This book offers a framework for understanding opposition to Lebanon’s entrenched system of sectarian politics in the country’s postwar era. -- .
This critical volume explores and reassesses Alan Garner’s significance as a writer, from mythic fantasy to landscape, memory, folklore, and the power of story. -- .
In the modern era, artists, patients and healthcare professionals have turned to humour to visualise medical themes or to reimagine the... Læs mere
This book compares Oxfam and MSF’s humanitarian programmes in the 1980s to illuminate how British and French political... Læs mere
Social élites in medieval France is an account of the profound transformations which occurred in medieval society... Læs mere
Looking at practices of Polish lesbian artists, this book theorises queer women’s presence in Polish art at intersections with archives, history, literature, and affect across time, and proposes lesbian mutual legibility as method. -- .
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Animal Drag – a critical and conscious performance of animality – through chapters that... Læs mere
This book explores the dynamics of counter-narratives against Islamophobia on Twitter in relation to three trigger events: Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack and the Covid-19 pandemic. It considers the limits and potentials of mediated activism in digital spaces. -- .
Women's writing for Punch magazine complicates the image of Punch as a misogynistic, male-authored publication by recovering the... Læs mere
This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction. -- .
An incisive, data-driven look at the rise of China and India that considers how these new 'superstates' are reshaping the world order. -- .
Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father, presents an essential guide to memoir writing. Demystifying the memoirist's art, she explores... Læs mere