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Provides an assessment of the coal industry, theoretical debates about coal, and government's role in a just transition and sustainability This book investigates the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in Africa to end the fossil-fuel era. Focusing on describing the local realities in a growing coal and energy town of South Africa, Emalahleni, it explores whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the local implications will be of this global restructuring of the energy sector. The book also provides an overview of the current situation in South Africa, mining and mining towns and the theory of a just transition and mine closure, in order to present a thorough assessment of the political economy of coal towns. Lochner Marais is Professor of Development Studies in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State. His research integrates themes of housing policy, health and mining communities. Philippe Burger, an economist by training, is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor: Poverty, Inequality and Economic Development and Vice-Dean at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Maléne Campbell is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State. Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State. Deidré Van Rooyen is Programme Director for Development Studies and a researcher in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State.

Contemporary Thai Horror Film focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai incarnation of the horror genre and its central role in Thailand's film industry. Tracing the development of Thai cinema throughout wider contextual changes, Ainslie explores the influence of audiences and viewing scenarios from previous decades upon this industry today. Most evident in the popular horror genre, close analysis of films demonstrates a specific style of Thai cinema as well as the wider social forces that have shaped Thai cinema as a national industry. By examining these films with a framework built from horror theory, this book questions our understanding of 'horror' as a generic category when we move outside of its traditional Euro-American origins and the voyeuristic viewing scenario often associated with the genre. Mary Jane Ainslie is Associate Professor in Film and Media at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China Campus.

Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema - not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis - but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. Kenny provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films from the late 1990s onwards. The term 'transgressive art film' refers to a handful of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinematic world as an expansion of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a driver of cinema's need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames and the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, Transgressive Art Films details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being overlooked. Oliver Kenny is Lecturer in Film and Media at the Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille.

Annemarie Jacir is a Palestinian filmmaker whose work is recognised globally as innovative, politically challenging, and genre-crossing. Most scholarship on the politics of film and its role in political conflicts is usually marked by historical overviews of geopolitical events and developments. In contrast, ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir offers an auteur-focused study of Jacir's transnational cinematic oeuvre, which is informed by the Palestinian experiences as well as the geopolitics and the political discourse around the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Shagufta Cheema and Van de Peer offer an in-depth study of Jacir's oeuvre by locating it in a geospatial and sociopolitical framework to critically analyse her development as an influential contemporary artist, filmmaker, and curator of film. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is an Assistant Professor in Humanities at Graceland University, Iowa. Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University.

Develops an idea that has yet to be properly explained - Muslim democracy Ravza Altuntaş-Çakır proposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes. This book examines the ideals, institutions and processes that shape the development of a concrete Muslim-based democratic system - a form of democracy that recognises the centrality of religion in Muslim societies. Questioning the customary characterisations of Islam's compatibility with democracy, the book adopts a comparative political theory approach that initiates a dialogue between Muslim and Western political thought. It systematically studies debates concerning Muslim political thought, multiculturalism, secularism, the public sphere and constitutionalism, which enables an exploration of Muslim democracy through a political theory approach, rather than a theological one. Key Features - Constructs a Muslim democracy framework, inspired by Muslim and Western multiculturalist political thought - Provides an inclusive typology of Muslim political thought to discover essential norms for democratic thinking - Provides an inclusive typology of multiculturalism elaborating upon its capacity to reconcile democracy with religion - Synthesises these theoretical concepts and values to provide interpretative tools for a comparative political of Muslim democracy - Offers a scholarly construction of the notion of a political theory of Muslim democracy Ravza Altuntaş-Çakır is a Lecturer in the Political Science and International Relations Department, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University.

The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam's regime Iraqi novelists are not only writing about the occupation and the current disintegration of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their lives. This book examines how recent Iraqi fiction about war depicts the Iraqi subject in its relation to war, coercion, subjugation and occupation. The theoretical medieval concept of the homo sacer, the killable, as defined by Giorgio Agamben is used to explore the lives and the experiences of different war actors such as the soldier, the war deserter, the camp detainee and the suicide bomber depicted in their "e;bare life"e; as men doomed to death in the necropolitical context. War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction is an exploration of fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali, Hdiya Hussein and others. It brings to light the overarching continuum in the production of homines sacri in Iraq. Instances of homo sacer under the dictatorship are complemented by new instances found in the camp and under the state of exception of the occupation and the war on terror.

Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation. This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media - literature, drawings, paintings, grave stelae, films, gallery installations, contemporary music videos, deep fakes, social media, video games and immersive VR interfaces - the contributors interrogate and transform persistent metaphysical and anthropocentric assumptions inherited from traditional notions of portraiture. Abraham Geil is Senior Lecturer in the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Tomás Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at Palacký University Olomouc.

