Society and culture: general

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This volume critically examines the intersection of settler colonialism and human-created disasters affecting many Indigenous and minority communities in Bangladesh.

African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.

Il libro si occupa di riattivazione urbana, una particolare forma di intervento sul costruito, che oltre alla dimensione fisico-spaziale dei luoghi considera anche e soprattutto le dinamiche sociali e relazionali che l'intervento è in grado di attivare.

This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through 'invited spaces' offered by the government and 'claimed spaces' created by the poor.

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture.

This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

This book investigates societal shifts induced by internet technologies.

Monsters fascinate us.

Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interaction and Player Research in Game Development, WIPlay 2025, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2025.

This project explores the expanding corpus of texts and artifacts inspired by Cirilo Villaverde's most well-known literary character, Cecilia Valdes.

The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish.

This volume critically examines the intersection of settler colonialism and human-created disasters affecting many Indigenous and minority communities in Bangladesh.

Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders.

This book offers a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration into the role of metacognition in medical education and practice, focusing on transforming the doctor-patient relationship through cognitive, metacognitive, and humanistic approaches.

After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings.

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking.

Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen.

The ever-evolving ways that we interact with each other, our world, and ourselves through technology is a topic as worn as the devices we clutch and carry every day.

This book deals with the 1980s - the "e;golden decade"e; of Hong Kong pop culture - in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city.

Religious resurgence and democratization have been two of the most significant developments of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Abrir la historia del Instituto de Investigacion Social (Ins-titut fur Sozialforschung - IfS), conocido como la Escue-la de Frankfurt (1923), y hacerlo desde las mujeres que lo construyeron y pasaron por alli en distintos momentos pero quedaron tapadas por la historia como esposas, asistentes, bibliotecarias, taquigrafas o secretarias es la tarea colectiva de este libro.

This book focuses on gender issues and its relation with social development, in shaping the current and future global scenario, considering three broad dimensions, namely health, education, and environment, and other SDG implications.

This edited book examines decolonization in applied linguistics, focusing on language teacher preparation across the Global North and South.

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories.

Grounded in autoethnographic observations and informed by critical, postmodern, ethnographic, and narrative approaches, this work presents a new framework for intercultural communication education that aims to deconstruct normative intercultural paradigms.

This project explores the expanding corpus of texts and artifacts inspired by Cirilo Villaverde's most well-known literary character, Cecilia Valdes.

This book on AI and mental health explores the intersection of AI and mental health care.

This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development.

This book examines the effectiveness and limitations of existing body image law, and proposes evidence-based regulatory alternatives informed by public health and psychology research.

Women have historically been prevented from living autonomously by systematic injustice, subordination, and oppression.

Integration of newcomers is a foremost challenge for contemporary Europe.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interaction and Player Research in Game Development, WIPlay 2025, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2025.

This book is one of the first to give a systematic account of shuyuan in English.

This book focuses on gender issues and its relation with social development, in shaping the current and future global scenario, considering three broad dimensions, namely health, education, and environment, and other SDG implications.

What does it mean to reckon with a legacy of white supremacy?

Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen.

This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories.

This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations.

This book views the whistleblower as a key character in democratic societies.

Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women.

Technologies, applications and practices for virtual environments create interactive and immersive experiences and blend the transitions and permeabilities between the virtual and physical world.

This edited book examines decolonization in applied linguistics, focusing on language teacher preparation across the Global North and South.

This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through 'invited spaces' offered by the government and 'claimed spaces' created by the poor.

This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape of literary theory, encompassing formalism, structuralism, modernism, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, marxism, ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and techno-criticism.

This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’.

With remarkable speed, the Sixties have gone from lived history to mythology.

Il libro si occupa di riattivazione urbana, una particolare forma di intervento sul costruito, che oltre alla dimensione fisico-spaziale dei luoghi considera anche e soprattutto le dinamiche sociali e relazionali che l'intervento è in grado di attivare.