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The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia
From World War II to Non-Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Josep Broz Tito's reshaped Yugoslav state became an influential pivot between East and West during the Cold War. Here, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica re-assesses the key episodes of Tito's rule - from the joint Stalin-Tito offensive of 1944, through to the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the market reforms of...
Contemporary Peruvian Cinema
History, Identity and Violence on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The political violence that erupted towards the end of the twentieth century between the Peruvian state and militant group `Shining Path' left an indelible mark on the country that resonates even today. This study explores representations of the insurgency on screen, and asks what these tell us about...
Gay Pornography
Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer...
Gaza Under Hamas
From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
The landslide victory of Hamas to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006 saw the ascent of a new actor on the parliamentary scene. The elections also constituted the first time Islamists had ascended to power in the Arab world by democratic means. But did Hamas proceed to govern in the same democratic...
Women and Shari'a Law
The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Should shari'a law be introduced into the British legal system? Elham Manea explores this question as a human rights activist and Arab scholar who identifies herself as Muslim. In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against...
Transforming Tajikistan
State-building and Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the rHélène Thibault is assistant professor in Political Science at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan since 2016. Prior to that, she had been a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for the Study of Religious Pluralism and the...
Channels of Resistance in Lebanon
Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media's role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support of...
Perceptions of Islam in Europe
Culture, Identity and the Muslim 'Other'
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the 'other' within European identity constructions - an 'other' perceived to be increasingly at odds with European forms of modernity and culture. With the perceived gap between Islam and Europe widening, leading scholars in this work come together...
Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World
History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity is forbidden in contemporary international human rights law, yet in many interpretations of Islamic law, this is seen to contradict the tenets of Islam. Vanja Hamzic here offers a path-breaking historical and anthropological analysis...
The Foreign Policy of Modern Turkey
Power and the Ideology of Eurasianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World. As a result, there has been ongoing debate about the extent to which Turkey's international relations axis is shifting eastwards. Ozgur Tufekci argues that Eurasianist ideology has...
African Americans and the Classics
Antiquity, Abolition and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates why and how advocates for abolition...
Water and Society
Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have...
Persian Kingship and Architecture
Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious. Yet, as Persian Kingship and Architecture argues, the institution of kingship has historically played a pivotal role in articulating...
by Nicolas Whybrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Henri Lefebvre predicted that the future of art was urban. Art and the City adopts this statement as its cue, taking into account the performative and relational 'turns' of art in more recent times. The book portrays what may be at stake in the emerging triangulation of art, the city and the rights...