A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries, tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence, making accessible to Anglophone readers some of the most significant texts, for a genuine understanding of his philosophy. This final volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis includes the Letter on Atheism, the Letter on Fatalism and the Letter on Optics--all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin--as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II. Also included is Hemsterhuis' philosophical responses to Plato, Spinoza and Diderot, to contemporary political events in the Dutch Republic and to the French Revolution. Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Provides large-scale analysis of age, gender and status in Macedonian society

Explores how Jihad, political violence and audio-visual media are entangled This collection presents empirically-grounded, interdisciplinary research to foster critical perspectives on the significations of Jihad in the academe as well as in the realm of legislature, executive and the judiciary. It focuses on the contexts in which various notions of Jihad overlap with political violence, not only as a call for armed struggle, but also as a means to characterise Muslims as the 'other' of 'Western' conceptions of social and political order. Contributions shed light on distinct conditions under which Jihad is employed to describe and assess human traits, thoughts, and actions as political violence and how this assessment or its dissemination is informed by various media. From 16 detailed case studies, readers will learn to critically reflect on the practices of knowledge production in different social spheres. Split into four thematic parts, the contributions show how through discursive formations and mediations in the wake of 9/11 and the subsequent "War on Terror", Muslim life and religiosity has been evaluated in terms of a narrow understanding of Jihad. Simone Pfeifer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Training Group anschließen-ausschließen: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks at the University of Cologne Christoph Günther holds the Heisenberg position for Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt. Robert Dörre is a Postdoctoral Researcher of Media Cultural Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum and an Associated Scholar at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds.

Short animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust began appearing in the late 1990s. Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries provides the first comprehensive analysis of movies produced in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and Israel. The selected Holocaust animated documentaries analysed in this book epitomise the aesthetic and thematic features of Holocaust animated documentaries in the Western World. Applying theories developed in the fields of animated documentary, Holocaust studies, trauma studies, film studies and memory studies, Steir-Livny analyses how animated Holocaust documentaries create a new layer of Holocaust commemoration. It clarifies the ways in which animated documentaries can broaden and deepen the range of representations by visualising subject matter that previously eluded live-action documentaries, but also points to the dangers inherent to filmmakers' deliberate choices to marginalise the horrors. This extensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries constitutes an in-depth outlook on this new layer of contemporary Holocaust memory. Liat Steir-Livny is an Associate Professor at Sapir Academic College and the Open University of Israel.

Utilises fresh archival evidence to significantly advance our knowledge of Scottish experiences of war Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War addresses this gap in the research by providing a pioneering account of society and culture in wartime Scotland. Through investigating recently discovered archives, this text examines key aspects of wartime life, including work, leisure, morale and religion. It also explores the underlying tension between conformity and resistance, and the ways that social fissures shaped Scottish responses to war. While significantly illuminating a pivotal episode in Scottish history, this book also charts the uncertainties related to nationhood, cultural identity, Scotland's place within the Union and the country's future that permeated Scottish society at that time. By doing this it interrogates wartime conceptions of community and examines how the national emphasis on British unity played out in a fragmented Scottish nation. In taking a national approach to the British home front, it draws out areas of cultural difference between Scotland and other nations and regions in Britain as represented in established scholarship. This book reinserts the voices of Scots and those living in Scotland into the narrative of Britain's Second World War years. Key features and benefits: - The first academic monograph that attempts a national approach to the British home front - Provides an original overview of Scottish society during the Second World War - Makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Scottish culture and society during the twentieth century - Uses a diverse and largely untapped range of archival sources - Features 19 black & white illustrations showcasing the everyday lives of people residing in Scotland during the war - Focuses on the experiences of women, children, prisoners of war, Irish people in Scotland and Scottish Jews Dr Michelle Moffat is a historian of war and society, affiliated with the History Programme at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her award-winning doctoral research examined Scottish life and society during the Second World War. She is currently researching dissent and discontent in Second World War Scotland.

Provides a new ground-breaking framework for the study of foreign language learning

About the author: Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham. Her most recent book-length publications are After Foucault, as editor (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Selfish Women (Routledge, 2019). She is currently completing a monograph-manifesto, entitled Against Affect, funded in 2021-2 by a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship.

Hong Kong Crime Films details the post-war history of the Hong Kong crime film prior to the release of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that turned it into perhaps the signature genre from Hong Kong. Focusing on what it calls the mode of 'criminal realism' in the crime film, this book shows how depictions of Hong Kong's social reality were for decades anxiously policed by colonial censors, and how crime films tended to confound and transgress critical definitions of realism. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hong Kong Crime Films covers several neglected topics in the study of Hong Kong cinema, such as the evolving generic landscape of the crime film prior to the 1980s, the influence of colonial film censorship on the genre, and the prominence and contestation of 'realism' in the local history of the crime film. Kristof Van den Troost is Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Explores over 30 feature films from the formative years of Egyptian cinema (1919-52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and innovation.

