Being Quantum
This collection offers perspectives on organizational development inspired by quantum physics. Based on interconnectedness and entanglement, chapters address concepts of time, space, matter, and spirituality to bring quantum storytelling to life.
Referencing neurological research, this book examines how experimental cinema performs traumatic experience. It argues that ‘materialist film’ perceptually performs disorientation and flashbacks, giving this practice a renewed relevance in the digital age.
Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece
This study examines women’s crucial role in the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. It combines ethnography with historical sources to offer a female perspective on death rituals, challenging a history written almost exclusively by men.
The Permanence of the Transient
Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.
The Goddess and the Dragon
How are ordinary Japanese affected by globalization? This study of a fisheries community near Tokyo examines the risks and opportunities of mass tourism. Residents depend economically on tourists, yet maintain exclusive community bonds to assert their cultural identity.
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.
Endurance and the First World War
This collection explores endurance in New Zealand and Australia during the First World War. Researchers examine what it meant for soldiers and civilians to endure hardship on the battlefield and home front, and how the war endured through memory, myth, and memorials.
Language Teaching and Learning
This collection addresses language teaching and learning dilemmas, especially with the advent of the digital revolution. It provides new perspectives, pedagogies, and approaches to shape sustainable policies and empower critical and successful language users.
Bridges, Borders and Bodies
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
The Impact of Gender Differences on the Conflict Management Styles of Managers in Bangladesh
This book examines why female managers in Bangladesh imitate male conflict styles to survive. While this results in no apparent gender differences, a global shift valuing “feminine” qualities is transforming the workplace and its patriarchal dynamics.
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis
This volume explores the everyday as a site of micro-political power struggles. By connecting theory with feminist research practice, contributors show how to disentangle daily routines, scrutinize entrenched power relations, and energize new forms of recognition.
Education and Hegemony
This book examines the globalization of education in India and its impact on social structures like caste, class, and gender. It argues this process creates a market-driven system that hierarchizes knowledge, marginalizing critical reasoning.
Teaching and Learning English in East Asian Universities
Written by scholars in applied linguistics, these chapters showcase English language teaching and assessing in diverse East Asian contexts. Using a variety of methods, they deal with issues relevant to East Asian teachers, learners, and researchers.
African Literacies
Moving beyond stereotypes of low literacy, this volume explores Africa’s complex and diverse multilingual literacies. It examines practices from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging, offering an advanced introduction to language and society in Africa.
Popular and Visual Culture
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
Conflicts in Africa, from complex wars to community disputes, share common dynamics. This volume shows that lessons in conflict resolution are applicable across all scales, offering case studies and new ideas for peace, justice, and security in Africa.
The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema
This volume explores how film depicts historical trauma resulting from extreme violence, focusing on Israeli-Palestinian, German, and US cinema. Scholars analyze how movies visualize shattering experiences, uniquely tracing horror aesthetics to question trauma’s loops.
African Realities
Based on anthropological fieldwork across Africa, this volume investigates how the body is central to social tensions. It explores the social presentation of the body as a site of strategy, control, and resistance related to gender, class, and ethnicity.
Across seven centuries, trace the global journey of Chinese art. These essays reveal how collectors and museums in Japan, Europe, and America have shaped its circulation, taste, and cultural meaning across cultures.
Contrary to the scholarly consensus, John Kimbell demonstrates that the value Luke attributes to the death of Christ has been underestimated. He shows that Luke portrays Jesus’ death as an atoning death that brings about the forgiveness of sins.
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