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Boundaries of the Self
Gender, Culture and Spaces
This book examines how spaces—social, political, cultural, and historical—affect women's identities. It analyzes how these spaces can generate agency and power, or annihilate attempts at emancipation and empowerment for women across cultures.
This book examines how spaces—social, political, cultural, and historical—affect women’s identities. It analyzes how these spaces can generate agency and power, or annihilate attempts at emancipation and empowerment for women across cultures.
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How can we understand and manage our epoch's complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
How can we understand and manage our epoch’s complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
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Migrants and Memory
The Forgotten “Postcolonials”
This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.
This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.
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Civil Strife in a Complex and Changing World
Perspectives Far and Near
This collection offers perspectives on social conflict, past and present, with a view toward building connections. From Renaissance preachers to soldiers in Afghanistan, these papers explore issues that at some times separate us and at other times bring us together.
This collection offers perspectives on social conflict, past and present, with a view toward building connections. From Renaissance preachers to soldiers in Afghanistan, these papers explore issues that at some times separate us and at other times bring us together.
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The Land of Fertility I
South-east Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest
The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.
The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.
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Undisciplined Animals
Invitations to Animal Studies
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
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Women in Higher Education in India
Perspectives and Challenges
This collection explores the role of women in higher education in India, their emergence as a strong force for social change, and the implications on society. It also discusses technology’s impact, constraints, and the issues and challenges for women in the workplace.
This collection explores the role of women in higher education in India, their emergence as a strong force for social change, and the implications on society. It also discusses technology’s impact, constraints, and the issues and challenges for women in the workplace.
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Noting the trend of postmodern revisions of fairy tales to subvert their stereotypical structures, this monograph examines gender discourse in two postmodern re-writings of Bluebeard, namely Margaret Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus.
Noting the trend of postmodern revisions of fairy tales to subvert their stereotypical structures, this monograph examines gender discourse in two postmodern re-writings of Bluebeard, namely Margaret Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus.
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Studies in Irreversibility
Texts and Contexts
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
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This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.
This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.
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Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy
The Case of Call Centres in Mexico City
This book examines outsourcing's impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City's call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how 'old economy' tactics persist in the 21st century.
This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.
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Multi-faced Transformations
Challenges and Studies
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.
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.
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Education and Hegemony
Social Construction of Knowledge in India in the Era of Globalisation
This book examines the globalization of education in India and its impact on social structures like caste, class, and gender. It argues this process creates a market-driven system that hierarchizes knowledge, marginalizing critical reasoning.
This book examines the globalization of education in India and its impact on social structures like caste, class, and gender. It argues this process creates a market-driven system that hierarchizes knowledge, marginalizing critical reasoning.
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This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.
This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.
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This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.
This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.
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Collaborative Intelligence
Towards the Social Organization
This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.
This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.
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Poland in Transatlantic Relations after 1989
Miracle Fair
This book brings together a number of scholars to examine the transformation of Poland within the context of regional and global power relations, focusing in particular on analyses of the country’s political and social development in the area of transatlantic relations.
This book brings together a number of scholars to examine the transformation of Poland within the context of regional and global power relations, focusing in particular on analyses of the country’s political and social development in the area of transatlantic relations.
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Pandora’s Box
Looking into the Conditions of Ageing Single Women in Mindanao
This book presents the stories of 10 elderly, never-married women, exploring their psychological conditions, self-concepts, and coping strategies. It sheds light on the changes of late adulthood and provides an intervention program for ageing single women.
This book presents the stories of 10 elderly, never-married women, exploring their psychological conditions, self-concepts, and coping strategies. It sheds light on the changes of late adulthood and provides an intervention program for ageing single women.
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Relativism-Relativity
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept
This revisionary work challenges stereotypes of an absolutist Enlightenment. Cutting across science, philosophy, and art, it traces modern notions of complexity, non-linear reality, and relativity back to the pioneering thought of Leibniz, Sterne, and D’Alembert.
This revisionary work challenges stereotypes of an absolutist Enlightenment. Cutting across science, philosophy, and art, it traces modern notions of complexity, non-linear reality, and relativity back to the pioneering thought of Leibniz, Sterne, and D’Alembert.
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Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Some Insights from the Perspective of Comparative Law (Volume II
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.
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.
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