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  • Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture

    Raw Matters

    This edited collection brings together scholarship from established and emerging scholars in HIV/AIDS studies, French studies, Visual Arts, and Dance. As French writers and artists from the past five to ten years have been revisiting the AIDS crisis and its attendant cultural amnesia, their work has brought about the necessity of foregrounding vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies

    New Approaches to Teaching

    Edited by Siham Bouamer, Loïc Bourdeau ...
    This edited volume presents new and original approaches to teaching the French foreign-language curriculum, reconceptualizing the French classroom through a more inclusive lens. The volume engages with a broad range of scholars to facilitate an understanding of the process of French (de)colonization as well as its reverberations into the postcolonial era, and a deeper engagement with the global ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Horrible Mothers

    Representations across Francophone North America

    Edited by Loïc Bourdeau ...
    For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity—especially regarding those not conforming to traditional female stereotypes. Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Accessibility and Active Offer

    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Édouard Glissant

    A Poetics of Resistance

    by Sam Coombes ...
    Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Global Urban Politics

    Informalization of the State

    Series series Urban Futures
    Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the StateIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The New Laws of Love

    Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy

    Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal and stigmatized practice to being a common activity. How can we explain this rapid change and what does it tell us about the changing nature of love and sexuality?In contrast to those who praise online dating as a ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Management

    Culture and Management across the World

    All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted, managers face serious challenges. An individual’s parsing of an experience and its meaning may vary according to several cultural scales – national, ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Case Study Methods

    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    The use of the case study goes back to the beginnings of social science research and is still one of the most common forms of qualitative research. This book is a handy introduction to understanding, researching, and doing case studies in the social sciences and related fields. In this brief monograph, Jacques Hamel outlines several differing traditions of case study research—the Chicago School of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Intercultural Approaches to Education

    From Theory to Practice

    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education.From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presents ... Read more

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