Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories
(2013)
Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the ...
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 Ethics of Armed Conflict - A Cosmopolitan Just War Theory
(2014)
Develops generalised just war principles that can be applied to all forms of armed conflict. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Challenging Cosmopolitanism
(2018)
Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 1 Entangling the Medical Humanities
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 16 Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
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 ...
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance
(2021)
This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, ...