Publications
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Spanish Globalization through Murillo's Eyes
(2026)
This open access book examines the work of the 17th-century Baroque painter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682) – a figure who barely left the city of Seville – as a way of understanding globalization, its consequences, ...
GenAI in Higher Education
(2026)
This open access book provides practical guidance for higher education professionals looking to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies. Blending theoretical grounding with real-world examples and case ...
Fashion Fictions
(2025)
If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up? An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, ...
A Salon-in-Exile
(2025)
This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by women, these salons carved out spaces for poetry recitals, ...
Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
(2025)
This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial approaches to language, literatures, and pedagogies. Contributors ...
Historical Authenticity
(2025)
Authenticity has become a key concept in the culture of history and memory in the 21st century . This open access book explores the multifaceted nature of ‘historical authenticity’ and its uses in various academic, museum, ...
Photographing Biblical Modernity
(2025)
This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert whose work in Palestine between 1921 and 1923 provides a ...
Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation
(2024)
Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this open access book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin’s most famous text about translation, ...
Sin and Theory
(2025)
This incisive, open access book explores the continued power and relevance of a core Christian teaching: the doctrine of sin. Recently, there has been little enthusiasm for the doctrine in its traditional Augustinian form, ...
The Mental Health of Our Teachers
(2025)
This open access book looks at the psychosocial factors influencing teachers’ mental health and examines the complex and interrelated socio-cultural meta-narratives that shape and influence how individuals and communities ...
21st-Century Climate Imaginaries
(2025)
Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st -century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations of Anthropocene ...
Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature
(2025)
With perceptions of reality in the 21st-century increasingly seen as pluralistic and a matter of interpretation, this open access book identifies fantasy literature as a uniquely and highly effective form of storytelling ...
Polarising Sexualities and Genders
(2025)
This ground-breaking open access collection tackles polarisations around sexualities and genders and in doing so, it opens out debates and discussions to reflect on how people live them, including and moving beyond social ...
Queer Generations
(2025)
Queer Generations offers a groundbreaking study of sexual citizenship, based on the coming of age narratives of two social generations of LGBTQ people in Australia. The open access book’s assembly and analysis of narrative ...
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
(2025)
Is it possible to consider art-making as a spiritual practice independent of explicit religious belief or content? This open access collection establishes a new paradigm that changes the conversation surrounding the spiritual ...
Navigating Dementia and Society
(2025)
This open access book explores how people in England who are affected by dementia (either by having a diagnosis or being a carer or loved one of someone who does) navigate different dementia discourses, interpret social ...
Conversations on Humanity and Creativity
(2025)
How does hip hop relate to religion, what does it tell us about the human desire for meaning? What do the visual arts tell us about our quest for place, human connection, and for a sense of meaning that includes but also ...
Law and the Unity of Practical Reasoning
(2025)
This open access book introduces the first systematic approach to the debate on the unity or fragmentation of practical reasoning and its profound implications for legal philosophy. Bringing together some of the foremost ...
The Safetyfication of Education
(2025)
This open access book examines the dominance of safety discourses in education and its connection with neoliberalism. Over the past few decades, the term ‘safety’ has become silently but increasingly pervasive in educational ...
Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan
(2025)
In this important, multidisciplinary, open access study, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict in Africa reach farther, both in time and ...
Hellenistic Literature and Culture
(2024)
In this open access book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and ...
Fatimid Cosmopolitanism
(2025)
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies has published the following work as open access. The Fatimid caliphs (297–567/909–1171), who were also the Ismaili Imams, reigned over a vast state stretching ...
Resisting Big Tech
(2025)
How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial “intelligence” prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar questions, this open access book ...
Writing Between Languages
(2025)
This open-access book casts light on an understudied corpus of Indian Francophone literatures by writers originally from former French territories of India and from other regions of India, who also engage in processes of ...
God, Struggle, and Suffering in the Evolution of Life
(2025)
This open access book stems from a unique set of conversations between six scholars concerned with the theological problem of suffering in the non-human world over millions of years . How is the confession of the Christian ...
East Germanic Ironmaking in the Roman Period
(2025)
Making a study of East Germanic iron smelting in the Roman period, this open access book gives an in-depth account of the development of metallurgy in the Przeworsk Culture. Its two main ironmaking centres – the Holy Cross ...
Beyond Restitution
(2025)
This open access book offers a unique perspective on the return of cultural objects by considering the aftermath of the handover processes. While calls for the repatriation of heritage have been made since the start of the ...
The Police, the State and the Congo Cop
(2025)
This open access book offers the first full-length, empirical deep-dive into everyday policework in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, its findings go well beyond the DRC and Africa, ultimately providing ...
New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
(2025)
This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ...
Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic
(2025)
Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianism. The widening ...
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
(2025)
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism, the world of ...
Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace
(2025)
This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and less-violent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and ...
Ascetics As Activists
(2025)
Ascetics as Activists examines the position of the female ascetics or sadhvis within the right-wing Hindu nationalist discourse in India . This open access book calls attention to the role of religion in gendered identity ...
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy
(2026)
This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime disruptions, post-war fragmentation, ...
Upcycling Research
(2026)
Exploring themes of design and production, products and systems, and making and consumption, this open access volume provides new theories, perspectives, approaches and research findings at the cutting edge of global ...
Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education
(2025)
This open access book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations. The Brexit decision in 2016 has ...
Conceptions of Data Protection and Privacy
(2026)
This open access book offers a clear and concise overview of leading conceptions of data protection and privacy, exploring their social value through philosophical theorisations and European and US-American legal perspectives. ...
Building a Successful Fiscal Federation
(2026)
This open access book analyses the fiscal constitutions of developed, democratic Western federations that can offer a model for a future EU fiscal federalism, and draws lessons for the EU. The 2009-08 sovereign debt crisis ...
The 44-Day War
(2026)
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 was a major armed conflict between the two modern, regular armies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This open access book examines the causes, and consequences of the war Second Nagorno-Karabakh ...
Regulatory Strategies for Energy and Finance
(2026)
This open access book examines adaptive regulatory frameworks to tackle the emerging risks and opportunities of the digital transformation in the critical sectors of energy and finance. With contributions from leading ...