Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor
This book critically examines African politics, arguing that many contemporary problems have their roots in the fifteen years prior to independence (1945–1960). This was the incubation period for the dysfunction that has stymied the continent ever since.
Social Issues and Policies in Asia
Across Asia, rapid change creates conflict between family, work, and ageing. This book addresses these social issues by comparing the challenges and interventions in societies like Japan, Korea, and China, providing insight into this dynamic part of the world.
Outside
Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.
The Greek Church of Cyprus, the Morea and Constantinople during the Frankish Era (1196-1303)
This book examines the Greek Church in Cyprus, Morea and Constantinople during the Frankish Era (1196–1303). It analyses the establishment of the Latin Church and its relations with the Greek clergy and secular authorities.
As ecosystems are destroyed, commercial seed mixes harm biodiversity. This book shows why native species are vital for ecological restoration, compiling best practices from Europe and the US and providing guidelines for successful implementation.
For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city’s real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?
A significant contribution to the phonetics-phonology debate. International researchers analyze phenomena in various languages, juxtaposing different theoretical approaches to shed new light on the sound structure of human language.
This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
This collection of papers from leading researchers represents the state of the art in sensor technology, processing, and automation for detecting and classifying underwater objects. It will interest researchers in underwater detection, remote sensing, and medical imaging.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
Contemporary Television Series
This volume proposes an interdisciplinary approach to worldwide television series, analyzing the invisible barriers between fiction and reality. Readers can explore unique insights into the impact of television on reality and on their own lives.
Cartographies of Nature
This volume expands the links between nature conservation and border studies, showing how nature conservation produces borders. By exploring species’ borders and those created by conservation areas, it enriches our conceptualisation of borders.
Can scientific principles be a priori yet still change? This book argues they can be, proposing a novel concept: a priori revisability. Using case studies from physics and geometry, it reveals a new dynamic of science driven by non-empirical moves.
Maqām
This volume offers new insights on the historical traces and present practice of maqām. Contributions from international scholars explore Ottoman music’s influence in the Mediterranean and Balkans, the revival of religious genres, and the realms between maqām and mode.
This book discusses cross-curricularity in language teaching from pre-school to university. It explores integrating media, art, and culture into language classes, offering practical solutions grounded in theory for teachers and scholars.
Who Defines Me
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
Normalization in Translation
This book provides a diachronic, corpus-based study of normalization in 20th-century English–Chinese fictional translation. It compares texts from two historical periods to explain, not just describe, how and why translation behavior has changed over time.
Neither Good Nor Bad
Why do individuals and even entire nations commit violent acts, convinced they are fighting for a just cause? This study explores the motivations for human behavior, revealing the extent to which we live in socially-constructed realities that can fall apart in a crisis.
Portable Roots
This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.
A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
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