Ibidem imprint: 334 books
Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
History, Nation, and Narration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This study delineates the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The...
The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival
A Short Guide to Design Your Own Strategy And Survive Bibliometrics, Conferences, and Unreal Expectations in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Now that academics are required to be teachers, managers, media catalyzers, analysts, fundraisers, and social media animals: How do you strike a good balance between what is expected from you and what you want to do? What conferences to attend? How to find the money to go there? Is it worth it to...
by Sylvia Thiele, Michael Frings, Eduardo Palop
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 29, 2016
El lugar de la gramática en la enseñanza de la lengua ha sido un tema objeto de debate desde tiempos inmemoriales: tanto en lenguas primeras, segundas o extranjeras como en distintas etapas educativas, se han discutido las finalidades de su enseñanza, los contenidos y la metodología. En...
by Sergey Golunov
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This book offers a long overdue account of the wide range of corruption and cheating practices in Russian higher education, including bribery, financial fraud, clientelism, plagiarism, exam cheating, and much more. Serghei Golunov ruthlessly uncovers the recent social trends that have created a favourable...
The European Union’s Democratization Policy for Central Asia
Failed in Success or Succeeded in Failure?
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The European Union has developed a range of instruments to promote democracy and human rights worldwide. However, the success of its democratization efforts remains questionable in countries that lack an EU membership perspective. The case of post-soviet Central Asia, where the EU declares democracy...
Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe
Perspectives on the Construction of a Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
The book series „European Studies in the Caucasus” offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus. By embracing the South Caucasus as well as Turkey and Russia as the major regional powers, it moves away from a traditional viewpoint of European Studies that considers the countries...
Contemporary Life and Witchcraft
Magic, Divination, and Religious Ritual in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Witchcraft is very much alive in today's post-communist societies. Stemming from ancient rural traditions and influenced by modern New Age concepts, it has kept its function as a vibrant cultural code to combat the adversities of everyday life. Intricately linked to the Orthodox church and its rituals,...
The Global Social Sciences
—Under and Beyond European Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being constructed....
When Stereotype Meets Prejudice
Antiziganism in European Societies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Antiziganism is a widespread phenomenon in all European societies. Poor or rich, 'postcommunist' or 'traditional', North or South, with 'lean' or 'thick' welfare systems?all European societies demonstrate antiziganist prejudice. All across Europe Romanis are among the poorest, most destitute, and...
London’s Polish Borders
Transnationalizing Class and Ethnicity Among Polish Migrants in London
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The figure of the Polish plumber or builder has long been a well-established icon of the British national imagination, uncovering the UK's collective unease with immigration from Central and Eastern Europe. But despite the powerful impact the UK's second largest language group has had on their host...
Europeans and the Public Sphere
Communication without Community?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What kind of public sphere is possible in the European Union with its considerable diversity of national identities, languages, and media systems? Against the backdrop of debates about a fundamental European community deficit and the possibility of postnational democracy, this book explores the role...
Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity
New connections, New perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
"Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity—New connections, New perspectives" offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over the world. Dissecting the almost invisible barrier between fiction and reality...
Thomas Mann und Ivan Olbracht [German-language Edition]
Der Einfluss von Manns Mythoskonzeption auf die karpatoukrainische Prosa des tschechischen Schriftstellers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Zitovás literary analysis starts at the interface of Czech and German literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Thomas Mann's novel Joseph and His Brothers is set in comparative relation to Ivan Olbracht's prose texts Nikola Šuhaj loupeník and Golet v údolí. Olbracht translated...