African Economic Humanism
The Rise of an African Economic Philosophy
Mfuniselwa J. Bhengu
In African Economic Humanism, Mfuniselwa Bhengu believes he has the answer. He focuses on the cultural influences,
the traditional concept of Ubuntu with its emphasis on community, sharing and generosity, to establish an approach to
economics that is rooted in African belief systems. Based on his studies of African philosophy and economics, his theory
of economic humanism could have the power to transform individuals, organizations and societies throughout and
beyond Africa.
This exciting addition to the Gower Transformation and Innovation Series is of interest to a wide international audience of
academics and researchers, policy makers, development specialists and businesses.
Contents:
Prologue; Pre-colonial African economic relations; The ascendancy of Western capitalism; The nature of South African
capitalism; Responses to western capitalism; the 'capitalist comrades'; The Bantu philosophy of NTU, An African
economic humanism theory; An enterprise that profits society, Albert Koopman; Epilogue: the birth of the human future;
References; Index.
About the Author:
Mfuniselwa John Bhengu is a Parliamentarian in the Republic of South Africa. He has served in many Parliamentary
Portfolio Committees, both at the National Assembly and KwaZulu/Natal Legislature. He has held executive positions for
over 20 years in a range of national, regional and local public and private bodies. He is widely acknowledged as an
authority on African philosophy (Ubuntu) and economics. He is a doctoral candidate with the DST/NRF South African
Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa – UNISA. Bhengu has travelled widely in
connection with his many roles, spoken worldwide, and authored two books on Ubuntu. He is an Associate Researcher
for the TRANS4M Four World Center for Innovation in Geneva.
Series:
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Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Business, Gender & Culture; General Finance and Business Economics;
African Business and Economics; Growth and Development
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Why does capitalism fail to thrive in Africa? Is there an alternative system that will enhance economic development?
Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture
Alzira Salama
Alzira Salama explains what constitutes entrepreneurial behaviour, how it is facilitated by organizational culture and why entrepreneurial
corporate culture is fundamental to business success. She takes you through ways of identifying prevailing cultures and explains how
cultures are reinforced or changed. Drawing on exemplary case studies from around the world, she tells the stories both of successful
and unsuccessful interventions made in response to the need to move on from bureaucratic or authoritarian cultures. These include
specific instances where the context has been privatization, merger and acquisition, transition in the wider economy, or a combination of
any of these circumstances.
This enlightening book will help managers and consultants, business educators, higher level students and those on executive
programmes to understand the nature of an organization's culture, why it is as it is, whether it needs to change, and how it might be
changed. Alzira Salama offers real world examples of how to create or re-create an entrepreneurial culture together with tools that will
enable corporations to achieve it.
Contents:
Introduction/Preface; Part I Entrepreneurial Behaviour: an Overview: Unleashing entrepreneurial behaviour; Culture and behaviour: what
are the links? Part II Biography of Organisations and Culture Transformation: Biography of organisations: a key for a transformation
process; Organisational culture transformation: Cross-case analysis. Part III From Bureaucracy and Inertia to Entrepreneurship: Organic
Growth: Causes of inertia and integrative model for culture evolution and transformation; British Airways story; British Nuclear Fuels
story; Jaguar Cars story; British Airports Authority Story; Xerox do Brazil story. Part IV Creating Entrepreneurial Synergies Through
Cross-Border Acquisitions: Corporate entrepreneurship and acquisitions: an introduction and integration process model; The role of
acculturation process: Ford-Volvo, Deutsche Bank-Bankers Trust, British Petroleum-Amoco; Integration strategies and entrepreneurial
synergies: Electrolux-Zanussi and Electrolux-Diamond-board. Part V The Future of Corporate Entrepreneurship; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Alzira Salama is a management consultant and a senior lecturer at the London campus of the European School of Economics (ESE),
where she was Academic Director for four years. She has a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Lancaster University. Before
embarking on academic life Alzira Salama worked for ten years as Management Development Manager for Verolme do Brazil a large
Dutch shipyard and as an Executive Education specialist at Xerox Corporation in Brazil. This experience has been fundamental for her
understanding of human behaviour issues at the work place. Alzira Salama lectured at Cranfield School of Management. She was a
visiting researcher and lecturer at the European Business School (EBS), London and at the London School of Economics (LSE). She
has been involved in action research projects, delivered many conference papers and is widely published, winning awards in the
process. Her earlier book is entitled Privatization: Implications for Corporate Culture Change.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Change Management; Organisational Development; People Management;
Sociology of Work and Organizations
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Entrepreneurship is often considered only in the context of new venture creation, small business issues, and the profiles and
personalities of individual entrepreneurs. The emphasis in Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture is very much on
the 'corporate', it focuses on the creation and maintenance of an entrepreneurial management culture that accelerates growth and
enhances effectiveness and competitiveness in large organizations.
Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce
From the GI Generation to the Millennials
Robert G. DelCampo, Lauren A. Haggerty, Meredith Jane Haney and
Lauren Ashley Knippel
Managing employees of several generations is not an easy task, but it is the reality of the business world today. The creation of a
culture and coordinating programs that foster communication and collaboration between all of the generations present in the workforce
will help to alleviate the difficulties managers may encounter. In order to truly create a cohesive workplace, managers must encourage
employees to view generational difference as a valuable strength rather than a weakness.
Based on rigorous academic research, Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce identifies the characteristics of the different
generations, considers their expectations and values, and how these influence the way they relate to each other. The authors then
examine implications for organizational culture and structures, recruitment and retention tactics, training, and management styles and
approaches.
This book actually tackles the issue of properly integrating the newest generation - the 'Millennials', into the workforce and challenges
the unrealistic belief that all that needs to happen is for younger generations to be 'changed' to conform to workforce norms. As
younger generations enter the workforce, and eventually dominate it, workforce norms will change. Any firm or manager competing in
today's war for top talent will find this book indispensable.
Contents:
Introduction; Overview of the Generations; Millennials; Expectations and Values; Building Relationships; Psychological Contracts;
Organizational Culture and Structure; Recruitment and Retention Tactics; Training and Designing Work Groups; Managerial Styles;
References; Index.
About the Author:
Dr. Robert G. (Rob) DelCampo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organization Studies, University of New Mexico, holding
the Rutledge Endowed Professorship in Management. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Administrative Sciences and Associate, Editor of
The Business Journal of Hispanic Research and was recently named to New Mexico Business Weekly's "40 Under 40" top young
professional list and one of Albuquerque The Magazine's "15 People Who Will Change Albuquerque". Rob has published or presented
over 75 papers and is the author of 5 books. He has consulted for over 25 Fortune 500 companies including Ford, Home Depot, Dell
and Intel. Rob earned a Ph.D. from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and holds MBA and undergraduate
degrees from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Lauren A. Haggerty attended the University of New Mexico earning degrees in Accounting (BBA) and Organizational Behavior/Human
Resources (MBA). Currently, she works in Student Affairs where she deals with Millennials on a day-to-day basis.
Meredith Jane Haney attended the University of New Mexico where she attained a bachelor's in Business Administration with a focus in
Accounting. She earned her MBA concentrating in Management Information Systems, Information Assurance, and Organizational
Behavior/Human Resources from the Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico.
Lauren Ashley Knippel graduated with her bachelor's in Business Administration with a focus in Human Resources and Organizational
Leadership from the Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico. She attained her MBA concentrating in Strategic
Planning.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Diversity; People Management; Personnel Management & HRM; Sociology of Work and Organizations
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For the first time in history, four distinct and very different generations are working together. Generational conflict is one of the last
bastions of acceptable discrimination in today's workplace. Each generation has different beliefs, expectations, values, learning styles,
and desires. These result in a strong tendency for them to adopt different work habits.
Alan Reynolds
The Making of a Concretist Artist
Alan Reynolds (b.1926) is an English artist of international repute, whose career falls into two unequal
halves: the landscape and abstract painter of the 1950s and 1960s, and the constructive artist of the last
forty years. This illustrated monograph is the first book to bring together these two different bodies of work
and to provide a complete overview of Reynolds' development as an artist.
The quest for equilibrium has been at the centre of Alan Reynolds' art since he emerged from the Royal
College of Art over fifty years ago already fêted, as Bryan Robertson wrote, as 'the golden boy of post neoromanticism in England'. Reynolds' engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens
and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Paul Nash but also by Paul Klee
and increasingly by Mondrian, until depiction was firmly set aside in favour of the abstract.
This book traces the progress of Alan Reynolds' work from the early landscapes to the tonal modular
drawings and constructed white reliefs of the last thirty years. Author Michael Harrison has worked closely
with the artist to produce an insightful analysis of this diverse and fascinating body of work. The book also
reflects Alan Reynolds' reception in Europe with an essay by Professor Susanne Pfleger, Director of the
Städtischen Galerie, Wolfsburg.
