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Critical histories of the arts and crafts movement
From indigo dyeing at William Morris’s factory to contemporary Indigenous textile weaving in Cote d’Ivoire, this book examines the complexities and contradictions of the Arts and Crafts movement, offering new critical analyses of familiar and little-known figures, practices, ideologies, objects a...
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Decolonizing the state
This book is an ethnographic exploration of the Bolivian Movement for Socialism's project of progressive state-building. Based on fieldwork in a Quechua community, it examines the paradoxes of state-led decolonization, offering a vital contribution to debates on indigeneity, radical politics, and...
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Sick jokes
In the modern era, artists, patients and healthcare professionals have turned to humour to visualise medical themes or to reimagine the medicalised body. Through thoughtful and colourful analysis, Sick jokes shows how visual humour can both illuminate and distort the realities of health, ill heal...
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Shakespeare and manchester
Both a theatrical and a cultural history, it examines the makers of an urban, libertarian, Mancunian Shakespeare using hitherto unexplored primary sources, principally a rich trove of digitised newspapers. It contextualises Manchester’s engagement with Shakespeare’s works in the light of Victoria...
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Enemies of the red flag
A study of British anti-socialism, 1900–40, demonstrating its popular, cross-class and cross-party character through analysis of political campaigns, religious activism and cultural representations within parliamentary, civil society and transnational contexts.
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Lesbian bones
Looking at practices of Polish lesbian artists, this book theorises queer women’s presence in Polish art at intersections with archives, history, literature, and affect across time, and proposes lesbian mutual legibility as method.
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Contesting transitional justice in peru
Contesting transitional justice in Peru analyses how the international transitional justice paradigm has shaped Peru’s reckoning with the internal armed conflict.
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The british labour group in the european parliament
Exploring the history of the European Parliament and Labour MEPs, this book investigates the building of a second front in the European Parliament. Here, Labour MEPs worked alongside European colleagues to shape core policy areas, influenced the direction of European integration, and attempted to...
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Parliament and politics in revolutionary britain and ireland, 1640–60
This is an exciting new collection of historical essays focussed on the institution of Parliament between 1640–60. It has a wide thematic, geographic and temporal scope and offers valuable insights about the future study of the period’s political history.
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Modern french film in the shadow of literature
An examination of the alternately hostile and submissive attitudes from the 1950s of French filmmakers toward the institution of literature. Provides a theoretical analysis of words and images as distinct expressive mediums, discussions of the often-ambiguous representations of literary culture, ...
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Romani women at the edge of neoliberal europe
Romani women at the edge of neoliberal Europe reveals how EU inclusion policies often reproduce structural violence, limiting Romani women’s opportunities. Drawing on ethnographic research, it explores activism, survival, and resistance, calling for justice-based inclusion grounded in lived reali...
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Femininity and constructing national identity in spanish postwar cinema, 1939–45
A comparative study of censorship of the portrayals of female wartime heroism in Spanish films of the immediate post-Civil War to the end of WWII in relation to Hollywood cinema of the period, and the creative ways Spanish directors undermined the censors through comedy and melodrama.
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Monasticism and politics in norman italy
A vivid, detailed and compelling contemporary account of the history of Montecassino during the age of the Gregorian Reform and of southern Italy under the rule of the Norman conquerors.
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The arab state after the uprisings
The uprisings revealed novel challenges to statehood and raised theoretical and empirical questions about the Arab state. The authors tackle a wide variety of topics that explore how the uprisings impacted regimes and the structure of rule, economic relationships, social dynamics, and the state's...
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Walking in the middle ages
The first book-length study of walking in the Middle Ages, this volume examines philosophy, hagiography, miracle narratives, drama, conduct books, literary texts (including Barbour, Langland, Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Kempe), and manuscript illuminations. Essays question periodised claims a...
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Alfred’s empire
A historical study of Prince Alfred’s global royal tour, 1867–71, analysing how royal travel, naval power, and local encounters shaped imperial identity and established a template for later British royal tours.
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Beginning irish studies
An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.
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Virtue reconsider’d
Reassessing the lives of married English women in the long eighteenth century, this multidisciplinary volume challenges assumptions of wifely domesticity and docility, and reveals how wives navigated law, literature and economy to exercise agency within – and beyond – the confines of marriage.
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Women's writing for punch magazine, 1868–1918
Women's writing for Punch magazine complicates the image of Punch as a misogynistic, male-authored publication by recovering the history of female Punch writers. Rather than being passive victims of misogyny, these authors were women with agency who made strategic use of humour to fit into Punch ...
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Jenny diski
This is the first book-length study of Jenny Diski’s work, bringing together her fiction and non-fiction to show how they form an open-ended project of self-representation. Through close readings and archival research, the book establishes Diski as a major contemporary author whose writing is bot...
