Publications
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ReFocus
(2024)
The Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a three times Oscar nominee and the recipient of numerous film festival prizes. It examines her rich, ...
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World
(2025)
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected ...
Diverse Slaveries
(2025)
Classical Athenian slavery is often discussed as a single phenomenon and Athens’ enslaved as a unitary group. Yet the single legal status that the enslaved shared often obscures the very different characteristics of slavery ...
Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460
(2024)
Captivity and enslavement were characteristic experiences of Greek Christians in the late medieval Mediterranean. During this time, Muslim Turks and Christian western Europeans conquered and traded at the expense of the ...
New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland
(2025)
What are the main similarities between new cohorts of Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland, and what key differences distinguish them? In Scotland, public policy to support and maintain the language has increased ...
The Integrity of the Qur'an
(2024)
This book investigates Muslim narratives on Qurʾanic distortion through a meticulous analysis of hadith. Using <i>isnād-cum-matn</i> analysis, Seyfeddin Kara discovers the historical origins of this disputed claim and ...
Islamists and the Global Order
(2024)
This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to the commonly held belief that Islamists uniformly reject the Western-dominated world order. In the wake of George W. Bush's declaration of a "global war on terror" in ...
Governance and Islam in East Africa
(2024)
Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim ...
Mecca in Morocco
(2024)
This book concerns the ways in which the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is embedded in Moroccan society. Approaching pilgrimage from the perspective of lived religion, the book seeks to answer the question: How does ...
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
(2025)
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via ...
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
(2025)
Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experience - as women chose to tell it - from this extant corpus. ...
Spatial Agency and Occupation
(2024)
There are around 340,000 Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, but the ways in which they experience migration is largely hidden in the homes of their employers.<i> </i>This book helps us to understand the complexities ...
Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment
(2024)
Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics ...
Judging Complicity
(2024)
How can those profiting from inequality, racism, human rights violations and climate change respond to their complicity in injustice and violence? In this book, Gisli Vogler argues that we need an improved conception of ...
Shirley Clarke
(2025)
Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on “radical, pioneer, visionary’ (Dargis 2013) filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the films she edited and directed. The book draws on film analysis, ...
Gilles Deleuze and the Atheist Machine
(2024)
In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but ‘the philosopher’s serenity and philosophy’s achievement.’ LeRon Shults illustrates the uses and effects of an ‘atheist machine’ throughout Deleuze’s ...
The Semi-Future Democracy
(2024)
Traditional institutions are often considered inadequate to govern for the long term as their politicians promote short-term thinking which can harm the future. This book proposes a novel theory of social time perception ...
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 ...
The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
(2025)
Emotions are central to the pursuit, organisation, and contestation of LGBT rights in law. The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law analyses emotions that shape conflicts of rights that emerge between different ...