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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The Scottish Referendum in September 2014 had significant and far-reaching consequences for the political settlement of the United Kingdom. The pressure for more fiscal devolution and other economic powers in the devolved nations has increased demands for greater economic decentralisation in the regions...
Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance
An Interdisciplinary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations. In this context, there is now increasing evidence of unprecedented reversals in health indicators among populations around the world....
The Beautiful Animal
Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human? The book attempts to rethink the Hegelian dialectic so as to render it capable of assigning a proper place to the animal, and in particular the beautiful animal, and to rework the philosophy...
Tattoo Culture
Theory and Contemporary Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs. Whereas in the not-to-distant past tattoos...
The Discourse of Neoliberalism
An Anatomy of a Powerful Idea
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Why should we be worried about neoliberalism if we are not able to fully appreciate its deleterious effects? How can we fully appreciate its intricacies and power without attending to and seeking to potentially reconcile the various critical theorizations of how it actually operates?
The Discourse...
Living Screens
Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s...
Haunted Landscapes
Super-Nature and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present:...
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida
The Screenplay and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.
Theo Marks works in a university...
The Pregnancy [does-not-equal] Childbearing Project
A Phenomenology of Miscarriage
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
What does pregnancy mean when it does not lead to the birth of a child? Through personal experience via graphic novel and with a corresponding philosophical analysis, The Pregnancy ≠ Childbearing Project narrates and assesses the alternative values possible in miscarriage, a.k.a., the failed pregnancy....
by Iain Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a ‘southern question’ that extends beyond...
The Question of Space
Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The spatial turn has been deeply influential across the humanities and social sciences for several decades. Yet despite this long term influence most volumes focus mainly on geography and tend to take a Eurocentric approach to the topic. The Question of Space takes a multidisciplinary approach to...
Culture Control Critique
Allegories of Reading the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content,...
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book examines the ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable tools for anticapitalist theory and practice. Building...
Foundations of the Everyday
Shock, Deferral, Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
We are used to seeing the everyday as an ordinary aspect of life, something that we need to "overcome"; whereas it actually plays a crucial role in any event of our lives. This highly original book engages with a range of thinkers and texts from across the fields of phenomenology, psychoanalysis...