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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
Silence and Protest
ANNE ETIENNE, CHRIS MEGSON
The book discusses censorship through the work of key European playwrights, directors, and theatre makers, as well as significant theatre (and opera) productions.
It engages with urgent and topical debates on freedom of expression, multiculturalism, religious co-existence, cancel culture, populism, nationalism, and globalisation in contemporary Europe.
The contributors are specialist experts from across Europe and include both leading academics and emerging scholars.
What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the late twentieth century, the prevalence of authoritarian and populist politics, and the escalation of so-called ‘culture wars’, in what ways and to what extent does stage censorship manifest and proliferate today? How does censorship respond (or not) to governmental, economic, moral, and religious circumstances? And how have theatre-makers in Europe contested or countered censorial prohibitions in the recent past?
This edited collection is the first pan-European study of contemporary theatre censorship. An international range of scholars assess how new forms of censorship operate to silence artists and control performances; they explore how theatre artists respond to constraints placed upon their work across territories, and analyse how age-old political, religious, and moral taboos impact on theatrical creation and reception. Readers are invited to consider not only the varied mechanisms of censorship, including its more covert iterations, but also what is censored, when, how, and why, particularly in relation to the sensitive issues of religion, race, sexuality, and nationalism. By focusing on the work of key European theatre practitioners, as well as significant productions and performances, contributors reflect on the impact of censorship on artistic policies and cultural activity, and the forms of protest mobilized against it.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Anne Etienne lectures in Modern and Contemporary Drama in the School of English, University College Cork. Her publications explore theatre censorship, Arnold Wesker and contemporary Irish theatre. She co-edits the series
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship
Chris Megson is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications focus on post-war and contemporary British playwriting, theatre censorship, and global theatres of the real. He co-edits the series Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations (LUP).
PUBLICATION DATE
09 January 2024
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Alternative Cornwalls
Literature and the Invention of Place
GEMMA GOODMAN
A fresh look at literary embodiments of Cornwall. Identifies alternative lost or hidden literary versions of Cornwall, and their relationship to the dominant, touristfriendly conception of Cornwall.
Positions Cornish literature as a body of work in its own right and as part of a wider context of British literature and literary studies.
This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. It identifies alternative literary ‘Cornwalls’ and seeks to understand these lost, hidden or subsumed versions and their relationship to the dominant, tourist-friendly ways in which Cornwall has been culturally produced, which often focus on Celtic, exotic or Arthurian, tropes.
Taking as its subject matter the work of both Cornish and visiting writers, literary scholar and Cornishwoman Gemma Goodman explores the fictional terrain beyond the creative landmarks that dominate the way in which Cornwall is fashioned and understood in the national imaginary, to establish a more detailed cultural geography of place. The book helps position Cornish literature as a body of work in its own right as well as within the wider context of British literature and literary studies.
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Gemma Goodman holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Warwick. She returned home to Cornwall in 2016 and continues her research on the literature of Cornwall, alongside work as a researcher on academic projects and a project manager for cultural and heritage projects.
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Caesarism in the 21st Century
Crisis and Interregnum in World Order
ERIC FATTOR
This bookʼs gives a historical view of the current era of disarray and demagoguery, revealing how it is not unprecedented.
Makes a connection between the controversies and crises surrounding the proliferation of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and the disarray in world order. Offers some possible future scenarios of world order once the current period of Caesarist transition ends.
The troubles of the contemporary moment in history can be interpreted many different ways. Indeed, there has been no shortage of analysis and commentary on events like the attacks of September 11th, the Great Recession, the Arab Spring, the election of Donald Trump and the global pandemic. This book, however, argues that the most insightful analysis comes from the application of a neo-Gramscian framework that sees these events as “morbid symptoms” of an interregnum in world order between an older historic bloc of power losing its legitimacy and a still undefined new historic bloc in the process of being born.
Like previous interregnums, this period of transition is marked by eruptions of Caesarism where charismatic “men of destiny” boosted by populist fervor assume leading roles in the governing institutions of their states and make bids for global leadership or domination. Unlike previous eras, however, these “digital Caesars” have been most empowered by the proliferation of electronic information and media capabilities that have revolutionized human interaction since the end of the previous century.
