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.
Unsettling Stories
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
Women Past and Present
In Western societies, despite legal gains for women, resistance and prejudice persist in this “post-feminist” era. New asymmetries in gender relations are also emerging, a result of globalisation, migration, new technologies, and trafficking.
Language Education and the Challenges of Globalisation
This book focuses on sociolinguistic issues linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in contexts of immigration and super-diversity, providing a useful look at the current state of the art for scholars and students.
The Globalisation of Modern Architecture
Since 1990, globalisation has driven shifts in global power. As design follows social, political and economic change, this book casts a new light on recent architecture, exploring the tension between universal iconic buildings and the need for local identity.
This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.
New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture
This collection of essays offers a variety of up-to-date approaches to teaching Italian. International scholars provide case studies and hands-on strategies using curricular innovations, technology, film, and study abroad programs as effective pedagogical tools.
Engaging Geographies
This volume draws together research on landscapes, lifecourses, and mobilities. It treats landscapes in an adventurous way, concentrating on infrastructure and ideology. It also explores the lifecourse from birth to death and the movement of people and ideas.
The first Chinese university journal published abroad in English. This unique series provides a platform for scholars from one of China’s top universities to share cutting-edge reports on the English language with the global community.
Early Modern Communi(cati)ons
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
Retold Stories, Untold Histories
This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.
This volume explores the dynamic process of interaction. Authors examine how participants understand each other through various semiotic codes in translation, education, arts, and literature, offering inspiring topics for researchers and students.
The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
Ireland in Crisis?
These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
The Self-emptying God
This book examines the concept of Christ’s self-emptying (kenosis) and how this understanding extends to God. It explores the history of this persistent theme and its value for reconciling Christian faith with scientific approaches.
Agricultural English is a collection of essays analyzing the English of agriculture and related fields from various linguistic points of view. The book will appeal to agriculturists, professors, researchers, students, and translators.
Images of the City takes readers on a journey through urban landscapes across centuries and borders. These essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the city, providing essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.
Uniting linguistics, nursing, and speech pathology, this collection uses discourse analysis to explore communication in dementia, challenging our understanding of language, cognition, and the human self.
Wiltshire Marriage Patterns 1754-1914
This first-of-its-kind study uses English pedigrees to uncover cousin marriage rates among ordinary people, revealing clear links to occupation, geographical mobility, and illegitimacy.
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