Publications
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Systemic Economic Offences as International Crimes
(2026)
This open access book asks whether international economic crime can qualify as an international crime and be prosecuted as such. Taking a four-part approach to the question, it traces the origins of the concept of international ...
A Lacanian Foundation For Critical Pedagogy
(2025)
This open access book sets out from Paulo Freire’s claim that the problem-posing model of education works as a “kind of psychoanalysis,” and deploys a Lacanian perspective to rearticulate the theoretical and practical ...
Gendered Impacts of China's Development Initiatives in the Global South
(2026)
Using empirical data from communities and stakeholders across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean this open access book provides crucial insights into the profound and multidimensional implications ...
Queer in a Wee Place
(2026)
Queer in a Wee Place explores identity, inequality and belonging in animated conversations about how queerness moves through place – and how place, in turn, shapes queer lives. Building on interdisciplinary sexualities ...
Language Teacher Agency
(2025)
This open access book argues that language teacher agency is not simply a matter of individual choice, but is also shaped by the complex social, political and educational contexts in which language teachers work. It provides ...
Tobacco Through Time
(2026)
Throughout human history there are arguably few plants that have had such a significant impact on the lives of people as tobacco. Yet, despite its unparalleled dissemination across human societies, histories of the plant, ...
Realizing Saudi Vision 2030
(2026)
All too often, Saudi Vision 2030 is associated outside the Kingdom solely with mega-projects such as ‘Neom’ and ‘The Line’. But how the Vision is being realized through ‘real life’ situations and issues is frequently ...
Racism in Modern Russia - Revised Edition
(2025)
Since its first publication in 2022, Racism in Modern Russia has become a key text for understanding the role that race has played in Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history and politics. Analyzing a wide range of printed ...
Audio-Visual Roman Women
(2025)
This open-access book is an interdisciplinary and transnational study of how screen media can shape our perception of Roman women and project present gender inequalities onto them. Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak explore a ...
Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia
(2025)
Redefining how we understand diplomacy, Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia reveals Buddhism as a dynamic force in shaping international relations . This groundbreaking open access book highlights individuals—including ...
Children and Freedom in the Cape Colony
(2025)
Between 1830 and 1850 what it meant to be a child changed in fundamental ways across Britain’s expanding empire. This book presents a child-focused history of the period surrounding slave emancipation in the Cape colony ...
Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
(2025)
This open access edited collection offers the first-ever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa. It offers multiple, theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers covering countries across ...
Constructing Learning Outcomes
(2025)
This open access book challenges dominant understandings of learning outcomes and educational (under)achievement and examines the quality and construction of learning outcomes across Europe. Educational achievement is ...
Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change
(2025)
Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McEwan, ...
Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity
(2025)
Why should classical antiquity matter to Irish migration? Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity argues that ancient Greece and Rome have shaped Irish migration narratives from the earliest texts to the 21st century. ...
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
(2025)
Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly ...
The Politics of Memory Laws
(2025)
This open access book explores the political utility and consequences of memory laws with a focus on how militant memory laws frame, underpin and generate international conflicts. Proceeding from Russia’s ongoing aggression ...
Speaking of Trust
(2025)
This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging models of formal and informal finance and welfare with longer-running religious structures and concerns. In Kenya, mutual ...
The EU Law of Investment
(2025)
This open access book examines how Europe’s traditionally open investment landscape has, over the past decade, shifted towards a more protectionist stance in response to evolving geopolitical factors. Featuring contributions ...
Anti-Racism as Communism
(2024)
In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle—black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party. ...