Shifting Positionalities
Shifting Positionalities examines the surveillance of sexual, racial, and ethnic identities in the post-9/11 era. It reveals how individuals and communities utilize techniques of actively resisting the policing of their daily lives across borders.
Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.
Media Agoras
This collection of essays presents up-to-date perspectives on the media’s role in constructing a more inclusive society. From theoretical debates to empirical analyses, this book presents a critical overview of crucial debates in contemporary European societies.
This book explores the role of singular experiences in making knowledge at the 18th-century Royal Society. It reveals how extraordinary phenomena were vital to the Society, yet their problematic authentication made it a target for literary satire.
Gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social reform. These essays address the overt and subtle ways gender influenced Victorian social movements, from suffrage and marriage law to beauty and religion.
This book provides a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse. Topics include rhetorical strategies, the relation between discourse and society, analysis methods, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.
Early Farmers, Late Foragers, and Ceramic Traditions
Prominent scholars present new perspectives on the beginnings of pottery in Europe’s late forager and early farmer societies. This collection of essays explores the rise of a new technology, offering a fascinating read for scholars and the public alike.
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
Professional Morality and Guilty Bystanding
Professions are riddled with complexities and ethical conflicts that obstruct the goal of meaningful work. This book explores the reflections of spiritual master Thomas Merton, offering the confidence to transcend these challenges and transform workplaces through moral action.
Teaching Irish Independence
This book assesses how history teaching in Irish schools (1922-72) was used by church and state. It argues history was exploited to justify the state’s existence, serve as religious education, and legitimize the restoration of the Irish language.
The Charm of a List
Lists seem plain but may conceal a complicated inner logic. They can tell a story, create a hierarchy, and influence how we conceptualize the world. This transdisciplinary volume collects case studies on the power of the list from multiple fields.
But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
This book examines the foreign policy debates shaping the UK-US “special relationship” from 1992-2008. It reveals a bond founded not on shared values, but on something more surprising, shedding new light on the two nations and their partnership.
Knights Down Under
While the Knights of Labour is a failed experiment in US history, in New Zealand its story was strikingly different. This is the story of how the KOL became an international force that helped enact sweeping reforms like women’s suffrage decades ahead of its time.
Negritude
Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
Long Live the King
Escudero-Alías acutely examines the drag king phenomenon, as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers, delving into drag king culture and highlighting its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic
This book analyzes lexical variation in Modern Standard Arabic to explore vital issues: language planning, speaker identity, and the relationship between its classical, modern, and dialectal forms, offering deep insights on the language’s present and future.
The presidency of George W. Bush was one of extremes, from the highest approval ratings to the lowest. This collection of essays addresses the contentious questions of his time in office, offering initial assessments of this controversial president’s legacy.