Publications
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Beckett and media
(2022)
Featuring twelve original essays by leading Beckett scholars and media theorists, this book provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The chapters analyse the rich ...
The Florentine florin
(2025)
This book offers an innovative study of the Florentine gold florin, presenting it as a product of human activity and a dynamic medium with significant political, social, and cultural dimensions. Departing from the traditional ...
Assemblages of cancer
(2025)
Assemblages of Cancer offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy, linking patients’ experiences with the biomedical, political and cultural context of the disease. The book is based ...
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left
(2025)
Drawing on first-hand accounts from anti-racist activists and community workers in two British cities, Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left explores the treatment of Islamophobia by those committed to challenging ...
Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
(2025)
This book examines human disappearances in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who ...
Destruction and Human Remains
(2014-09-30)
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? ...
Human Remains and Identification
(2015-07-01)
Human Remains and Identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Previously absent from forensic ...
Human Remains and Mass Violence
(2014-12-30)
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the highly innovative and ...
Forensic cultures in modern Europe
(2023)
This edited volume examines the performance of physicians, psychiatrists and other scientists as expert witnesses in modern European courts of law and police investigations. Its chapters discuss cases from criminal, civil ...