At the head of superpower states and Silicon Valley technology companies, this new breed of Caesar is taking advantage of the loss of legitimacy in conventional institutions to remake the world according to their eclectic visions. Like previous Caesars, however, their power is fragile and will likely disappear assuming a new world order can take hold before they do permanent damage to human civilization.
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Eric Fattor is a member of the faculty at Colorado State University, teaching courses in international politics, security studies and political theory. His research and publications examine how media and information platforms constitute forms of power in global politics and play a key part in various forms of international conflict.
PUBLICATION DATE 30 January 2024
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Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language
Effects of Trauma and Foreign Language Immersions
FERNANDA CARRA-SALSBERG
A novel approach to the study of child and adolescent migrations and their relation to cumulative traumas. Comprehensive examination of the short and long-term factors affecting young migrants.
A detailed understanding of what it means to experience migrancy and to live between languages from a young age.
Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language, focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations. By taking a thorough approach to the intricacy of migrancy, this timely publication examines the many challenges that young economic migrants, environmental migrants, refugees, irregular migrants, and asylum seekers encounter prior to and following their geographic, sociocultural, and linguistic relocations. While not disregarding the benefits that can stem from international relocations, Carra-Salsberg also addresses contemporary concerns influencing young migrants’ socio-affective experiences.
As part of the book’s discussion on the subjective significance of language, it takes a semiotic, pedagogic, and psychoanalytic approach to study the effects of foreign-language immersions and significant language learning, and how these can add to pre-existing traumas. The developmental importance of language is considered through theory, the analysis of memoirs, and the author’s depiction and understanding of her own experiences between languages. Written for academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, pedagogues, counsellors, human rights advocates, and policy-makers, this book highlights the intricate connections between language, migration, and mental health. The restorative significance of language is also reflected upon in relation to migrants’ natural need to grieve, testify, and find meaning within their past and present sense of self.
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Fernanda Carra-Salsberg has been a postsecondary foreign language educator since 2001. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her interest in language, culture, migration, trauma, and identity formations stems from her repeated relocations as a child and adolescent migrant, and from experiences as a foreign-language pedagogue. She teaches English as a Second Language and Spanish to heritage and second-language learners at York University, Ontario, Canada. Widely published, Carra-Salsberg completed an interdisciplinary doctoral degree at the Faculty of Education, York University.
PUBLICATION DATE
13 February 2024
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D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall
In Search of Utopia
PHILIP PAYTON
Reveals the fascinating story of D.H. Lawrenceʼs attempt to start a utopian community. Rare new perspectives on Lawrenceʼs life and work. Reflects on Cornish identity and the place of Cornwall in the English imagination.
This book examines D.H. Lawrence’s attempt to create a utopian community of likeminded idealists in Cornwall, a quest that was given greater urgency by the outbreak of the First World War, an event Lawrence viewed with horror. He saw Cornwall as a ‘Celtic other’, beyond England’s reach. But he was ultimately disillusioned by the gradual intrusion of England’s ‘war spirit’ and was expelled from Cornwall by the authorities, ending up in Australia where he wrote about his Cornish sojourn in the semi-autobiographical novel Kangaroo.
The Cornish adventure was a key event in Lawrence’s life and this book alights upon several significant features that have not been fully described or understood before, notably the impact of ‘Celtic revivalism’ upon his imagining of Cornwall and the changing nature of the maritime war in and around Cornwall—not least its effect on Lawrence himself.
Considering D.H. Lawrence through a new prism, or rather a series of new prisms, this volume offers a fresh perspective on his life, writing and thinking. It also furnishes new insights into Cornwall’s ambiguous place in the English imagination and the complexity of Cornish identity, including its international dimension. As well as scholars and students, this book will be of great interest to both Cornish and D.H. Lawrence enthusiasts, along with the general reading public.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include John BetjemanandCornwall:‘TheCelebratedCornishNationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), TheMaritimeHistoryof Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.
