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  • - Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy
    av Christy Kulz
    387 - 1 081

    This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

  • - Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema
    av Gemma King
    417

    The first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eight emblematic films, this book argues that many contemporary French films take a new approach to language and power. -- .

  • - Why Plumage Matters
    av Rodney Barker
    331 - 1 151

    This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity. -- .

  • - CommuniqueS and Insurrectionary Violence
    av Dr Michael Loadenthal
    461 - 1 081

    This book asks the reader to consider the theories of bomb-throwing, window-smashing, graffiti-scrawling arsonists, and through an examination of movement communiques, embrace the critique offered by the clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting for total liberation against the omnipresent forces of violence and coercion. -- .

  • - A Critical Analysis
    av Ali Rattansi
    311 - 1 191

    This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagement. -- .

  • - Engaging in Politics and Democracy
    av Elizabeth C. Matto
    391

    Citizen now charts a new research path in the study of the engagement of youth. Although their methods are varied and reflective of current technological tools, Citizen now argues that the tactics and motives of the groups reflect traditional political elements. -- .

  • av James Paz
    477

    This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'. -- .

  • - Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650-1780
    av Maria Agren
    1 151

    A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century. -- .

  • - If Walls Could Talk
    av Madeleine Leonard
    1 151

    This is an account of the attitudes and experiences of teenagers growing up in segregated localities in Belfast, it shows how they make sense of, and negotiate everyday life in a divided city. It explores how identities are created, performed, maintained, reinforced, crossed and transformed through their daily spatial practices. -- .

  • - Rethinking Racism and Sectarianism
    av Chris Gilligan
    327 - 1 081

    Racism and sectarianism makes a sustained critique of official anti-racism, using the case of Northern Ireland to do so. Many of the prominent themes in the UK today have been central to discussions in Northern Ireland for decades. The book sketches out some elements of an emancipatory anti-racism as an alternative. -- .

  • - Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914
    av Mr. Paul A. Pickering & Kate Bowan
    391 - 1 167

    Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened. -- .

  • - The Story of Small State Survival, 1648-2016
    av Matthias Maass
    1 261

    This book focuses on the state level analysing factors that determine small state survival and proliferation. It demonstrates theoretically, quantitatively, and historically that small state survival depends first-and-foremost on the structure and particular features of the states system in which the small state finds itself. -- .

  • - An Archaeological Biography
    av Paul Edmondson, Kevin Colls & William Mitchell
    327

    Unique report on the major archaeological dig at Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home and the implications for the Shakespearian biography. -- .

  • - Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Authority in the Squatters Movement in Amsterdam
    av Nazima Kadir
    387 - 1 067

    This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural squatting community that defines itself as a social movement. -- .

  • - Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the Global South
    av Nicholas Hildyard
    261 - 1 161

  • - An Actor-Network Theory Perspective
    av Roslyn Kerr
    1 111

  • - Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory, 1990-2010
    av Elizabeth Tomlin
    327

    Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority. -- .

  • av Chen Kertcher
    527 - 1 131

    Using more than 600 UN documents that analyse the discussions in the UN Security Council, General Assembly and Secretariat, The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988-95 presents innovative explanations on how after the Cold War UN peacekeeping operations became the dominant response to conflicts around the globe.

  • - Working Experiences of a Non-Fiction Filmmaker
    av Alan Rosenthal
    1 077

    The documentary diaries offers piercing insights into the world of documentary filmmaking, and will be essential reading for students and professionals alike. -- .

  • - Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire
    av Jeffrey Rosen
    457 - 1 097

    Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period. -- .

  • av Professor Bryan Fanning
    327 - 1 161

  • - Passion and Politics in the English Defence League
    av Hilary Pilkington
    1 041

    This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

  • - The People's Armies
    av Spiros Tsoutsoumpis
    461 - 1 857

    This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters during their fight against the Occupation. -- .

  • - Devolution and Party Change in Scotland and Wales
    av Alan Convery
    1 257

  • - The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction
    av Gerd Bayer
    1 131

    Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century. -- .

  • - Dishonoured Women and Abandoned Children in Italy, 1300-1800
    av Brian Pullan
    1 077

    This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries. -- .

  • - Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England
    av Isaac Stephens
    1 131

    A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period. -- .

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