Publications
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Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere
(2011)
An open access collection of essays from top scholars in the field of Religion and Ecology that stimulates the debate about the religious contribution to ecological debate. The ebook editions of this book are ...
Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama
(2026)
Mirrors in the early modern playhouse function as figures of theatricality, reflecting gender dynamics and challenging sovereign power, in this open-access study of their use as stage props and rhetorical devices in plays ...
Conundrums of Care
(2025)
Renowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development ...
Staging Beckett in London
(2025)
Staging Beckett in London presents the first dedicated performance history of Samuel Beckett’s drama in London theatre culture. This open access volume argues that Samuel Beckett has held a long and varied relationship ...
Swedish Film Feminism
(2026)
Swedish Film Feminism is the first in-depth study of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing from a rich and largely overlooked audiovisual and textual archive, the book maps out the political ...
Cultural History and the Anthropocene
(2025)
This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, ...
Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War
(2026)
This open access book tells the history of the International Union of Students, providing a fascinating account of a significant but understudied vehicle of internationalism amidst the Global Cold War. Focusing on three ...
The Necessities Underlying Reality
(2025)
This open access book covers four decades of work by the leading Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin. These interlinking essays are connected by a core theme: the necessary structures ...
Radical Educators in Grassroots Contexts
(2026)
This open access book presents a collection of conversations with educators and activists from around the world, who are engaged with practicing and thinking about different forms of radical or alternative education for ...
Nature, Disaster, and Animism in Japan
(2025)
This open access book argues that existing scholarship on animism, with its focus on harmony, often overlooks a fundamental tension: that the same forces that sustain collective life also demand individual sacrifice. Rather ...
Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa
(2025)
Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa considers the interconnections between climate change and a number of intersecting socio-economic and political factors in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. ...
Beyond the World Bank
(2025)
In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower income countries, while ...
African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
(2025)
This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa. Contributors discuss the transformative ...
Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
(2025)
This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors discuss the transformative development ...
Infanticide and Baby-farming in Victorian England
(2025)
This open access book explores the tragic case of the Torquay Murder of 1865, when the body of a young boy was discovered abandoned on the outskirts of Torquay in Devon, England . Having identified the child as three-month-old ...
The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities
(2025)
This open access edited collection brings together reflections on the fast-changing and crisis-ridden global context and develops new ways of conceptualising academic mobilities, and immobilities, against a backdrop of a ...
Ecolinguistics, Social Justice and Sustainability
(2025)
Decentring the growing field of ecolinguistics from its historically Western orientation, this open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between language and the environment in the ...
Instrumental Music Education
(2025)
Instrumental Music Education presents insights from instrumental and vocal teaching, including one-to-one and group contexts with learners of varied ages, levels and backgrounds across cultures and genres. Many of the ...
Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work
(2025)
This open access book offers an original exploration of how the notion of pluriversalism, an anti-colonial concept that resounds throughout many decolonial methodologies and pedagogies, underlies many current attempts to ...
Missionaries in Persia
(2024)
This open access title explores how in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid Empire, hosted Catholic missionaries of more diverse affiliations than most other cities in Asia . Attracted ...
Economies of Care
(2025)
Economies of Care explores how women market traders in Goroka, Papua New Guinea, navigate a complex moral economy rooted in care, reciprocity, and spiritual value. Challenging Western, individualistic assumptions of classical ...
Internet Shutdowns in Africa
(2025)
This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet ...
Value Struggles
(2025)
In this open access book, Stefano Ponte offers a theoretically ambitious, empirically rich interrogation of the value struggles at play in global value chains; using the wine industry as an exemplar, he provides a new and ...
How Textile Communicates
(2024)
In this open access publication, Ganaele Langlous describes how textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period. In fact, up until the 19th century, civilizations throughout the world ...
Labour Law and Economic Policy
(2024)
This open access book studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, productivity, and economic growth. The philosophical ...
Anecdote Research
(2025)
This open access book introduces anecdote research to new and experienced researchers by guiding them through its history, theory and underlying principles before delving into step-by-step practical guidance on how to do ...
East African Queer and Trans Displacements
(2026)
Bringing together diverse case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, this open access collection serves as the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. The collection features original ...
AI Evidence and Criminal Proceedings
(2026)
This open-access volume examines the evidentiary use of AI in criminal proceedings, questioning whether existing criminal procedure rules are sufficient to address its unique challenges. The widespread use of devices that ...
Socialist Parties in Southern Europe and the Cold War International Order
(2026)
Social democracy has long been seen as in crisis, with some predicting its end and others emphasizing its capacity to adapt to changing contexts; this open access book explores the evolution of social democratic thought, ...
Incomputable Earth
(2026)
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis challenges the dominant narrative that positions technological solutions as the primary response to ecological crisis. This open access collection argues that ...
Realising the Educational Potential of Mass Higher Education
(2026)
This open access book addresses the current disillusionment with mass higher education and argues that it is based on a profound misunderstanding of its educational potential. The authors analyse a seven-year longitudinal ...
Deweaponizing Interdependence
(2026)
Offering an excellent overview of critical approaches to international payment systems, this open access volume re-introduces the contemporary relevance, origins and aims of the International Clearing Union (ICU), a concept ...
Investment Migration in Europe and the World
(2025)
Over the past decades a growing number of countries have offered citizenship or residence in return for a donation or investment. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of this phenomenon, this open access ...
Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn
(2026)
Through a collection of essays, this open access book brings together perspectives on philosophy of technology and design. Taking stock of recent changes in technology – including recently emerging digital tools like AI – ...
Global Higher Education in Times of Upheaval
(2026)
In this open access book, leading scholar Simon Marginson discusses the major trends, events, issues and dilemmas that have shaped and are still shaping global higher education. Higher education and research have grown ...
Performing Citizenship and German Amateur Theatricals
(2025)
This open access book proposes a revision of 19th-century theatre history and examines the contribution of amateur theatre practice to European theatre, by shifting the focus to theatre as a cultural, social and aesthetic ...
Teaching Global Development
(2026)
The first volume of its kind, Teaching Global Development offers a unique open access collection of current approaches to teaching development in ways that foreground core ethical issues. Hailing from a range of disciplines ...
Studio Properties
(2025)
There is something special about a studio as a place of practice and learning. Studio is a complex form of teaching and learning. If you have not experienced studio, it may seem mysterious, even chaotic. If you have ...
Philosophy of Writing
(2025)
Why write? Why care about writing well? Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth. Just a few thinkers—including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa—have ...
Art and the Critical Medical Humanities
(2026)
This agenda-setting edited volume, published open access, makes a forceful case for the contribution that art – its practices and its histories – can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities today. ...