Envisioning Sustainabilities
The essays within consider the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. They present a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’, arguing for the value of the social sciences in considering sustainability.
Jungmeister provides an accessible model on reflexivity for all its applications during the research process, filling the gap in the limited number of reflexivity books. He includes a number of graphics, tables, samples and checklists to make the concept easy to grasp and apply.
Digital Diversities
Digital Diversities is a study of the ‘digital turn’s’ impact on global mobility and everyday life. It explores the shift to remote relationships, new forms of political expression, and intercultural encounters in the digital global hive.
Space and Events
This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.
Old Masters in New Interpretations
This volume presents a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known works of verbal and visual culture. It describes how the two spheres of literature and broadly understood art interfuse, affect, re-shape, and complement each other.
Following an investigation that exposed municipal corporations as bastions of privilege, the 1835 Municipal Reform Act fundamentally altered local government, ending the urban Ancient Regime in England and Wales.
Sustainable Tourism in the Global South
Given the importance of the global south in achieving sustainable tourism, this collection brings together a compilation of profound conceptual and empirical research findings from diverse socio-economic and environmental settings in the developing South.
This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.
Culture and Paradiplomatic Identity
The contributions here investigate aspects that emphasise the essential role of culture as a promoter and supporter of peace and security and as an agent of regional and national development, and will particularly appeal to professors and students of political science.
Inspired by the renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society evident in recent fictional works, this collection of essays discusses a wide range of issues related to Medieval England, from the Beowulf saga to echoes of Medieval literature in contemporary fiction.
Contested Identities
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
A Trip to Africa
Using sources from all over the world, Dario and Hannah Salvi piece together, for the first time, a complete libretto, in English, German and Italian, with the original stage directions, as well as images of some of the productions.
On one of the world’s great cultural fault-lines, issues of politics, culture, and identity are played out daily in the English language classrooms of the Arab world. This volume explores these concerns from the perspectives of teachers, students, and researchers.
Knots like Stars
This encyclopaedia of essays and aphorisms offers an ecological perspective on Latin American literature and arts. It is a response to the recent increase in the Hispanic population and influence, offering an understanding of the complexity of this diverse culture.
Biography of a Blunder
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
This volume explores the ways traditional polarized images of women have been used and challenged in the Hispanic world by both writers and the media, discussing the usage of such images in specific political periods.
Translating the European House
This collection explores the intersection of translation and politics. Using examples from the fall of the Berlin Wall to EU enlargement, these articles afford a fascinating insight into the textual and ideological factors shaping international political discourse.
A Sociocultural Study of Intercultural Discourse
This book unites the theories of Bernstein, Vygotsky, and Halliday with empirical analysis of classroom interaction. It explores the relationship between group processes and individual learning through the language used by Italian and immigrant adolescents.
This book explores global efforts to engage men in building gender equality, bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. It combines practical lessons from activists with critical understandings of men and masculinities from leading writers in the field.
This book pieces together the jigsaw of Einstein’s journey to discovering special relativity. Lacking notes from this critical period, it explores his creative process, Poincaré’s parallel work, and the paradoxes of the revolutionary theory.
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