This work brings together nine papers written within the realms of political science, the humanities, theology and religion, as well as business, economics, and management. They offer unique perspectives to provide a multifaceted take on dissidence in the European context.
Bonds and Borders
This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.
The Age of Asian Migration
Explore modern Asian migrations through the crucial lenses of women, refugees, and economics. This volume offers fresh insights and compelling new case studies on human movement since WWII.
Science Research and Education in Africa
This conference proceedings discusses how Africa may be about to undergo a profound change in scientific and medical development. Its themes include health research improvement and disease surveillance education, and deadly epidemic diseases.
Sociothermodynamics
Why do social groups segregate in hard times and mix in affluent ones? This book uses game theory and thermodynamics to show that segregation can be beneficial for all—like sugar separating in cold water. In the long run, however, social evolution leads to a homogeneous mix.
This book gives an insightful account of Nigerian international migration. To harness migration for development, we must understand the forces of emigration, return, and kinship networks. A vital resource of theoretical and practical importance for nations worldwide.
In World Constitutionalism, over two dozen scholars pen innovative ideas to visualize a future for a just world order. Their vision crosses national barriers through the realms of Human Rights, Environmental Law, and Global Democracy.
Love, Family and Friendship
This volume presents current research on love, family, and friendship from a Latin American perspective. It includes studies from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico on topics from satisfaction to violence, filling a major gap in relationship research.
Coordination and Subordination
Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.
The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia
This collection enhances existing knowledge on travel, travel experiences and travel writing by Europeans in mainland and insular Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 21st centuries, and demonstrates how these travellers perceived religion in Southeast Asia.
This work moves among sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and translation issues, exploring some of the most representative works by Philip and Johnson, noting their efforts to give to the Caribbean legacy and language the prestige they deserve.
This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.
The Theory of Evolution
This book analyzes ‘evolution’ across cosmology, biology, neurobiology, and philosophy. Unifying these fields, it proposes the ‘Evolving Matter’ model, which views the universe as a complex organisation in continuous, non-linear development.
Why does a psychopath like the Joker seem to have a sense of higher truths? This is the role of the Fool. This book explores how, as culture fragments, artists reveal darkness and show how expressions of meaninglessness are rites-of-passage, not a final destination.
This book explores the quality of care through patient decision-making. It examines the nurse’s relationships with patients, families, and health teams, guiding managers to create policies that improve care and increase patient autonomy.
Misapplying Globalization
This book studies Jordan’s rapid adoption of TRIPS intellectual property laws. It argues these standards, designed for multinationals, are damaging Jordan’s legal institutions and foreclosing possibilities of innovation that could bring economic benefits.
Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series
This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.
Modalities of the Translation-Ideology Nexus
This study of V. G. Kiernan’s translation of Muhammad Iqbal shows how mistranslations abound in his work. Contrary to the common view, translation is not neutral but deeply enmeshed in cross-cultural power struggles, perpetuating the marginalization of non-European works.
This book offers a multidimensional study of the evolution of far-right parties and ultranationalist ideology and their impact on contemporary European politics, society, and the state, revealing the danger they represent.
This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.