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In Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions, renowned and emerging sociologists analyse new phenomena of collectivity among young people around the globe.

Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to renew the comparative method by questioning the inherited comparative categories. By varying the analytical perspectives in different empirical and social sciences fields, this volume opens new spaces for the comparative method.

Migrant Organising offers an account of how trade union and migrant workers today respond to the transformation of work, the rise of global chains and the intensification of international migrations, by reinventing community-based unionism and building solidarity networks.

This book offers novel insights into the figurative meanings of the 'heart' across 19 languages, including endangered and extensively studied ones. The selection of papers employ diverse perspectives, primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics and also formal methodologies.

This book offers a fascinating case study of the interaction between Arabic philosophy and Christian Arabic theology, presenting a revised Arabic text of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī's 10th century Treatise on Divine Unity, accompanied by its first English translation and a running commentary.

While each chapter seizes the dialectic of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment at work in the global world, the volume insists on the moral, intellectual, structural, and historical resources that still make cosmopolitanism a real possibility even in these hard times.

This book aims to offer a critical perspective on the relationship between locally-based norms and state legal norms on Muslim marriage in Indonesia. It delves into how the state bureaucracy implements and how people negotiate laws on Muslim marriage.

Instruments of Knowledge looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums to uncover how material and intellectual activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of early modern knowledge production and its contemporary representation in cultural institutions.

The volume aims to combine the overall view on the role of the 2019 European Parliament elections in shaping the future European project with relevant case studies.

This book demonstrates the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical, and political contexts in which they were made.

Performative literary culture emerged as a set of practices that shaped production and distribution of learning in late medieval and early modern Western Europe. Written by a team of experts, this book explores how regional and local performative literary cultures shaped the exchange of learning between the oral, theatrical, and literary spheres.

A reconstruction of the vicissitudes of Swammerdam's pivotal Biblia naturae, revealing an intricate editorial and intellectual plot.

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c. 900-1900 is a collection of studies that investigate various types of unfreedom in the wider Black Sea area in the medieval and early modern periods.

Narcisse ? Cambrioleur ? Illusionniste ? Le dandy s'invente des rôles et cache son visage derrière de nombreux masques pour dérouter son public. De Fortunio à Arsène Lupin, sans oublier la femme dandy, de Saint-Just à Romain Gary, les seize études du présent ouvrage font défiler une exceptionnelle galerie de figures qui jalonnent l'histoire du dandysme. Narcissus? A burglar? An illusionist? The dandy invents his own roles and hides his face behind multiple masks to confuse his audience. From Fortunio to Arsène Lupin, not forgetting the dandy woman, from Saint-Just to Romain Gary, the sixteen studies in this book present an exceptional gallery of figures that delineate the history of dandyism.

Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900 is the first collection of studies to examine slavery and related forms of labor across the whole of Asia in well-developed local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts.

The book is a foundational survey addressing the overlooked theme of devotional expression in early modern Indo-Muslim painting. Recognizing this as a subject and understanding its multivalent role disrupts longstanding misconceptions about the purview of Islamic art.

Bringing examples and insights from field studies, the present volume elaborates on the ways Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Vygotskian approaches are transforming how educational researchers, psychologists, and social scientists study human actions, thoughts and emotions in their cultural contexts.

This book proposes an extending study of everyday relations of Orthodox Christians and Muslims in the region Cappadocia in the Ottoman Empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the Exchange of population between Greece and Turkey in 1923.

This collection of historical studies honors David Burr, emeritus professor at Virginia Tech. Representing some of the finest scholars in the field, the contributors touch upon the academic areas in which he has taught and published: the multi-faceted phenomenon of the Spiritual Franciscans (late 13th-early 14th century) and the life and writings of Peter of John Olivi in southern France.

A diverse collection of texts that take Edward Albee's theatre beyond the Anglophone sphere, examining the reception and impact of his works in different linguistic, cultural and socio-political contexts.

A political, anthropological and societal analysis of the 2015-2016 spontaneous Japanese youth movement SEALDs, the Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy.

Scholars bring a plethora of methods to the study of ancient Judaea and Christian origins. Applying principles of historical method to questions ranging from the Flavian triumph to the Essenes and the apostle Paul, this study argues that method matters.

Sketch maps, despite their informal appearance, are intellectual devices that reflect and shape geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. This book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate knowledges about place and space.

This book presents an overview of the historical context and the content of the largest cache of documents ever excavated in China, which provide a wealth of new materials on the history of South China.