... are now going back to their roots. Conversion from Islam is perceived as a matter of being an instrument of social fragmentation. Still, the Chinese ‘One Belt, One Road’ project has spawned the need for skilled workers, providing opportunities for Christians to be present in these countries. An important...

... over time. Out of this complexity it can be discerned that a tension has always existed between a fragmentation of society which is parallelled in the non-human world, and coalescences which likewise are found in both spheres. This tension was lowest in forager times but has increased with each step...

... which to measure change. Party system change is determined via indicators such as the effective number of parties, party system fragmentation, electoral volatility and the entry of new parties into the system. The analysis of the indicators of party system change is coupled with a discussion...

...In horror, both bodies and media are haunted by the possibility of sensory fragmentation. This is foregrounded in Blow Out (1981) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012), two films which depict technicians working on sound synchronisation in horror films. It also emerges...

...Catherine Walsh’s Optic Verve deploys a variety of poetic forms, from “lyric” fragments to prose commentary and narrative verse, in a complex meditation on the long and destructive history of Irish modernity. Against the vexed conditions that sustain and impede the work of writing...

..., the kind of synthesis experienced in sensing to Nancy’s pluralisation of bodies of senses, focusing more specifically on the experience of self-touching. The suggestion is that Merleau-Ponty’s lived body is experienced as a kind of unity while Nancy’s corpus is constituted by a fragmentation that is never...

...This chapter analyses the complex puzzle created by the relationship between the protagonist and his doppelgänger in Denis Villeneuve’s film, Enemy (2013). The author examines the spatio-temporal incongruities, fragmentation, and metalepses that characterise...

...Drawing on extensive interview material, this chapter shows that legacies of the past and political divides have contributed to a fragmented professional environment in Lebanon and Tunisia, preventing journalists from realizing their full potential. Topics discussed include the working environment...

... have worked hard to support this claim, but they rely uncritically on discourses of musical transcendence that were coming under pressure in the early twentieth century, and which are critiqued later in Ulysses. Joyce’s writing can be more productively compared with the fragmentation...

...In this chapter the concept of spatial fragmentation and its impact on resilience within the urban environment is deliberated. This fragmentation, coupled with apartheid planning in South Africa, has led to urban inequalities and sprawling cities, exacerbated by the locality of coal deposits...

... Beloved, E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel and some of Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam narratives. The chapter analyses some of the key paradigms that these trauma texts helped to construct, including extreme chronological and narrating fragmentation, formal employment of repetition...

...For readers who are unfamiliar with the historical contexts underpinning London’s improvement in the mid-nineteenth century, Chapter 1 offers an account of the processes and problems of improvement during Dickens’s lifetime. Addressing the fragmentation of the built environment and the diverse...

... meaningless to talk about the authoritarian practices of a centralised state either in response to opposition or in pursuit of regime maintenance. Rather, what has developed is a fragmented polity in which the power of the central state is severely constricted by the emergence of significant sub-state actors...

...Moving on to Arthur Symons poetry, chapter 4 argues that in Silhouettes (1892) and London Nights (1895) the fragmented, impressionistic sensations and images of the city mirror the poet’s fragmented consciousness and state of mind. The city is a matrix of darkness...

... process that reflects mainly UK production contexts. They are also potentially time specific, addressing television production when those working within the industry were beginning to witness the intensified demands of commercial imperatives, the proliferation of channels and the fragmentation...

... Black Lives Matter movement Chelebourg Christian The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Los Angeles Times Nature Medicine journal Children of Men 2006 India in 1900 socioeconomic status and death rates in COVID-19 Pandemic American Values Cultural Identities Fragmentation Capitalism Contagion...

... providence MacLeod Kirsten temperance literature terrorism Watts Cedric Hurley Kelly Luckhurst Roger Marsh Richard ‘shilling shockers’ Stevenson Robert Louis Kiberd Declan The City London Urban Vision Fragmentation London, let me tell you … does not lie open and undefended; it is a fortified...

... aesthetic developed which was characterised by a concern with divided selves, fragmented narratives and science. It also shows that this aesthetic was distinguished by optimistic narratives about adaptability and the presence of a mystical or spiritual world. Burke Edmund A Philosophical Enquiry Collins...

...In the Italian giallo film, a concern with visual fragmentation and aestheticisation links bodies and images. This cycle of films, which peaked during the 1970s, combines convoluted or contradictory mystery plots with spectacular murders and a dedication to visual style, often...