Women’s Movements and Countermovements
This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.
The Legacy of Antiquity
This collection of essays explores the uses of the past from a wide range of perspectives. Drawn from medieval to modern times, it presents new perspectives on the constant fascination with the antique, opening the way for future research.
Multicultural Language Education
This collection of essays for modern language teachers bridges research and practice. It highlights the latest developments and methods in Foreign Language Teaching to equip learners with the cross-cultural communication skills essential in a changing world.
Christian Churches and Nigeria’s Political Economy of Oil and Conflict
Is African evangelical Christianity a-political? This ethnographic study of congregations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta challenges that claim, revealing how their spirituality is a potent form of political praxis, not an escape from social responsibility.
Going Global
Is English a tool of oppression, or an opportunity for greater understanding? This volume of critical essays explores questions of language, education, and culture in a globalized world, honoring students’ cultures while preparing them for an uncertain future.
Patrick White Centenary
Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.
From zoot-suiters to punks and clubbers, style-based subcultures have defined our cultural landscape by blending fashion and music. This book explores their historical and cultural significance, considering global issues of class, gender, identity, and resistance.
Still Waiting for Tomorrow
This book is a critical examination of protracted refugee situations. Leading scholars analyze the root causes of these extended crises, from war to statelessness, addressing the political and legal tensions that undermine potential solutions.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
Shakespeare and Tyranny
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
William Writes to William
This edition provides a first insight into the personal writings of William Gilpin, an originator of the picturesque. His correspondence with his grandson is teeming with intimate detail on daily life, nature, and the art of being a grand-father.
Indigenous Perspectives of North America
Exploring contemporary Native reality, this volume unites researchers from diverse disciplines under the theme ‘Indigenous perspectives.’ Articles on human rights, law, and culture offer a platform for critical investigation and classroom discussion.
This volume shows the preposition over, often regarded as a function word with little semantic content, encodes rich grammatical and semantic information. The study confirms that over encodes a broad range of geometrical and functional relations.
Re-Inventing Western Civilisation
This book reveals neoliberalism as a transnational tradition carried by a network seeking societies based on individual freedom and a free market, transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
Protean Selves
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
This book provides an overview of recent developments in freedom of religion in Turkey. While progress has been made towards meeting EU norms, many restrictions remain in a country defined as a democratic, secular state, focusing on the most urgent issues.
New Tourism in the 21st Century
This analysis of 21st-century tourism explores culture, heritage, nature, and branding. From urban destinations to pilgrimage routes like the Camino de Santiago, it presents tourism as a slow counterpoint to the frenetic pace of modern life.
From Formal to Non-Formal
Authors from diverse fields—including sociology, philosophy, and history—explore non-formal education, learning, and knowledge. This diversity of approaches offers new findings and a basis for reflection on the varied dimensions of formal and informal learning.
Fighting Cane and Canon
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people’s reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.
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