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David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed,...

Why Capitalists Need Communists: The Politics of Flourishing (Wellbeing in Politics and Policy)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. At the same time, the political and economic elite seem to have reached an impasse: there is a sense that things can only get worse. In Why Capitalists Need...

Human Rights Practices during Financial Crises

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries. This book offers a human rights perspective on financial crises vis-à-vis low-income and least developed countries. It systematically...

Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women. It exhibits Muslim women not merely as accidental victims but conscientious agents who choose to operate within the struggles of self-determination. The experience of victimization stimulates women to...

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Metropolitan Books, 2019

A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.

American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump, previously...

A Companion to African Cinema (Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas)

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic

A Companion to African Cinema offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion approaches the topic through the lens of...

Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting: Crossing Methodological Boundaries (Law, Language and Communication)

Routledge, 2019

The field of Legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years. As it has developed into an independent branch of Translation Studies, this book advocates for a substantiated discussion of methods and methodology, as well as knowledge about the variety of approaches actually applied in the field. It is argued...

Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Volume 1 Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX ... 2018 (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2018

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory, together with a wealth of applications. It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the VII International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications...

Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School

Reaktion Books, 2019

The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the...

The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality? (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that EU conditionality in the Western Balkans does not work...

An Inconstant Landscape: The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala

University Press of Colorado, 2019

Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between...

Leading in Inter-Organizational Networks: Towards a Reflexive Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area. Theoretically conceptualizing and empirically describing the practice of reflexive leadership in inter-organisational networks, it explores how member organisations approach reflexive...

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