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The Place of Memory and Memory of Place 

Edited by Olena Lytovka

     The concept of memory has been investigated across a wide range of academic disciplines from the natural and social sciences, to humanities and arts. However what yields most significant benefit to the study of memory is placing it within an interdisciplinary context. The Place of Memory and Memory of Place aims to spark new conversations across the field of memory and place studies. The topics discussed include non-linearity and spatial thinking, memory and trauma, historic sites and collective (non)memories, cyberspace and talking places, literary landscapes and spatial representations of the Other.
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  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: IRF Press; 1st edition (25 April, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-83-943632-0-8
  • Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 1.6 x 23.5 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 450 g

 


 

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Spatiality and Temporality: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Edited by Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė

     This volume discloses diverse and interdisciplinary views on spatiality and temporality – two very broad concepts. The first one suggests the endless boundaries (both in time and space), while the latter points to fragility and brevity. The articles analyse major aspects of these concepts and discuss their presence in all spheres of life: philosophy, culture, globalization, urbanity, literature, music and many others. The reader will be definitely involved into answering the questions posed by the authors of the articles: What is the relationship between spatiality and temporality? What is their role in contemporary life or the past? What is our understanding of these two concepts?

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  • Hardcover: 166 pages
  • Publisher: IRF Press; 1st edition (7 June, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-83-943632-1-5
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 8.5 x 24.5 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 300 g

 


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Narratives of Displacement

Edited by Olena Lytovka

      The book seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. It particularly focuses on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. In the following chapters of the book, the subject of displacement is regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”

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  • Hardcover: 170 pages
  • Publisher: IRF Press; 1st edition (23 September, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-83-943632-2-2
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 8.5 x 24.5 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 305 g

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Gender (In)Equality: Literary, Linguistic, And Artistic Responses To Gendered Dominance

Edited by Nikica Mihaljević

     Focusing primarily on the expression of role, position and rights of women from literary, linguistic, and artistic perspectives, this collection of academic papers however covers a heterogeneous array of topics. The contributors deal with both past and contemporary societies, as well as socio-political structures at power in the analyzed contexts. What seems to stand out as being of crucial importance to literary and artistic responses to often institutionalized gender-based social injustice is the indisputable power of language and art, as stimuli of cultural and political changes, i.e. as empowerment tools and a powerful mechanism of resistance to masculinized (hi)stories. But mostly, this book discusses the persistence of gender roles and challenges the possibility of degendering literary texts, as well as speeches, leadership, etc. Therefore, while examining the perception and the stereotypes related to ‘gender roles’ and while investigating the changes regarding the role of women in society, Gender (In)Equality: Literary, Linguistic, and Artistic Responses to Gendered Dominance uncovers the gendered aspects of the society as well as it calls attention to the question to which extent the society is still shaped by gender.

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  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: IRF Press; 1st edition (27 February, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-83-943632-6-0
  • Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 1.3 x 20.5 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 435 g

 


Medical Humanities in Theory and Practice

Edited by Andrzej Kapusta, Michal Lytovka

     This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine, and promotes a multifaceted approach towards health, illness, healthcare and body. The articles gathered here focus on various issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policies, and the experiences of being ill and of caring for those who are ill. The questions and theories discussed by the authors, concerning methodological, ethical and philosophical aspects of medical knowledge, will serve to open up new vistas of study for the reader.

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  • Paperback: 130 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (01 June, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-1-4438-8618-5

 

 


Full Stop

This volume is a collection of poems shortlisted in the 2017 International Poetry Competition organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Research Foundation.

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  • Paperback: 56 pages
  • Publisher: IRF Press (12 June, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN 978-83-943632-7-7

 

 


 

Projecting Memory

Edited by Inês Moreira and Elena Lacruz

Projecting Memory is a book aiming to trigger, and to keep feeding, interdisciplinary conversations across the research fields of both memory and space. Involving various locations in different countries, from Japan to Turkey, from Spain to Lebanon, among many others, memory affects both disciplinary fields and fields of practice, from architecture to urbanism, from history to political activism, from social intervention to fiction. This book is split into four sections, each devoted to a different understanding of a possible relation to memory: the first part explores the past in new contemporary projects, the second part exposes the disappearance and erosion of past memories and places, the third one deals with traumatic and violent collective memories in new projected spaces, and the last part brings into focus literary fiction as a mode of forgetting and amplifying other memories.

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  • Paperback: 422 pages
  • Publisher: IRF Press; 1st edition (31 October, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-83-943632-9-1
  • Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 1.3 x 20.5 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 810 g