The African Human Rights Judicial System
This book examines two forgotten realities of African constitutionalism: the state power to create international courts and the role they play, focusing on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its landmark merger.
This collection of essays explores how New Yorkers sought meaning in the 9/11 attacks a decade on. Contributors contest the dominant narrative to focus on local experiences of memory, recovery, and rebuilding, and the challenge of representing the event.
Place as Material Culture
This book explores the relationships between place, materiality, time, and ritual. It challenges traditional norms that have trivialized landscape archaeology by exploring the symbolic meanings and human emotion bound-up in place.
Europe as a Multiple Modernity
Challenging predominant modernity theory, this book argues Europe is a multiple modernity. Essays explore the plurality of religious identities and belonging in the everyday lives of individuals, focusing on their multiple senses of identification.
Networks of Global Governance
This book analyses the relationship between the United Nations and European integration from 1945 to the present. It describes how the dynamic evolved: from UN bodies shaping the integration process to the EU impacting the UN, to today’s complex partnership.
Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live
This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.
Relevance Theory
This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.
This volume discusses the assessment of Second Language Learners with Specific Language Learning Disorders and other disabilities. It explores theoretical models, evaluates accommodation practices, and fills a crucial gap for researchers and professionals.
Name and Naming
This book analyses names and the act of naming from an intercultural, synchronic, and diachronic perspective. Its originality lies in a multi-disciplinary approach, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, literature, pragmatics, and more.
Aesthetic Fatigue
Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the “language of waste” and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.
“His Words Were Nourishment and His Counsel Food”
Explore the remarkable range of Greek literature, from medieval romance to postmodern fiction. These essays connect Shakespeare to Cavafy and cannibalism to dictatorships, revealing a culture thriving at the crossroads of history.
Recalling Hiroshima, this book offers a philosophical analysis of war and peace in the nuclear age. It addresses contemporary threats to humanity and shows the urgent relevance of nonviolence, arguing for a new, peace-promoting global dialogue.
This book is a vigilant pursuit of justice across subjects from violence against women to environmental law. Constant themes are respect for the individual and protection for the vulnerable, arguing that justice is not law, but an evolving, performative idea.
Religion and Politics in the 21st Century
This volume captures diverse perspectives on contemporary religion and politics, from theoretical approaches to case studies. Exploring past interactions, present realities, and future directions, it is a valuable resource for scholars, policy makers, and the public.
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 1
This two-volume series explores the East Central European émigré experience of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the reasons for migration and initial adaptation to the later negotiation of new identities while maintaining ties to the old country.
The Logics of Change
In a world of constant change, inequality and poverty challenge well-being. This volume brings together researchers from different disciplines to shed light on theories, methodologies, and concrete applications of change concepts referring to poverty, place, and identity.
Resistance is a historical constant, not simply irrational behaviour. Fifteen authors from diverse disciplines, including physics, biology, and political science, explore concepts of ‘resistance’ and examine the potential of a general ‘resistology’.
The Places of God in an Age of Re-Embodiments
Thomas-Pellicer revisits Western ontological and epistemological assumptions, a necessity in today’s age of ecological decay. She offers a critical analysis of sustainable development and problematically situates it within the ecocidal trajectory of Western metaphysics.
The Nordic Storyteller
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II
This volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of semantically-restricted domains. It addresses phenomena from a variety of perspectives, exploring politics, ideology, humour, power, media, and specialized communication in business, law, and science.