TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez
AU  - José Igor Prieto-Arranz
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781789972801
TI  - The Humanities Still Matter
T2  - Identity, Gender and Space in Twenty-First-Century Europe
DO  - 10.3726/b15360
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058098
N2  - Why are the arts and humanities under attack? And how can they fight back? Historically these fields have suffered from a lack of prestige due to the utilitarian perspective of the «developed» world. While such utilitarian views have not been entirely fair on this branch of knowledge, the humanities themselves are partly to blame for this crisis, often not keeping pace with an increasingly changing society. It is therefore imperative that the humanities once and for all prove themselves relevant, leaving behind «departmentalized» approaches to academic knowledge and embracing the social mission that once epitomized humanistic study. Guided by such principles, this book features fourteen interdisciplinary studies that explore exciting intersections between different areas of academic research. These studies centre around three broad topics, which function as this volume’s structural axes: identity, gender, and space and mobility (whether voluntary, as in tourism, or imposed, as in the case of migrations and persecutions). Altogether, the volume demonstrates that the humanities, far from being artificially detached from society, can actually study the enormously complex context that is contemporary Europe and crucially point the way to a better, more equitable world.
KW  - Cultural studies in Europe, Interdisciplinary humanities, Identity and intersections, The Humanities Still Matter, Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez, José Igor Prieto-Arranz
LA  - English
ER  -