Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Black Men, Black Feminism
Lucifer's Nocturne
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black men’s participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic assumptions that have guided—and misguided—black men’s efforts to take up black feminism.
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Sound at the Edge of Perception
The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we...
Tatler's Irony
Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Power and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book discusses Tatler, a monthly glossy magazine aimed at the wealthiest groups in British society, to consider how it addresses social change. The volume addresses specifically the period from 1997, the year New Labour was elected under Tony Blair, up to 2010, when the Conservative party and...
New Money in Rural Areas
Land Investment in Europe and Its Place Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their motivations before undertaking an...
Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts
An Ethnographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children’s uses of digital media in three sites—London, Casablanca and Beirut—and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global...
by Aaron Lefkovitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized...
Paulin Hountondji
African Philosophy as Critical Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Paulin J. Hountondji is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary African philosophy. His critique of ethnophilosophy as a colonial, exoticising and racialized undertaking provoked contentious debates among African intellectuals on the proper methods and scope of philosophy...
The Two Falls of Rome in Late Antiquity
The Arabian Conquests in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
This book offers a radical perspective on what are conventionally called the Islamic Conquests of the seventh century. Placing these earthshattering events firmly in the context of Late Antiquity, it argues that many of the men remembered as the fanatical agents of Muḥammad probably did not know...
Translation Strategies in Global News
What Sarkozy said in the suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences. Using English-language press coverage of inflammatory comments made by Nicolas Sarkozy in his role as French interior minister in 2005 as a case study, the author illustrates...
by Miren Gutiérrez
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book efficiently contributes to our understanding of the interplay between data, technology and communicative practice on the one hand, and democratic participation on the other. It addresses the emergence of proactive data activism, a new sociotechnical phenomenon in the field of action that...
The British Horseracing Film
Representations of the ‘Sport of Kings’ in British Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive power of the enduringly...
Henry James and Queer Filiation
Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite...
by Renée Hulan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture. Analysis of the changing rhetoric surrounding the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition serves to highlight the political and economic interests that have historically...
Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale
Podcasting between Weather and the Void
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
With well over one-hundred episodes, the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has spawned several international live tours, two novels set in the Night Vale universe, and an extensive volume of fan fiction and commentary. However, despite its immense popularity, Welcome to Night Vale has received almost...