Publications
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Hybridity, Conflict, and the Global Politics of Cybersecurity
(2023)
Cyberspace has become the ultimate frontier and central issue of international conflict, geopolitical competition, and security. Emerging threats and technologies continuously challenge the prospect of an open, secure, and ...
Epistemologies of Land
(2024)
Land is at the centre of crucial public debates ranging from climate adaptation to housing and development, to agriculture and indigenous peoples’ rights. These debates frequently become stuck, though, because the meaning ...
Critical Theories of Crisis in Europe
(2016)
What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This open access book analyses and explains ...
Decolonising Intervention
(2017)
Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ...
The Emergence of China's Smart State
(2023)
China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed ...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49
(2024)
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, ...
Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies
(2019)
For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not listening to their citizens’ concerns on matters of fundamental importance. As ...
The Self, and Other Stories
(2023)
This open access book is an autoethnographic reflection on the value in the act of writing, illuminating the life of the researcher—in particular the researcher as human. Shepherd explores the multitudes of the academic, ...
Becoming a Movement
(2017)
Social movement scholars have become increasingly interested in the role of stories in contentious politics. Stories may facilitate the mobilization of activists and strengthen the resonance of their claims within public ...
Global Screen Worlds
(2026)
Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of specific African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media. This open access collection advances the ...
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship
(2025)
This open access book analyzes the limitations of top-down intervention programs designed by the state to address the problem of unemployment among marginalized communities in Africa and foregrounds the centrality of IKS ...
Film Adaptation and the Real
(2025)
A psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation that examines the role of deep-rooted desire evident in the persisting media practice of adaptation from literature to film. The prevalence of adaptations in cinema – from ...
Moral Hermeneutics and Technology
(2023)
In Moral Hermeneutics and Technology: Making Moral Sense through Human-Technology-World Relations , Olya Kudina explores the role of technology in the way people arrive at their moral intuitions and choices and revise their ...
Contemporary Ecocritical Methods
(2024)
Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered ...
Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society
(2021)
Based on an extended empirical research project, this open access book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions of digital mediatization and in relation to a set ...
Rule and Resistance Beyond the Nation State
(2019)
Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International ...
Being Digital Citizens
(2020)
From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed as citizens. This open access book ...
Governing Cyberspace
(2020)
Cyber norms and other ways to regulate responsible state behavior in cyberspace is a fast-moving political and diplomatic field. The academic study of these processes is varied and interdisciplinary, but much of the ...
The Migration Mobile
(2022)
This open access book offers an account of the very different technologies implicated in border crossing and migration management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles over who belongs and who does not, ...
The New Knowledge
(2023)
From the global geopolitical arena to the smart city, control over knowledge—particularly over data and intellectual property—has become a key battleground for the exercise of economic and political power. For companies ...