From Multiculturalism to Hybridity
This book examines how migration is transforming multilingual Switzerland, a nation shaped by political will rather than linguistic unity. It analyzes these challenges and successes, offering resources for teaching cultural hybridity in the classroom.
Truth to Power
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
Wit’s End
This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.
An essential gateway to understanding Central Asia. Leading experts present cutting-edge research on the region’s history, politics, culture, and environment, making this collection a vital resource for any student or scholar.
Becoming Intercultural
This book explores what it means to be intercultural. It examines how people become intercultural, inside and outside the classroom, and considers ways in which interculturality can be systematically addressed through foreign language education.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between radicalism and localism across the globe. It questions how the local fosters new political possibilities, empowers under-represented groups, and shapes distinct cultural forms of resistance.
Professor Chandrasoma’s book critically explores academic interdisciplinarity in student writing. It offers a comprehensive study of how student writers grapple with interdisciplinary knowledge and proposes critical interdisciplinarity as a sustainable pedagogical practice.
Legitimisation in Political Discourse
How did the Bush administration persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq? This book shows it was through “proximization”—a strategy that presents distant events as a direct, personal, and negative threat to legitimize pre-emptive action.
South American Cinematic Culture
This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.
Calvin
This study examines John Calvin’s influence, exploring the vital connection he saw between ethics, eschatology, and education. For Calvin, education was a means to prepare people for their divine calling and for life on earth and the after life.
This book explores how race and ethnicity influence public memory. Nine provocative investigations address how our collective remembrance shapes racial and ethnic identities—and why this often leads to conflict in the United States.
Chinese Ancestor Worship
This book is a new approach to understanding China. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture, providing a more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed.
Eradicating Differences
These essays offer a new perspective on Nazi mass murder. Drawing on primary sources, they show the Nazis were more flexible than believed, exploiting ethnic rivalries in Eastern Europe to divide, rule, and encourage collaboration in their murderous policies.
Uncertain Justice
Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities
This interdisciplinary study investigates collecting from the sixteenth century to today. Using the cabinet of curiosity as a model, scholars expand our understanding of display, from art and film to everyday objects, showing its urgent relevance in our consumer age.
A Different Freedom
Symbolic of freedom and control, the kite lies at the core of the Gujarati way of life. A Different Freedom explores the world of the kite, its history, politics, and the colourful Uttarayan festival, as it travels through the centuries to modern Gujarat.
Memories and Portraits
Philosopher H. G. Callaway blends history and autobiography in a narrative of travel across three continents. He illuminates American thought through fascinating cultural contrasts, merging the formalism of analytic philosophy with American pragmatism.
Feminisms is Still Our Name
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
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