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Examines the purpose that place serves in films

Scotland's Transnational Heritage draws on the expertise of academics, museum professionals and creative practitioners working together to re-think the way that the transnational histories of Scotland are being told today. The contributors emphasise Scotland's role in networks of colonialism and outline new historical examples of how Scottish trades and institutions benefited from empire and slavery, providing examples of contemporary case studies and innovative practices in storytelling that engage and inform. The book will inspire heritage and museum staff and academics to create new approaches to these histories, both in Scotland and beyond. Within the current context of calls to decolonise both the museum and the academy, this is a timely snapshot of the exciting and diverse work taking place in the field in Scotland today. Emma Bond is Professor in Italian and Comparative Studies at the University of Oxford. Michael Morris is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Dundee.

Calls for re-imagining the datafied city as a project for the common good 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 - and the right to the city - a call to redress the uneven The contributors propose frameworks for understanding how data-driven technologies affect citizens' rights at the municipal scale and offer strategies for redress by both scholars and citizens.The contributors propose frameworks for understanding how data-driven technologies affect citizens' rights at the municipal scale and offer strategies for redress by both scholars and citizens. Morgan Currie is Lecturer in Data and Society in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Jeremy Knox is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Callum McGregor is Lecturer in Education at the Institute for Education, Community and Society, University of Edinburgh.

A cultural history of the precious balsam of Matarea: a substance traded for its weight in gold This book is the first to examine the complete history of balsam from ancient times to the seventeenth century. It also surveys the evidence for the symbolic value and practical applications of the product in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, Marcus Milwright reconstructs the fascinating history of the balsam tree from Jericho and En-Gedi to Egypt. He also establishes links with resin-producing trees from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Chapters address the symbolic associations of balsam and the site of Matarea (where the last balsam tree died in 1615), the distribution of products from the tree through trade and diplomacy, and the applications of these products in medicine, ritual and the domestic environment. The Queen of Sheba's Gift is an exploration of the complex socio-cultural factors that contributed to the sense of value accorded to rare commodities. Key Features  Uses archaeological and textual sources to trace the cultivation of balsam trees from the 4th century BCE to the 17th century CE  Establishes the many uses of balsam in pre-modern medicine, religious ritual and royal ceremonies  Correlates modern botanical studies with historical sources in the identification of the trees that once grew in the plantation of Matarea in Egypt  Illustrated with 65 images Marcus Milwright is Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Victoria. His books include The Arts and Crafts of Syria and Egypt from the Ayyubids to World War I: Collected Essays (2018), The Arts and Crafts of the Islamic World: An Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).

Re-evaluates the Athenian Reconciliation Agreement of 403 BCE, its historical causes and its legal legacy The Athenian Reconciliation of 403 BCE was the pinnacle of amnesty agreements in Greek antiquity. It guaranteed lasting peace in a political community torn apart by civil conflict, because it recognised that for society to cohere, vindictive action over crimes which predated the exchange of oaths was legally inadmissible. This study analyses the historical circumstances which led to the fall of democracy at Athens in 404, the civil conflict which followed under the Thirty Tyrants and the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in 403. It analyses afresh the Reconciliation Agreement in the light of New Institutionalist perspectives, showing that the resurrection of democracy was guaranteed by the rule of law and by the strict application of the agreement in the democratic law courts. It offers fresh readings of the clauses of the Agreement and the legal trials which followed in its wake and shows that the Athenian example was the paradigm not only for amnesties in the ancient world but for those since the seventeenth century. Christopher Joyce is Head of Classics at the Haberdashers' Boys' School. He holds a BA from Oxford University, an MA from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Classics from Durham University. Since completing his doctorate on Philochorus of Athens, he has published widely in the field, including articles and a volume chapter on the Athenian Reconciliation Agreement.

Provides a scholarly overview of the field of vegan literary studies, traversing the relationship between literature and veganism across a range of periods, cultures, and genres. Vegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach literary analysis. Vegan studies has emerged alongside the 'animal turn' in the humanities. However, while veganism is often considered as a facet of animal studies, broadly conceived, it is also a distinct entity, an ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. This collection of twenty-five essays maps and engages with that which might be termed the 'vegan turn' in literary theoretical analysis via essays that explore literature from across a range of historical periods, cultures and textual forms. It provides thematic explorations (such as veganism and race and veganism and gender) and covers a wide range of genres (from the philosophical essay to speculative fiction, and from poetry to the graphic novel, to name a few). The volume also provides an extensive annotated bibliography summarising existing work within the emergent field of vegan studies. Emelia Quinn is Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present (2021) and co-editor of Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory (2018). Laura Wright is Professor of English Studies, Director of English Graduate Studies, and Chair of the Faculty at Western Carolina University. Her monographs include Writing Out of All the Camps: J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement (2006 and 2009), Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment (2010), and The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (2015). Her edited collection Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism was published in 2019 and The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies was published in 2021.

David G. Lewis explores Russia's political system under Putin by unpacking the ideological paradigm that underpins it. He investigates the Russian understanding of key concepts such as sovereignty, democracy and political community. Through the dissection of a series of case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea, and Russian policy in Syria - Lewis explains why these ideas matter in Russian domestic and foreign policy.

There are more than 15 million people aged over 65 currently living in the MENA region, yet little attention has been paid to the cultural significance of growing old. This book recognises the widespread silence by countering the critical corpus that reads modern Arabic novels as a political discourse with an emphasis on youth achievement. By assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age. It reveals that there is no standard female or male experience and no single prototype of oldness in the modern Arabic novel, and that men and women manifest a multiplicity of identities, concerns, and experiences as they grow older.

'Legacies of the Past offers a timely examination of the ways memory and trauma dominate Mexican visual and screen cultures. Bringing together essays on filmmakers, photographers, cartoonists, multi-media artists and student protestors, Haddu and Thornton make a remarkable contribution to understandings of representations of traumatic moments (1968, 1994 2006 and 2012) in Mexico's past.' Dolores Tierney, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex (author of New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinemas) Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces. With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomí (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzón, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The contributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves. Miriam Haddu is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of London. Niamh Thornton is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool. Cover image: (c) Francisco Mata Rosas + Instagram: @fcomata Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN Barcode

'In this book, Sharon Jane Mee gives a bold new account of the power of cinema. Movies both enthrall us and unsettle us. The Pulse in Cinema works through this double allure, and offers us a profound meditation on what aesthetic experience might mean in the twenty-first century.' Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or how fast-paced and shocking images exacerbate this physiological response. Conceptually extending film spectatorship, The Pulse in Cinema contends that cinema is an energetic arrangement of affective and intense forces, where the image and the spectator are specific components. Analysing body horror films such as The Tingler (1959), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and The Beyond (1981), this book builds on Lyotard's concept of the dispositif, Deleuze's work on sensation and Bataille's economic theory to conceptualise a pulse in cinema. A concept of the pulse is an evolution in our understanding of the aesthetics and economy of cinema. Sharon Jane Mee is Adjunct Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Cover image: Bill Hunt (c) billhuntstudio.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-7584-6 Barcode

Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output from the perspective of its fifty years of cultural circulation. Reconsidering the group's originality, impact and durability, a range of international scholars explores Python's influences, production contexts, frequently controversial themes, and the cult status and forms of fandom associated with Python in the present day. From television sketches, including The Funniest Joke in the World, Hell's Grannies, Dead Parrot and Confuse-a-Cat, to the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, to songs from the albums and live shows, this book is a ground-breaking critical analysis of the Monty Python phenomenon. Kate Egan is a senior lecturer in film and media at Northumbria University, UK Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of France's first filmmakers of North African descent and his career as a director and producer now spans over thirty-five years. Remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements and narrative settings, Bouchareb's work has engaged with and reflected on a variety of crucial social, political and historical issues; from the role of colonial troops in the French army during the Second World War, to terrorism in contemporary Europe. This volume examines Bouchareb's films from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring key influences on his output and considering new theoretical approaches to his filmmaking. Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and program director for the Film & Media Studies BA at the University of Cincinnati Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp is Associate Professor of French and Film at the University of Rhode Island

'Offering an imaginative and convincing reconceptualisation of Balkan cinema, this volume brings to life the rich results of efforts by talented filmmakers and committed film industry professionals in thirteen countries. Capacious in scope, the book examines films, but also, crucially, the forging, since 2008, of productive, collaborative links across the Balkan region. An uplifting and inspiring read, Contemporary Balkan Cinema shows us how thoughtful and resilient practitioners have sought to overcome multiple challenges including small nationhood and political impasse, and achieve the means for meaningful, sustainable filmmaking.' Mette Hjort, Hong Kong Baptist University 'This is an exceptionally timely book that both updates and innovates the notion of Balkan cinema. Taking the financial crisis of 2008 as its starting point - rather than postcommunism, which has lost its significance - this collection offers new interpretation of the cinema of the Balkans and forms new constellations within these fast growing, intertwined cinema industries. There is a gap in current research on Balkan cinema, which has splintered into various national cinemas, and this volume patently fills this gap by insisting on inclusiveness in accounting for the region's cinema production. This book will undoubtedly be a key resource for the study of Balkan cinema in the future.' Lars Kristensen, University of Skövde, Sweden 'This comprehensive and outstandingly-organized collection studies a dynamic segment of the European cinema and inspires its rethinking in a global context. It insightfully regards the year 2008 as a game-changer in the filmmaking practices of the region and stands out for its ambition to trace cross-border cultural fertilizations and highlight transnational cooperation.' Constantin Parvulescu, Babeș-Bolyai University The first inclusive collection to examine post-2008 developments in Balkan cinema, this book brings together a number of international scholars to explore its industrial contexts and textual dimensions. With a focus on transnational links, global networks and cross-cultural exchanges, the book addresses the role of national and supranational institutions as well as film festival networks in supporting film production, distribution and reception. It also identifies key characteristics in the subject matter and aesthetics of Balkan films made since the global economic crisis. Through critical and comprehensive country profiles, and with a focus on smaller and underrepresented cinemas from Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Albania, the collection argues for the continuing relevance of the concept of 'Balkan cinema'. Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Ana Grgic is a Lecturer in Film, TV and Screen Studies at Monash University Malaysia. Cover image: I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians (directed by Radu Jude, Romania/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria/Germany, 2018). Image courtesy of Hi Film Productions Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-5843-6 Barcode

Studies literary representations of Israel and Palestine that challenge mainstream political and historical discourses This edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, as well as from authors not directly involved who are seeking to unpack the conflict's complexities for a wider audience. It offers new perspectives into how the Palestine/Israel conflict is, and can be, represented after the Second Palestinian Intifada, an epochal event for both Israelis and Palestinians. The collection foregrounds the thematic concerns that link literary engagements with Palestine/Israel across the globe but also examines the role that aesthetic representation plays in framing the conflict and its power dynamics. As such, the contributors address how emergent forms of writing and representation illuminate but also re-describe conflict in the context of Israel and Palestine and how depicting this conflict has had reverberations for representing conflict and conflict zones more widely. Key Features and Benefits - Examines a range of emergent and existing literary forms that represent the Palestine/Israel conflict to a global audience. - Argues that emergent literary forms have adapted to imperatives for political witnessing, while offering scope for the re-fashioning of identity beyond restrictive nationalisms. - Discusses diverse literary works from Israel, the Palestinian Occupied Territories including Gaza, as well as Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Lebanon, the United Kingdom and the United States. - Brings together a geographically diverse team of literary and cultural studies researchers with depth of expertise in Palestine/Israel and Middle Eastern studies. Ned Curthoys is Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia. Isabelle Hesse is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Sydney.

A study of the iconic illustrated periodical Mollā Nasreddin, whose editors, writers and illustrators were Muslims and Georgians of South Caucasus In 1906, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the tales of the Middle Eastern trickster Nasreddin to construct a progressive anti-colonial discourse with a strong emphasis on social, political and religious reform. Using folklore, visual art and satire, their periodical - Mollā Nasreddin - which had full-page lithographic cartoons in colour, reached tens of thousands of people across the Muslim world, from Iran and Turkey, to India and Egypt, impacting the thinking of a generation. The founder of the periodical was Jalil Mamedqolizadeh, an Azerbaijani educator and playwright. As a transnational and social democratic publication, Mollā Nasreddin saw itself as a mouthpiece for other persecuted Muslim populations and colonised peoples around the globe. This book looks at the milieu in which the periodical was born, the manner through which the journal recast the trickster trope for its audience, and the influence of European graphic artists on its cartoons and illustrations. Key features  Provides a new reading of the text and illustrations of one of the best-known journals in the Muslim region in the early 20th century  Based on primary and secondary materials in Azerbaijani, Persian, Russian and Georgian languages, as well as English and French sources, collected on trips to Baku, Tbilisi, Moscow and Tehran, and translated with the help of a team of researchers from the region  Carefully curates a selection of over 300 colour images from Mollā Nasreddin Janet Afary holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies. Kamran Afary is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California State University Los Angeles and Lecturer at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.

Provides a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how 'Islamic data' is created, studied and disseminated New Methods in the Study of Islam offers an international perspective on the field of Islamic studies. It seeks to push the study of Islam to the forefront of methodological considerations by revisiting classical topics - for example the Qur'an, hadith and kalam - using new lenses, as well as new subjects, such as lived Islam and Islamic critiques of the West. Taken as a whole, the collection provides new perspectives on the role and place of the academic study of Islam in contemporary scholarship. Key Features  Brings together a set of international voices from a variety of disciplines and fields, including religious studies, theology, philosophy, law and history  Offers a large picture of what methods and methodologies are, how they have been used in the study of Islam, and how new ones can be introduced to sharpen our understanding of Islam, both historically and in the contemporary period  Challenges existing paradigms by providing alternative systems for the study of Islam  Revisits understandings and misunderstandings in long-established academic traditions in the study of Islam Abbas Aghdassi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Civilisation of Muslim Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran. Aaron W. Hughes is the Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Rochester, USA.

Brings Romanticism into dialogue with current understandings of consciousness With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and remap the terrain laid out in the highly influential 1970 volume Romanticism and Consciousness. Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited brings this shift in approach to Romantic "consciousness"- no longer the possession of a sole self but transactional, social, and entangled with the outside world - up to date. Richard C. Sha is Professor of Literature and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, DC. Joel Faflak is Professor of English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario

Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.

Presents the first extended account of asbestos in literature, film and visual culture Few modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showing how literature and film during and after modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos - Franz Kafka's part-ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker - the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies of toxic materials. Arthur Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.