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Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
(2013)
This book places tipping points in their scientific, economic, governmental, creative, and spiritual contexts. It seeks to offer a comprehensive set of interpretations on the meaning and application of tipping points. Its ...
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland
(2023)
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth – what “else” ...
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
(2023)
This monograph describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the Dutch Golden Age. It is an in-depth study of early modern ‘state communication’: the manner in which government sought to inform its ...
Aum Shinrikyo and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory
(2022)
Aum Shinrikyō’s sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 left an indelible mark on Japanese society. This book is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyō’s religious terrorism. ...
Media, Religion, Citizenship
(2023)
This book is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship that I call transversal citizenship. Alevis have been struggling for the right of recognition and equal citizenship in ...
Female Servants in Early Modern England
(2024)
What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? More fundamentally, who were these women? Where did they come from? In what kinds of households did they work and what were they hired to do? How did their ...
Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin
(2022)
Feminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, ...
Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice
(2024)
This book argues that Plato’s Republic must be understood as developing out of a 5th Century sophistic debate. In Part One the author presents a new analysis of the sophists and their extant texts addressing the important ...
Towards a Vigilant Society
(2022)
Towards a Vigilant Society sheds light on the emergence of a new society of vigilance, in particular the actions of anti-migrant groups around Dover and Calais. Based on field research on both sides of the channel, it ...
Lives and Deaths of Werther
(2023)
Werther is different Werthers but not everywhere at the same time. This study investigates how the novel’s interpretations, translations and literary adaptations have left their marks on the original text, but this time ...