Publications
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
(2017-03-31)
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to ...
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
(2025)
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via ...
The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties
(2018)
Asks how representatives of Political Islam are conducting themselves in the field of international politics
Includes a Preface by Olivier Roy
The first up-to-date, detailed analysis of how Islamist forces in the ...
The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History
(2023)
The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesProvides the first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
Russia's New Authoritarianism
(2020)
Studies the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin
Asks what kind of political system ‘Putinism’ denotes
Engages with the scholarly and policy debate on the growth of illiberal ...
Diverse Slaveries
(2025)
Classical Athenian slavery is often discussed as a single phenomenon and Athens’ enslaved as a unitary group. Yet the single legal status that the enslaved shared often obscures the very different characteristics of slavery ...
Islamists and the Global Order
(2024)
This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to the commonly held belief that Islamists uniformly reject the Western-dominated world order. In the wake of George W. Bush's declaration of a "global war on terror" in ...
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
(2018-11-07)
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome
This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, ...
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
(2023)
In the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily ...
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
(2023)
In the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily ...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
(2023)
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic ...
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
(2018)
Modernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the heyday of mathematical ...
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
(2017-01-31)
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental ...
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
(2018)
Modernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the heyday of mathematical ...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
(2023)
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic ...
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
(2017-01-31)
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental ...
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
(2011-11-30)
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.
The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and ...
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
(2011-11-30)
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.
The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and ...
Foucault's Archaeology
(2012-11-28)
This book provides a new perspective on Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this background to Foucault’s ...
Foucault's Archaeology
(2012-11-28)
This book provides a new perspective on Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this background to Foucault’s ...
Grey on Grey
(2023)
Inspired by Hegel’s invocation of philosophy as a painting of ‘grey on grey’, this collection of essays explores the rich scope of ideas implicated by grey, as a colour and a philosophical concept. The volume attests to ...
Reinventing Liberty
(2016-03-01)
Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the ...
Gilles Deleuze and the Atheist Machine
(2024)
In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but ‘the philosopher’s serenity and philosophy’s achievement.’ LeRon Shults illustrates the uses and effects of an ‘atheist machine’ throughout Deleuze’s ...
The American Short Story Cycle
(2017-11-30)
The American Short Story Cycle shows the roots of modernism and postmodernism winds through the short story cycle.
Reviewers ranging from the The New York Times to Amazon do not know what to call books like Jennifer Egan’s ...
Regimes of Mobility
(2023)
For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge popular depictions of the emergence of the modern Middle East. For them, the ...
Georg Lukács and Critical Theory
(2023)
This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving ...
Writing the Past in Twenty-first-century American Fiction
(2022)
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and ...
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
(2023)
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent – as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and ...
Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland
(2021)
This book examines individuals, families and communities of craftworkers and their changing experience in town and country. Based on case studies drawn from personal, business, institutional and official records, as well ...
Technology, Innovation and Access to Justice
(2021)
While legal technology may bring efficiency and economy to business, where are the people in this process and what does it mean for their lives?Around five billion people globally are unable to address their everyday legal ...
A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books
(2023)
This book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant ...
Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe
(2025)
Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe provides an empirically grounded exploration of different case studies on anti-LGBTQ and anti-gender mobilizations of the far-right in Europe and the Middle East. ...
The Moral Mappings of South and North
(2017-06-25)
What is the 'Global South' and where is it?
The term 'Global South' marks a new attempt at providing order and meaning in the current global political constellation, replacing the term 'Third World'. But the term 'Global ...
Immigration Justice
(2013-08-28)
Much philosophical work on immigration is founded on an outdated conception of immigrants and the causes of migration. This is based on the model of the pre-World War II European migrant to North America escaping political ...
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
(2012-07-23)
Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily ‘blights’, as were cross eyes, lameness ...
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
(2019-05-03)
The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach ...
Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment
(2018)
This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people’s relations to ...
The Rise of Democracy
(2015-10-07)
Little over 200 years ago, a quarter of a century of warfare with an 'outlaw state' brought the great powers of Europe to their knees. That state was the revolutionary democracy of France. Since then, there has been a ...
Transcendent God, Rational World
(2021)
Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the Māturīdī school, into lively dialogue with modern thought.Combining rigorous study of ...
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947
(2016)
Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate Palestine
In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract ...
Muslim Sicily
(2024)
The period of Arabo-Islamic domination of parts of Sicily, and the consequent large Muslim presence on the island from 800 to the mid-13th century constitutes a crucial epoch whose influence remains an integral part of the ...
Border Crossing
(2016-03-31)
Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing’ from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way ...
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World
(2025)
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected ...
Ambiguous Citizenship in an Age of Global Migration
(2014-07-15)
Many people see citizenship in a globalised world in terms of binaries: inclusion/exclusion, past/present, particularism/universalism. Aoileann Ní Mhurchú points out the limitations of these positions and argues that we ...
Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities
(2023)
Bringing together Marx’s original writings on land, rent and the landed property class, this book applies them to contemporary cities in the Global North and Global South. The book shows how landed property, and not just ...
Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East
(2018)
Interrogates whether the British government has learned anything from its interventions in the Middle East, from the 1950s to 2016
Learning from history helps states to create foreign and security policy that builds upon ...
Cyberspace and Instability
(2023)
A wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested. Vague because most policymakers and experts do ...
Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture
(2025)
Islam has been a part of hip-hop culture since it sprang from New York’s street culture in the 1970s. Today hip-hop has evolved into a truly global artform with a diversity of Muslim Islamic discourses expressed. Using ...
The Cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve
(2021)
Since 2007 Mia Hansen-Løve has directed a series of meditative film dramas about families, love, vulnerability and growing up, all of them exceptionally attentive to film’s ability to convey the passing of time, separation ...
Slums on Screen
(2016)
From Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krstić outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios ...
Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements
(2020)
Explores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them
Fosters theoretical approaches to audiovisuality in the context of ‘propagandistic’ imagery
Points to strategies and logics ...
Democratisation in the Maghreb
(2016)
Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania
The past few years have been a period of unprecedented political upheaval for the Maghreb. A protest which began in a ...
Habiba Djahnine
(2025)
This volume focuses on contemporary Algerian feminist documentary filmmaker Habiba Djahnine as a ‘memory-bearer’ who gives voice to her compatriots to tell their own stories in her films. It provides the reader with exposure ...
Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920
(2023)
This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literature and print culture in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on ...
The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
(2021)
Awakening – an Islamic media company formed in London – has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades. It has produced three superstars (Sami Yusuf, Maher Zain and Harris J.) among a host of ...
Animating Truth
(2021)
Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality.
Kathleen Collins
(2019)
A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins’s films to contextualise her work in the African ...
The Confederate Jurist
(2021)
This is the first biography written from a legal perspective on the public life of Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884); a prominent figure in the common law world in the second half of the 19th century. Drawing on a range of ...
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters
(2013)
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. ...
Postfeminist Whiteness
(2018)
Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the ‘melancholic white woman’ serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late ...
Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
(2016)
Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the ...
Negotiating Dissidence
(2017)
Traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria.
Céline Sciamma
(2021)
Céline Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2019, and ...
Monstrosity and Philosophy
(2019)
Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. They raise enduring philosophical questions: about chaos and order; about divinity and perversion; about meaning and ...
Biopolitics After Truth
(2021)
Sergei Prozorov contends that the post-truth ideology leads to the degradation of the public sphere that is essential to democratic governance. He argues instead for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation ...
Chapter 9 Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks
(2018)
The focus of this chapter is the city of Yiwu and the nature of Afghan networks present there. By inserting such networks both in the context of the wider global settings, and in terms of the traders’ experience of space ...
The Politics of Slavery
(2018)
Looking at scholarship on both ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison ...
Obama v. Trump
(2020)
This book determines what can legitimately be regarded as the legacy of the Obama presidency and investigates how far the Trump administration has reversed it.
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
(2023)
This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective. Spanning the 7th century through the medieval period until the ...
Rousseau’s Politics of Taste
(2024)
Rousseau’s Politics of Taste challenges the popular but partial pictures we have of Rousseau as an inconsistent ‘ancient’ utopian or a ‘modern’ abstract philosopher with a systematising spirit. Combining intellectual history ...
Marleen Gorris
(2025)
Dutch director Marleen Gorris is known chiefly for two films: A Question of Silence (1982), her fiercely feminist first film, in which three women meet by chance in a women’s clothing boutique and ritually murder its male ...
Gillian Armstrong
(2020)
A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman director connecting with mass ...
Governance and Islam in East Africa
(2024)
Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim ...
Challenging Multiculturalism
(2012-12-17)
In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term multiculturalism and now express scepticism, critique and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their ...
Data Justice and the Right to the City
(2023)
Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of data justice - both the harms and civic possibilities of the datafied society ...
Authorities in Early Modern Law Courts
(2020)
Bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field including John Ford, Javier García Martín, David Ibbetson, Annamaria Monti, Peter Oestmann, Heikki Pihlajamäki and Alain Wijffels, this volume looks ...
Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics
(2015-12-11)
Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosophers—Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker ...
Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy
(2023)
The re-examination of Saint Paul’s letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today. In discussion with a range of authors contributing ...
The New Russian Nationalism
(2016-03-01)
Assessing the transformation of Russian nationalist discourse in the 21st century Russian nationalism, previously dominated by ‘imperial’ tendencies – pride in a large, strong and multi-ethnic state able to project its ...
Writing Black Scotland
(2020)
Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, ...
The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities
(2024)
This is the first collection that highlights the strengths and contributions of the Humanities, in the European region. The volume stresses the positive and multidimensional impact of the Humanities on core areas of human ...
Denying the Spoils of War
(2018)
Joseph O'Mahoney systematically analyses 21 case studies – including the Manchurian Crisis, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and Russia’s annexation of Crimea – to explore why so many states have adopted a policy of ...
Moralities of Drone Violence
(2023)
Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence aims to provide greater clarity by exploring and ordering a variety ...
Urban Inequality in Finland
(2024)
Taking on Finland as its main case study, <i>Urban Inequality in a Nordic Welfare State</i> investigates urban governance, land and housing policies and the uneven development of the built environment. It analyses city ...
Rereading Heterosexuality
(2012)
Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory
Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds ...
Metaphor in Illness Writing
(2022)
Listen to the interview with Anita Wohlmann about Metaphor in Illness Writing in New Books Network here. Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped ...
New Frontiers
(2013)
Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner ...
Scottish Education and Society since 1945
(2023)
Scotland developed a series of educational surveys between the late-1940s and the early-21st century that allow the country’s experience of education to be studied in systematic detail. No other country has an archive of ...
The Integrity of the Qur'an
(2024)
This book investigates Muslim narratives on Qurʾanic distortion through a meticulous analysis of hadith. Using <i>isnād-cum-matn</i> analysis, Seyfeddin Kara discovers the historical origins of this disputed claim and ...
Ana Kokkinos
(2019)
Ana Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty years. Best known for her fictional films – Antamosi, Only the Brave, Head On, The Book of Revelation ...