Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
In memory of Charles E. Timberlake, this volume by his colleagues and students explores liberalism, Orthodoxy, and civil society in Russia and Eastern Europe from the late imperial era to the post-Soviet period.
This collection brings together essays from a broad variety of disciplines to advance our understanding of race and ethnicity in Latin America. These studies examine how voices from the margins, based on gender and class, shape and reshape the Americas.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Collaborative Intelligence
This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.
On Intangible Heritage Safeguarding Governance
What is governance for intangible cultural heritage (ICH)? This book explores ICH safeguarding through the 2003 Convention, analyzing major issues and the interaction between global and local governance. Case studies provide tools to enhance safeguarding.
This groundbreaking collection explores how personal and public lives inter-relate during rapid social and political change. It aims to understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on everyday life, relationships, and inequalities.
Strangers in New Homelands
For immigrants, the concept of “home” evokes confusion, fear, and hope. This collection explores what this concept means for people making new lives in strange environments, examining the challenges of settlement, integration, and adaptation.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Globalization and Transnational Migrations
While globalization promised an interconnected world, for Africa it has meant marginalization, poverty, and instability. This book investigates the challenges of migration, brain drain, and identity to help readers make sense of Africa’s position today.
Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.
Manufacturing Otherness
Missionaries were key players in the “spiritual conquest” of the New World, imposing dominant values while also mediating between cultures. This book shows how Indigenous cultures entered these areas of negotiation to produce their own cultural subjectivity.
The first comprehensive overview of humor in post-unification Germany. This anthology features original analyses of literature, film, and cartoons, exploring how irony, satire, and the grotesque respond to identity reconstruction and historical memory.
Gendered
Challenging disciplinary boundaries, this volume moves beyond an art-history survey to explore the bond between feminist art, theory, and politics. It compares American and European artists to reveal the continuing relevance of both for the contemporary reader.
Fatal Fascinations
What is the impact of portraying violence? This book examines representations of crime and violence across media—from fiction and film to journalism—to interrogate the ethics of spectacle and the political contexts in which narratives of good and evil are defined.
Memory and Ethnicity
In museums and public spaces, ethnicity has become central to the Jewish and Israeli cultural imagination. Memory and Ethnicity explores how diverse Jewish groups represent their past, analyzing which memories are preserved and which are suppressed.
This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.
Speaking–Writing With
Our differences often divide us. This text theorises ways of speaking “with” (instead of “for”) others by exploring the relationship between poststructural theories and indigenous relational ontologies to transform relations of suppression into mutual respect.
This volume explores how audiovisual media shapes identity in Southeastern Europe. Using photos and sound recordings, scholars offer a comparative and historical view on how self-images are constructed and negotiated through postsocialist change.
Has Game Studies reached an unproductive stasis, mired in reductive debates? This volume’s contributors move beyond commonplaces like violence and sexism, arguing that digital games must be understood on their own terms as complex cultural forms.
Body and Time
This collection of essays conceptualizes the body as a system embedded in a social network. It challenges the digital media’s view of the body as a 2D icon, demonstrating how our experience of time is determined by the cultural use of bodily rhythms.