This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.
Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
Artists and Migration 1400-1850
This collection thematically analyses the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution. It studies the influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country and their own oeuvre and native culture.
This collection presents studies of communication in its many forms around the world. It covers a wide range of topics, including new media, technology, cultural practices, interpersonal communication, politics, law, rhetoric, and journalism.
This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Reflections on Gender from a Communication Point-of-View
This text offers students’ reflections as they grapple with gender issues while intersecting with their identities, sexualities, race and ethnicity, and nationalities. It explores standpoints on gender, internalizing ideas about selfhood and scrutinizing understandings of gender.
Presence of the Cross in Public Spaces
This collection discusses the debate on the presence of the cross in the public space in a number of European states and it considers its potential effects. The analyses presented concern not only the established democracies of Western Europe, but also post-communist states.
Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
Advertising Culture and Translation
A cross-cultural approach to translational issues and translatability of advertising cohesively is adopted here, exploring ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ conflict. The book introduces advertising English as lingua franca, marking new trends in varieties of English around the world.
TOTalitarian ARTs
This collection represents a tool to broaden our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. It opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies.
Bell methodically assesses fear as an emergent property and explores the main principles which lie behind the manifestation of fear. He shows how fear can be contained, how new social forms can arise and how new behaviours and social qualities can mitigate Formations of Terror.
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.
Sports and Violence
The essays collected here reflect on the confluence of violence within organized sports. They detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offers ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence.
This tome summarises contemporary issues in education and society, including narrative explorations, various models of education and learning, study techniques, and leadership. It considers how these issues affect society, reflecting on the causes of the functioning of the world.
As popular culture has now become closely intertwined with current debates within cultural studies, this volume focuses on a variety of issues ranging from the ideological construction of identities in print media to narratives of the postmodern condition in film and fiction.
Text and Image in the City
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
This title presents an analysis of core issues such as the role of the media in educating, protecting and promoting human rights, and the challenges facing the media and human rights. It also contains suggestions and measures to increase awareness on human rights.