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The Worlds of Elias Canetti
Centenary Essays
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
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Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity
Critical Cases
This book engages the paradox of cultural difference and social solidarity. Essays analyze immigrants and internal cultural divisions in the UAE, UK, Germany, Canada, and Turkey, challenging the conflict between difference and unity to show a path to solidarity.
This book engages the paradox of cultural difference and social solidarity. Essays analyze immigrants and internal cultural divisions in the UAE, UK, Germany, Canada, and Turkey, challenging the conflict between difference and unity to show a path to solidarity.
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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.
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.
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Challenges of Communication in a Context of Crisis
Troubles, Misunderstandings and Discords
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.
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.
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Collapse, Catastrophe and Rediscovery
Spain’s Cultural Panorama in the Twenty-First Century
Shaped by its dictatorial past and current economic crisis, Spain is in a moment of great rediscovery. This collection explores how contemporary Spanish film and literature dialogue with the nation's social situation, offering a wide range of analyses.
Shaped by its dictatorial past and current economic crisis, Spain is in a moment of great rediscovery. This collection explores how contemporary Spanish film and literature dialogue with the nation’s social situation, offering a wide range of analyses.
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The Quest for a Liberal-Socialist Democracy and Development
Against the Behemoth
This book explains why democratic ideologies like liberalism and socialism develop an affinity for authoritarianism. Their self-contained nature eroded their democratic potential. It also provides a set of liberal socialist policies for democratic and sustainable development.
This book explains why democratic ideologies like liberalism and socialism develop an affinity for authoritarianism. Their self-contained nature eroded their democratic potential. It also provides a set of liberal socialist policies for democratic and sustainable development.
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Reconstructing Trauma and Meaning
Life Narratives of Survivors of Political Violence during Apartheid in South Africa
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.
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.
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Transformative Power in Motherwork
A Study of Mothering in the 1950s and 1960s
This book explores Australian mothers (1950-1965) as agents who resisted patriarchal constraints. It argues that the mother-child relationship is a transformative power that empowers both, turning the child into an adult and the mother into a skilled agent.
This book explores Australian mothers (1950-1965) as agents who resisted patriarchal constraints. It argues that the mother-child relationship is a transformative power that empowers both, turning the child into an adult and the mother into a skilled agent.
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This publication explores what is new and valued about the digital media environment. Investigating a range of key questions, it is accessible to scholars in a range of academic disciplines, including communication and media studies, sociology, cultural studies and the arts.
This publication explores what is new and valued about the digital media environment. Investigating a range of key questions, it is accessible to scholars in a range of academic disciplines, including communication and media studies, sociology, cultural studies and the arts.
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Victims of Time, Warriors for Change
Chilean Women in a Global, Neoliberal Society
This book explores globalization's impact on Chilean women. While some found new opportunities in wage labor, many more faced limitations and suffering as class differences were exacerbated. These women became both Victims of Time and Warriors for Change.
This book explores globalization’s impact on Chilean women. While some found new opportunities in wage labor, many more faced limitations and suffering as class differences were exacerbated. These women became both Victims of Time and Warriors for Change.
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Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland
Dissenting Voices?
This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.
This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.
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How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
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This collection explores different types of space—exile, borderlands, the open road—to unpack the intricacies of Latino/a subjectivities. At issue is the freedom to self-define and travel across physical and metaphorical barriers.
This collection explores different types of space—exile, borderlands, the open road—to unpack the intricacies of Latino/a subjectivities. At issue is the freedom to self-define and travel across physical and metaphorical barriers.
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The American Village in a Global Setting
Selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honor of Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
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Radio Relations
Policies and Aesthetics of the Medium
This book explores how radio builds affective relations and reinforces a sense of community. It features erudite essays from world-famous figures like Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, alongside perspectives from brilliant young researchers and practitioners from around the world.
This book explores how radio builds affective relations and reinforces a sense of community. It features erudite essays from world-famous figures like Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, alongside perspectives from brilliant young researchers and practitioners from around the world.
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This book examines how urban narratives explore the complexities of city life, from its diverse inhabitants to social and economic disparities. It delves into crime, poverty, gentrification, and the struggle for identity and belonging in bustling metropolises.
This book examines how urban narratives explore the complexities of city life, from its diverse inhabitants to social and economic disparities. It delves into crime, poverty, gentrification, and the struggle for identity and belonging in bustling metropolises.
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This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
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Family
Heart of Humanity
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
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This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.
This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.
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Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions
Images of the Indian Diaspora in Malaysia
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
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