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This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the long nineteenth century. It creates a space in which historians and theatre scholars can develop a dialogue about the relationship between representations of politics in the theatre and the theatricality of politics itself.The essays collected here develop new connections and fresh insights into cultural politics from an archivally grounded research base. Starting from the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, it constitutes a dynamic and innovative intervention into political and cultural history.Politics, performance and popular culture begins with an investigation of popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Chapters examine the relationship between melodrama and radicalism at the turn of the nineteenth century, the theatre of Chartism, topical commentary in performance, suffragettes and theatricality, and ideas of a national theatre. It goes on to explore the ways in which performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire, addressing the Irish question, imperialism and national identity through studies of pantomime, melodrama and dance history.The book includes case studies of individual politicians' use of theatrical techniques, including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman, and an analysis of collective movements, including political protest. It approaches politics as a performative activity which drew on nineteenth-century performance practices. It explores the street as a performance space, and the historiographic possibilities of using performance as a frame to examine the political.

This volume offers a radical challenge to our idea of the photobook, arguing that the genre should be understood not as the artistic vision of one person but as a collective endeavour created through the confluence of individuals and competing interests. Today's market is geared for photographer-driven books and buoyed by the theoretical framework proposed by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. But The photobook world casts a wider net, paying particular attention to anonymous photographers, institutional publications, digital opportunities, unrealized projects, illegal practices, collectives, poets and the reader. Investigating North American, British and French photobooks from 1900 to the present, the chapters uncover forgotten social objects and show how personal histories are bound to broader historical movements. At the same time, a number engage with canonical authors - notably Claudia Andujar and George Love, Mohamed Bourouissa, Walker Evans, Susan Meiselas, Roland Penrose and the Visual Studies Workshop - to reveal the original contexts and "biographies" of the photographs. Featuring contributors from a variety of professional and disciplinary backgrounds, including photographers, curators, historians and other researchers, The photobook world provides a better understanding of how the meaning of photobooks is collectively produced both inside and outside the art market.

This book advances a pragmatist sensibility for social inquiry in which truth and knowledge are contingent rather than universal, made rather than found, provisional rather than dogmatic, subject to continuous experimentation rather than ultimate proof, and verified through their application in action rather than in the accuracy of their representation of an antecedent reality.The contributors explore the power of pragmatist approaches to inform a practice of social inquiry and knowledge production that is problem-oriented, community-centred, democratic and experimental. The Power of Pragmatism offers a way to address contemporary challenges and mobilise the practice of inquiry and knowledge production to discern what John Dewey referred to as "a sense for the better kind of life to be led."

This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and socially mindful human household members. -- .

Love¿s Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of this play by Lady Mary Wroth.

Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects. -- .

This book is about other worlds and the beings that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between about 1500 and 1800.Consisting of twelve chapters by an international group of scholars with expertise in history, ethnology and literary studies, the collection explores a range of supernatural topics. Some chapters, like that on trances, open up areas that have received little scholarly attention; others, notably that on Second Sight in the Highlands, offer reinterpretations that challenge existing orthodoxy. The contributors draw on evidence ranging from poetry to sermons, from witchcraft trial records to scholarly treatises on astrology or ancient paganism. Both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural are discussed, and the editors contribute a full-length introductory chapter that surveys the field and unpacks difficult concepts like 'belief', 'superstition' and indeed the 'supernatural' itself.The supernatural provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of the past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, this book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period considered, debated and experienced the world around them.

A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, showing how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. -- .

The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements. -- .

This is the first English-language study of the legendary French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman. With clear discussions of Didi-Huberman's ideas and arguments, this book offers an excellent introduction to one of the most influential critical thinkers writing today. -- .

This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. -- .

