This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been…

While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is…

Neoliberal Culture presents a critical analysis of the impact of the global free-market - the hegemony of which has been…

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It…

How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in…

The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and…

The book takes a hard look at internal developments and class formation in the region and explores the complex dynamics…

Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that…

The study is based upon the author's detailed study of Pentecostal communities in that island-state as well as her own…

This book tells the stories of eleven remarkable people in the Islamic world, from a religious musician in Pakistan who…

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion,…

Spain is at the epicentre of a crisis that threatens the future of the Eurozone. This book explains the deep historical and…

AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on mĂ©tissage and the 'Third…

This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It…

This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as…

This new study focuses on the critically neglected area of Rossetti's devotional poetry and her prose, offering a critical…

This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context…

This book examines memories of political violence in Chile after the 1973 coup and a 17-years-long dictatorship.…

This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and…

Memory of War in France examines France in the era of world war through the unconventional eyes of the veteran, activist and…

We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the…

This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement.…

This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to…

Written to honour the memory of J.C. Weldon, this collection of essays seeks to reflect Weldon's professional interest in…

This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production…

This collection of essays explores current issues surrounding the media and conflict in the Twenty-first Century. Essays…

Schaefer and Poffenbarger assess whether the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are attempting…

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This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional and socio-cultural approaches…

Drawing upon ethnographic descriptions of three grassroots ethnic organizations, which work for indigenous peoples in…

The nine essays in this volume provide an analytical review of recent developments in relation to Turkey's economic…

This book offers critical readings of issues in education and technology and demonstrates how researchers can use critical…

This book critically explores civic republicanism in light of contemporary republican political theory and the influence of…

This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe.…

The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh…

This study examines Norway's place in the strategic policies of the Eisenhower administration. It is concerned, above all,…

This volume comes at a time of rapid expansion in the discipline of Translation Studies and the growth of related journals.…

Following a group of people as they make the transition from homeless to 'housed' , this book presents a new perspective on…

This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of…

Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial…

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS or ME) is a problematic diagnosis which can be interpreted in conflicting ways by doctors,…

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Ten years after the end of the war in Bosnia, ethnicity continues to matter and the country remains dependent on…

The long postwar economic boom in Japan ended in the early 1990s. Including analysis of the latest data from Japan, this is…

An exploration of what drives party-based Euroscepticism and why some parties are Eurosceptic. This book looks at what makes…

Brings together the research of world-class commentators on China from across Europe to explore the policy aspects of the…

Working in East Germany explores economic tendencies, political relationships and social situations that combined to create…

This book analyzes Spanish political parties and institutions in comparative theoretical perspective. Two primary themes are…

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter…

The increasing development of partnerships between universities and communities allows the research of academics to become…