PUBLICATION DATE
27 February 2024
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The Dhofar War
British Covert Campaigning in Arabia 1965-1975
STEPHEN QUICK
Shows how Britain was the key element in securing a rare and historic Cold War counterinsurgency win. Distils the largely covert recipe for British counterinsurgency success in the Dhofar War. Provides key lessons for future counterinsurgency campaign planning and execution when supporting an ally or partner.
Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency win in its remote Dhofar Province. To date, this role has traditionally been represented either in terms of a narrow operational success or has been reduced to one of failure-oriented peripheral player. The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia 1965–1975 re-examines the historical record to present a more balanced verdict of the war and the overall importance of the UK’s role.
In an original approach, the author puts forward the case that the hitherto undersold scale of UK military and non-martial assistance to Oman during the Dhofar War was the primary war-winning factor. Alongside this, he makes the key assertion that Britain’s role changed significantly throughout—from dominance in facilitating the war’s prosecution, to one that was more advisory or support oriented as the Sultanate fought back against a communist-backed insurgency.
With in-depth research undertaken in archives and collections in the UK and Oman, the author caters for a broad international audience. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of military, counterinsurgency and Middle Eastern/Arabian Peninsula history, the military and governmental policy community, and members of the public with an interest in this region’s history.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Stephen Quick is a staff member at the UAE National Defence College, and holds a PhD from King’s College London. Living in the Middle East for over a decade, his research interests include Britain’s post-World War Two counterinsurgency campaigns and Arabian Peninsula history.
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Gulf Womenʼs Lives
Voice, Space, Place
EMANUELA BUSCEMI, SHAHD ALSHAMMARI, ILDIKO KAPOSI
Focus on womenʼs narratives offers many fresh insights into the lives of Gulf women.
Fills a major gap in research, busts myths and counters stereoptypes.
Breadth of expertise among contributors offers fruitful multidisciplinarity and broad appeal.
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how women in the Gulf construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist within public and private spaces, and how voice and agency are part of their conversations in various spheres. In the process, the book engages readers in theoretical reflections and conversations with literary works, media, the law, disability studies, and oral narratives from the Gulf.
This timely volume fills in a serious gap in research and contributes to countering stereotypes and prejudices about Muslim and Arab women, specifically those located in the Arabian Gulf. The chapters gathered here challenge narratives of submissiveness, powerlessness, and victimization in order to uncover women’s social, cultural, and political contributions in their countries of origin or residence.
The editors and contributors are specialists of the area, with the majority of them being from the Gulf. They include scholars and students, practitioners and entrepreneurs, all writing from a position of insight that stems from longterm engagement with the region. This multidisciplinarity makes for the book’s broad appeal to the general reading public as well as specialists, practitioners, members of the press and civil society, as well as policymakers. This volume will also be a valuable resource to international audiences with an interest in the region.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Emanuela Buscemi is a sociologist and International Relations specialist whose areas of research include women and gender narratives, social (non)movements, agency and activism in the Arabian Gulf and Latin America.
Shahd Alshammari teaches literature and is the author of Head Above Water (Neem tree Press, Feminist Press, 2022). Her research interests include Disability Studies, autoethnography, and women’s illness narratives.
Ildiko Kaposi is a social scientist whose work focuses on issues of democracy from the perspective of media and communication.
PUBLICATION DATE
14 May 2024
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A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984 BRIAN MAY
• A new departure in writing about Orwell and his work: part critical essay, part creative novella.
• Tackles some of the contradictions and implications in Orwell's final work, 1984.
• A jumping off point for discussion of broader topics, such as dystopian fiction and fan fiction.
Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership.
This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May explores the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next.
But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure – a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel. Together these elements offer a resource for the reader to interrogate anew such difficult issues as Orwell's sexism and antiSemitism; to explore the tensions between various intertwining strands of thought that cast Orwell as both realist and idealist, Puritan and individualist; and to better understand Orwell's curious affection for the natural world.
