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Embracing an ontological approach to religious phenomena, this study traces the origins and development of Chinese Hell deity worship now prevalent in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. Written for academics and the interested public, it challenges assumptions vis-à-vis the diversity of present-day Chinese religious beliefs and ritual practices.

The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. It offers a novel perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century.

This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and 'renegades' developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the 'others' thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean. -- .

This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.

An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust in biomedical regulatory decision making. -- .

Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory. -- .

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an 'unremitted pressure'. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of France's relationship to human protection since the 1980s by investigating the mutual impact interconnected yet distinct domestic and international norms of human protection have had on each other over time. -- .

How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundation of the French empire. -- .

This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of the first British empire.

This study follows the development of Lancashire's unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations of the artists, patrons, politicians and philanthropists involved. -- .

This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions.

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life against the backdrop of contemporary interactions with bishops and lay patrons, the process of monastic reform, and the local and supra-regional disruption driven by the struggle over investiture.

While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake¿s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today. Iberia/Maghreb, Sicily/Lampedusa and Calais provide key examples for composing this new chapter in cultural history.

This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today¿s global inequalities are the result of such connected histories.

This is a book about what people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant, and their fears - and sometimes hopes - about living in a future world where private property has disappeared. In the propertied imagination, private property is a fragile thing, an institution beset by terrifying enemies and racialised and gendered mobs: Levellers and Diggers, socialists and anarchists, fervent religious radicals, abolitionists, feminists, and haughty welfare-state bureaucrats. The history of private property is the history of a recurring nightmare that one or another of these groups would storm the castle and take control. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book. Private property and the fear of social chaos starts by charting the thinkers who laid the foundations for how we understand private property, including Locke, Burke, Marx and Engels. The book looks at how their ideas have been put into practice in ways that continue to shape the modern world, from Harry Truman's housing policies and the anti-abolitionist George Fitzhugh to Margaret Thatcher and Elon Musk. Arguing that the spectre of 'the mob' has been intimately interconnected with the idea of private property throughout capitalist modernity, the book ambitiously narrates this history from the early colonisation of the Americas to Silicon Valley, and the future of human colonisation in space.

This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallace's work originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. New essays by prominent and promising Wallace scholars explore the many ways these two discursive modes serve as always already intertwined ways of experiencing and expressing the world in Wallace's oeuvre.

This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Muslims and Muslim communities, and resistance confronting it.

Recent research suggests that rural residents in the global North are happier than urban populations in the same countries. This goes against received wisdom in the field, where the opposite is usually assumed. Is quality of life better in rural areas? What can we learn from digging deeper into the rural-urban happiness paradox, and which critical questions does this leave us with for the future? The complexity of answering these questions calls for a multi-disciplinary outlook, reflected in the contributions from 49 authors drawn from across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania.Rural quality of life consists of four parts. The first part sidesteps the urban gaze by entering everyday rural life to ask the fundamental question: what is quality of life in the countryside? With a specific focus on the built environment in the countryside, the second part attends to the built interventions made by local communities, planners, architects and policymakers, often driven by policy goals that explicitly emphasise quality of life. The third part takes a closer look at the role of civil society in contributing to geographic differences in quality of life. With or without concrete evidence, this has often been highlighted as an explanation and therefore calls for careful, critical scrutiny. Finally, the fourth part presents quantitatively informed studies of differences in quality of life between the city and the countryside, using national and international data sets.Rural quality of life investigates what quality of life in the countryside is all about - in everyday life, through interventions in the built environment, in civil society and in measures of subjective wellbeing.¿Pia Heike Johansen is associate professor of rural sociology at University of Southern DenmarkAnne Tietjen is associate professor of landscape architecture and urban design at Copenhagen UniversityEvald Bundgaard Iversen is associate professor of public management at the University of Southern DenmarkHenrik Lauridsen Lolle is associate professor in political sociology at Aalborg UniversityJens Kaae Fisker is associate professor in political geography at Stavanger University

While sexuality and the nude were prime subjects for male artists in the early twentieth century, for female artists, revealing sexual desire on canvas was deemed unacceptable. Painting her pleasure examines three remarkable women who defied this convention. Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957), Émilie Charmy (1878-1974), and Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) probed sexuality in a forthright manner and questioned gender identity in their representations of the human form. They depicted the nude in a sexually dissident way, ushering in new subject matter for female artists - the male nude, the Black body, the pregnant nude and nude self-portrait. Treating these subjects was an act that defied the foundations of the nude practice and the tradition of art itself. As a result of their unorthodox practices, each artist encountered censorship. Attention to Vassilieff, Charmy and Valadon offers rare female insights from a time when most women's voices were stifled. Examining their work sheds light on the complex ways in which women responded to the evolution of gender roles and sexual mores. These rebellious women painters contravened social decorum, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.

This book provides a full account of the life and career of the Elizabethan politician and courtier Sir Christopher Hatton. A loyal favourite and minister of a Protestant queen, he was also a patron and protector of Catholics. This account of Hatton opens a new window into the complex religious politics of Elizabeth¿s reign.

The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health.

Hybrid creatures emerging from the pages of Old English medical texts readily capture the modern imagination. A potent medicinal root is rendered with distinctly human arms and legs; a swarm charm addresses bees as valkyrie-like beings, at once both natural and mythical. Yet the most powerful forms of hybridity in the Old English healing tradition often result from more subtle mergings: Latin and vernacular, liturgical and folkloric, oral and written. Hybrid healing seeks to meet such textual hybridity with a methodological hybridity of its own. Drawing from a range of fields including plant biology, folkloristics, and disability studies among others, a series of close readings examines selected Old English medical texts through individually tailored combinations of approaches. They are designed to illustrate how the healing power of these remedies ultimately derives from unique convergences of widely disparate traditions and influences. This case-study model positions readers to appreciate more fully the various forces at work in any given remedy, replacing reductive assumptions that have often led early medieval medicine to be dismissed as mere superstition. By inviting readers to approach each text with appropriately diverse critical frameworks, Hybrid healing opens a space to engage the medieval healing tradition with empathy, understanding, and imagination.

This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars, diplomacy, soft power and great power competition.

Axel Honneth¿s critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.

The multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the region's irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers, critics and the culture industries. TMM makes a claim for the importance of the Midlands and evidences this with nuanced close reading of a multitude of diverse texts spanning so-called 'high' to 'low' culture; from the Black Country's 'Desi Pubs', to Leicester's 'McIndians' Peri Peri ('you've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians!'); Handsworth's reggae roots to Adrian Mole's diaries.This book shifts the focus of writing about postcolonial and post-war Britain towards the regional. London has long hosted dominant creative narratives, while the Midlands is caught in the middle of a critical landscape that reinforces the reductive notion of a North-South divide. This book opens up the map to new ways of reading texts. Informed by original interviews, archival and socio-historic sources, this is the first major study to position the Midlands at the forefront of debates emanating from multiculturalism, devolution and literary economy.