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Grassroots housing models in europe
This edited collection focuses on the translocal networks interlinking community-led housing movements and explores their social innovations to support alternative imaginaries of housing in Europe.
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Religious masculinity
Religious masculinity is an innovative study that demonstrates how male piety became a central battleground in the culture wars of the Third Republic. It sheds new light on our understanding of religion, masculinity and politics in a critical period of French history.
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Anatomy of an opposition
This book offers a framework for understanding opposition to Lebanon’s entrenched system of sectarian politics in the country’s postwar era.
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Alan garner and the work of time
This critical volume explores and reassesses Alan Garner’s significance as a writer, from mythic fantasy to landscape, memory, folklore, and the power of story.
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Andrea levy's novels
This groundbreaking study of one of the most significant writers of recent times offers comprehensive analyses of all five of Levy’s novels, and brings to light fascinating discoveries from her personal archive. An authoritative yet accessible account of her work, it argues that Levy is the great...
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Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
Using social network theory, this book analyses how intertextual exchanges with other playwrights shaped Shakespeare’s plays and influenced his engagement with early modern literary, institutional and patronage networks.
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Radio in british india
Focusing on the mercurial last two decades of British rule, the book critiques colonialism and imperialism through an investigation of broadcasting. Specifically, it details the evolution of official policy and implementation of administrative decisions on spoken word programmes. The book also in...
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Automated islamophobia
Automating Islamophobia exposes how AI perpetuates global Islamophobia. It challenges the myth of AI’s objectivity, questioning if change is possible in a system rooted in historical biases. As nations vie for AI dominance, the book calls for critical engagement to resist its role in amplifying i...
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The digital rise of the far right in japan
The Digital Rise of the Far Right in Japan is the first volume to offer an in-depth, empirically grounded analysis of the far right in Japan‘s cyberspace.
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Between liturgy and magic
This volume offers a much-needed comparative examination of minuscule texts generated by intercessory, apotropaic and healing practices in the early Middle Ages – ambiguous texts that defy a clear-cut division between ‘liturgy’ and ‘magic’.
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Beginning literary animal studies
The book is an introductory text for students of literary animal studies and for those with a general interest in animals in creative prose, fiction and poetry. Case study examples show how the basic themes of animal studies can be used to reveal meanings in the texts, and to add value to an unde...
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Coming to terms with robert bresson
Coming to terms with Robert Bresson sheds new light on the films, life and influence of one of the major filmmakers of the twentieth century. The book reveals a unique and fiercely committed filmmaker, a shrewd cultural entrepreneur and a philosophical and political radical, sensitive to the marg...
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Errant mobilities
In Errant mobilities, Aguiar examines representations of contemporary Mediterranean Sea migration in documentaries, visual art and literature. She interprets these cultural works to mark a concept she calls 'errant mobility,' a form of movement challenging conventional ideas of migration and mob...
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Contesting hate
This book explores the dynamics of counter-narratives against Islamophobia on Twitter in relation to three trigger events: Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack and the Covid-19 pandemic. It considers the limits and potentials of mediated activism in digital spaces.
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Music and antiracism in brazil
Music and antiracism in Brazil explores how Brazilian music-making from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s challenged racist practices and discourses. With fresh readings of the most representative compositions, performances and initiatives from the period, it offers a comprehensive, critical appra...
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Social elites in medieval france
Social élites in medieval France is an account of the profound transformations which occurred in medieval society following the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. Based on a case study of the Loire valley, this book traces the social and economic origins of the localised élite lordships wh...
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Ibsen, theatre and the chinese state
Ibsen, Theatre and the Chinese State presents close and distant readings of Ibsen performances in China in the past hundred years. It argues that the history of Ibsen in China is far more complicated than a simple story of assimilation. The book points to the conflicts, contestations and compromi...
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A history of the fulbright program in poland, 1945–2025
To Build a Republic of Spirit embarks on a revealing journey into the heart of U.S.-Poland relations, unveiling the profound role of the Fulbright Program in shaping bilateral dealings through educational and scientific diplomacy.
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Cold war humanitarians
This book compares Oxfam and MSF’s humanitarian programmes in the 1980s to illuminate how British and French political cultures conditioned their opposing interpretations of ethical action during the Cold War. In so doing, it demonstrates that emerging norms of humanitarian intervention and human...
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Constructing far-right nations
The book analyses how far-right actors create and circulate digital geo-imaginaries that reframe nations, borders and power, showing how these narratives move transnationally and reshape contemporary cultural geopolitics.
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Animal drag
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Animal Drag – a critical and conscious performance of animality – through chapters that trot, squawk, slither, and crawl through analyses. Each chapter illuminates how Animal Drag, through its social and material interruptions, critiques multiple...