[headline]Examines the connection between historical and speculative fiction to offer a new form of literary-genre fiction that registers the upheavals of the early twenty-first century Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel highlights the emergence of a literary mode, speculative historism, over the past two decades in US literature. Discussing novels by Ken Kalfus, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead, among others, it provides detailed critical readings of key writers of the early twenty-first century and integrates questions of critical method, genre, form, and literary theory, all of which have some urgency today. Addressing itself to the question of how to read this mode through a form of utopian hermeneutics, this study explores the formal constitution, narrative choices, and place in the wider literary market of a mode that Lanzendörfer argues is constitutively important for understanding American literature's struggle with the possibility of imagining hopeful futures. [bio]Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Research Associate Professor for Literary Theory, Literary Studies and Literary Studies Education at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His previous publications include Books of the Dead (2018) and The Professionalization of the American Magazine (2013), which won the Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize in 2015. He is also editor of the Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (2021) and co-editor of Medial Afterlives of H. P. Lovecraft (with Max Dreysse Passos de Carvalho, 2023) and of The Novel as Network (with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, 2020).

[headline]Develops a literary-philosophical account of 'conversation' that reframes core concerns in contemporary ethics, democratic politics, and literary criticism The ideal of 'conversation' recurs in modern thought as a symbol and practice central to ethics, democratic politics and thinking itself. Interweaving readings of fiction and philosophy in a 'conversational' style inspired by Stanley Cavell, Fiction, Philosophy, and the Ideal of Conversation clarifies this lofty yet vague ideal, while developing a revitalizing model for interdisciplinary literary studies. It argues that conversation is key to exemplary responses to sceptical doubt in ordinary language and political philosophy - where scepticism threatens ethics and democratic politics - and in works of British fiction spanning from Jane Austen through Ali Smith. It shows that, for these writers, conversation can shift attention from metaphysical doubts regarding our capacity to know 'reality' and other people, to ethical, democratic and aesthetic action. The book moreover proposes - and models - 'conversational criticism' as a framework linking literary studies to broader political and ethical commitments, while remaining responsive to aesthetic form. [bio]Erin Elizabeth Greer is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She teaches and writes about modern and contemporary British and Anglophone literature, ordinary language philosophy, political philosophy, feminist theory, and critical new media studies.

Explores the increasingly intimate relationship between China and wireless technology, taking the wave as a central concept In the twenty-first century city, wireless waves constitute an imperceptible, immersive, all-encompassing environment. Nowhere is this more so than in China, where a hyperdense network of mobile media has restructured daily life. Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. It focuses specifically on the work of three critical figures: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同 (1865-1898), Xiong Shili 熊十力 (1885-1968) and Mou Zongsan 牟宗三 (1909-1995). Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai.

Studies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologies

Provides a systematic theoretical account of food animals under capitalism In the twentieth century, capitalist animal agriculture emerged with a twofold mission: to ruthlessly exploit animals for their labour time and enlarge human food supplies. The results of this process are clear. Animal sourced foods have expanded exponentially. And simultaneously, hundreds of billions of animals confront humans and machines in brutal, antagonistic relations shaped by domination and resistance. Building on Karl Marx's value theory, Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel argues that factory farms and industrial fisheries are not merely an example of unchecked human supremacism. Nor a result of the victory of market forces. But a combination of both. In Animals and Capital Wadiwel untangles this contemporary handshake between hierarchical anthropocentrism and capitalism. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel is Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights at the University of Sydney.

Explores the major political, social, economic, religious and cultural changes impacting what was once the most important region of the Roman world.

The Intensive-Image in Deleuze's Film-Philosophy takes an important category from Deleuze's philosophy--the notion of intensity--and explores its background in the context of philosophical ideas about cinematic intensity, the philosophy of difference, and thermodynamics. Escobar argues that the notion of intensity has the potential to change the way in which we think about Deleuze¿s classification of films as signifying two separate periods, the classical period of the movement-image and the modern period of the time-image, by bringing them together and overcoming the separation that Deleuze's film taxonomy creates. This book also discusses ways in which the intensive-image varies and differentiates itself from other images and the role it plays in contemporary cinema. Cristóbal Escobar is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne, Film Programmer at FIDOCS and Co-Founder of the Screening Ideas program.

[Headline]A new scholarly edition of a bold yet overlooked Victorian text that blends the genres of memoir, travelogue, ethnography and the realist novel This critical edition of George Borrow's Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest (1851) brings a renewed focus to a formally inventive and original text for scholars of the nineteenth-century autobiographical novel and travelogue. This scholarly work reflects and develops research that anchors Borrow's energetically eccentric vision in a range of notable contexts. Radford's introduction gives readers unfamiliar with the formidably prolific Borrow an opportunity to discover more about this author's career at home and abroad, his stylistic innovations and how Lavengro evokes a 'wild England' that became crucial for admirers in the next century such as D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Virginia Woolf. [Bio]Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His publications include British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, 2021) and The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875-1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, 2018).