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Social Science Philosophy forSocial Research invites readers on an enriching intellectual journey through the foundational philosophies that shape modern social inquiry. This comprehensive and accessible volume demystifies the complex interplay between epistemology,...
"A scholarly and joyous collection which examines Ray Bradbury's works not only along familiar lines (nostalgia, Halloween, rockets and robots) but from refreshing and new angles. It’s particularly pleasing to see scholars from so many countries applying their critical...
This book dives into the messy, unpredictable terrain of language learning. Why do some excel in this challenging endeavour, while others abandon the effort? After describing Gardner’s model, disambiguating key concepts, presenting an overview of eleven popular...
Palomilla is a machine capable of responding to light impulses and reacting to its environment, invented by the father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener in the 1940s. Rachel is the unsuspecting replicant in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner. Sophia is the most advanced robot...
"Isabella Villanova’s study moves beyond traditional paradigms of resistance to reveal how selfhood and community are mutually constitutive within African women’s writing. Her meticulous readings connect local contexts to transnational feminist debates with clarity and...
Some things are hard to say out loud. That the climate catastrophe is no longer a future threat but a present condition. That the institutions we trusted to hold the line are already failing. That in many places in Australia – swept by floods, fires, droughts and...
Across centuries, the female body has been shaped by theological and cultural narratives that cast it as both divine creation and site of moral and social anxiety. This book offers a critical re-reading of those traditions, arguing that an enduring ‘ascetic impulse’ has...
“Modified” India: The Transformation of a Nation – is a searing, meticulously evidenced indictment of India’s descent into an ethnonationalist project that betrays the country’s founding constitutional promises including India as a secular democracy. Anchored in his...
This wide-ranging collection of essays, contributed by scholars from diverse global contexts, examines various depictions of justice in a variety of art forms across times, cultures, and places. Essays consider drama, novel, virtual performance, poetry, film, long form...
‘Feminine Plural shows that a revolution is taking place in literature written in Portuguese and Spanish. After many years of being silenced by dictatorships, colonial injustice, and systemic problems of access to education, women from the Iberian Peninsula and Latin...
This volume explores how negotiating power between different cultures, as well as within educational contexts, can shape personal growth, empowerment, and well-being in musicking practices. It examines the interface between individuals engaged in musicking and the...
“In this insightful, meticulously researched study, Capano reveals the complexities of Italian nationalist ideology and advocacy in the contested Yugoslav-Italian border regions, making sense of the cacophony of voices that shaped local relations and Italian foreign...
This volume explores how music-making, listening, composing and caring within musicking contexts foster spiritual and emotional well-being in diverse settings. By engaging with both deeply personal and collective experiences across musical contexts, the chapters...
This volume?brings together academic scholars and book industry practitioners to explore some key moments in the history of travel writing and publishing through the use of case studies about Britain or British travellers.?The emphasis is on the production, distribution...
‘This book excellently advocates for considering intermediality not just as a hybrid form, but as a mode of critical thinking that emerges from versatile aesthetic strategies capable of intertwining multiple perspectives on complex issues and cultural connections in our...
Food as a tangible construct could be appreciated in terms of its organoleptic aspects and also from the premise of social contexts, cultural systems and spaces as well. Kitchen, cooking utensils, and dining areas are not mere physical places but also the site of...
In the last decade, critical Germanophone cultural productions have led a feminist and/or queer resistance against the rise of conservative politics. Embodied Realities offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film,...
‘Documentary in the Age of AI is a distinguished contribution that moves beyond uncontentious debates on AI-generated creativity. It incisively examines the impact of generative AI across the entire documentary workflow as a creative act of ‘representing’ factuality....
"Mysterious Flames" engages with Umberto Eco’s work from a new perspective, by tracing his intellectual development through the lens of Cultural Studies, drawing in particular on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall. It offers the first detailed analysis of...
Food, being a great mnemonic, nourishes, sustains, and elevates human experiences. It is deeply intertwined with one’s identity, culture, community, and history. Be it a humble family recipe or a grand feast or a nursery rhyme on food, it is always aspirational. This...
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