Leadership and the Problem of Electoral Democracy in Africa
In this text, the notion that African leaders are responsible for electoral malfeasance throughout the continent is explored. Five case studies are selected, to illustrate variations and similarities in the dilemma of electoral democracy in Africa’s political system.
Grammar, Expressiveness, and Inter-subjective Meanings
How do we use words to express sensations? This book examines Wittgenstein’s philosophy of psychology, exploring the connection between inner states and outward language. It clarifies this process by drawing on his recently published and little-known last writings.
Pames, Jonaces, and Franciscans in the Sierra Gorda
This book outlines long-lasting efforts to evangelize the Pames and Jonaces in the territory of Sierra Gorda. It records the last missionary impulse spurred by the project of José de Escandón and Franciscan missionaries to get the Pames and Jonaces to adopt a sedentary lifestyle.
Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of music’s interaction with ancient Greek culture since the nineteenth century, through scrutiny of various cases, from the Romantic era to experimentations of the twentieth century.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
Odih identifies the biopolitical basis of adsensory wearable technologies, arguing that the paradoxical feature of adsensory technologies is the proliferation of risk. It also deals with the neoliberal construct of the entrepreneurial lifestyle insurance subject.
Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
Explore Czech culture’s evolution after socialism. This volume reveals the diverse trajectories of popular culture and subcultures, showing what truly changed and what surprisingly endured from the late socialist era.
On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish
This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino’s films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.
The concept of “constraint” is used across linguistics, computer science, and psychology. This book builds an extended overview of the use of constraints to model and process language, making it useful for researchers and as a class book for advanced courses.
Exploring Political and Gender Relations
Offering a contemporary, multicultural approach to the relationship between politics, media and society, this publication investigates such links from various perspectives. It brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed.
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?
Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.
ELT
This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.
This book examines NATO’s engagement in Kosovo and the reasoning behind its 1999 military intervention. It analyzes the historical conflict between Albanians and Serbs, the contradicting stances at the Security Council, and the issue of Kosovo’s future.
Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
Radical Contra-Diction
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.
The first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region, the essays here deal with representations of queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years, with a specific interest in belletristics.
D. H. Lawrence
Offering a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, the essays here provide new readings of Lawrence’s work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, while others focus on translation.
Labour Law in Russia
Russia’s transition to a market economy required new employment laws, but many issues remain unaddressed. The papers in this volume consider recent developments from a historical and comparative perspective to provide insights and examine current challenges.