African Realities
Based on anthropological fieldwork across Africa, this volume investigates how the body is central to social tensions. It explores the social presentation of the body as a site of strategy, control, and resistance related to gender, class, and ethnicity.
Ex-sistere
These essays address literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in Europe. The literary systems of Ireland, Galicia, and Wales experienced a rebirth in the late twentieth century, and the present century has seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe.
The Age of Asian Migration
Explore modern Asian migrations through the crucial lenses of women, refugees, and economics. This volume offers fresh insights and compelling new case studies on human movement since WWII.
Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry
The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.
Words for Odours
This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.
Grounded in recent research, this vital book offers a critical review of Chinese migration. It explores the patterns and influences of internal migration, movements to Hong Kong, and migration to Western countries, focusing on migrant families-at-risk.
Scandinavia and the Balkans
This book explores the cultural interactions between Scandinavia and the Balkans—a topic rarely discussed in academic studies. The articles offered here explore numerous aspects of the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in these two distant regions.
Peripheral Flows
This volume re-assesses the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern socio-technical systems. Challenging the traditional concept of a one-way transfer, it reveals a process not of simple adoption, but of complex adaptation in meaning, use, and perception.
The convergence of robotics, informatics, genetics, information technologies, and cognitive sciences will have a significant impact on society in the years to come. This volume provides some of the theoretical tools necessary to tackle the opportunities and risks of the future.
The Challenges of Mobility
This book arose from a shortage of literature on mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange. How does mobility alter geographies and create new narratives? This volume provides fresh perspectives on the crucial challenges of mobility.
Thinking Colours
These essays explore the interaction between sensation, perception, and the cultural representation of colour. This volume shows that the interpretation of colour is emotional and varies by culture, making it a strong semiotic resource for communicating meaning.
International Conference on Political Economy of Water
Access to water is a fundamental human right affecting quality of life and dignity. The social work profession must address the challenges of water scarcity. This book examines the issue and develops viable social work intervention strategies based on successful models.
Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
Being “On the Margins”
This conference proceedings explores the realities of people who live on the margins of society, positioned as out-of-place and unable to access aspects of mainstream culture, be they education and schooling, welfare, or care services.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
Human survival depends on nature, a relationship defined by culture. This book argues that environmental conservation is a matter of moral ethics, and must accommodate the traditional knowledge of indigenous cultures to restore the bond between humans and nature.
Multi-faced Transformations
This conference proceedings analyses various aspects of the economic, social, and cultural transformations that accompany today’s globalized world. It will be of interest to scholars of social sciences, as well as civil society activists and policy makers.
Print Culture through the Ages
This compendium of essays by renowned scholars focuses on the evolution of printing, reading publics, and publishing during periods of political and cultural change in Latin America. It will be of interest to scholars in the areas of literature, book history, and print culture.
Class and Gender
Tang investigates the impact of China’s “socio-economic transition period” on the nation’s social structure, showing that it resulted in an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata and between genders.
The European Diaspora in Australia
This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and integration.