Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements
Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power.
Migrants' Participation in Exclusionary Contexts
From Subcultures to Radicalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This insightful book analyzes the political engagement and marginalization of three of Milan's migrant groups, Filipinos, Egyptians and Ecuadorians. Bringing together data relating to the civic and political engagement of individual migrants, and of migrant organizational networks, the result is an...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have caused unjust suffering (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands. To reverse this tragedy, we need to work for a safer, sustainable planet and renew our inspiration from God as the transforming Spirit who gives, sustains and empowers life to all.
by J. Carpenter, K. den Dulk, Kevin R. den Dulk
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common convention suggests. The edited work addresses civic engagement, religion, Christianity, and the rule of law in contemporary Chinese society.
Teenage Talk
From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.
by Benjamin Smart
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Disease is everywhere. Everyone experiences disease, everyone knows somebody who is, or has been diseased, and disease-related stories hit the headlines on a regular basis. Many important issues in the philosophy of disease, however, have received remarkably little attention from philosophical thinkers.
This...
Why is English Literature?
Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.
Postcolonial Yearning
Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis.
The Fall of Global Socialism
A Counter-Narrative From the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This radical new perspective from the Global South casts a fresh light on a major aspect of contemporary history and in doing so suggests an alternative interpretation of twentieth century revolutions, Socialism, left thinking and radical politics.
Strategy and Purpose in T. S. Eliot’s Major Poems
Language, Hermeneutics, and Ancient Truth in “New Verse”
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Continuing his explorations of T. S. Eliot's most captivating yet difficult works, G. Douglas Atkins' new and insightful book takes on the question of Eliot and hermeneutics: understanding and being understood, putting-in-other-words, and, in Eliot's own words, 'restoring/ With a new verse the ancient...
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life
The Melancholic Muse
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.
by M. Chaiklin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.
by Amy Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Core studies span from film (Catch Me If You Can, Paper Moon, House of Games) to television...
The Captivity of John II, 1356-60
The Royal Image in Later Medieval England and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II’s four years in English captivity. Neil Murphy shows how the French king’s competition with Edward III led to a revolution in the presentation of the royal image, manifesting...