Ritual and Remembrance
This study explores local memorial construction after the Great War, revealing the tension between private tragedy and public remembrance. It uncovers how authorities transformed personal grief into a public narrative through the complex process of commemoration.
Mediating Chicana/o Culture
This collection explores Chicana/o culture through topics from graffiti and food to literature and cinema. It interrogates the tensions between personal and public expression in negotiating identity, laying bare how we define ourselves as individuals and communities.
Meeting the Information Challenge
Africa faces the serious challenge of information and communication technologies. Meeting this is vital for its social, economic and political goals. This volume provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.
Being Amongst Others
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.
This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
Speaking about racism is difficult, yet state racism is more acceptable than ever. Immigration detention and racial profiling impact our daily lives. Race and State breaks the taboo of discussing the links between “race” and state from multiple perspectives.
These essays track travel narratives from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Their voyages, from the literal to the spiritual, show the enduring influence of the medieval geographical imagination upon post-medieval travel, discovery, and encounters between East and West.
From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex
This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.
This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.
Originating from a belief in healing waters, spas became exclusive resorts for 18th-19th century elites. Amid fierce competition, these centers of leisure and medicine declined, paving the way for modern thalassotherapy, the latest avatar of this long story.
Amid corporate scandals and environmental concerns, the relationship between organisations and society is under scrutiny. This book explores the vital topic of Corporate Social Responsibility, examining the social contract between a business and its stakeholders.
The World of South African Music
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.
This volume offers original insights into lesser-known aspects of post-war Italian culture. It provides an interdisciplinary examination of Italian society since WWII, with innovative perspectives on literature, women’s studies, cinema, history, and politics.
This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.
Women Moving Forward
These are the deeply moving narratives of women who uprooted themselves to seek a better life. United in their quest for a self-constructed future, they persevere and prevail. These are the stories of everyday heroes, a treasure that cannot be missed.