The thirteen contributions here bring together insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries.
YOCOCU 2014
Representing papers presented at the 4th YOCOCU Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage Conference, the contributions here reflect on the present politics, strategies and methods of cultural heritage conservation, and demonstrate new approaches to conservation needs.
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.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception
A major contribution to the burgeoning subject of African-European Studies as a field of academia, this collection discusses themes ranging from literature and film to urban studies, exile, sport and the experience of African diasporas, adopting a pan-European lens.
Han investigates how films have constructed the identity of ethnic Chinese in the United States, through a survey of selected films from the 1990s and 2000s produced in the USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
The contributions to this book assume diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity, and offer case studies that provide important counter-narratives to prevailing local and global discourses of Nordic-ness.
Sustainable Tourism in the Global South
Given the importance of the global south in achieving sustainable tourism, this collection brings together a compilation of profound conceptual and empirical research findings from diverse socio-economic and environmental settings in the developing South.
Class and Gender
Tang investigates the impact of China’s “socio-economic transition period” on the nation’s social structure, showing that it resulted in an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata and between genders.
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 1874-1941
The story of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band (1874–1941) is the story of New York City. The band was ever-present, performing at parades, ground-breakings, and celebrations, typifying the Jewish-American experience and the critical role of community music-making.
Writing New Worlds
This book analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era, showing how authors, scholars and artists between the 15th and 17th centuries responded to the challenges of modernity.
Agents of Space
This collection investigates the potentialities afforded by space in eighteenth-century art and visual culture, and underscores the ways in which agency can be productive to multifarious lines of artistic, cultural, and historical inquiry.
International Conference on Political Economy of Water
Access to water is a fundamental human right affecting quality of life and dignity. The social work profession must address the challenges of water scarcity. This book examines the issue and develops viable social work intervention strategies based on successful models.
The Social Economy
The Internet of Things creates immense challenges in digital systems. This book tackles the exponential complexity of Boolean problems, presenting powerful new solutions using GPUs, exploring security applications, and discussing the scientific basis of future quantum computers.
The Age of Asian Migration
These publications revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants, and provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.
Gender and Work
Given growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance women’s work, this collection explores current research on gendered work environments and all the nuanced meanings of “work” in the context of feminism and gender equality.
What makes housing feel “homey”? This book explores how to make housing for the “Third Age” feel homier, using inhabitant-based research. The most crucial factors proved to be human relationships and independence, as well as functionality, aesthetics, memories, and feelings.
The European Diaspora in Australia
This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and integration.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects
This volume explores temporality in literary studies and the humanities. Contributions engage with the discipline’s past, its present condition, and the possibilities for its survival in an age where the relevance of the humanities is being disputed.