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 ...