Palgrave Macmillan

This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the relations between philosophical approaches to language and the language...

Literature and the Global ContemporaryAuthor: Sarah BrouillettePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 16, 2017Number of Pages: 201 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Tuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive intervention in the field of law and literature. It seeks to understand and inhabit...

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature,...

The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop,...

This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ?East? and ?West? in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of...

Explores the importance of literature not as a spiritual or utilitarian discipline alone, but rather as a useful spiritual disciplineSeeks to examine the uncertain future of the "general education"...

Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed...

Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth CenturyAuthor: Regenia GagnierPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 20, 2018Number of Pages: 247 pagesBinding:...

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish...

This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and empirical...

This book uncovers how music experience-live and recorded-is changing along with the use of digital technology in the 2000s. Focussing on the Nordic region, this volume utilizes the theory of...

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book...

This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did...

Lived Religion and the Politics of (In)ToleranceAuthor: R. Ruard GanzevoortPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Mar 16, 2017Number of Pages: 261 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Lives in Motion: The Transnational Making of Population Between Morocco and ItalyAuthor: Francesca DecimoPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 29, 2024Number of Pages: 142 pagesBinding:...

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute...

Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second LifeAuthor: Margaret GibsonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 29, 2018Number of Pages: 154...

This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in...

Covers a wide array of issues and topics related to Zelizer and Ostrom's work ​Brings together scholars who tease out some of the important concepts and implications of Ostrom and Zelizer's...

Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have...

This book focuses on the phenomenon of hacktivism and how it has been dealt with up to now in the United States and the United Kingdom. After discussing the birth of the phenomenon and the various...

?This book investigates how people living with late-stage dementia can engage in communication and social interaction. Based on empirical research, it explores how the remaining communicative...

This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates...

This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s. It complicates our understanding of the successes...

This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU. Yet we know little about the many...

This book analyses interest group communication strategies in parliamentary political systems, and considers how political uncertainty, which emerges from the political process, shapes interest group...

This book tells the story of one of medicine's most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy. Invented by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935, lobotomy or...

This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century...

While electoral participation is a traditional topic in political science, voter turnout at the local level is still largely uncharted. There are very few large-N comparative works on municipal...