This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
A World Beyond Global Disorder
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
An International Humanitarian Organisation
Parker discusses the current approach to the climate crisis and gives a clear view of the history of the failed protocols and promises. He studies why solutions only emerge by changing the international structure of governance, a structure now conditioned by out-dated modes.
This title presents an analysis of core issues such as the role of the media in educating, protecting and promoting human rights, and the challenges facing the media and human rights. It also contains suggestions and measures to increase awareness on human rights.
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.
TOTalitarian ARTs
This collection represents a tool to broaden our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. It opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
Exploring Political and Gender Relations
Offering a contemporary, multicultural approach to the relationship between politics, media and society, this publication investigates such links from various perspectives. It brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed.
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.
Images and Human Rights
This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.
Tracing the Path of Tolerance
This work traces the history of tolerance from the wars of religion to the modern age, analysing tolerance in different epochs and places. It considers how words as tolerance and intolerance have developed over time and debates whether they are still relevant today.
The contributions to this book assume diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity, and offer case studies that provide important counter-narratives to prevailing local and global discourses of Nordic-ness.
2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. This monograph discusses these and a number of other events alongside a variety of general issues.
Suffragette Legacy
This book originated from a one-day conference held to celebrate International Women’s Day in 2014, and brings together the opinions of academics, artists, campaigners and activists about how their work is affected by the legacy of feminism.
The Personal of the Political
In an era of radicalized politics, it is urgent to reconceptualise European feminisms. As patterns of oppression become more insidious, this volume brings together authors from diverse locations to understand patriarchal ideologies and create a sustainable future.
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