This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and voluntary childlessness have typically been treated separately and studied within different disciplines in most previous scholarship, contributing au…
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiqu…
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three …
This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different representations of success and failure of the protracted p…
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also undersc…
Dalam buku Open-Access ini, posisi keberlanjutan para pegawai di sektor publik diteliti dalam konteks transformasi keberlanjutan organisasi. Dengan menggunakan Metode Dokumenter, pendekatan rekontruktif secara kualitatif diambil untuk mengungkap orientasi tindakan yang kompleks dalam proses penentuan posisi. Untuk itu, kompleksitas, ketergantungan konteks, dan interaksi antara level individual,…
Buku akses terbuka ini membahas pekerjaan portofolio di sekolah dasar yang berorientasi pada inklusi dalam konteks reformasi pendidikan Luxembourg, dengan memperhatikan secara khusus situasi multibahasa yang kompleks di Grand Duchy. Portofolio dirancang sebagai alat penting untuk implementasi model kompetensi dan penilaian kinerja baru, dan tidak hanya bertujuan untuk mendukung pembelajaran ana…