How do we decide when violence in pursuit of emancipation is legitimate and what form - if any - should it take? Nick Hewlett places the goal of a wholly peaceful society centre-stage to give us a new understanding of violence in the pursuit of peace.
Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is not a natural phenomenon but a political phenomenon: a symptom of neoliberal governance. This explains why environmental concern has increasingly been framed as a consumer responsibility issue rather than as a matter of structural social-political transformation.
This book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by the British Intelligence and Security Services and he Information Research Department (IRD) of the Foreign Office, Britain s secret propaganda apparatus.
The book focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21th centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.
Over 6000 different languages are used in the world today, but the conventions of media speak are far from universal and the complexities of translation are rarely acknowledged, audiences or scholars. Redressing this neglect, Speaking in Subtitles argues that the specific contingencies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling.
Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins.
This bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare's tragedies.
Engaging with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies Radical Romantics reformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period.
Modern Greek History and more general history within Greece
This book explores the settlement and development of Muslim communities in Scotland, highlighting the ongoing changes in their structure and the move towards a Scottish experience of being Muslim.
Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement - even the most 'special' aspects of intelligence and nuclear cooperation were not immune to high-level political tension.
An Introduction focusing on the intersections between text and photography in the 20th Century American Photo-Text 1930-1960.
Edith Wharton was one of the first woman writers to be allowed to visit the war zones in France. This resulting collection of 6 essays presents a fascinating and unique perspective on wartime France by one of America's great novelists.
Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western world but in what ways can they be seen to have aesthetic, ethical and political value? Through reading this book you will gain an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.
When was the Dome of the Rock built and what meanings was the structure meant to convey. This book returns to one of the important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. Detailed examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content of these inscriptions provides new evidence.
This is the first biography to see William Robertson as both a man and a central Enlightenment figure. Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, and foregrounding Robertson's religious outlook, Jeffrey R. Smitten gives us offers a more nuanced interpretation of his motives, intentions, and beliefs than ever before.
Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon.
An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico
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