Being “On the Margins”
This conference proceedings explores the realities of people who live on the margins of society, positioned as out-of-place and unable to access aspects of mainstream culture, be they education and schooling, welfare, or care services.
Peripheral Flows
This volume re-assesses the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern socio-technical systems. Challenging the traditional concept of a one-way transfer, it reveals a process not of simple adoption, but of complex adaptation in meaning, use, and perception.
Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy
This book investigates how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation, and discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery.
This volume explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage. It presents multidisciplinary new ideas where technology can integrate tourism and culture with business, covering topics like digital archives, augmented reality, and robotics.
Print Culture through the Ages
This compendium of essays by renowned scholars focuses on the evolution of printing, reading publics, and publishing during periods of political and cultural change in Latin America. It will be of interest to scholars in the areas of literature, book history, and print culture.
This title gives an interdisciplinary and global perspective on aspects of security and defence, with a special focus on the protection of social infrastructures in the face of various forms of violence, stressing the need to approach the problem from a range of viewpoints.
Libraries at the Heart of Dialogue of Cultures and Religions
This conference proceedings discusses the key roles played by libraries throughout history and in the present day, offering a panorama of the pressing issues they face today and potential solutions to professionals and Library and Information Science students.
Astrology in Time and Place
These contributions explore astrology across cultures, from China and the ancient Near East to early modern Europe and Mesoamerica. Topics include ritual, magic, science, and time. An essential read on humanity’s long relationship with the cosmos.
Noting the trend of postmodern revisions of fairy tales to subvert their stereotypical structures, this monograph examines gender discourse in two postmodern re-writings of Bluebeard, namely Margaret Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus.
A Trip to Africa
Using sources from all over the world, Dario and Hannah Salvi piece together, for the first time, a complete libretto, in English, German and Italian, with the original stage directions, as well as images of some of the productions.
A Pacifist’s Life and Death
Using written and oral sources, Gkotzaridis’s study weaves a narrative of the life and death of Grigorios Lambrakis, Greece’s most committed defender of democracy and peace of the post-Civil War period, highlighting political divisions and obstacles to peace in Cold War Greece.
Pink Ink
Calder traces the evolution of Australia’s gay and lesbian publications from smudgy porn sold in brown paper bags to glossy coffee-table magazines proudly on display, and discusses the impact of the Internet on the industry.
Angela Ralli connects contemporary morphological theory to less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and shows how languages of divergent typologies can affect each other.
Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings
These thought-provoking essays balance critical thinking with creative opportunities. This international, interdisciplinary collection focuses on the vulnerable subjects often overlooked, challenging readers to think beyond rational limits and engaging both intellect and emotion.
After the Flight
This title critically addresses a range of topics and employs a variety of qualitative approaches to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of integration for refugees, including the attendant challenges and opportunities encountered during the integration process.
Words for Odours
This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.
This book articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and highlights the prejudicial assessments which ensure such epistemological systems are denigrated or ignored, even on the African continent.
The Safe Operating Space Treaty
Traditional law, based on borders, is ecological nonsense. This book redefines our Common Home not as a place, but as a fragile state of the Earth System, arguing for its legal recognition as a Common Natural Heritage for all humankind.
This volume discusses a variety of environmental and ecological issues from the standpoint of existing legal instruments, with a primary focus on the necessity for ecologically-oriented governance, in order to redress a situation that supports multiple human rights violations.
Departing from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere, this text identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular.