This book presents original research, insight and analysis on innovative methods, theories, topics and issues at the end of life and in death's aftermath.
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products-films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media-to individuate through them the dynamics of memory.
This monograph draws on empirical research results to explore how personal psychological factors like perceived stress, rejection sensitivity, and attachment styles contribute to social network service (SNS) addiction.
Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research presents qualitative researchers in the social sciences with the benefits, applications, and forms of visual research methods.
The story of the legal battle between the Cherokee Nation and the State of Georgia that ultimately led to the infamous Trail of Tears and the ongoing struggles for Native sovereignty.
In this second edition, award-winning educator Sue Ellen Christian offers students an accessible and informed guide to how they can consume and create media intentionally and critically.
In this second edition, award-winning educator Sue Ellen Christian offers students an accessible and informed guide to how they can consume and create media intentionally and critically.
This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King's now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipated and experienced realism.
The book, Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44: History Through Last Letters, examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during the Second World War, including three teenagers.
Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research presents qualitative researchers in the social sciences with the benefits, applications, and forms of visual research methods.
Drawing from bell hooks' 1999 book All About Love, this volume builds on theories of love as they relate to Black Girlhood in education, shedding light on educational practices rooted in love and exploring strategies for centering Black girls and love in Grades K-12.
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries.
This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King's now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipated and experienced realism.
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries.
This book reevaluates the 'consensus' liberal view on minority cultural rights from a new, empirically informed perspective to argue that its justificatory machinery is not very persuasive, and that the normative goals of the view caninstead be efficaciously reached from within the classic liberal framework of equal, universal rights.
This book considers the notion of "e;historical escapism"e; through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one informs the other to produce different consumable representations of the past, to quell contemporary anxieties and to confront generational traumas.
Playing Politics in Digital Spaces offers a timely analysis of play and politics woven together to imagine and enact new worlds, democratic and reactionary alike.
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world who engage fresh critical lenses, from affect studies to the medical humanities, and re-energize established frameworks to examine the interplay between cultural production and conceptualizations of the nation and nationalism.
An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist.
Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyzes the writers and artists who challenge the moral categories through which inequality has been maintained and mobilized.
This book argues that of today's 'core' social scientific disciplines, it is sociology that has inherited the capacious ambitions of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede's research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture's Consequences in 1980.
This book provides an in-depth exploration of sexual consent communication and negotiation practices among students and efforts to prevent and respond to sexual coercion and violence within the context of North American higher education institutions.
This book brings together a trail blazing collection of music scholars to explore the intersections, frictions, and resonances between nineteenth-century American music and history.
Drawing on some recent developments in the blue humanities, this book addresses water as a material, political and cultural phenomenon across a variety of spatial and temporal contexts.
This book brings together a trail blazing collection of music scholars to explore the intersections, frictions, and resonances between nineteenth-century American music and history.
Based on a cross-cultural approach to defining and implementing international standards of human and minority rights, this book aims to explore the most plausible way to enhance Sino-Western dialogue on minority rights.
Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyzes the writers and artists who challenge the moral categories through which inequality has been maintained and mobilized.
Der Band bietet einen systematischen Überblick über das Phänomen extremer sozialer Rückzüge junger Menschen, das in Japan unter dem Begriff „Hikikomori“ bekannt ist.
In examining the era's multivalent tropes of seams and seamlessness, Thomson provides an innovative understanding of the interplay between division and unity in the thought, culture, and literature of the American Renaissance.
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world who engage fresh critical lenses, from affect studies to the medical humanities, and re-energize established frameworks to examine the interplay between cultural production and conceptualizations of the nation and nationalism.
Based on a cross-cultural approach to defining and implementing international standards of human and minority rights, this book aims to explore the most plausible way to enhance Sino-Western dialogue on minority rights.
A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten men and women**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Lush, high-tempo, strikingly poignant .
