Publications
Now showing items 61-109 of 109
Performing Citizenship and German Amateur Theatricals
(2025)
This open access book proposes a revision of 19th-century theatre history and examines the contribution of amateur theatre practice to European theatre, by shifting the focus to theatre as a cultural, social and aesthetic ...
Pandemic Policies and Resistance
(2025)
Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book provides crucial insights into the gendered repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomics, labour, migration ...
New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
(2025)
This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ...
Swedish Film Feminism
(2026)
Swedish Film Feminism is the first in-depth study of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing from a rich and largely overlooked audiovisual and textual archive, the book maps out the political ...
The Politics of Memory Laws
(2025)
This open access book explores the political utility and consequences of memory laws with a focus on how militant memory laws frame, underpin and generate international conflicts. Proceeding from Russia’s ongoing aggression ...
Realising the Educational Potential of Mass Higher Education
(2026)
This open access book addresses the current disillusionment with mass higher education and argues that it is based on a profound misunderstanding of its educational potential. The authors analyse a seven-year longitudinal ...
Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace
(2025)
This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and less-violent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and ...
Cultural History and the Anthropocene
(2025)
This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, ...
Instrumental Music Education
(2025)
Instrumental Music Education presents insights from instrumental and vocal teaching, including one-to-one and group contexts with learners of varied ages, levels and backgrounds across cultures and genres. Many of the ...
East African Queer and Trans Displacements
(2026)
Bringing together diverse case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, this open access collection serves as the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. The collection features original ...
Nature, Disaster, and Animism in Japan
(2025)
This open access book argues that existing scholarship on animism, with its focus on harmony, often overlooks a fundamental tension: that the same forces that sustain collective life also demand individual sacrifice. Rather ...
AI Evidence and Criminal Proceedings
(2026)
This open-access volume examines the evidentiary use of AI in criminal proceedings, questioning whether existing criminal procedure rules are sufficient to address its unique challenges. The widespread use of devices that ...
Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
(2025)
This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors discuss the transformative development ...
Incomputable Earth
(2026)
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis challenges the dominant narrative that positions technological solutions as the primary response to ecological crisis. This open access collection argues that ...
Socialist Parties in Southern Europe and the Cold War International Order
(2026)
Social democracy has long been seen as in crisis, with some predicting its end and others emphasizing its capacity to adapt to changing contexts; this open access book explores the evolution of social democratic thought, ...
Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War
(2026)
This open access book tells the history of the International Union of Students, providing a fascinating account of a significant but understudied vehicle of internationalism amidst the Global Cold War. Focusing on three ...
The EU Law of Investment
(2025)
This open access book examines how Europe’s traditionally open investment landscape has, over the past decade, shifted towards a more protectionist stance in response to evolving geopolitical factors. Featuring contributions ...
Ascetics As Activists
(2025)
Ascetics as Activists examines the position of the female ascetics or sadhvis within the right-wing Hindu nationalist discourse in India . This open access book calls attention to the role of religion in gendered identity ...
Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa
(2025)
Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa considers the interconnections between climate change and a number of intersecting socio-economic and political factors in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. ...
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
(2025)
Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly ...
Conundrums of Care
(2025)
Renowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development ...
African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
(2025)
This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa. Contributors discuss the transformative ...
Staging Beckett in London
(2025)
Staging Beckett in London presents the first dedicated performance history of Samuel Beckett’s drama in London theatre culture. This open access volume argues that Samuel Beckett has held a long and varied relationship ...
Deweaponizing Interdependence
(2026)
Offering an excellent overview of critical approaches to international payment systems, this open access volume re-introduces the contemporary relevance, origins and aims of the International Clearing Union (ICU), a concept ...
Anti-Racism as Communism
(2024)
In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle—black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party. ...
Investment Migration in Europe and the World
(2025)
Over the past decades a growing number of countries have offered citizenship or residence in return for a donation or investment. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of this phenomenon, this open access ...
Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
(2025)
This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial approaches to language, literatures, and pedagogies. Contributors ...
Resisting Big Tech
(2025)
How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial “intelligence” prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar questions, this open access book ...
Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia
(2025)
Redefining how we understand diplomacy, Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia reveals Buddhism as a dynamic force in shaping international relations . This groundbreaking open access book highlights individuals—including ...
Gendered Impacts of China's Development Initiatives in the Global South
(2026)
Using empirical data from communities and stakeholders across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean this open access book provides crucial insights into the profound and multidimensional implications ...
Sin and Theory
(2025)
This incisive, open access book explores the continued power and relevance of a core Christian teaching: the doctrine of sin. Recently, there has been little enthusiasm for the doctrine in its traditional Augustinian form, ...
Constructing Learning Outcomes
(2025)
This open access book challenges dominant understandings of learning outcomes and educational (under)achievement and examines the quality and construction of learning outcomes across Europe. Educational achievement is ...
The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities
(2025)
This open access edited collection brings together reflections on the fast-changing and crisis-ridden global context and develops new ways of conceptualising academic mobilities, and immobilities, against a backdrop of a ...
Speaking of Trust
(2025)
This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging models of formal and informal finance and welfare with longer-running religious structures and concerns. In Kenya, mutual ...
Racism in Modern Russia - Revised Edition
(2025)
Since its first publication in 2022, Racism in Modern Russia has become a key text for understanding the role that race has played in Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history and politics. Analyzing a wide range of printed ...
Beyond the World Bank
(2025)
In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower income countries, while ...
Infanticide and Baby-farming in Victorian England
(2025)
This open access book explores the tragic case of the Torquay Murder of 1865, when the body of a young boy was discovered abandoned on the outskirts of Torquay in Devon, England . Having identified the child as three-month-old ...
Ecolinguistics, Social Justice and Sustainability
(2025)
Decentring the growing field of ecolinguistics from its historically Western orientation, this open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between language and the environment in the ...
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
(2025)
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism, the world of ...
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy
(2026)
This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime disruptions, post-war fragmentation, ...
Eco-communities
(2025)
This book critically explores the aims and practices of eco-communities worldwide . Eco-communities can inspire, provoke, and challenge us to live more environmentally harmonious and collective lives. They are practical, ...
Internet Shutdowns in Africa
(2025)
This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet ...
Hellenistic Literature and Culture
(2024)
In this open access book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and ...
Regulatory Strategies for Energy and Finance
(2026)
This open access book examines adaptive regulatory frameworks to tackle the emerging risks and opportunities of the digital transformation in the critical sectors of energy and finance. With contributions from leading ...
Anecdote Research
(2025)
This open access book introduces anecdote research to new and experienced researchers by guiding them through its history, theory and underlying principles before delving into step-by-step practical guidance on how to do ...
Can Higher Education Be Decolonised?
(2025)
This open access book critically reflects on what it has meant to embark on a process of decolonising higher education at a Global North institution – namely the University of Bristol - and the real-world possibilities for ...
Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic
(2025)
Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianism. The widening ...
The Necessities Underlying Reality
(2025)
This open access book covers four decades of work by the leading Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin. These interlinking essays are connected by a core theme: the necessary structures ...
Radical Educators in Grassroots Contexts
(2026)
This open access book presents a collection of conversations with educators and activists from around the world, who are engaged with practicing and thinking about different forms of radical or alternative education for ...