Democracy and dissent analyses the difficulties surrounding the establishment of a democracy in postrevolutionary and postcolonial Ireland. It focuses particularly on the problems in normalising opposition as something other than divisive, dangerous and helpful to the colonial power. It illustrates the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The heirs of Sinn Féin repeatedly attempted to build or rebuild national movements and delegitimise opposition as anti-national or non-Irish. The smaller parties - the Farmers' and Labour parties, as well as the National League - sought to break the unnatural dominance of nationalist issues and to create a politics that reflected left-right splits that were perceived as normal in other European countries. The initial attempt to decolonise the state and break with British traditions was crucial in fomenting the tensions between multiparty democracy and nationalist solidarity, and this volume argues that anticolonialism was a key factor in Irish nationalism generally and in the Irish revolution more specifically. Democracy and dissent vividly interrogates the difficulties in creating a Gaelic state that would be democratic, pluralistic, and nationalist, and will appeal to anyone working in modern Irish history.

The book explores interactions between police officers and citizens in European countries, asking how differences such as race, culture and ethnicity are brought up and in what way they shape these encounters.

Faith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts-based workshops for their children, Hickey-Moody takes a community-based approach to examining belonging, attachment, faith and belief. -- .

A volume of new chapters exploring the reputation, text and legacy of D. W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. In-depth textual analyses accompany reflections on Birth's profound impact on art and film into the twenty-first century, comprising a significant contribution to discourse on the most controversial film of all time.

This book explores representations of the domestic in Irish women's magazines. Published in 1960s Ireland, during a period of transformation, they served as modern manuals for navigating everyday life. Traditional themes - dating, marriage, and motherhood - dominated. But editors also introduced conflicting voices to complicate the narrative. Readers were prompted to reimagine their home life, and traditional values were carefully subverted. The domestic was shown to be a negotiable concept in the coverage of such issues as the body and reproductive rights, working wives and equal pay. Dominant societal perceptions of women were also challenged through the inclusion of those who were on the margins - widows, unmarried mothers, and never-married women. This book considers the motivations of editors, the role of readers, and the influence of advertisers in shaping complex debates about women in society in 1960s Ireland.

Taking place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to and challenge the institutions they have inherited. Through a series of regional case studies, the book interrogates different understandings of 'alternative' space and the possibilities the term affords for queer and feminist artistic imaginaries.

Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people's generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 1960-1970s Italian society. -- .

Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and draught impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation

Deportation limbo is a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. Building on research on frontline officials working in immigration detention and deportation camps, it traces the continuum of state violence mobilised to pressure non-deported people to leave, and its injurious effects.

Mindful of divisive labels in constructions of the 'Middle East and North Africa' (MENA) and of 'Europe', the editors and contributors of Knowledge production in higher education reflexively immerse themselves in an investigation of how knowledge about these regions is produced at higher educational establishments. Zooming in on mutual scholarship about 'Europe' and/or 'the MENA' opens up a wide range of possibilities for supplanting visions of so-called traditional Orientalists, to abandon the sets of magnifying glasses through which the Other is studied. For those interested in the decolonisation of academia and issues of positionality this is a must read. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality education

LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. Yet, the promotion of these norms has provided a fulcrum for political contestation. Based on this observation, this book interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. Reconceptualising Europeanisation, Coming in argues that the EU enlargement is a process of negotiated transformation in which EU policies and norms are (re)defined, translated, and transformed. Empirically, it analyses the promotion of and resistance to LGBT equality norms in Serbia's EU integration process, but moves beyond policies to also inquire the impact of the negotiated transitions on lived experiences. Overall, the book raises important questions about the politics of Europeanisation, its political and social consequences, as well as to what we consider as progress.

Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, though, the Middle English romance genre remained popular across the early modern period.Difficult pasts examines the reception of Middle English romances after the Protestant Reformation in England, arguing that the genre's popularity rested not in its violent or superstitious qualities, but in its multivocality. Incorporating insights from book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, Ensley argues that the medieval romance book became a flexible site of memory with which early modern readers could both connect with and distance themselves from the recent 'difficult past', a past that invited controversy and encouraged divided perspectives. Central characters in this study range from canonical authors like Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser to less studied figures, such as printer William Copland, Elizabethan scribe Edward Banister and seventeenth-century poet and romance enthusiast, John Lane. In uniting a wide range of romance readers' perspectives, the book complicates clear ruptures between manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance. Difficult pasts reveals how the romance book offers a new way to understand the simultaneous change and continuity that defines post-Reformation England.