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Catalonia and Scotland are home to two of the most well-known nationalist movements in Western Europe. In the last few years, debates on autonomy and independence have dominated political discussions in both territories, putting pressure on political elites in Spain and the UK to articulate a positive vision of political partnership and avoid state disintegration. The recent growth ofpro-independence support in Catalonia and Scotland poses an evidentchallenge to the continuation of the Spanish and UK states, but as this book makes clear, so too does the re-emergence of an increasingly intolerant right-wing Spanish nationalism and inflexible British unionism. Nations in flux compares the historical and contemporary trajectories and political dynamics of Catalan and Scottish nationalism. Drawing on a rich collection of interviews with politicians, policy documents and existing research, this book explores the development of territorial politics in both cases since 2010. It analyses the experiences of dramatic moments such as the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic and argues that existing approaches to territorial accommodation are inadequate and require reform. Building on these findings, and through the lens of multinational federalism, it reimagines the design and operation of the Catalan and Scottish territorial models. Offering in-depth analysis and a detailed comparison of the Catalan and Scottish cases, this book highlights the increasing relevance of nationalism in contemporary society and makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of territorial politics.

This book examines the everyday struggles and activism arising from the racialised injustices and bordering practices characteristic for today's European countries. Unlike most social movement literature, the book brings together analyses of antiracist activism and migrant (solidarity) mobilisations, as well as centring everyday struggles rather than protests or mass demonstrations. It elaborates theoretically and empirically how disobedient knowledge is created by racialised minorities and postcolonial migrants living their lives at the crossroad of different kinds of (b)ordering practices, as well as from the often disharmonious and sometimes painful negotiations between differently positioned actors in the everyday struggles of activism, antiracism practices, migrant and solidarity movements, and collaborative research. Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge detects the processes through which border regimes and ordering into racialised, classed and gendered hierarchies are connected to each other, reinforced and challenged in antiracist and migrant (solidarity) activism. It examines resistance and disobedience in the context of social movement practices, art and culture, education and learning, legal and administrative bordering, global coloniality and racial capitalism. It is essential reading for scholars and students in sociology, ethnic and racial studies, international migration, social movement studies, gender studies and education.

The loneliness room uniquely draws upon the art of ordinary people to explore and explain how and why they experience loneliness today. Refusing to hold to a single definition of loneliness, the book instead uses the metaphor of the loneliness room to enable people to submit artistic responses that are personal and political, and which often refute and resist the pathology that is attached to feeling lonely in the world.The loneliness room examines the art and media forms that so often are charged with representing loneliness, taking in photography, paintings, film, the documentary, music and sound, and poetry and literature. The book powerfully shows how these representations create discourses in and around loneliness which lays its cause and consequences and the doors of individuals rather than at the political and economic structures of neo-liberal capitalism.The loneliness room advances the tools and methods of audio-visual ethnography, showing how creative practice affords new opportunities for data gathering. As a book, it transforms not only the way we understand loneliness, but the practices we employ to better understand it.

This book reconstructs the activities of the International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews in the years before, during and immediately after the Holocaust. It reveals how universalised ideas disseminated through the ICCAJ's discourse were used to justify any number of policies related to Jews.

This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned goth culture, alongside political and social conditions. Reaching back further into history, he examines key events and movements that frame the ideas of goth, from the fall of Rome to Lord Byron and the romantic poets, European folk tales, Gothic art and the occult. Finally, he considers the current mainstream goth of Instagram influencers, film, literature and music. The art of darkness features interviews with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Damned, Nick Cave, Southern Death Cult, Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch and many more. It offers a first-hand account of being there at the gigs and clubs that made the scene happen.

Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production. This book is about what happens when an essential part of our democratic citizenship, fundamental to our human rights, is reduced to an industry. Culture is not and industry argues that art and culture need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.

Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into dogs' hearts? Countless celebrations of 'the dog-human bond' suggest that they are. Yet 'the bond' does not always come easily to dogs. Dog politics seeks to denaturalise, in different ways, dogs' 'species story, ' the scientific story that claims that being with humans somehow constitutes dogs' evolutionary destiny. This book asks what evidence exists for this story, what choices dogs have but to go along with it, and what expectations, demands, and burdens it places on dogs, on a daily basis. In doing so, it offers an unfamiliar and discomforting account of the lives of domesticated dogs' today. Dog politics is an empirical investigation of dogs in science which makes important theoretical contributions to debates of contemporary significance. It addresses how the connections between animal behaviours and species identities are established in theory and practice. It analyses the enduring entanglement of racism and speciesism, and how the interlocking relations between these prejudices are shaped by the different ways that the categories of 'race' and of species are conceived of in science over time. In the light of the reification and exploitation of dogs' perceived relationality with humans, it looks again at the ethics and politics of intersubjectivity, becoming-with, entanglements. It disputes that species can be separated from storying. Above all, Dog Politics shows how species stories erase the singular individual animal as a figure of theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political value, and with what dire consequences.

Ranging across more than two centuries of literature and the visual arts, this edited collection of twelve original essays examines the compelling, much-overlooked subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, this interdisciplinary study promotes the reconsideration of the vastly under-theorised role of the subliminal in the Gothic. It begins with an exploration of the varied intellectual and cultural matrices of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic, recognising the Gothic's frequent oneiric inspiration, thematic focus, and atmospherics; a line of inspirational transmission and aesthetic experimentation with the subliminal usually signposted by the artists themselves. It goes on to examine the range of literary forms and experimental aesthetics through which these phenomena were conceived - from Horace Walpole's incorporation of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 'sublime dreams' in The Castle of Otranto into the early Gothic novel and Romantic poetry, through the paintings of Henry Fuseli and Francisco Goya, nineteenth-century British and European Gothic novels and short stories, into Surrealism and twenty-first-century visual media. Remaining attentive to the cross-fertilisation between medical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological discourses about sleep and sleep disorders (parasomnias), and their cultural representations, this volume considers Gothic dreams and nightmares in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of metaphysics, morality, rationality, consciousness and creativity. Gothic dreams and nightmares' cross-disciplinary interrogations will have theoretical ramifications for Gothic, literary, and Cultural Studies more broadly.

Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

A penetrating investigation into Solomon Islands' historic switch from alliance with Taiwan to China, shedding light on China's wider foreign policy.

Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for interpretation. -- .

This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell.

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney's contribution to the English language.

An eye-opening account of government failings during the COVID-19 pandemic, written by one of the UK's top journalists. In Unfit, Hugh Pym takes readers on a gripping journey to the heart of the COVID-19 crisis. From the early days of the pandemic to the dramatic revelations of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, he exposes the failings of the British state and the Whitehall machine. This hard-hitting exposé draws on untold stories from the corridors of power, providing an insider's perspective on the drama, personalities and critical decision-making processes. Going beyond individual accounts, it presents a comprehensive assessment of the UK's preparedness, lockdown measures and response strategies. A tale of resilience and devastating consequences, Unfit challenges the very foundations of the UK's response to the pandemic, leaving no stone unturned in its quest for truth. Finally, it looks ahead to ask what is in store for the future of the NHS.

Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work - music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces.

Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd's of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London's Big Bang reforms as the Conservatives contemplate Big Bang 2.0 in the 2020s.

This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia's post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban space under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.

This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.

The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the form of the state; and foreign policy of the country.