Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies
This volume gathers fresh research from international scholars investigating the multiple tensions between the centre and periphery of the Iberian cultural system. Topics range from the situation in Catalonia to transoceanic postcolonial relations, history, memory, and fiction.
The vision for global agriculture now extends beyond hunger to food security, climate change, and economic opportunity. This book examines past revolutions to forge a crucial roadmap for historians, policymakers, and leaders of tomorrow.
Radio at the Edges
This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio, addressing the impacts and challenges of community and pirate radio. It will appeal to scholars and students of radio studies, as well as those interested in alternative media systems.
Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age
In the Digital Age, suicide rates have soared and depression has become the world’s most debilitating disease. Living in a 24/7 miasma of media bombardment and mental exhaustion, it’s time for a reassessment of mental illness and the possibility of achieving wellness.
Dementia Caregiving East and West
This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.
Stem cells hold promise for revolutionary therapies but face scientific and ethical hurdles. The rush for cures has led to clinics offering unproven treatments. This book tells the story of the field’s development and identifies the challenges it raises.
Ageism in Youth Studies
Scholars fault youth for being apathetic, ignoring their leadership in global uprisings. This book exposes ageism in youth studies, shifting focus from sub-cultures to economic barriers. Based on interviews with 4,000 young people, it asks: Are Millennials “Generation We or Me”?
This book presents critiques of African American authors, poets, and a composer who contributed to social change, including Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. It also discusses Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and his novel The Sympathizer.
Mental Health in Qatar
This is the first volume to explore mental health in Qatar, a priority area in the country’s strategic vision. Experts discuss the history of mental health systems, current challenges, and treatment for all ages and special populations, including at schools and in the workplace.
Out Here
This collection of essays and stories reflects queer concerns in places peripheral to the centers of queer theory. Out here, often within the context of rampant homophobia, queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking.
Three German Women
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema
This volume explores India’s queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.
This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today’s activists.
Politics is not only about ideas, but practices. This book reveals how 19th-century exiles created the laboratory for modern politics, circulating not just ideals but the techniques of how to debate, vote, and run a party, resulting in a new political grammar.
In the US, 400,000 sexual assault kits remain untested, revealing serious gaps in the criminal justice system. This book examines the causes of this crisis and offers resolutions to help officials properly utilize SAKs to apprehend offenders and empower victims.
The Disciple and Sorcery
Eidse’s original research captures Lunda-Chokwe oral history in print, tracing that tribe’s origin stories and cultural values. It will particularly appeal to the Lunda-Chokwe people, as well as to anyone who treasures respectful insight into a traditional society.
Being a Mother in a Strange Land
For too long, the stories of Chinese migrants have been exclusively male. This book provides an alternative narrative, giving voice to 38 women from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, and bringing their largely unknown lives to the center of Dutch migration history.
The various essays collected here examine how ‘women’, across time and space, experimented with new genres or forms of expression in order to transform, question, resist or paradoxically consolidate gender discriminations and dominant ideologies in their respective societies.
Long Live the King
Escudero-Alías acutely examines the drag king phenomenon, as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers, delving into drag king culture and highlighting its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality.
A Journey of Ethnicity
The Cham are descendants of the glorious Champa kingdom, whose ancient temples attest to its past glory. This book is a journey to understand what it means to be Cham in modern Vietnam, exploring the complexity and dynamics of their identity through prolonged interactions.