1948 will appeal to all readers and critics of Orwell, but also to students of dystopian fiction, "revisionary" fiction and "reception study," which highlights the audience’s contribution to an artwork's meaning.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of English at Northern Illinois University just west of Chicago, Brian May is theauthor of two previous books, Extravagant Postcolonialism: Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988(2014) and The Modernist as Pragmatist: E.M. Forster and the Fate of Liberalism(1996)
PUBLICATION DATE
28 November 2023
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Imagining Air
Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility
TATIANA KONRAD
Unique in the way it tackles air through both pandemics and anthropogenic pollution.
The authors emphasise the environmental nature of the COVID-19 pandemic through air.
This book engages with multiple meanings of air, and their crucial contribution to the environmental and health humanities.
Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.
The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us understand the complex nature of air as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution and broader environmental degradation.
Chapter authors: Siobhan Carroll, Jeff Diamanti, Corey Dzenko, Clare Hickman, Tatiana Konrad, Jayne Lewis, Chantelle Mitchell, Christian Riegel, Arthur Rose, Gordon M. Sayre, Savannah Schaufler.
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Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” and the editor of the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago (2022), a Visiting Researcher at the Forest History Society (2019), an Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society (2018), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of South Alabama (2016). She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature (2019), the editor of Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste (2023), Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia (2020), and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis (2020), and a co-editor of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory (2018).
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A Cultural History of School Uniform
KATE STEPHENSON
The first ever academic study on the history of school uniform.
Covers 500 years of British school uniforms. Accessible writing for a wide audience.
What’s a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through the Victorian public schools to the present day.
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SCHOOL UNIFORM
The history of school uniforms in Britain is inextricable from its history of gender, class and identity, as this book ably demonstrates. The wide-reaching study fills a significant gap in scholarship by exploring the ways educational institutions dressed young people, and how developments in uniforms embodied and envisaged ideas about their personhood.
Hilary Davidson, The University of Sydney
A fascinating social history of the school uniform which sheds light on many facets of British history from the seventeenth century to the present.
Jon Lawrence, Professor of Modern British History, University of Exeter
What a refreshing and fascinating narrative, charting its way through the under-researched territory of school uniforms from the earliest examples in 16thc charity schools to the modern day phenomena. Uniform is often the earliest memory of codified dress that we carry and it is a timely and absorbing exploration of this neglected topic.
Dr Kate Strasdin, Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University
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Kate Stephenson is a cultural historian who has diverse research interests within the fields of dress and social history. She is an Edinburgh-based freelancer working in heritage and public engagement.
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Introducing Roman Declamation
A New Cultural and Anthropological Perspective
MARIO LENTANO, WILLIAM SHORT
The only concise yet comprehensive introduction to Latin declamation.
Indispensable insight into a central element of Roman culture.
An author who is among the leading experts on this topic internationally.
A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.
Introducing Roman Declamation provides an overview of school declamation, that is, the themes on which students of the Roman rhetorical schools cut their teeth and proved their talent. Beginning in the late Republican period and throughout the entire imperial age, the rhetorical schools were an obligatory step in the curriculum of elite education.
Despite its huge importance and the sizeability of the preserved material, almost 300 themes, declamation has only in recent times received the scholarly attention it deserves, as the victim of a prejudice that was already widespread in antiquity, owing to the chasm between school themes and the real world. But in fact declamation provides a privileged lens through which to investigate the culture of the imperial age, the evolution of law, family and social relations, the relationship with literature and with contemporaneous politics. With an up-to-date bibliography, the book explores these and other aspects of Roman declamation, highlighting both long-standing conclusions of research, and points that remain debated by scholars or that still remain to be investigated.
The book is particularly intended for undergraduates who wish to become familiar with this important aspect of Latin literature, as well as for scholars of the ancient world and of Roman history, and for specialists in Roman rhetoric, to whom it presents the state of the art.
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Mario Lentano teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Siena (Italy). His research interests include comedy, declamation, the myths of Rome’s origins and family relations, especially the father-son relationship.
William Short lectures in Classics at the University of Exeter. His research centres on metaphor in Latin language and literature, and draws on theories and methods of cognitive linguistics and cultural anthropology.
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Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience
From the Black Decade to the Hirak
LATEFA NARRIMAN GUEMAR
• An important contribution to the study of Algerian postcolonial history.
