Visa Stories
This volume introduces the visa narrative, a new literary genre recovering migrant voices. Through powerful testimonies, it counters the myth of global free movement, revealing a stark reality of immobility, distrust, and misunderstanding.
Culture, Communion and Recovery
This study argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides a model for understanding the transformative relationship between religion and culture, and an unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.
India in Canada
This collection of articles offers an interdisciplinary, Indo-Canadian perspective on the Humanities. It covers literature, film, and history, exploring themes of diaspora and gender, and features creative writing by renowned Indo-Canadian authors.
This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.
Han investigates how films have constructed the identity of ethnic Chinese in the United States, through a survey of selected films from the 1990s and 2000s produced in the USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein
Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.
This book situates African literature as a site of artistic and cultural production within postcolonial politics. It evaluates the literature as a cultural contestation with imperial knowledge and as an ideological strategy for societal self-knowledge.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
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
Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
The central theme here is the under-studied link between the canon of Francis Bacon’s and Isaac Newton’s scientific and philosophical thought and Samuel Johnson’s critical approach that can be traced in a textual study of his literary works.
Wiltshire Marriage Patterns 1754-1914
This first-of-its-kind study uses English pedigrees to uncover cousin marriage rates among ordinary people, revealing clear links to occupation, geographical mobility, and illegitimacy.
Bodies and Culture
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
Work and the Challenges of Belonging
This book explores the relationship between work and migrant belonging in globalizing economies. It examines how policies create precarious, poorly paid work, and discusses the challenges of exclusion, securitization, and the commodification of migrant labor.
The Public Sphere and Satellite Television in North Africa
Hadj-Moussa explores the relationship between the media and the public sphere, showing that the simple act of watching satellite television rather than national television mobilizes novel ways of expressing identities and a range of critical positions targeting political regimes.
This book examines the collective action of marginalised people in Western Europe. It analyses how they organise to overcome obstacles, act collectively, and intervene in public space, exploring their political significance amid new forms of inequality.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 1874-1941
The story of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band (1874–1941) is the story of New York City. The band was ever-present, performing at parades, ground-breakings, and celebrations, typifying the Jewish-American experience and the critical role of community music-making.
With contributions from Slovak, Czech, and Polish authors, this book evaluates media culture in Central Europe. It explores the problems and successes of radio, television, and internet production since 1989 in the face of globalisation.
Afroeurope@ns
This pioneering collection of essays establishes a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the European Union, analyzing diasporic communities and cultural productions across Europe with particular attention to women writers.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread highlights the ethical and emotional challenges for counsellors when clients become suicidal. It explores the tension between protective professional guidelines and the needs of a client in overwhelming pain, told through narrative research.