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Passages: On Geo-Analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'. The aesthetic breaks emerging from the book's image-text montage draw attention to the ethics of encounter and passage that challenges colonial, domes...

In an era of mass extinction, climate emergency, and biodiversity collapse, what role do digital media have in securing liveable futures? To what extent are digital media mitigating or intensifying environmental crises? And what theoretical, empirical, and methodological frameworks are needed to make sense of emerging digital ecologies? In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological...

Is Antarctica the only continent in the world where colonialism never left a footprint? The question is deceptively complex, because despite lacking an indigenous population, Antarctica has not existed in isolation from the economic and political structures of the modern world. Being labelled a continent for science and peace has never prevented Antarctica from being a space where the rivalries of the Cold War and the inequalities between the ...

Delving into the intricate web of clinical research and psychotropic drugs, On Trial illuminates the captivating story of psychiatrist Roland Kuhn. Long celebrated as the discoverer of the first antidepressant Tofranil, more recently he has become the subject of controversy after patients exposed his extensive drug testing on unwitting subjects at the Münsterlingen Psychiatric Clinic in Switzerland. But is it fair to condemn him according to t...

Mid-century women's writing aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics. The mid-century (1930-60s) was an era of seismic shifts for British women, including those living under British rule in the colonies, in both the publi...

An important interdisciplinary collaboration that contextualises how Brexit has changed citizens' rights and presents the experiences of Brexit in the UK, EU and beyond. The authors contributing to the project come from different disciplines, including sociology, law, anthropology and political sciences. The book analyses citizenship and migration policies and how Brexit has changed the rights of British, EU and third-country nationals. Furthe...

Relics, dreams, voyages conjures a new cultural map of the early-modern world and offers a new, extraordinary cultural geography of the baroque world, opening doors to many rich and strange cultural artefacts, from "China to Peru." The overriding theme is centre and periphery, in particular centres of baroque culture outside the mainstream. The book meditates on cultural transmission from Asia and the Americas to Europe, with many of the essay...

The artist Honoré Daumier (1808-79) gained early notoriety after being jailed for a notorious caricature of King Louis-Philippe. He continued to test the electric fence of shifting censorship laws throughout his career, using experimental portrait strategies and subversive reinterpretations of seventeenth-century literature. This book examines Daumier's deep and abiding engagement with the authors Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, and Miguel de Ce...

Based on the findings of a 15-month research project led by the Centre for Cultural Value, this significant new book offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on the UK's cultural sector and highlights implications for its future direction.The book provides a summary of the local, regional and national policy responses to the crisis. It offers a rigorous statistical analysis of the impacts of these policy responses and of the ...

Italian graphic design explores the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice in Italy from the interwar period to the 1960s. It offers a much-needed critical and historical analysis of the role that graphic design has played in Italian design culture. The book addresses the struggle of graphic designers to define their practice as they adapted to shifting political and cultural environments, as well as changing design discourses. ...

How robust are children's rights in a highly interdependent world? How have these cherished rights fared in the face of adversity, and what has driven these pressing challenges?In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly unveiled the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), receiving endorsement from 196 states worldwide--every UN member except the United States. This pivotal moment raised expectations of an era where children's rights wo...

This book systematically explores how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. The book argues that the quality of peace is affected by the entanglement of memories. It develops an original theoretical framework that connects sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory politics. Memorials, monuments, and museums are sites that demonstrate the materiality of memory, agents drive memory politics, n...

Peace processes around the world are not sustainable unless they take young people-who have the most to lose from continued conflict-seriously. The recent global Youth, Peace, and Security Agenda (YPS) officially recognised the "positive" role that young people can play in peacebuilding processes, which means that the time is ripe to consider exactly how youth are or are not "inclusively represented", do and do not undertake "meaningful partic...

Liddington's meticulous study of a key two-year period in the marriage of Anne Lister and Ann Walker is a must-read for scholars and fans alike.'' Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million and are partly written in her secret code. They record in intimate detail Anne's intellectual ene...

The artist Honoré Daumier (1808-79) gained early notoriety after being jailed for a notorious caricature of King Louis-Philippe. He continued to test the electric fence of shifting censorship laws throughout his career, using experimental portrait strategies and subversive reinterpretations of seventeenth-century literature. This book examines Daumier's deep and abiding engagement with the authors Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, and Miguel de Ce...

This book offers a new analytical framework for the multi-layered processes of politicising and gendering care for older people, understood as an inherently political and gendered condition of human existence. It brings together contributions that focus on different manifestations and interpretations of these processes in several European settings and at various societal and political levels. It investigates how care for older adults varies ac...

The business of time explores the evolution of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive history of the sector. Watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland for luxury products, Japan for mid-range and China for mass-produced. The industry is dominated by a dozen large companies, most of them organised on a global scale. But a hundred years ago the picture was q...

Peace processes around the world are not sustainable unless they take young people-who have the most to lose from continued conflict-seriously. The recent global Youth, Peace, and Security Agenda (YPS) officially recognised the "positive" role that young people can play in peacebuilding processes, which means that the time is ripe to consider exactly how youth are or are not "inclusively represented", do and do not undertake "meaningful partic...

Sexual politics in revolutionary England explores the sudden appearance of graphic sex-talk in polemical print during the English Revolution. This was a novel development, for prior to 1640, explicit sexual language in England was largely confined to subversive oral and scribal forms. Yet after the collapse of press licensing that accompanied the outbreak of civil war, it rapidly evolved into a vital component of mid-century public culture. By...

Drawing from both past and present, using the interdisciplinary hermeneutics of theatre, politics, and performance, this collections explores: how to do activism, make theatre, and be in the world through the Leftist paradigms and ethos? What are the political, cultural, personal, and collective dramaturgies through which to recuperate the Leftist care for commons for our time? The Left is framed here as a large umbrella term for a range of pr...