• A new intervention in the study of womenʼs experience of conflict and flight on the wider international stage.
• Challenges the official narratives that deny the mass exodus of highly skilled Algerian women in the 1990s and 2000s.
• Employs rich empirical data gathered through months of fieldwork with women survivors of the 1990s conflict in Algeria.
This book uses the narratives of women who fled Algeria in the 1990s—known as the ‘Black Decade’—to offer a more intimate understanding of the violence women face in times of conflict, and the function of diasporic networks in rebuilding their lives.
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Latefa Guemar's highly original and important book provides powerful insights into the Algerian conflict of the 1990s and the particular impact on women in exile... Guemar's work makes significant contributions to theoretical debates around the concept of diaspora and our understanding of diasporic consciousness. The book will be of great value to scholars of peace and conflict studies, Algeria and North Africa, as well as forced migration, gender, feminist theory and agency.
Dr Jessica Northey, IPS Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (TPSR)
Through its coverage of both the civil conflict of the 1990s and the mass protests of more recent years this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the recent history of Algeria. By focusing on the experiences of Algerian women in the diaspora, new and crucial insights are offered into the tumult experienced by Algerian society as a whole. Essential reading for anyone wanting to comprehend both contemporary Algeria and the wider Maghreb region.
Dr Michael Willis, King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, Oxford University
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Latefa Narriman Guemar is an activist academic. She received her PhD from the University of East London and has expertise in the fields of gender and migration, as well as innovative methodologies that capture the migratory experience. She also has experience of supporting refugee integration in the UK, and was involved in designing the Youth Futures Algeria programme, connecting her home country with British universities, and enabling young people to reflect on issues of sustainability.
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World War Two Simulated
Digital Games and Reconfigurations of the Past
CURTIS D. CARBONELL
Isolates a particular dynamic within 'simgames', as players engage with real history.
Considers how imaginary and reimagined worlds can mis/inform understanding of the past.
Interdisciplinary approach foregrounds player experiences.
This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games, such as first-person shooters, flight and tank simulators, and grand strategy games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in these ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past. This points them toward a wide range of ‘simtexts’—anything from game manuals or online resources such as YouTube, to published material in the popular sphere or even monographs by professional historians. This is important because major events like World War Two continue to feature in a wide range of game genres, and this engagement demonstrates how we are learning about the past outside of traditional mechanisms such as classrooms, teachers or textbooks.
Utilizing interdisciplinary methods, this volume foregrounds the experience that simgames provides to players, especially in how they reconfigure and reimagine history. Despite its visceral power and instructive potential, the simulated digital experience created by simgames curates World War Two and other global events of similar magnitude within constrained frames that ignore much of what actually happened in the past. This suggests that as computer games continue to increase in power and fidelity—as seen with the expanding scope of virtual reality—then the range of what can be simulated will grow too. This will raise concerns about what is morally acceptable to be simulated, and what should remain unplayable.
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Curtis D. Carbonell is an associate professor of English at Khalifa University. He is interested in representations of technology and their effects on human beings in science fiction and fantasy studies, as well as in how analog-and-digital game studies are new fields that describe complex modes of cultural production. His previous book Dread Trident: Tabletop RolePlaying Games and the Modern Fantastic (2019) examines how tabletop roleplaying games offer an archive of fantasy and SF gametexts ripe for an investigation into the rise of realized worlds.
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TV-Philosophy in Action
The Ethics and Politics of TV Series
SANDRA LAUGIER
Wide-ranging short writings on a variety of important TV series from the last 20 years.
Thematically arranged, to show how TV series tackle pressing philosophical issues concerned with democracy, security, gender roles, and ethical values.
Among the many shows covered are Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, The Handmaid's Tale, House of Cards, The Americans, Game of Thrones, The Crown, This Is Us, The Bureau, and For All Mankind.
TV-Philosophy in Action is inspired by philosopher and series-devotee Sandra Laugier’s monthly columns published in the French journal Libération. It is her contribution to the collective reflection on TV series produced by critics, theorists, and the vast mass of individual watchers who evaluate and discuss these programmes every day. The book brings together a selection of articles from Libération, as well as longer pieces, to demonstrate ‘TV-Philosophy in action’: Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to a range of particularly salient TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times. Arranged under a number of important themes—relating to politics, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about our world—the book shows how TV series provide a rich resource for thinking about our lives, and places them centre-stage as works of art, and of thought, in their own right.
PRAISE FOR TV-PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION
Laugier understands that television series do not merely reflect cultural, social, and political change but, like philosophy when it is “in action,” are powerful agents of change that play significant roles in forming, and reforming how we live and how we think.
William Rothman, from his foreword to TV-Philosophy in Action
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Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has also held a number of visiting professorships, including those at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), and Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020). She is a columnist at the French Journal Libération, and is the translator of Stanley Cavell’s work in French. 2023
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How TV Series Change Our Thinking
SANDRA LAUGIER, DANIELA GINSBURG
The first book to approach television series and why they matter from a philosophical perspective. Makes the case for TV series as true works of art and of thought, and shows why it is important to defend their philosophical significance.
Demonstrates how our relationship with TV series exemplifies a fundamentally democratic mode of philosophical thinking.
The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective.
PRAISE FOR TV-PHILOSOPHY
With her deep and unrivalled knowledge of everyday language philosophy, Sandra Laugier inaugurates a brilliant inquiry into the philosophical stakes of seriesphilosophy as embodied in TV serials. It does not matter in the end if one agrees or disagrees with any specific argument in TV Philosophy - what matters is how reading this book provides an education in what is called thinking.
Veena Das, Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University
This short but far-reaching book offers not only a thought-provoking argument for placing television series in conversation with philosophy, but a passionate plea to acknowledge their role in enabling what Stanley Cavell might have called a genuinely democratic form of moral education for grown-ups.
Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
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Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has also held a number of visiting professorships, including those at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), and Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020). She is a columnist at the French Journal Libération, and is the translator of Stanley Cavell’s work in French.
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Turkish Drama Serials
The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon
MIRIAM BERG
The first book to present comparative audience data on Turkish drama serials from three distinct parts of the world (Qatar, Chile, and Israel).
Explores the intertwined nature of Turkish foreign policy, economic, and trade relationships, and the successful reach and reception of its drama serials.
Reveals the importance of Turkish drama serials as a softpower tool for Turkey, and in the perception of Muslim culture and people more generally.
The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We learn how this phenomenon has transformed Turkey—a Muslim-majority country—into the world’s secondlargest producer of scripted television serials, enticing audiences from all over the world.
The book takes an audience-centred approach, investigating the reasons for the allure of Turkish dramas to Arab, Latin American, and Israeli audiences. In tandem, it explores Turkey's changing foreign policy, economic, and trade relationships since the turn of the millennium, which have coincided with the enormous success of the country's television output. It also analyses the role and importance of Turkish dramas as a soft-power tool by scrutinizing how they have influenced viewers' perceptions of Turkey, its people, and its culture.
This volume will appeal to those working in various disciplines—from media and communication, international relations, public diplomacy, sociology, and Middle Eastern studies. The material will also be of great relevance to upperlevel undergraduates, postgraduate students, academics, scholars and researchers.
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Miriam Berg is an assistant professor in the journalism and strategic communication program at Northwestern University Qatar. Her research focuses on the intertwined nature of geopolitics and media, along with the viewing habits and digital practices of refugee, migrant, and diasporic audiences.
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Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg
Children's Medicine at a Bastion of Nazi Ideology
AISLING SHALVEY
Presents the first in-depth account of previously unknown patient files from Nazi paediatric cases.
Eschews the usual top-down approach, making patient experience central to the analysis.
Reveals how sick children were affected by Nazi ideology.
This sensitive yet incisive book addresses the medical treatment of children in the occupied city of Strasbourg during Nazi occupation. Exploring more than 1,000 previously undocumented patient files, it illuminates starkly the workings of paediatric care at a pivotal moment in history. Issues of nationality, social class, and diagnosis all contributed to the experience of each child, and here extensive data analysis is deployed to back up poignant individual stories.
This is the first ever demographic overview of a vulnerable group who were treated in the hospital of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. Veering away from the well-established, top-down approach of examining the doctors, instead it makes the patient central to the analysis. A vivid picture emerges of the practical impact that war and occupation had on children who were suffering from illness, revealing how they were affected by Nazi ideology.
Based on previously under-utilized primary sources, this volume employs a novel and distinctive analytical framework, using Alltagsgeschichte (the history of everyday life) and patient experience theory to frame medical records and accounts. The book will be relevant to those interested in the history of childhood, politics, occupation and border disputes, psychiatry, medicine, denazification and the postwar era, the history of National Socialism, patient history and the Second World War.
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Aisling Shalvey completed her BA at Maynooth University, and her MA at Oxford Brookes University. Her PhD at the University of Strasbourg was on the topic of paediatrics under National Socialism as part of a commission on the history of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. She currently works at the Leopoldina as a researcher on the project studying victims of brain research during National Socialism.
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The Folklore of Devon
MARK NORMAN
The first major collection of Devonshire folklore for nearly half a century, brought up to date with an examination of internet lore and modern tales.
Unlocks the vital collections of material held in the Devonshire Association archives and provides new analysis and broader comparison with folklore traditions. Offers new insights into oft-quoted folklore tales of Devon.
Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.
PRAISE FOR THE FOLKLORE OF DEVON
Mark Norman is the perfect guide through the pixy-paths of Devon tradition. He brings us fairy music and the Devil’s footprints, the White Bird of the Oxenhams and the Black Dog of Vitifer Mine, presented with impeccable scholarship. A teller of good tales with a good understanding of folklore both ancient and modern, he is a worthy successor to the greats – Anna Bray, Theo Brown and Baring-Gould.
Jeremy Harte, author of Explore Fairy Traditions and Cloven Country
In the period 1850 to 1950 important efforts were made in Devon to collect local folklore: arguably with more science and nouse than in any other English county. Until now, though, we have lacked an effective overview. With The Folklore of Devon Mark Norman has filled an important gap in the bookshelf of British folklore studies.
Simon Young, author of The Boggart
An entertaining and comprehensive exploration of Devon folklore. Norman takes the old “county folklore” model into new times and territories and displays his wealth of knowledge. Rich in source material, engagingly written, and with delightful illustrations, The Folklore of Devon is a pleasure to read.
Owen Davies, author of Grimoires and The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic
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Mark Norman was recently appointed as the new Recorder of Folklore for the Devonshire Association, and is well known as a popular folklorist around the world thanks to his creation, The Folklore Podcast, which has enjoyed more than 1.5 million downloads. He is a council member of the Folklore Society and founding curator of The Folklore Library and Archive. The Folklore of Devon is Mark’s fourth book.
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Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind
EDITED BY DAVID LAROCCA, SANDRA LAUGIER
The first philosophy book to take TV series seriously as philosophical works.
A crucial guide to the twenty-first century’s most dominant public artform—television—through the philosophical ideas of Stanley Cavell: one of America’s greatest thinkers on film and media.
A carefully selected line-up of the best critics working on film, television, and media articulate just how important Cavell’s work is for thinking about TV series.
The first book devoted exclusively to how Stanley Cavell’s thoughts about film apply to television. In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell’s remarks on the moral perfectionism of cinema apply even more to the twenty-first century television series.
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David LaRocca studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard. He is the author or contributing editor of more than a dozen books, including a suite of volumes in film-philosophy: The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (2011), The Philosophy of War Films (2014), The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth (2017). More recently he edited The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed (2020), Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (2020), and Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (2021).
Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), and Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020).
Contributions from: William Rothman, Martin Shuster, Elisabeth Bronfen, Hugo Clémot, David LaRocca, Jeroen Gerrits, Stephen Mulhall, Michelle Devereaux, Thibaut de Saint-Maurice, Hent de Vries, Catherine Wheatley, Byron Davies, Sandra Laugier, Paul Standish.
PUBLICATION DATE 30 May 2023
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Miners, Mariners & Masons
The Global Network of Victorian Freemasonry
ROGER BURT
First ever examination of Freemasonry in everyday life of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Offers detailed prosopographical analysis based on hitherto unseen original sources.
Examines the international reach of the network, including Masonic lodges in the United States, Australia and South Africa.
This book is the first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and their families, and how it affected the development of communities and local economies.
Freemasonry played a major role in the economic and social life of the Victorian era but it has received very little sustained attention by academic historians. General histories of the period hardly notice the subject while detailed studies mainly confine themselves to its origins in the early eighteenth century and its later institutional development. This book is the first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and their families, and how it affected the development of communities and local economies.
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This is the assured and accessible prose of an author who, over the course of a career, has mastered much about communication, Freemasonry, mariners and miners. His detailed and thorough assessment is supported by a scholarly bibliography, helpful references, 3 indexes and over 40 figures, illustrations and tables. Burt has produced an exemplar case study for family and community historians.
Daniel Weinbren, Family & Community History Journal
This work is certainly the first of what this reviewer hopes will be many of its kind. A a valuable addition to the literature available.
Mark
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Roger Burt is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of Exeter. He has been a consultant to mining companies and government departments and contributes to radio programmes on mining related issues.
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Eating Disorders in Public Discourse
Exploring Media Representations and Lived Experiences
EDITED BY LAURA A. CARIOLA
Explores the intersection between public discourse and mental health through the important topic of eating disorders.
A timely dissection of how journalistic practice affects widely held social perspectives.
Promotes a better public understanding of eating disorders.
Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health.
PRAISE FOR EATING DISORDERS IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE
This wide-ranging collection shows us, in detailed analyses, how the ways we speak and write construct our relation to food and to each other to make what is pathological about eating normalised and turn many understandable responses into forms of pathology. Here are models for critical research, and new openings for empirical and conceptual questioning of what ‘disorder’ involves for those who diagnose it and for those who suffer it.
Ian Parker, critical psychologist and Honorary Professor of Education, University of Manchester
Eating Disorders in Public Discourse...is an important contribution to the issue of eating disorders that centers linguistic and qualitative approaches. This edited volume features excellent contributions from twenty five scholars, who address eating disorders in both traditional media and participatory media.
Robert K. Beshara, Assistant Professor and Chair of Arts & Human Sciences, Northern New Mexico College
Includes refreshing and original discussion of the impact of media discourses on sufferers – an often neglected perspective.
Prof. Helen Kelly-Holmes, University of Limerick
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Dr Laura A. Cariola is lecturer in Applied Psychology, in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, at the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh, with specialisms in both Applied Linguistics and Psychology. She is a chartered member of the British Psychological Society: Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology; and Division of Counselling Psychology.
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Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar
A critical edition with translation
D. H. FROST
The first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text. Comprehensive approach presents parallel transcription, edited version, translation and key sources.
In-depth commentary offers many insights into the reception of the material.
‘Sacrament an Alter’ (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner’s Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). No complete critical edition of the Tregear Homilies has been published since the manuscript’s discovery, yet it is the longest surviving example of Cornish prose. The so-called thirteenth homily, ‘Sacrament an Alter’ is a work in its own right, of a later period than the other twelve homilies, and represents a distinctive form of Cornish.
In addition to establishing authorship, date, sources and historical context of this important text, the present book offers a complete and accurate transcription of the manuscript, along with an edited version thereof, a translation and all the relevant source passages—largely taken from the account of the 1555 Oxford Disputations given in John Foxe’s ‘Acts and Monuments’. A full commentary then explores hermeneutical, theological and dialectic issues arising from the text. Extensive notes concentrate on interesting features of the Cornish—making a significant contribution to the study of the late evolution of Cornish, since the language can be dated to around 1576, halfway between that of John Tregear and William Jordan, author of the Creation of the World.
This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian—and the general reader—a previously closed window (due to its language) on a crucial example of the reception of Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
D.H. Frost, recently retired, was the Principal of Holy Cross College and University Centre, Bury. He contributed to Philip Payton’s Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion 1490–1690, and Gerallt D. Nash’s Saving St Teilo’s. With Benjamin Bruch, he co-chairs the editorial board of the series 1,000 Years of Cornish.
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PUBLICATION DATE 10 January 2023
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