This book challenges the standards, values, and parameters used to judge women in society. Drawing on literary texts, case studies, and insights from global scholars, it serves as an authentic representative of the women’s cause.
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.
Global society, cosmopolitanism, and human rights constitute the basis of our future. This volume analyzes the dominant traits of a world beyond the nation-state: the dynamics of unification, cosmopolitan lifestyles, and human rights as regulation.
This book follows migrants from challenging homelands into even more challenging new worlds. Spanning historical periods, these essays use diverse approaches to reveal the experiences of immigrants, providing a fresh perspective on today’s immigration issues.
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 title presents pioneering research on the impact of new media on the Palestinian Diaspora, and is the result of unprecedented access to the Palestinian community in the UK. It explores issues of politics, conflict resolution and life experiences of the Palestinian people.
This collection analyses research in the sciences, humanities, and high technology. The authors explore the contexts of scientific research, the links between information technology and everyday life, and the relations between innovation and business culture.
Popular Culture
This volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to explore popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, fostering dialogue between international scholars on the topic.
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 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.
From Multiculturalism to Hybridity
This book examines how migration is transforming multilingual Switzerland, a nation shaped by political will rather than linguistic unity. It analyzes these challenges and successes, offering resources for teaching cultural hybridity in the classroom.
Between the Pigeonholes
An intellectual pioneer praised by Huxley and Forster but now largely unknown, Gerald Heard was a cultural force. This first full-length study examines how his ideas bridged science, spirituality, and politics, influencing both the Left and the Right.
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.
Giving Children a Voice
This collection of papers by international experts challenges society to note the seriousness of child abuse and the impact of technology on children. It raises questions on the rights of the child, and the role of parenthood in today’s contexts.
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.
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.
Migration and New International Actors
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.
This anthology discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas on how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts.
Rethinking Diasporas
This book rethinks diaspora for the 21st century. It explores hidden narratives of the displaced to interrogate contemporary notions of place and identity, challenging traditional assumptions about migration, assimilation, and belonging.