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  • Sport, Performance and Sustainability

    Edited by Daniel Svensson, Erik Backman, Susanna Hedenborg, Sverker Sörlin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book examines the logic of ‘faster, higher, and stronger’ and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport’s environmental responsibilities.Drawing on multi-disciplinary work in sport history, sport pedagogy, ... Read more

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  • Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

    The New Extractivist Paradigm

    Edited by Sverker Sörlin ...
    For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Ice humanities

    Living, working, and thinking in a melting world

    Edited by Klaus Dodds, Sverker Sörlin ...
    Ice humanities is a pioneering collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the planet's diminishing ice reserves. By the end of this century, we will likely be facing a world where sea ice no longer reliably forms in large areas of the Arctic Ocean, where glaciers have not just retreated but disappeared, where ice sheets collapse, and where permafrost is far from permanent. ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • The Rhetoric of Literary Communication

    From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction

    Edited by Virginie Iché, Sandrine Sorlin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th-century English novels through to contemporary digital fiction.The book showcases a diverse range of contributions from scholars in stylistics, rhetoric, pragmatics, and literary ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Future of Nature

    Documents of Global Change

    Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, Paul Warde ...

    $32.99 CAD

  • New Natures

    Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies

    Edited by Sara Pritchard, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Dolly Jørgensen ...
    New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Style and Sense(s)

    Edited by Linda Pillière, Sandrine Sorlin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses. The title originated in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) 2022 conference and marks the 40th onsite event by showcasing some of the excellent papers delivered on that occasion. The selected chapters fall into 4 parts each of which gives pride of place to how ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Grounding Urban Natures

    Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies

    Edited by Henrik Ernstson, Sverker Sorlin ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science of cities” based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction

    Edited by Dr Sandrine Sorlin ...
    Series series Advances in Stylistics
    This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis of diverse genres, including crime fiction, short stories, poetry and novels, the book deciphers various linguistic, pragmatic and multimodal techniques. These are ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance

    The Human Environment

    by Sverker Sörlin, Eric Paglia ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    This unique history examines global environmental governance through the lens of Stockholm, which has played an outsized role in shaping its development. Fifty years before Greta Thunberg started her School Strike for Climate, Swedish diplomats initiated the seminal 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment that propelled Stockholm to the forefront of international environmental affairs. ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • The Stylistics of ‘You'

    Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects

    by Sandrine Sorlin ...
    This book takes 'you', the reader, on board an interdisciplinary journey across genre, time and medium with the second-person pronoun. It offers a model of the various pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' according to different variables and linguistic parameters, cutting across a wide range of genres (ads, political slogans, tweets, news presentation, literary genres etc.), and bringing ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Language and Manipulation in House of Cards

    A Pragma-Stylistic Perspective

    by Sandrine Sorlin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is to date the first monograph-length study of the popular American political TV series House of Cards. It proposes an encompassing analysis of the first three seasons from the unusual angles of discourse and dialogue. The study of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the ruthless main protagonist, Frank Underwood, is completed by a pragmatic and cognitive approach exposing the main ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD