Antiziganism
This volume explores the discrimination and persecution of Romanies, focusing on the theoretical understanding of ‘antiziganism.’ Essays analyze the historical continuity of stereotypes and the counter-discourse of Romanies, providing necessary readings.
A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research
Questions of gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of research within the humanities in recent years. This book represents an important combination of scholarly insights and provides multiple reflections on gender research in the African context.
A Different Germany
A Different Germany looks at film, popular literature, and theatre to show how diverse communities are thriving. The authors argue that Germany is much more than the few tropes that circulate through the Cold War lens in the English-speaking world.
The Personal of the Political
In an era of radicalized politics, it is urgent to reconceptualise European feminisms. As patterns of oppression become more insidious, this volume brings together authors from diverse locations to understand patriarchal ideologies and create a sustainable future.
Fairytales—A World between the Imaginary
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales’ female characters.
This volume explores the interplay of genre and the interpersonal component of language. It reveals connections between genre conventions and interpersonal meanings in professional discourse, including media, academic, institutional, and promotional genres.
Beck brings to life the meaning of the stories of the seven goddesses of Greek mythology. Her retellings will allow readers to recognize themselves in these stories, giving them the chance to use the wisdom represented in Greek mythology to create meaningful and complete lives.
Referencing neurological research, this book examines how experimental cinema performs traumatic experience. It argues that ‘materialist film’ perceptually performs disorientation and flashbacks, giving this practice a renewed relevance in the digital age.
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.
South Asian Migration
This volume provides insights into international migration, diaspora engagement, and remittances in South Asia. It analyses the implications for development, focusing on “Remittance-Induced Development” and “Diaspora-Induced Development.”
The Weight of the Past
The 1980 Turkish coup was a milestone of transformation, violence, and oppression. This book examines how it is remembered differently by various political groups, focusing on the contest between collective memory, identity, and power.
This title gives an interdisciplinary and global perspective on aspects of security and defence, with a special focus on the protection of social infrastructures in the face of various forms of violence, stressing the need to approach the problem from a range of viewpoints.
The Birth of a Celestial Light
This book examines Iranian women who are neither conventionally religious nor secular, but explore spirituality. It investigates the feminist potential of the “Inter-universal Mysticism” movement for women seeking to transform their lives and construct their own selves.
Reconstructing Trauma and Meaning
Political violence shatters victims’ lives, but some become stronger, able to rebuild after tragedy. This book listens to the stories of suffering and healing of survivors of apartheid in South Africa, exploring their creative ways of reconstructing meaning after trauma.
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.
How is sexuality socially constructed, confined, and defined? This multidisciplinary collection tackles the major theoretical and methodological problems confronting sexuality studies, exploring masculinities and femininities in relation to power, race, and class.
Agents of Space
This collection investigates the potentialities afforded by space in eighteenth-century art and visual culture, and underscores the ways in which agency can be productive to multifarious lines of artistic, cultural, and historical inquiry.
The Silent Life of Things
Given increasing interest in analysis of materiality, the essays here discuss those aspects of this concept that are not immediately visible and require increased attention and a sense of intuition, establishing a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality.
Angela Ralli connects contemporary morphological theory to less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and shows how languages of divergent typologies can affect each other.
Proposing that “deviance” is a fluid term that advances cultural, gender, and societal norms, Cusack argues that traditional and progressive classifications of human deviance could authentically be reworked in consideration of animals’ anatomy, breeding, gender, and mating.