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Yemen
This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the political, legal, economic, sociological, cultural and theological factors and their impact in Yemen. It seeks to challenge a number of prominent assumptions around the salience of sectarian difference as a driving force of the conflict, and to...
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Enlightenment sociability and provincial culture
This book examines the sustained friendship between enlightenment physician and poet Erasmus Darwin, artist Joseph Wright of Derby, and their provincial artistic, literary and scientific associates, including the writers Anna Seward and William and Eliza Hayley, providing fresh insights into thei...
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Living in the shadow of empire
Drawing on a range of public and private sources, including multiple micro-histories, the book examines how the wives of China consular officials shaped, and were shaped by, the treaty port world, and how, despite facing significant challenges, they helped forge and sustain the British presence a...
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Urban heritage and contested planning
Urban heritage and contested planning: Making use of Ireland’s built past explores the transformation of urban heritage preservation in Ireland, from a peripheral concern to a cornerstone of urban identity and growth. The book tackles pressing questions on whose heritage is preserved, why, and ho...
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Saudi arabia and qatar
Saudi Arabia and Qatar offers a thorough analysis of post-Arab Spring Gulf politics, focusing on intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) dynamics and their regional impact.
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Generation moulinex
A social and cultural history of Moulinex that analyses mass production, consumption and deindustrialisation through the experiences of French workers, many of them women, from the postwar boom to globalisation.
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Eclipsing the west
An incisive, data-driven look at the rise of China and India that considers how these new 'superstates' are reshaping the world order.
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Out of the box
This informative and accessible book offers a tour of queer TV from the 1990s to today, exploring how beloved shows like Queer as Folk, Will & Grace, Glee and Heartstopper have helped queer audiences find their identity across generations.
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Pubs for the people
A fascinating trip into the world of the English pub, tracing its past and exploring how it represents the hope of a more connected and compassionate future.
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Into being
Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father, presents an essential guide to memoir writing. Demystifying the memoirist's art, she explores why our memories privilege some events over others and offers advice for navigating the challenge of writing truthfully without intruding on the lives of our loved...
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He died in my arms
This oral history tells the story of AIDS nursing in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. Featuring the voices of twenty-seven nurses, it reveals how the crisis drove a revolution in patient-centred care.
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Taking back control
This deeply researched book exposes how right-wing populists have captured the debate on asylum in the UK. Focusing on boats, hotels, barracks and removal flights, it reveals how asylum seekers have been vilified and how serious policy has been replaced with spectacles of cruelty.
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Qatar and iran
This book examines the evolving nature of Qatar and Iran’s diplomatic relations, before and in the aftermath of the 2017 Qatar Blockade crisis.This bookforwards the concept of proactive strategic hedging as a diplomatic strategy employed by small states that are caught in between two opposing sides.
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The island book of records volume iii
The third volume in this highly collectable series covers the years 1971–72, offering album sleeves, interviews and more.
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What the dresses know
This highly original book explores a remarkable group of modernist women, including Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Elsa Schiaparelli and Gertrude Stein, through the clothes they made and wore.
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Family romance
A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family in Edwardian London.
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Come what may, we're here to stay
As British South Asians reel from the riots of summer 2024, this book tells the inspirational story of how the community organised against racism in the past and how it continues to fight in the present.British South Asians have a long tradition of radical political activism. The 1970s and 1980s ...
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Fighting with money
During the second world war, war savings campaigns reframed money as a means to defend children, secure freedom, and enact citizenship across the British world. Patriotic thrift propaganda urged people to reject consumer goods and instead invest deliberately in stamps, certificates and bonds, pre...
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Welcome to fabulous las vegas
This is the first in-depth account of Betty Willis, the designer behind the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. It tells her story and the story of Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s, recreating a world of seediness and glamour and shining a light on the remarkable people who made it what it...
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Pistols in st paul's
Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.
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Folklore
This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction.
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Creative journeys
Dave Haslam presents conversations with creative trailblazers.Over forty years, DJ, writer and broadcaster Dave Haslam has interviewed some of the most fascinating figures in music, literature, film and art. Creative Journeys gathers revelatory conversations with creative characters including Nen...
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Unhappy mothers
How did the experiences and emotions of unhappy mothers come to light in postwar Britain? This history looks at the role of five communities in drawing attention to the struggles of early mothering, unpicking the professional, political and social motivations that drove efforts to break silences ...
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Decentralised digital security
An ethnographic investigation of how digital security is practiced and coordinated within blockchain communities, revealing insights from decentralised technologies about online security more broadly.
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Weaponised pluralism
Drawing on extensive fieldwork within the Hindu far-right and its Muslim wing, Weaponised Pluralism offers a new account of why far-right mobilisations recruit from the very communities they oppose.
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Walking
The sociologists and writers in this collection put on their boots and take to the streets to craft their work in lively, mobile and sensuous ways. Together, their work explores the significance of studying social life on foot, and shows what can be gained from thinking on the move.
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The radical right and demographic populism
This book introduces the concept of radical right demographic populism to examine how demographic fears are weaponised to redefine identity and justify exclusion, framing change as an existential threat to a perceived native, heteronormative, and Christian population.
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Streaming privilege
Streaming privilege shows how contemporary serial television helps to legitimate our ‘new Gilded Age’ of extreme inequality. The book exposes television’s obsession with privilege, analysing blockbuster series, which grapple with inherited wealth and power. It urges us to consider the political m...
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The emotions in liberal writing, c.1790–c.1920
This volume from a selection of distinguished international scholars is the first of its kind to explore in depth the emotional dimensions of liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century. Addressing liberal writing in the public sphere rather than high political or parliamentary li...
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Surplus lives under racial capitalism
This book argues that Roma became a racialised surplus population of post-socialism. It is a critical contribution to the study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe.
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Silent war
Silent war reveals how silence - through secrecy, omission and tacit consent - enables military violence. Focusing on drone warfare and colonial counterinsurgency, it uncovers the enduring architecture of silence at the heart of imperial power and offers critical tools for listening otherwise.
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Iraq's shi'a warriors
This book explores how Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units have evolved from battlefield actors into powerful political and social stakeholders, crafting legitimacy across Iraq’s political, religious, and civic spheres. It challenges the proxy warfare narrative, offering a nuanced analysis of their...
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Settler/colonialism in kashmir
This book examines India’s settler/colonial rule in Kashmir through historical and contemporary settler/colonial geopolitics. Analysing Kashmir’s place in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order and ecological catastrophe, the book contributes to pressing debates regarding current planetary...
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What is a thoughtful life?
This book offers a space for thoughtful living – for ways of engaging with the ‘nearness’ of the world – with hesitations, doubts, swerves, crafting another manner of grounding.
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Histories of international legal theories in japan
This volume offers the first systematic account of Japanese international legal theory, tracing more than a century of scholarship across thirteen influential thinkers. Edited by leading Japanese scholars, it examines how theorists working outside international law’s Western centre developed soph...
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Celebrating the city
Celebrating the City takes readers behind the scenes of early modern urban festivities. Ranging from magnificent coronations to modest courtyard bonfires, it offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Departing from existing scholarship, it draws on an...
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Animals, politics and morality
This is an extensively re-written, comprehensive and up-to-date second edition of a well-regarded and much cited text on the politics and philosophy of animal protection.
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Algerian national cinema
This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s.
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Us grand strategy and the madman theory
What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US grand strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon’s secret Cold War gambit to Trump...
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Knowledge diplomacy
Knowledge Diplomacy addresses the fascinating field of study and practice in knowledge diplomacy. It captures this emerging field of Knowledge Diplomacy at a key juncture, asking questions of its meaning and application in twenty-first century global affairs.
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Voltairine de cleyre’s transnational anarchism
This study of Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to reveal the originality of her thought. Close reading of her writing, including personal correspondence, provides new insight into a key, unjustly neglected and altogether contemporary f...
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The conservative party and the constitution
The Conservative Party and the Constitution explores the Conservative Party’s pivotal role in shaping Britain’s constitution, blending tradition with pragmatic reform.
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Ecology and feminism in performance
This book provides the first extensive history of feminism and ecology in performance. It proposes ‘composting’ as a new method for writing feminist history, re-reading canonical artists and analysing contemporary practices to show how performance challenges ecocidal culture from 1962 to the pres...
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Feminist substances
In the art of the 1960s and 1970s, many women artists worked extensively with industrial materials such as plastics, challenging assumptions shaped by the dominant discourse of the period. Feminist Substances shows how their practices offered distinct, gender-aware approaches to synthetic materia...
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Environments of power
Environments of power demonstrates how environments influence which bodies and other matter belong (or not) in certain places.
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Researching animal research
Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.
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Personalised cancer medicine
Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the w...
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Global counter-terrorism
This collection proposes a novel contribution to counterterrorism studies by challenging Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism in existing approaches. It explores how colonial epistemes shape everyday practices of counterterrorism.
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Performing the jumbled city
Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from c...
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Living the urban periphery
An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...
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Showing resistance
This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: giving urgent warnings against the rise of fascism, providing practical information about how to live frugally and signalling international political alignments, beliefs and aff...
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‘everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
The volume explores the shaping of ‘everyday health’ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing.
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Solidarity: nature, grounds, and value
Andrea Sangiovanni presents a ground-breaking essay on the important but contested concept of solidarity, which is then critiqued by a group of leading philosophers and political theorists.
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Bordering social reproduction
Bordering social reproduction explores how migrants subjected to policies that seek to deny them the means of life endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. It develops innovative theorisations of welfare bordering and advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother’s and chil...
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