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This collection brings together a range of methodological approaches to analyse textual and visual representations of premodern royal and elite sexualities to push beyond what has in the past and in some instances continues to be a binarized approach to sexualities whether described as heterosexual or homosexual, licit or illicit, queer or straight and so on. The contributors to this collection present fresh theories and approaches to the cons...

A study of the relationship between medieval history and fiction, exploring the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance.Beginning with accounts of fairy mothers in the works of Walter Map and Gerald of Wales, the book traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicit...

Home front heroism investigates how civilians were celebrated as heroic during the Second World War, . It explores how conflict altered the relationship between the civilian and state, and how this shift created unique opportunities for civilians to behave heroically and be framed as heroic. From acts of life-risking bravery to displays of endurance, it illustrates how constructions of Home Front heroism were flexible and malleable, and direct...

Showing resistance presents a fascinating account of how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political interventions in Britain from the interwar period to the early years of the Cold War. Described by designer Misha Black as 'the materialisation of persuasion', exhibitions mounted in public places were recognised both by activists and government bodies as a key medium for mass public communication. They provided urgent warnings against t...

Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London.

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.

False profits of ethical capital is an important and unique contribution to understanding sustainability politics.Moving beyond observations of the inadequacies of responsible business as a vehicle for social change, this book argues that ESG investing and related corporate responsibility practices facilitate profit through speculation on ethics. Parfitt frames ethical capital as a process through which political challenges to capital accumula...

After the end studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality, and apocalypse. The chapters trace this legacy from the ideologies of survivalism through global fantasies of bunkering from Switzerland and Albania to Taiwan and India to current imaginings of post-apocalyptic worlds. Pike argues that the real and imagined spaces of sheltering continu...

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help fantasy of a life lived in a permanent state of efficiency and flow. There is now a vast industry dedicated to solving the 'problems' of clutter and procrastination. But the recommendations of storage gurus, house doctors, life coaches, lifehackers, and productivity ...

This book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India. It offers fascinating insights into their idiomatic activism, juxtaposed with a contrarian Protestant raj and with their own church patriarchies. During the Great Revolt of 1857, these women religious hid in church steeples. They were forced into the medical care of sexually diseased women in Lock Hospitals. They followed the Jesuits t...

What does 'lifework' mean? In his 1967 essay 'The Death of the Author', Roland Barthes described Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu as a form of 'lifework' that changed how autobiography would be written forever. Barthes's words would prove prophetic, as the following decades saw a return to this much-derided genre, albeit through a string of artistic transformations that challenged, interrogated, and reimagined the notion of ...

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. This multi-authored monograph examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the logics driving the transformation of these spaces, and the experience of living through these changes. As well as exploring the gener...

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 ...

A pasticcio opera is created from pre-existing music, texts or both. This way of creating operas began soon after 1600 and still continues today, yet twentieth-century musicologists, steeped in neoromantic assumptions, felt that purely original works had to be better than collaborative ones, or composites, and must have been more valued and widespread. They presented pasticcio as a marginal genre within opera which came to an end in the early ...

Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatises events from medieval French history, and makes them particularly memorable by portraying the scariest villainess in early modern drama -- the unblinkingly evil Brunehaut, whose relentless pursuit of self-determination in the guise of unchecked sexual freedom leads her to plot the assassination ...

What happens when the elitist space of 'Western' classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity discourses in classical music institutions? Sounding difference addresses these timely concerns by critically examining how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector so deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism. Against persistent social ...

Ambiguity has been engaged historically by disciplines concerned with knowledge and its production. From the classical fields of mathematics, philosophy and logic to the natural, behavioural and social sciences, each approached it as something to be controlled, resolved or utilised. If anthropology's goal is to study what it means to be human, a focus on ambiguity holds tremendous promise for continuing to expand upon this mission. Positioning...

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure, the fourth full-length study of Rochester's work since David Vieth's pioneering edition of The Compete Poems (1968), is the first to bring together a reading of John Wilmot's poetry, dramatic works, and letters. The book makes three claims, all perhaps unexpected. Though a biographical interpretation of Rochester's work is fraught with risks, theoretically and in terms of the surviving literary and biogra...

Why and how do people affected by mining embrace or resist mining? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are global private standards for social and environmental impacts of mining proliferating so quickly? Have multinational mining corporations fully shifted to participation as a strategy to undermine resistance? This book introduces answers these questions and more by developing an original p...

Affective Bordering is an incisive exploration of the emotional politics of migration and borders. It explores how emotions shape migration and border policies, perpetuating racial, sexual, and national hierarchies. Billy Holzberg analyses key events in the wake of the misnamed 'refugee crisis' in Germany such as Angela Merkel's hopeful 'Wir schaffen das' speeches, the empathetic response to Alan Kurdi's photo, the anger and resentment after N...