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This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
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Is Charity a Choice?
Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor
The 1996 welfare reform thrust faith-based organizations into the center of America's poverty relief efforts. This book examines Protestant evangelicals' role, questioning whether charity is truly a choice and if faith can solve social welfare.
The 1996 welfare reform thrust faith-based organizations into the center of America’s poverty relief efforts. This book examines Protestant evangelicals’ role, questioning whether charity is truly a choice and if faith can solve social welfare.
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The Myth of Culture
Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies
Social scientists appeal to "culture" to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society's problems.
Social scientists appeal to “culture” to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society’s problems.
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West of Eden
Botanical Discourse, Contact Languages and Translation
West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.
West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.
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“What is to be Done?”
Cultural Leadership and Public Engagement in Art and Design Education
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
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The People’s Pictures
National Lottery Funding and British Cinema
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
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Historical Knowledge
In Quest of Theory, Method and Evidence
This book offers theoretical and methodological building blocks for historical research. It addresses the challenges of evidence and interpreting the past, featuring texts by eminent historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, and Giovanni Levi.
This book offers theoretical and methodological building blocks for historical research. It addresses the challenges of evidence and interpreting the past, featuring texts by eminent historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, and Giovanni Levi.
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Cesare Pugni
KONIOK GORBUNOK, ILI TSAR-DEVITSA Le Petit Cheval bossu, ou La Tsar-Demoiselle The Little Humpbacked Horse, or The Tsar-Maiden
Based on a popular Russian fairy-tale, The Little Humpbacked Horse tells of the spectacular deeds of Ivanushka with the help of a magical horse. Created by Arthur Saint-Léon with music by Cesare Pugni, it was the first ballet based on Russian folklore.
Based on a popular Russian fairy-tale, The Little Humpbacked Horse tells of the spectacular deeds of Ivanushka with the help of a magical horse. Created by Arthur Saint-Léon with music by Cesare Pugni, it was the first ballet based on Russian folklore.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer Orchestral Works
The Incidental Music to Struensee, Fackeltänze, Overtures,Marches, Ballet Music Piano Score
Giacomo Meyerbeer, a master of 19th-century opera, was renowned for impassioned drama and vivid orchestral power. This volume gathers his finest orchestral works, from famous opera ballets and marches to grand festive overtures waiting to be rediscovered.
Giacomo Meyerbeer, a master of 19th-century opera, was renowned for impassioned drama and vivid orchestral power. This volume gathers his finest orchestral works, from famous opera ballets and marches to grand festive overtures waiting to be rediscovered.
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Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction
Form, Function, Genre
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe's non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe’s non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
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Identities, Cultures, Spaces
Dialogue and Change
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
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A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world's oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism's introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world’s oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism’s introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
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Heroes and Saints
The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
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Friends Watching Friends
American Television in Egypt
This study explores American television's impact in Egypt, using the sitcom Friends as a focal point. It examines how Egyptian women view American influence and form ideas about Americans, celebrating a diversity of opinions and cultural heritage.
This study explores American television’s impact in Egypt, using the sitcom Friends as a focal point. It examines how Egyptian women view American influence and form ideas about Americans, celebrating a diversity of opinions and cultural heritage.
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Theatre Noise
The Sound of Performance
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
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This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
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This book discusses educational and occupational mobility among India's Scheduled Castes (Dalits). It shows the second generation is highly mobile and measures the impact of government policy, holding up the Buddhist community as an ideal model for all Backward Classes.
This book discusses educational and occupational mobility among India’s Scheduled Castes (Dalits). It shows the second generation is highly mobile and measures the impact of government policy, holding up the Buddhist community as an ideal model for all Backward Classes.
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This innovative book provides an empirical analysis of indigenous and non-indigenous female labour and economic development in West Papua, examining the key determinants of female labour force participation.
This innovative book provides an empirical analysis of indigenous and non-indigenous female labour and economic development in West Papua, examining the key determinants of female labour force participation.
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The Children of Herodotus
Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres
This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians' methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.
This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians’ methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.
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Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity
The Reception of Ernest Renan's "Life of Jesus" in Russia
This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan's work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.
This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan’s work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.
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