Italian immigration to Wales remains a largely unexplored area in the history of migration from Italy to the UK. This book uses a variety of unexplored sources to describe the emergence of Welsh-Italian narratives and the formation of a distinctive Welsh-Italian identity.
In bringing together examples from different parts of the world, including both Western and Eastern societies, and focusing on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, and national Muslim identities, this edited volume offers a blueprint for identity studies.
Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry
The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.
Human Trafficking
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. This monograph discusses these and a number of other events alongside a variety of general issues.
The contributions here represent the result of discussions at the European Sport Development Network’s conference in 2014. They are all written from the perspective of academic researchers and practitioners working in sport development.
International Symposium on East Anatolia—South Caucasus Cultures
The Southern Caucasus is a region of great historical and cultural importance, yet it remains an under-researched field. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium on the region’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages.
The convergence of robotics, informatics, genetics, information technologies, and cognitive sciences will have a significant impact on society in the years to come. This volume provides some of the theoretical tools necessary to tackle the opportunities and risks of the future.
A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research
Questions of gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of research within the humanities in recent years. This book represents an important combination of scholarly insights and provides multiple reflections on gender research in the African context.
This volume explores the interplay of genre and the interpersonal component of language. It reveals connections between genre conventions and interpersonal meanings in professional discourse, including media, academic, institutional, and promotional genres.
Ex-sistere
These essays address literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in Europe. The literary systems of Ireland, Galicia, and Wales experienced a rebirth in the late twentieth century, and the present century has seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe.
Made in Oceania
This volume brings together papers from a symposium on the social meanings, conservation and presentation of Oceanic tapa, or barkcloth, in 2014, and offers insights into current museum practice, connecting historical research with recent cultural developments in the Pacific.
Privileged Mobilities
Marking an important contribution to the growing school of critical studies of tourism, this title raises questions regarding privileged mobiles from the standpoint of class, gender, ethnicity and citizenship.
Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass
Written for students and the general public interested in the humanities, literature, history, art history, and new media and popular culture, this publication examines the visual beauty and symbolism of stained-glass windows in Europe and American cultures during the modern era.
Open Codes
Challenging the view that technology and society are distinct, this book explores how human action can be re-centered to democratise technology. It focuses on open source as a new participatory model for creatively re-inventing used technologies.
Threads of Hope
This book uses a collaborative narrative research process to explore the lived experiences of one specific group of community members who responded to a traumatic event by setting up, and running, a therapeutic project to support the community between 2012 and 2014.
The Land of Fertility I
The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.
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.
Seeing Whole
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.