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Young people consider their future at a stage of life when the structure and relative certainty of school and further education are about to be left behind. This book provides an insight into how young people see themselves, the options they think are available to them and the strategies they use to make their imagined futures possible.

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This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

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The thematic focus of this book is the tragic yet inevitable effects of subaltern nationalism. The book covers the systemic challenges that all modern Iranian regimes have faced in establishing a sovereign, developed, democratic, and constitutional nation-state.

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Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.

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This study examines the conflict between two visions for Pakistan: a modern constitutional framework and an Islamist state. The author argues that Western liberal ideas were at the root of Pakistans creation, analyzes the societys drift away from its founding philosophy, and assesses optimistic indications of its revival.

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In the context of the Palestinians, whose national status in so many instances remains unresolved, the articulation and `imagination of national identity is particularly urgent.

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Seeks to understand how the 'Other' is viewed in Arab culture, and vice versa. This work examines how Turks, Europeans, Christians and Iranians have been represented in the arts, opinions and cultures of the Arab world. Conversely, it also explores the intellectual representation of 'The Arab' in other cultures.

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Arguing that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades, Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how Muslims and Christians were transformed into Turks and Greeks - and what it meant when they were.

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French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History. Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics -- .

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This volume debates issues critical for the construction of a viable United States of Africa in this century. Contributors to this book contend that such a unification scheme would provide African leaders and citizens a vast home within which to exploit its abundant natural resources for socio-economic development and enhancement of its political clout in global affairs.

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The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be considered, an early stage of world exploration and discovery.

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This volume critiques postcolonial African historiography, certain misconceptions about vernacular epistemologies including gender and sexuality and the making of the historical archive.

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This text examines the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on Ghana's labour relations and economy. This text shows how these forces have unleashed new and even contradictory labour policies and practices which are having profound social, political, and economic consequences.

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Those who penned the five papers presented by Wrage (political science, U.S. Naval Academy) were all involved in conducting the air warfare in American wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq and are understandably more likely to support the notion of air warfare as "immaculate" than those attempting

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Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed

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VR should be used as a medium to help students bridge the gap between knowledge and concepts

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VR should be used as a medium to help students bridge the gap between knowledge and concepts

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In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics.