From the 1870s to the 1920s, a political struggle raged over public houses. Temperance reformers clashed with the powerful drink trade over compensation for pub closures, creating a stalemate broken only by a controversial deal and radical WWI experiments like State Purchase.
Gender mainstreaming is an essential strategy for equality, but it is plagued by conceptual confusion and practical challenges. This book critiques the politics of mainstreaming, using UK local government case studies to offer new insights for progress.
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
The Politics of Nuclear Power in Finland
A Finnish nuclear deal with Russia’s Rosatom reveals the invisible bonds of trust that hold a community together. An eye-opening look into the cultural roots and hidden forces that drive high-stakes political decision-making.
The Politics of Poetics
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
From the national border to the individual home, questions of who can be where are at the heart of politics. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how power structures inequality through space, and explores the forms of resistance that emerge.
The Politics of Translation and Transmission
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
The Politics of Traumatic Literature
The essays here offer insights into the analysis of traumatic literary studies wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, psyche and memory. They make literature the partner of a dialogue with psychology, in order to better comprehend the psyche.
The Polyphony of Food
Food is more than a basic need. It satisfies the entire range of human motivations, from feeling safe and secure to affirming cultural identity. It is a vehicle for bonding, love, esteem, and even a means of self-actualization.
The Pope and the World
Pope Benedict XVI has long engaged in the dialogue between the sacred and the secular. While many accused him of changing his views, this book tracks his ideas over the years, revealing a profound consistency in directing all spheres—from the Liturgy to politics—towards God.
This book investigates the popularization of economic discourse. Analyzing online newspapers, it explores how specialized knowledge is transformed for a general audience, revealing the realistic vocabulary and professional jargon used in economics today.
This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
The Possibility of Love
Is love actually possible, or is it an illusion? This book explores the obstacles to love, the consequences of its absence, and our unquenchable desire for it through an interdisciplinary analysis of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and poetry.
The Possibility of the Sublime
After Professor Jane Forsey argued that a theory of the sublime is impossible, this volume gathers international scholars to challenge her claim. In a tightly focused debate, they defend the sublime as an aesthetic category, concluding with a final response from Forsey herself.
The Post-Crisis Crises
Dobrescu shows that, in the post-crisis period, global turmoil has moved to the regional level. He proves that the clash between spheres of influence and the world order is being reproduced over and over again in almost every important region of the world.
The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice
This book investigates the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways landscape can host many forms of creative practice. Material memory’s role in public artworks and political installation art is detailed, within the post-industrial landscape.
The Post-Marked World
“Post-isms” reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.
The Post-War Angola
In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the ‘public sphere,’ but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public’s role, using Foucault’s ideas to look afresh at Angola’s democratic future.
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