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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent...
Gender, Metal and the Media
Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience shaped by gender. Through a lively...
by Nikolay Zakharov, Ian Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book is novel not only in its theoretical framework, which places racialisation in post-communist societies and their modernist political projects at the centre of processes of global racism, but also in being the first account to examine both these new national contexts and the interconnections...
British Television Animation 1997-2010
Drawing Comic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times but they ushered in an era of ambition and belief in British adult animation.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
This remarkably comprehensive Handbook provides a multifaceted yet carefully crafted investigation into the work of Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever seen. With original contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this authoritative volume first...
Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe
A Shared Story?
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
This is the first book to examine the relationship between European antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms. With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised...
British Muslim Fictions
Interviews with Contemporary Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair.
Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations
The Karen and the Gift of Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children’s practical...
Education Systems and Learners
Knowledge and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book explores curricular, teaching and learning practices in schools in England and in higher education institutions, and considers the damaging effects of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for UK higher education institutions, international comparative assessment systems such as the Programme...
Transmedia Crime Stories
The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book...
Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom
A Caribbean Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom. It argues that in seeking to escape liberalism’s gendered and racialised governmentalities, Black women’s...
Naturalization Policies, Education and Citizenship
Multicultural and Multi-Nation Societies in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This book examines constructions of 'national' citizenship in the context of perceived internal division, including devolution, multiculturalism, ethno-religious conflict, post-conflict and refugees, drawing on a wide range of countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, Ukraine, Canada and Palestinians in Lebanon.
Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry
The Politics of Contemporary Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally focused on the USA and the Global Northwest....
by Judi Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Through a rhetorical analysis, this book explores how the parties in a coalition government create a united public front while preserving their distinct identities. After proposing an original framework based on the ‘new rhetoric’ of Kenneth Burke, the author charts the path from the inconclusive...