Publications
Now showing items 101-166 of 166
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey
(2023)
How have women in many Muslim-majority countries been able to achieve surprising success despite the significant constraints imposed by conservative gender ideology and authoritarian political parties and systems? Through ...
Asbestos – The Last Modernist Object
(2022)
Few modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, ...
The Modernist Anthropocene
(2023)
The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human ...
Georg Lukács and Critical Theory
(2023)
This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving ...
Rethinking Political Judgement
(2018)
How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement in our uncertain post-foundational world? This book takes up the challenge by calling on 20th-century existentialism, in particular the works of Jean-Paul ...
Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment
(2018)
This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people’s relations to ...
Slums on Screen
(2016)
From Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krstić outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios ...
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
(2021)
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies.
Young American Muslims
(2012-12-05)
What is it like to be a young Muslim in America? Many young Americans cherish an American dream, 'that all men are created equal. And the election of America’s first black President in 2008 has shown that America has moved ...
Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics
(2015-12-11)
Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosophers—Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker ...
Chapter 9 Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks
(2018)
The focus of this chapter is the city of Yiwu and the nature of Afghan networks present there. By inserting such networks both in the context of the wider global settings, and in terms of the traders’ experience of space ...
Challenging Cosmopolitanism
(2018)
Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations ...
Cicero's Law
(2016-09-21)
This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic – a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects ...
The Rise of Democracy
(2015-10-07)
Little over 200 years ago, a quarter of a century of warfare with an 'outlaw state' brought the great powers of Europe to their knees. That state was the revolutionary democracy of France. Since then, there has been a ...
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
(2019-05-03)
The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach ...
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
African Literature and US Empire
(2024)
Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from within the African postcolony and its diasporas registers how dreams of national becoming endure. In ...
Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland
(2024)
This is the first scholarly anthology of nineteen narratives written by African American authors and published in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. These literary works share the powerful life stories of ...
The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities
(2024)
This is the first collection that highlights the strengths and contributions of the Humanities, in the European region. The volume stresses the positive and multidimensional impact of the Humanities on core areas of human ...
Migrating Texts
(2019-04-30)
Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world.
Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, ...
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories
(2013)
Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the ...
The Ethics of Armed Conflict - A Cosmopolitan Just War Theory
(2014)
Develops generalised just war principles that can be applied to all forms of armed conflict. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
(2017-03-31)
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to ...
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
(2005-01-01)
Did you know that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? And did you know that many ...
Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
(2017-01-31)
This book looks at how modern philosophers pass on myths about prehistory.
Why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, and the ...
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
(2017-01-31)
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental ...
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
(2011-11-30)
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.
The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and ...
Shakespeare's History Plays
(2012-03-21)
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches.
This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies ...
Women in Mongol Iran
(2017-03-31)
Explores the political, economic and religious role of women in the Mongol empire
This book shows the development of women’s status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate ...
Chapter 32 The Roots and Ramifications of Narrative in Modern Medicine
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 3 Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 20 Man's dark Interior: Surrealism, Viscera and the Anatomical Imaginary
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 23 Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 1 Entangling the Medical Humanities
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 27 Afterword: Mind, Imagination, Affect
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 6 Paper Technologies, Digital Technologies: Working With Early Modern Medical Records
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 16 Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 8 Afterword: Evidence and Experiment
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
The Religion of White Rage
(2020)
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.
Shakespeare’s Moral Compass
(2018)
This ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare’s moral vision?
Animating Truth
(2021)
Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality.
Postfeminist Whiteness
(2018)
Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the ‘melancholic white woman’ serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late ...
Transgender and The Literary Imagination
(2018)
Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing ...
Obama v. Trump
(2020)
This book determines what can legitimately be regarded as the legacy of the Obama presidency and investigates how far the Trump administration has reversed it.
The Politics of Slavery
(2018)
Looking at scholarship on both ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison ...
The Twilight of the British Empire
(2017)
This book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain’s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by the British Intelligence and Security ...
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press
(2017)
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to
a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium
for the dissemination ...
The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation
(2018)
Mollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral ...
Extreme Cinema
(2016)
Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle.
Monstrosity and Philosophy
(2019)
Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. They raise enduring philosophical questions: about chaos and order; about divinity and perversion; about meaning and ...
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
(2008)
Examining the significance of women’s work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women’s contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn ...
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
(2020)
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but ...
Russia's New Authoritarianism
(2020)
Studies the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin
Asks what kind of political system ‘Putinism’ denotes
Engages with the scholarly and policy debate on the growth of illiberal ...
Biopolitics After Truth
(2021)
Sergei Prozorov contends that the post-truth ideology leads to the degradation of the public sphere that is essential to democratic governance. He argues instead for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation ...
Denying the Spoils of War
(2018)
Joseph O'Mahoney systematically analyses 21 case studies – including the Manchurian Crisis, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and Russia’s annexation of Crimea – to explore why so many states have adopted a policy of ...
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
(2023)
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent – as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and ...
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance
(2021)
This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, ...
Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom
(2021)
Combining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this book re-establishes Spinoza as a collectivist philosopher. Taking as its starting point the formative role ...
Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture
(2025)
Islam has been a part of hip-hop culture since it sprang from New York’s street culture in the 1970s. Today hip-hop has evolved into a truly global artform with a diversity of Muslim Islamic discourses expressed. Using ...
The Karbala Story and Early Shi'ite Identity
(2025)
In 680 CE al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad, was killed in a battle at Karbala. Ancient accounts describe this event as a minor skirmish, similar to the numerous battles that were waged in the early ...
Marleen Gorris
(2025)
Dutch director Marleen Gorris is known chiefly for two films: A Question of Silence (1982), her fiercely feminist first film, in which three women meet by chance in a women’s clothing boutique and ritually murder its male ...
Global Mountain Cinema
(2025)
This book is dedicated to the particular challenges and opportunities mountains raise for histories and theories of cinema. In German-speaking countries, the relationship between mountains and cinema has been largely reduced ...
The Populist Style
(2025)
The first interdisciplinary comparative examination of populism in the cases of Donald Trump and Marine Le PenOffers an original interdisciplinary perspective on politics that introduces concepts, methods and tools drawn ...
Urban Inequality in Finland
(2024)
Taking on Finland as its main case study, <i>Urban Inequality in a Nordic Welfare State</i> investigates urban governance, land and housing policies and the uneven development of the built environment. It analyses city ...
Chapter 1. Entangling the medical humanities
(2016)
The medical humanities are at a critical juncture. On the one hand, practitioners of this field can bask in their recent successes: in the UK, at least, what was once a loose set of intuitions – broadly about animating the ...