The Great Lakes Basin is under severe ecological threat from fracking, bursting pipelines, sulfide mining, abandonment of government environmental regulation, invasive species, warming and lowering of the lakes, etc.
Queer Intimacies and Cultural Dissent in Japanese Life: Quiet Subversion offers an intimate cartography of LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and others) expression across contemporary Japan.
Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan analyses the opportunities and limitations of the WPS agenda in the context of the world's worst erasure of women's rights.
Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan analyses the opportunities and limitations of the WPS agenda in the context of the world's worst erasure of women's rights.
From award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis.
Constructed around powerful stories of maternal agency, care and emotion, this novel volume conceptualises the primary homework experience as a social and relational practice and act of mothering, thereby raising wider questions about parental involvement in education, families' agency in school practices, and the broader implications for policy.
Care Relations in Southeast Asia: The Family and Beyond, edited by Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Jo-Pei Tan, examines the care relations and transactions within and beyond the family network across three middle-income Southeast Asian countries, namely the Federation of Malaysia, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the national and sub-national level.
This volume investigates the central role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender constructions, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity.
The past decades have witnessed considerable developments in Translation Studies and, particularly, a growing interest in the cultural and ideological differences engendered by the act of translating.
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism.
Intersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency brings together feminist phenomenology and feminist technoscience studies with the aim of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of subjectivity and subjectivities as embodied and situated in the world.
This volume engages with the question of how labour is transforming under late capitalism, and what insights the study of sex work offers into these transformations.
This volume engages with the question of how labour is transforming under late capitalism, and what insights the study of sex work offers into these transformations.
Women in STEM: Breaking Down the Barriers provides a comprehensive examination of the persistent underrepresentation of women across science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"No se mata por amor, es cierto, sin embargo en todo esto el amor tiene algo que ver, ya que quienes matan son los maridos, los novios, los amantes, los hombres en general que han tenido una relación íntima con la víctima.
Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies.
Women in STEM: Breaking Down the Barriers provides a comprehensive examination of the persistent underrepresentation of women across science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Examining French sports films from a cinematic and socio-cultural perspective, this book takes a close look at the characteristics that separate French sports films from Hollywood sports films and sports films produced in other countries and asks what those characteristics can tell us about wider French culture and society.
Intersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency brings together feminist phenomenology and feminist technoscience studies with the aim of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of subjectivity and subjectivities as embodied and situated in the world.
Ispirato alle principali astronome menzionate nella poesia di Siv Cedering "e;Letter from Caroline Herschel"e; alle sue "e;sorelle perdute da tempo, dimenticate nei libri che registrano la nostra scienza"e;, questo libro racconta la vita di venticinque scienziate, con un focus particolare su astronome e matematiche.
This volume contributes to research in both humanities and performing arts without disregarding the more recent digital artistic media by focusing on works of science fiction (Sci-Fi).
This book explores the relationship between an introduced gender equality rule and broader gender sensitivity in the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji.
The term radicalisation is being used by politicians, activist groups, the media, governmental organisations, and many other groups, although it lacks conceptual clarity and insufficient consideration is given to its historical context.
This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
This book explores the often-overlooked experiences of Black NASCAR fans, challenging the sport's traditional image as a stronghold of Southern white conservatism.
This book explores the often-overlooked experiences of Black NASCAR fans, challenging the sport's traditional image as a stronghold of Southern white conservatism.
This volume presents an overview of the diversity - or lack thereof - in visual representations of the European past that are found in archaeology, museums, and media.
