Remapping the Future
This collection of essays explores the cross-cultural linkages between Australia and India. From diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines intersections of history, culture and environment, building on a shared history and looking to the future.
Tracing the Path of Tolerance
This work traces the history of tolerance from the wars of religion to the modern age, analysing tolerance in different epochs and places. It considers how words as tolerance and intolerance have developed over time and debates whether they are still relevant today.
Media, Power and Empowerment
This collection of original research maps trends in CEE media, providing insight into the region’s shared history and politics. It also discusses the differences among the countries, the consequences for their media scenes, and the lived experiences of their people.
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.
Songs at Twilight
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
At heart, this is a tale of humanity’s poignant relationship with nature. Told in illustrated vignettes, it explores the role of plants in love, murder, and the rise and fall of empires, selecting moments from history and science that amaze, shock, or move us to disbelief.
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.”
What makes housing feel “homey”? This book explores how to make housing for the “Third Age” feel homier, using inhabitant-based research. The most crucial factors proved to be human relationships and independence, as well as functionality, aesthetics, memories, and feelings.
Hate Crime in Turkey
Göktan considers how hate crime, as a contemporary legal concept, is introduced and represented in Turkish public discourse, addressing how effective the hate crime debate in Turkey has been in identifying bias-motivated violent incidents.
Scholars probe how people and computers collaborate to create meaning. Through examinations of community, communication, work, and play, this volume delivers new insights about the robust and fragile relationships between computers and people.
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.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
The Crisis of the Human Sciences
Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.
Belonging and Place-Making in a Neoliberal Waterfront Area
This book explores how privatisation and elite developments transform urban waterfronts into exclusive spaces. It argues these policies affect the distribution of owners and renters and change the meaning of home. Using a case study, it examines the feelings of tenure groups.
Based on interviews with working women in Karachi, this book explores their struggle for identity and survival in a male-dominated society. Using clear graphs and case studies, it details the problems they face in a gender-biased world.
Selling One’s Favourite Piano to Emigrate
In this book, academics from various European countries describe migration not only as an economic, but mainly as a social process. Texts consider migration’s social consequences for migrants, their families and societies, offering unique insight into human flows.
Migrants and Cultural Memory
This volume explores representations of the Traveller, Roma, and migrant “Other”. It shows how the migrant experience is echoed in the hybrid and diverse discourses of Western countries, pointing to the ongoing reconfiguration of dominant cultural narratives.
This book examines why South Asian immigrant women must change how they mother in Canada. It reveals the stressful disjuncture between their work and institutional expectations around mothering, schooling, and employment, complicating their settlement experience.
Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
Situating Racism
This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.