What Comes After Occupy?
Occupy Wall Street in NYC received much publicity, but little attention has been given to the hundreds of Occupy groups in other locations. This volume rectifies this, with essays addressing the creative politics of occupation in these different contexts.
From Islamic Revivalism to Islamic Radicalism in Southeast Asia
This ethnography of Jamā‘ah Tablīgh in Malaysia and Indonesia explores its members’ religious lives, revealing a radical yet non-violent vision for a contemporary, mosque-based Islamic caliphate.
Words for Odours
This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of 16th–17th century Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their diasporas, focusing on language, culture, identity discourses, and interchanges between those communities.
Apocalyptic Projections
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.
This is the first monograph on Rembrandt’s Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.
Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.
Qualitative Research in Business
Many professionals lack the skills to apply powerful qualitative research methods. This practical guide provides effective, “how to” advice for using these tools in business decision-making. Assuming no prior background, it is an invaluable resource.
The Feral Piers
Rosanne Gasse offers an innovative approach to the plethora of questions that surround the various Piers Plowman manuscripts. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers.
Transcultural Screenwriting
This text offers an innovative approach to the study of screenwriting as a creative process by integrating the fields of film and TV production studies, screenwriting studies, narrative studies, rhetorics, transnational cinema studies, and intercultural communication studies.
Enemies Within
This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.
This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.
Grounded in recent research, this vital book offers a critical review of Chinese migration. It explores the patterns and influences of internal migration, movements to Hong Kong, and migration to Western countries, focusing on migrant families-at-risk.
Planting New Towns in Europe in the Interwar Years
The contributions here concern the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the interwar years, and serve to tease out connections between urban form and social aspirations, highlighting the moral basis of social planning.
This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.
Faultlines in Postcoloniality
This collection of scholarly articles addresses fundamental postcolonial concerns. The chapters explore the social and literary fragmentation caused by cultural and political tensions, aiming to bridge the gaps across these faultlines.
Beyond the Skin
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.
Christian Churches and Nigeria’s Political Economy of Oil and Conflict
Is African evangelical Christianity a-political? This ethnographic study of congregations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta challenges that claim, revealing how their spirituality is a potent form of political praxis, not an escape from social responsibility.