Philosophical Semantics
This book offers an innovative systematic approach to meaning and reference, unifying insights from philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege while exposing errors of formalists from Quine to Kripke. It shows how the cartography of philosophy of language can be redrawn.
Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa
Drawing from the Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in Africa Project, the contributions here examine current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia.
Women in Higher Education in India
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.
Texts and Territories
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
Multidimensional Poverty among Social Groups in Kerala
This book investigates multidimensional poverty among social groups in Kerala, India. It highlights the disparity hidden within the state’s famed human development achievements, revealing an intra-state mirage and exploring the socio-cultural barriers facing marginalized groups.
New Journeys in Iberian Studies
The research collected here consists of 18 chapters which explore a number of key areas of investigation in contemporary Iberian studies. There is a strong emphasis on trans-national and trans-regional approaches to the subject area, reflecting current discourse and scholarship.
Saving Sinners, even Moslems
This book investigates the Reformed Church’s Mission to Arabia (1889-1973). It explores cultural encounters between missionaries and Muslims, and a unique theology that presented the evangelization of Muslims as critical for Christ’s Second Coming.
Dealing with the interconnections between music and the written word, this book brings into focus an updated range of analytical and interpretative approaches which transcend the domain of formalist paradigms and the purist assumption of music’s non-referentiality.
This book examines the political role of architecture through a study of Tehran’s bazaar. Going beyond conventional discourse, it considers architecture as an event, using concepts from Foucault to analyze how it transforms individuals through the act of exchange.
The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
Essays on Power
This book explores European empires between the 15th and 20th centuries. Power changed everything, forcing these empires to choose who they were. This offers a groundbreaking look into the psychology of imperial power: a philosophical work that matters.
World events in 2017 showed the fundamental features of social systems. The structure of power is changing, with the prominent roles played by Trump, Putin and Xi. As such, this text explores peace and conflict, politics, international relations, and social sciences.
Ireland’s Cultural Empire
This volume highlights Ireland’s cultural and linguistic influence in the world. Contributions focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish writers who export their legacy abroad, in addition to offering new perspectives on Irish emigration to Australia and the USA.
A Comparative Analysis of the Great American and Arab Novel
This book is the first comparative reading of the Great American Novel and its Arabic counterpart. It identifies the quintessential American novel and contrasts it with its equivalent in Arabic culture, establishing a new trend in cross-cultural literary scholarship.
This book explores the shifting portrayal of World War II in Hollywood films. Adopting a comparative study, it discusses WWII films made during the Bush administration after 9/11 and those produced during the presidential campaign of Obama.
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise
This volume explores various aspects of corporate communication from the viewpoint of language and discourse, giving special attention to emerging issues and recent developments in times of rapid sociotechnical evolutions.
In 2013, 12-year-old Asunta Basterra was found murdered. Her parents were convicted, but the trial left matters unsolved. This is the first book in English on the case, featuring exclusive interviews with Asunta’s mother in prison, the lawyers, and the police involved.
Representing Royalty
Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. Kinzler examines strategies of representing power and the staging of myths of power in seven popular films about this subject that were made after the mid-1990s.
Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we’re capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
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