Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Media and the Ukraine Crisis
Hybrid Media Practices and Narratives of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts? How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings? How does the media serve as a means by which
various actors manage and communicate conflict?
These are some of the questions addressed...
Designing Online Communities
How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators,...
by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.
Each...
José de Acostas «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical...
Playing for Change
Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption...
Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions
Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions: Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience offers a unique perspective on the complexities of being a Black mother addicted to crack, powder cocaine, heroin, and crank. Qualitative interviews provide rich narratives from five Black mothers challenging...
Transforming Education
Global Perspectives, Experiences and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national...
Critical Studies of Southern Place
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern...
by Yumin Ao
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260). Although other authors have studied...
Religion
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal;...
by Julie N. Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In What Is Film?, Julie N. Books critically evaluates three philosophical doctrines of film realism (transparency, illusionism, and perceptual realism) and defends her view that films are creative works of art. By examining contemporary films, such as computer-animated films and films with computer-generated...
Parody and Palimpsest
Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi. Sarah L....
Translation as Oneself
The Re-Creative Modernism in Stéphane Mallarmés Late Sonnets, T. S. Eliots "Poems", and the Prose Poetry since Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Translation encompasses the whole of humanness, and, as indicated by C. S. Peirce, translation is interpretation. It involves the cognitive process in its entirety, which is based on the unconscious life force shared globally through the species. Synonymous with «untranslatability» in the challenging...
Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries
Portuguese Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that...