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The Art of Survival
Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
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On St. Patrick’s Day, ‘Everyone is Irish’. But how is this day celebrated, consumed, and contested around the world? This volume explores its global appeal and how it has been commoditized, from the symbolic and religious to the political.
On St. Patrick’s Day, ‘Everyone is Irish’. But how is this day celebrated, consumed, and contested around the world? This volume explores its global appeal and how it has been commoditized, from the symbolic and religious to the political.
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African Realities
Body, Culture and Social Tensions
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.
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.
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Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
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This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.
This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.
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Christian Humanism and Moral Formation in “A World Come of Age”
An Interdisciplinary Look at the Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Marilynne Robinson
Does Christian humanism matter in our secular age? This book brings theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and writer Marilynne Robinson into conversation with current ethical issues, demonstrating the profound affirmation of human dignity that defines their work.
Does Christian humanism matter in our secular age? This book brings theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and writer Marilynne Robinson into conversation with current ethical issues, demonstrating the profound affirmation of human dignity that defines their work.
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Going Global
Transnational Perspectives on Globalization, Language, and Education
Is English a tool of oppression, or an opportunity for greater understanding? This volume of critical essays explores questions of language, education, and culture in a globalized world, honoring students’ cultures while preparing them for an uncertain future.
Is English a tool of oppression, or an opportunity for greater understanding? This volume of critical essays explores questions of language, education, and culture in a globalized world, honoring students’ cultures while preparing them for an uncertain future.
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Health, Communication and Multicultural Communities
Topics on Intercultural Communication for Healthcare Professionals
For healthcare professionals, students, mediators, and interpreters, this is a practical handbook on communicating in multicultural settings. It is not a theoretical book but is oriented towards reflection and practice, drawing from years of experience.
For healthcare professionals, students, mediators, and interpreters, this is a practical handbook on communicating in multicultural settings. It is not a theoretical book but is oriented towards reflection and practice, drawing from years of experience.
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Education as Jazz
Interdisciplinary Sketches on a New Metaphor
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
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Shakespeare and Tyranny
Regimes of Reading in Europe and Beyond
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
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The Power of Form
Recycling Myths
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
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Re-Inventing Western Civilisation
Transnational Reconstructions of Liberalism in Europe in the Twentieth Century
This book reveals neoliberalism as a transnational tradition carried by a network seeking societies based on individual freedom and a free market, transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
This book reveals neoliberalism as a transnational tradition carried by a network seeking societies based on individual freedom and a free market, transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
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The Unharnessed World
Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
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Living Like Nomads
The Milanese Anarchist Movement Before Fascism
Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.
Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.
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Eating the Other
Translations of the Culinary Code
In contemporary societies, migration, travel, and communication expose local food identities to global influences. What happens to food habits and meanings when they are carried from one culture to another? This book explores the logics and effects of eating the Other.
In contemporary societies, migration, travel, and communication expose local food identities to global influences. What happens to food habits and meanings when they are carried from one culture to another? This book explores the logics and effects of eating the Other.
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This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.
This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.
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Dining Room Detectives
Analysing Food in the Novels of Agatha Christie
This book analyzes the twofold role food plays in Agatha Christie’s novels: its function as a literary device and as a cultural sign. Christie used food to portray characters, construct plots, and fundamentally alter the rigid genre conventions.
This book analyzes the twofold role food plays in Agatha Christie’s novels: its function as a literary device and as a cultural sign. Christie used food to portray characters, construct plots, and fundamentally alter the rigid genre conventions.
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Englishes Today
Multiple Varieties, Multiple Perspectives
Reflecting current trends in English linguistics research, this volume contributes to the increasingly fashionable, but still under-explored body of literature on the spread and globalisation of English, utilising ideas from different frameworks dealing with English today.
Reflecting current trends in English linguistics research, this volume contributes to the increasingly fashionable, but still under-explored body of literature on the spread and globalisation of English, utilising ideas from different frameworks dealing with English today.
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Empires, Nations and Private Lives
Essays on the Social and Cultural History of the Great War
Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.
Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.
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A Colourful Presence
The Evolution of Women's Representation in Iranian Cinema
This study discusses the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, exploring various representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts.
This study discusses the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, exploring various representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts.
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