These essays feature an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians and anthropologists, who address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums and the value of studying arms in order to write richer cultural histories.
The Post-Crisis Crises
Dobrescu shows that, in the post-crisis period, global turmoil has moved to the regional level. He proves that the clash between spheres of influence and the world order is being reproduced over and over again in almost every important region of the world.
Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. The essays here delve into a number of significant issues in urban research, including urban governance, city branding and commodification, and the conservation of the urban ecosystem.
Public-Private Partnerships in Transitional Nations
This volume examines public-private partnerships (PPPs) in transitional nations from the governance perspective. It explores the structures, legal frameworks and collaborative arrangements that underpin partnerships in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Decolonising Peacebuilding
Exploring conflict in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka, this book highlights the importance of decolonising peacebuilding. Challenging Western-centric knowledge, it begins a conversation on a new re-conceptualization of ethno-national conflict in deeply divided societies.
Reflections on Persian Grammar
Soheili presents the first authoritative survey of the historical developments of Persian grammar, from the first attested work some 200 years ago to the present day. He examines the development of Persian linguistic thought in five different periods.
This book explores the image of Poland as published in The Daily Telegraph from 2007 to 2010. It investigates how one of Britain’s most influential newspapers depicted Polish reality and compares this portrayal to the Polish government’s own PR objectives of that time.
As the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, from new forms of online learning to a greater depth of analysis, a new sophistication has emerged. This increasing sophistication is reflected in the research papers in this volume.
Trilogies as Cultural Analysis
This book views three universal themes—sea-crossing, human-animal relations, and father-son relationships—to show how passing between worlds has become the human condition. It invites readers to re-imagine writing styles that can travel beyond our “bubbles” and gain a hearing.
This volume presents some of the key approaches to war reporting and suggests trajectories for further critical research into media visualisation of conflict. It highlights the visual culture of conflict, specifically the claim that images are central to contemporary geopolitics.
Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s
Homosexual men in Melbourne in the 1920s and ‘30s formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places and secret signs which allowed them to live their lives despite legal, social and moral restrictions. Murdoch investigates this subculture and those men who lived within it.
This book presents a tool for decision making under uncertainty in engineering design. It synthesizes game theory and quantum decision theory in a value driven design framework to address stakeholder preferences and capture human factors like risk, bias, and emotion.
This collection of essays discusses how formal, non-formal and informal education contributed to the creation and perpetuation of the Cyprus conflict, as well as to prejudices, inter-ethnic stereotypes, and misperceptions.
This text compiles conceptual research in cognitive linguistics and empirical studies on language, showing the current state of five areas of cognitive explorations of language, namely conceptual blending, narratology, multimodality, linguistic creativity and construction grammar
Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age II
This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.
How can we understand and manage our epoch’s complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.
This volume studies complexity theory and offers elements that support the continued and ever-growing need for its use. It probes technology, culture, and science to navigate systems within organisations, to divulge the broad spectrum in which complexity theory may be utilised.
The Ground from Which We Speak
Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths and hollering at political rallies. Cummins provides a broad framing of how we might study this concept, exploring topics in linguistics, movement science, neuroscience, and beyond.
The fifteen chapters here look at a variety of popular and folk music from around the world, with examples of British, Slovene, Chinese and American songs, poems and musicals, demonstrating how lyrics set to music can reflect, express and construct collective identities.