Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.
Mapping the Self
This collection of essays explores place, identity, and nationality in our globalised world. With a global perspective, these critical works assert the power of film, poetry, and novels to define and contest identity, from the national to the individual.
Gendering Commitment
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
The Art of the Real
Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.
Deceptive Fictions
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
This volume explores social constructionism, focusing on reality as a communicative action and a strategy for exercising power. It also proposes a new semiotic strategy, “fractal constructionism,” which analyses the interpretative drift of key social constructs.
Hamas Transformation
This book examines the transformation of Hamas from a resistance movement into a political authority in Gaza after its 2006 election victory. It analyzes the political opportunities, challenges, and structural shifts required by this transition.
Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language
Heidegger and Gadamer are among the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. This book addresses their contributions to aesthetics, metaphysics, and language, comparing their views to those of other thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty.
Global Food, Global Justice
These essays address global crises of obesity, malnutrition, and environmental degradation as issues of public policy and social justice. They argue that changing how we eat is necessary to create a culture of health and ensure a sustainable future.
For exhibition designers, managing visitor circulation is often guesswork, and modifying designs is costly. This book discusses a simulation application to guide the process, presenting the challenges of integrating a complex mathematical process into an artistic one.
Karakoç and Ersoy bring together papers which examine how the post-Arab uprisings period, with its diverse issues and actors, challenges existing policies and national borders in the Middle East, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the ongoing social changes.
Telling Time
Leading philosophers, logicians, and linguists explore the relationship between time and language, from tensed beliefs to monstrous eternalism. An essential volume for scholars and students in the field.
Excursions in Realist Anthropology
This book provides a theoretical grounding for the realist accounts anthropologists produce. It argues that incomplete understanding is a strength, not a weakness. This finds a middle ground between positivism and relativism, arguing for moderate realisms.
The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu
The focus of this monograph is loanword morphology in Urdu, particularly loanwords borrowed from Persian, Arabic and English. Primarily descriptive, the study investigates the interactions between syntax, semantics and linguistic function relative to loanword adaptation.
This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
Translation has played a major role in the evolution of societies, affecting the relationships between peoples and power. This volume examines the role of translators in different historical contexts, from 16th-century Mexico to 21st-century Japan.
A critical analysis of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe is offered here, looking at how politicisation led to the violation of human rights. The book also looks at the enduring impact this has left on the victims, mostly children.
The Impact of French on the African Vernacular Languages
For seventeen African nations, was adopting French a blessing or a curse? Is Francophonie a symbol of unity and shared values, or a form of cultural imperialism? This book offers insights into the impact of French in Gabon, exploring what it brought and what it is taking away.
Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing
Using an onomasiological approach, this book analyzes neoclassical formations in English and Russian medical terms. It argues that what is a system of word formation in English represents only individual borrowings in Russian, solving a key problem in morphological theory.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
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