The Language of Art and Cultural Heritage
This book provides an up-to-date overview of digital linguistic resources and research methods to design effective communication strategies for art and cultural heritage. It offers innovative tools for curators, translators, researchers, and heritage management professionals.
Latin America and the Global Political Stage
This collection of essays on international relations provides a global view of diplomacy with a special focus on Latin America. Featuring contributions by recognized authorities, it considers the most recent developments, including the concept of Trumpism.
Through an Irigarayan lens, this study explores how Carter, Atwood, and Byatt use genre transgression to forge a female subject position. It examines their distinct strategies for challenging a literary tradition that has historically denied women a voice.
Death Representations in Literature
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
This book introduces a digital literacy beyond social media. It’s not enough to buy technology without understanding the hardware and software logic. Generalized nets marry the soft approximations of humans with the hard precision of the computer.
The Uprisings in Egypt
By adopting Social Movement Theories (SMT) as a framework to analyse the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, Acconcia disentangles the role of alternative networks and other forms of political conflict, considering the Egyptian case in forming a potential revolutionary movement.
The European Union in the Age of (In)Security
Paving a road to a United States of Europe, this book analyses the challenges the Union faces, from migration and populism to fake news and insecurity. It explores the evolution of the European Union, where security remains the top priority for its citizens.
The Value of Work and Its Rules between Innovation and Tradition
Amid global challenges, this book examines the principle “labour is not a commodity” and its practical implications. It helps academics and practitioners understand today’s socio-economic changes, globalization, and the role of public and private institutions.
From fan-generated translation to user-generated translation, non-professional subtitling has come a long way since its humble beginning in the 1980s. This volume provides a comprehensive review of the current state of play of this user-generated subtitling phenomenon.
This book explores the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) model in the Gulf’s not-for-profit sector, using practical examples from Qatar Foundation. It moves beyond theory with data analysis to show how FBPs drive effective decision-making for scholars and practitioners alike.
This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.
Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.
This book investigates the acquisition of Tense and Agreement in Spanish and Catalan from a Minimalism Program perspective. It argues that children have these functional categories at a very early stage, covering subject-verb agreement, clitic pronouns, and subject position.
Though much has been written on the Grenada Revolution and its untimely demise, the majority of authors have been non-Grenadian. All the contributors here, except one, are Grenadian, giving voice to persons who were active participants, children, teenagers, and young adults.
The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
The articles brought together here provide a broad and many-layered overview of the significance of the lute in the seventeenth century Netherlands, highlighting its central role in the rich musical culture of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic.
The Rhetoric of Emperor Hirohito
This book investigates the wartime role of Emperor Hirohito and the transition of the Emperor System. It explores three episodes of the wartime experience: the initiation of the conflict, accomplishing an end to the war, and the transition to post-war society.
Practices of Abstract Art
Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.
Rethinking Development in South Asia
This book challenges conventional development in South Asia, revealing how it can be a destructive force. It argues for a new practice of development centered on people’s freedom, choice, and participation, proposing alternative means for achieving greater well-being.
This volume explores the implications of Chinese for linguistic theory and second language acquisition. Selected papers shed light on under-documented topics in theoretical and applied research, unpacking the significance of Chinese for mainstream linguistic theory.
This book explores efficient energy utilization in industrial sites, offering a recipe to minimize Global Warming and Ozone Depletion. It presents insights into thermodynamics and energy management to help engineers deal with energy issues from a more global perspective.
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