with a critical analysis of its boundaries, revealing the restrictions, inequalities, and exclusions that often accompany it.
From Guest Workers into Muslims
This comparative analysis of five Turkish immigrant associations shows that immigrants are not victims of the German state. On the contrary, immigrant elites are important actors who negotiate for rights and membership, exercising agency in the political process.
Based on interviews with working women in Karachi, this book explores their struggle for identity and survival in a male-dominated society. Using clear graphs and case studies, it details the problems they face in a gender-biased world.
Rethinking Diasporas
This book rethinks diaspora for the 21st century. It explores hidden narratives of the displaced to interrogate contemporary notions of place and identity, challenging traditional assumptions about migration, assimilation, and belonging.