This volume explores the body as the equilibrium limit between the memory of time already passed and the dynamic of unexpected happenings. It touches upon the fears and anxieties affecting contemporary European societies after terrorist attacks and refugee influxes.
D. H. Lawrence
Offering a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, the essays here provide new readings of Lawrence’s work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, while others focus on translation.
Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration Volume Two
This title investigates how women are assuming greater roles within the workplace and men are adopting greater roles in the home. It argues that men and women have to step into new identities and develop new roles inside the workplace and the family.
Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
This book presents detailed European reflections on the current ways of conceptualising multiculturalism as expressed across Europe. Each chapter indicates the areas in which the volume’s study will have a particular impact.
This volume explores the ways traditional polarized images of women have been used and challenged in the Hispanic world by both writers and the media, discussing the usage of such images in specific political periods.
Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series
This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.
This three-volume manual provides information on 262 species of southern African decapods, providing updates to their taxonomy, and ecological and fisheries information. It is arranged systematically, progressing from the earliest forms to the most derived and advanced forms.
Waiting Territories in the Americas
Given the prominence of population displacement today, this title assesses the forms that waiting territories take, in order to better understand their juridical statuses, their relationships with the spatial environment, and the economic and social relationships they foster.
A collaboration by Indigenous scholars and non-Indigenous allies, this book champions the importance of Indigenous Knowledges for social work. It argues colonial structures can only be dismantled through reliance on Indigenous knowledges and practices.
Play allows the fulfilment of dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to social norms. Traditional play preserves culture across generations, while contemporary forms integrate communities. Play invalidates social divisions and imparts meaning to our reality.
Envisioning Sustainabilities
The essays within consider the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. They present a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’, arguing for the value of the social sciences in considering sustainability.
The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
We Need to Talk about Family
As the dream of upward mobility dissipates, the family ‘haven’ is unravelling. This collection explores the hypercompetitive neoliberal family, which seeks to maximize its children’s futures amid the anxiety of being left behind.
Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria
Bringing together articles on newspaper writing and reporting, this resource book sensitizes would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing. In addition, it exposes them to the ways in which newspaper readership can be sustained in the age of online messaging.
Zulfiqar examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. In so doing, she demonstrates how African women’s literature engages with political issues and revisits Fredric Jameson’s controversial assumptions on third-world texts.
Body between Materiality and Power
This volume situates the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework, and highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics.
Social Media in Asia
Written by Asian academics and practitioners, this book explores social media in Southeast Asia. Discover how it has changed the paradigm of communication: as an avenue for free expression, a tool for news distribution, an aid in crime prevention, and a means to find a partner.
This volume deliberates over the relationship between monarchy and tourism development in Southeast Asia. It explains the importance of the need to shift the tourism and monarchy focus from European to Asian royalty.
Children in South African Families
This book gives an overview of African children’s lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. It covers conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of children’s experiences.