London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.

Hvorfor insisterer vi på at dele mennesker op i normale og unormale?Antropologen Christian Groes gør op med idéen om, at nogle hjerner skal fixes, tæmmes eller isoleres. Vi skal i stedet lære at sætte pris på det anderledes. Han drømmer om et overskudssamfund med ligeværd, omsorg og plads til særpræg.Gennem begrebet neodiversitet beskriver han udviklingen af normsamfundet og det skiftende syn på de naturlige varianter i hjernen.Bogens budskab er, at det ...

Hvorfor insisterer vi på at dele mennesker op i normale og unormale?Antropologen Christian Groes gør op med idéen om, at nogle hjerner skal fixes, tæmmes eller tilpasses det normale. Vi skal i stedet lære at sætte pris på de anderledes hjerner. Han drømmer om et overskudssamfund med ligeværd, omsorg og plads til særpræg.Gennem begrebet neurodiversitet beskriver han udviklingen af normsamfundet og det skiftende syn på de naturlige varianter i hjernen.Boge...

A volume of reminiscences through the songs of musician and tv producer Barry 'Archie' Jones.

En høvding er alt det modsatte af, hvad mange ledere er i dag: lyttende, empatisk, opmærksom på forskellige behov og den, der holder sammen på det hele. Antropologerne Christian Groes og Dennis Nørmark giver deres bud på, hvordan en leder bliver en, der er værd at følge som en høvding.Dårlig ledelse er den største udfordring i danskernes arbejdsliv. Historier om mobning, magtmisbrug, mistrivsel, krænkelser og tyrannisk adfærd står i kø. Ledere lader stå til og tillader en kaotisk e...

En høvding er alt det modsatte af, hvad mange ledere er i dag: lyttende, empatisk, opmærksom på forskellige behov og den, der holder sammen på det hele. Antropologerne Christian Groes og Dennis Nørmark giver deres bud på, hvordan en leder bliver en, der er værd at følge som en høvding.Dårlig ledelse er den største udfordring i danskernes arbejdsliv. Historier om mobning, magtmisbrug, mistrivsel, krænkelser og tyrannisk adfærd står i kø. Ledere lader stå til og tillader en kaotisk e...

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe?Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the ris...

British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerfu...

Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest contemporary authors who possesses that increasingly rare distinction of being a writer who is both popular with the general reading public and well-respected within the academic community. Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels presents eighteen fresh perspectives on the author's work that will appeal to those who read him for pleasure or for purposes of study.Established and rising critics reassess Ishiguro's works from the...

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined...

The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, t...

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically - and academically - acclaimed and embraced by readers across the world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. Across these many forms his work retains a distinctive character that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, sexuality and gender....