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This volume investigates and analyses hate speech from a linguistic perspective. The focus is not only on lexical means (e.g. insults, derogatory terms or epithets), but also on more subtle grammatical and pragmatic strategies related to implicit meanings or conversational dynamics. The book’s aim is to identify the common linguistic characteristics of hate speech in different domains of communication and to explore criteria that can help distinguish between hate speech and freedom of expression. The studies collected in this volume all focus on Italian, but the methods and findings of the individual chapters can easily be extended to other languages for comparative and contrastive purposes.
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For the Mengen of Papua New Guinea, ‘hard work’ does not refer to drudgery or physically exhausting labour. Instead, ‘work’ involves creating and recreating meaningful social relations and generating value through acts of care, marriages, ceremonial events, sharing, and working the land together. Similarly, all activities that produce valued people, places, and relations are hard work. This book is a study of human-environmental relations, value production, natural resource extraction, and state formation. It examines these themes by looking at how the Mengen relate to each other, their lived environment, and outside actors.
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Religion, Law, and COVID-19 in Europe investigates how the pandemic and the subsequent legal restrictions influenced religious life in the region. The volume is based on 19 in-depth country case studies that combine legal and sociological analyses. By reflecting the plurality of religious and secular contexts, the volume details how the pandemic affected religious communities and challenged both religions and societies and how this was influenced by varying religious landscapes, political histories and legal cultures. More broadly, this edited volume reveals the importance of sudden, large-scale events in understanding religious change in the modern world.
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This edited volume analyses how illiberal states manage migration to absorb resistance and how migration impacts the illiberal political agenda in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. With an interdisciplinary approach, the contributions show how illiberalism shapes, influences, and enables states to take advantage of migration to secure and advance political goals. The case studies also provide an understanding of how migration processes can simultaneously challenge authoritarianism and illiberal political goals by fostering diversity, networking, democracy promotion, and political empowerment.
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Shaping the Future of Higher Education presents a selection of ideas from internationally renowned researchers in higher education about how to move from just coping with change to proactively actioning it. Through the framework of participatory action learning and action research, the volume aims to enable researchers, teachers and leadership in Higher Education to learn how to positively embrace constant change through innovative, collaborative, systemic, critical and creative thinking and action.
Book DetailsGenome Finland tells a story of genomic medicine in Finland. The book introduces the reader to the scientific and societal surroundings in which Finnish medical genetics evolved from the 1960s to the 2020s. In particular, the book examines and exposes the connections between biomedical science, ‘knowledge-based’ economy and business, and innovation policy in Finland.
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Reconfiguring EU Peripheries explores the diverse nature of the European Union’s interactions with its peripheries. With its focus on the perceptions of politicians, the volume casts new light on the motivations that underpin the political elites’ attitudes towards the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Türkiye and Ukraine. By challenging the conventional understanding of contestation and peripherality, this volume is a first step towards looking at the EU and the peripheries it creates from an alternative, and sometimes ignored, point of view.
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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a new approach to understanding location. Geographical space is often perceived as divided by state borders, but it can also be classified and segmented based on, for example, ecosystems or religious structures and beliefs. The book shows how different locating logics coexist in a single place and how this influences people's lives. The authors are anthropologists who draw on ethnographic and historical research from locations across the Mediterranean region.
Book DetailsThis volume brings together researchers from various fields to enhance discussion of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as one continuum. With new archaeological data and a focus on both textual and material remains, archaeologists, historians, classicists, and theologians shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.
Book DetailsGlobal Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education offers valuable research evidence on how successful leadership is developed in various Early Childhood Education and Care settings and contexts. The contributions of this edited volume provide insightful perspectives on leadership issues from across the world, making it a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and leaders.
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