Serfaty translates the full text of Donato Manduzio’s Diary from Italian into English, making it available at last to a wider public. She provides a social and historical basis for the trajectory of Manduzio and retraces his mystical visions and spiritual development.
Intersections of Displacement
A new, hidden homelessness has emerged among asylum seekers. Examining refugee experiences in London and Toronto, this book argues that this requires a new perspective from refugees themselves, asking how they reconstruct ‘home’ in the face of differing national policies.
This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.
Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment’s leading figures, he lived life to the full.
Resilient Territories
As recent crises challenge territories, what makes them resilient? This book advances the scientific agenda on regional resilience, innovation, and creativity, informing policy-makers about new modes of development for adapting to external shocks.
Old Stories, New Readings
This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.
Realising Critical HRD
Critical Human Resource Development has stalled, focusing on theory over action. This book moves the project from problem recognition to meaningful change, offering practical interventions to challenge power structures through Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting.
Current Research on Language Learning and Teaching
This first collection of essays by scholars from Bosnia and Herzegovina provides state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences, uniting interdisciplinary perspectives on language acquisition and its applications for foreign language education.
Caribbean Without Borders
In a Caribbean fragmented by colonization, this book calls for a “submarine” unity that defies borders. Featuring essays on linguistics, literature, art, and more, it re-envisions a Caribbean aesthetics to convey the limitless nature of the region.
This book discusses the socio-economic and cultural problems faced by the Dalit community. Despite a long movement for land, dignity, and equal rights, the practice of suppression and humiliation continues today. This book explores the circumstances of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh.
The Concept of Coexistence in Islamic Primary Sources
This book explores the theological aspect of Muslim coexistence in non-Muslim lands. It raises key questions pertinent to this issue: Is it permissible for Muslims to acquire non-Muslim citizenship? How do they perceive civic duties, and are they obliged to fulfil them?
Triune God
The contributions to this collection discuss the importance of the ideas of St Gregory Palamas and his followers in understanding of God in terms of divine energies, and for contemporary approaches to solving perennial problems in science, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics.
This English translation of Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart allows those without knowledge of Middle High German to gain insights into an important medieval literary discourse. Von Ems’s work includes examples of medieval multilingualism, tolerance, and multiculturality.
How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth
This volume reflects on Portugal’s position through the literary assets imported and exported via translation. Scholars question the peripherality of the Portuguese cultural system in essays honoring prominent scholar João Ferreira Duarte.
Heritage and Exchanges
This bilingual text represents the proceedings of a seminar held at the University of La Reunion in 2014, and offers a reflection on scholarship and plural identity constructions, with a specific focus on the Indian Ocean area, an unexplored region in current scholarship.
Binaries in Battle
Binary opposition – Us vs. Them, good vs. evil – is fundamental to human thinking in peace and war. This wide-ranging anthology explores conflicts from history to the near future, deconstructing black-and-white imageries to reveal softer shades of grey.
The result of a conference held in Salzburg in 2013, this title reflects the increasing importance given to local knowledge in various sciences, and discusses the positive and negative viewpoints associated with this concept.
On the Edge of the Panel
This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.
The Trajectory of India’s Middle Class
This volume examines the role of India’s middle class not merely as an economic phenomenon, but as a key player in social and political change. It investigates the class’s complex relationship with the state, the market, and marginalized groups.
Double Desire
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. It argues for imaginative transcultural practices that resist assimilation and open contemporary art beyond its Western trajectory.
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