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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 ...
Nations Apart
(2024)
Nations Apart tells a provocative new story about Nazi occupation of the Czech Lands during World War II. The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement is typically recalled in Czech historical memory ...
Prosody in Medieval English and Norse
(2023)
This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case studaqqqqqzies on vowel reductions and ...
Childhood in Liberal Theory
(2024)
Children are systematically treated differently as political and legal subjects due to their assumed weaknesses, incapacities, and particular needs. How does this differential status fit in with the principles of justice ...
Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible
(2024)
The margins of early modern bibles are filled with explanatory notes that have long been denounced as seditious, traitorous, and dangerous. Little attention has been paid to the actual use of these margins by their ...
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
(2024)
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines féerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the 19th century. Contrary to received wisdom, the fin de siècle did not mark the decline of féerie. Instead, the period ...
Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque
(2024)
Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque looks at the emerging and thriving new genre of digital horror from an innovative perspective. Examining digital cultural production during the period that has been referred to ...
Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
(2025)
This monograph outlines theories of Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit jurisprudence (Dharmaśāstra) and traces their variegated connections to the practical administration of religious endowments from classical to contemporary ...
The Birth of Psychological War
(2023)
In the current climate of concern over disinformation and the so-called ‘post-truth era,’ psychological warfare has returned to discussions of national and international politics. Yet questions concerning psychological ...
On the Edges of Christendom
(2025)
On the Edges of Christendom explores the life and thought of Bishop Maurice of Burgos, and through him, what it meant to live on the border between the Latin West and Islamic al-Andalus in the thirteenth century. Bishop ...
Capital, Privilege and Political Participation
(2025)
Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation examines how privilege and people’s perceptions of it relate to their involvement in politics. It treats people’s stocks of economic, social and cultural capital as indicators ...