This collection sets out the needs of social services for dealing with disadvantaged groups, and specifies the social services required for these communities and the role played by religious institutions in providing services to disadvantaged individuals.
Costin studies a selection of significant and topical elements from a large amount of Romanian folkloric and mythological material, shedding light on the mythical-ritualistic aspects of three complex calendar holydays.
The Borders of Integration
This book addresses radical challenges facing Southern European societies, from migration to social cohesion. Refuting the idea that culture alone drives behavior, it focuses on the body as a vector for social policy, suggesting the empowered body can manage conflict and change.
Master culture-specific vocabulary for intercultural communication between English and Romanian. This unique dictionary is an easy-to-use tool for translators, students, and professionals, with vocabulary organised thematically to cover cuisine, holidays, sports, and more.
Trilogies as Cultural Analysis
This book views three universal themes—sea-crossing, human-animal relations, and father-son relationships—to show how passing between worlds has become the human condition. It invites readers to re-imagine writing styles that can travel beyond our “bubbles” and gain a hearing.
Connecting Worlds
Establishing a dialogue between colonial studies and the history of science, this title contributes to a renewed analytical framework grounded on a trans-national, trans-cultural and trans-imperial perspective.
More than an average textbook, this guide combines major theories with culturally-relevant examples and indigenous research from the Middle East. Written by local experts, it helps students understand the relevance of psychology to their own lives and societies.
This book offers interdiscursivity as a platform for understanding contemporary culture. Re-engaging Foucault, it provides novel theoretical approaches and methodological innovations to scrutinize cultural consumption, from Web 2.0 social movements to micro-celebrities.
Challenges of Communication in a Context of Crisis
This book questions the tools and values of objective communication in our institutions. What is the fate of involuntary drifts—misunderstandings and troubles—in our decision-making protocols? It explores their critical potential and questions how we can revalue these drifts.
Participation, Culture and Democracy
The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.
How do we motivate employees and maximize human potential in a competitive global marketplace? What drives job satisfaction, and what are the outcomes for individuals and organizations? This volume discusses these pressing questions facing the organizations of today.
Mapping Migration
This anthology considers culture and identity in Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and the UK. It shows how cultural practices, including the use of performance, food, and religion, demonstrate how traditions are preserved, as well as adapted, in new contexts.
This book voices individual stories of Syrians who sought shelter in Turkey. Rather than a dry scholarly account, it details the emotional odyssey of two academics who lived alongside Syrians in the Turkey-Syria borderland, presenting them as individuals, not a category.
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.
Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
While gender issues are almost always multidimensional and complex, this text discusses them from a cultural angle and with a focus on crossing borders, in order to represent their concepts meaningfully and to illuminate their realities as sharply as possible.
Contemporary Migrant Families
This volume presents the findings of the most recent and rigorous research on ‘doing family’ in the context of migration. In doing so, it clearly and significantly fills the gaps in current knowledge about the changing notions of family within migration processes.
Interactivity and the Online Media Sphere in Nigeria
In an age of technological development, the mass media industry must innovate to stay relevant. Interactivity is a necessity. This book provides insights into the interactivity basics of an ideal media website, highlighting its nature in the Nigerian online media sphere.
An astounding 25% of offenders have ADHD, and treatment can reduce their criminal behavior. Yet this is virtually ignored by the justice system. This is the first book for professionals to understand and work with this population effectively.
The African American Journey to the Power Dome
Sharma explores the African American journey from the plantation to the power dome through multiple socio-artistic perspectives of Black American authorship. She throws light on the transforming status of America’s Native Son and the marked visibility of its Invisible Man.