Emerald Publishing Limited imprint: 1159 books
by Jiří Šubrt
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Individualism and holism, the concepts embedded in the title of this book, represent two key theoretical perspectives that have for many decades steered and shaped sociological thought. For over a century these two interpretative perspectives have also divided sociological theory into two camps, accompanied...
Hybrid Media Events
The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global Circulation of Terrorist Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what kind of purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these questions by re-thinking media events in the contemporary digital media environment saturated by intensified circulation of radical violence. The empirical analyses...
Microcelebrity Around the Globe
Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
This absorbing anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity.
Expanding on the existing theoretical framing of the online celebrity experience, the editors re-theorize microcelebrity to accommodate developments...
All That's Not Fit to Print
Fake News and the Call to Action for Librarians and Information Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
"Dewey Defeats Truman." "Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby."
Fake news may have reached new notoriety since the 2016 US election, but it has been around a long time. Whether it was an error in judgment in a rush to publish election results in November, 1948, or a tabloid...
Refugees in Higher Education
Debate, Discourse and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This book examines the key debates relating to the rights, responsibilities, policies and practices of the higher education sector when dealing with students from refugee backgrounds.
Exploring the political context of forced migration to countries of settlement, including the impact made...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book investigates how governance at different levels can improve access to education for excluded communities.
It conceptualises turbulence, empowerment, and marginalisation in international educational governance systems, and presents a comparative analysis of five nation states (England,...
The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media
An Affective Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning.
The authors begin by setting out the established and recent research on social and existential media, affect and language, before focusing on...
Strategies for Fostering Inclusive Classrooms in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Higher education institutions continue to address an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Many institutions face mounting pressure to find innovative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that impede retention...
Strategies for Facilitating Inclusive Campuses in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Higher education institutions continue to encounter an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion on university campuses. Many institutions are striving to find creative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that...
Civil-Military Relations in Taiwan
Identity and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
The armed forces of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan are in dire need of reform to address a plethora of problems including inadequate training, low morale, poor public perception, and low recruitment numbers. This book uses the postmodern military model to measure how public perception of the...
Perspectives on Access to Higher Education
Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.
This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2019
In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions.
The volume looks across a range of issues. Two papers address the political economy...
by Julie Rugg, Brian Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Funerary International series comprises essential reference texts for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in funerary practices globally. Each book has a country or region specific focus, addressing a standard framework of questions to aid comparison.
This book...
International Schooling and Education in the 'New Era'
Emerging Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
International Education in its International Schooling mode of operation is still an under-reported and largely under-researched area of education. However, it is undeniably no longer a peripheral player and has proven historically to be both financially successful, and commercially attractive. It...