Contents:
Prelude; Foreword; Early Years; Abandonment of Painting; Essay by Susanne Pfleger; Exhibitions; Index.
About the Author:
Michael Harrison is Director of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and has contributed to numerous exhibition
catalogues on British art and artists. Susanne Pfleger is Director of the Städtischen Galerie, Wolfsburg.
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Modern British Painting; Twentieth-Century Art and Visual Studies; Contemporary Art and Visual Studies
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Michael Harrison
With an essay by Susanne Pfleger
Tania Kovats
After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young
Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. The intervening years have seen Kovats' early
artistic promise grow and develop and today she stands as an important figure within British contemporary
art. This monograph, the first of its kind, is a much-needed addition to the scant literature available on this
original artist.
The highly controversial Virgin in a Condom, introduced Kovats' work to the wider artistic community.
However, this piece is unrepresentative of an oeuvre which is dominated by the artist's primary interest in the
landscape. Her sculptural forms and drawings are pre-occupied with the earth's shifting geology - cliff edges,
canons, coastlines feature often. Rock formations such as the basalt columar landscapes of the Isle of Staffa
and the Devil’s Post Pile in California are among her inspirations, as is the British Isles (one body of
drawings mapped every individual, rock outcrop or island that surrounds mainland Britain).
Like the natural world which inspires it, Kovats' work is constantly shifting. This insightful monograph reveals
the twists and turns of the artist's career to date - from her creations as fledging artist to Kovats' most recent
successes which include her travelling meadow and the prestigious commission, to mark the 200th
anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, to create a permanent work in London's Natural History Museum. For
all those interested in contemporary British art, this book is an essential purchase.
Contents:
Foreword, Paul Bonaventura; The tangled bank: Some thoughts on some works by Tania Kovats, Jeremy
Millar; Plates; Something against nothing, Philip Hoare; Plates; Afterword, Tania Kovats; Biographies.
About the Author:
Jeremy Millar is an artist, curator and writer. From 1995 to 2000 he was Programme Organiser at The
Photographers' Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. Millar has published over eighty texts in a
number of interational publications and his books include Peter Fraser (2002) and Place (with Tacita Dean,
2005).
Philip Hoare is a writer and critic. His books include Noel Coward: A Biography (1995); England's Lost Eden:
Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005) and Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), which won the 2009 Samuel
Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Contemporary Art and Visual Studies; British Art and Visual Studies; Sculpture
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Jeremy Millar and Philip Hoare
Bid Writing for Project Managers
David Cleden
Involving the designated project manager at the bidding stage is becoming the norm in many commercial
organizations. Some make the project manager the bid manager so they can direct all aspects of the
project's conception. Getting the bid right is the essence of planning for project success, the main theme of
this book. However, many project managers are unfamiliar with the pitfalls of competitive bidding and don't
know how to balance a compelling sales message against a realistic delivery plan.
Bid Writing for Project Managers will guide prospective project managers through the bid-writing lifecycle,
providing comprehensive guidelines and numerous tips on how to craft a winning bid and how to set the
project up with the best possible chance of success.
Contents:
Preface; Zen and the art of bid writing; The anatomy of a bid; Planning to win; Analysing the requirements in
depth; Developing the bid; Establishing the project framework; Estimation methods; Realistic costing and
pricing; A structured approach to writing the bid; Getting the method across; The management solution;
Quality control; Transition to a project; Appendices; Index.
About the Author:
David Cleden is a senior project manager, bid writer and consultant with more than 25 years experience of
the public services IT sector. In addition to writing bids and successfully delivering complex projects for a
wide range of commercial clients, he writes widely on a variety of business-related issues. David's previous
book, Managing Project Uncertainty, was the first title in the Gower series on Advances in Project
Management.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Procurement and Contract Management; Selling Skills
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At what stage in the process do commercial projects go wrong? Some of the worst problems (unrealistic
objectives, faulty assumptions, and poorly understood constraints) are 'programmed in' at conception when
the bid is written, long before the project manager is brought on board. If the bid is misconceived, no amount
of clever project management is going to recover the situation.
Premium by Design
How to Understand, Design and Market High End Products
Marco Bevolo, Alex Gofman, Howard Moskowitz
Premium by Design is a thoroughly researched, well argued and well presented study that identifies how global business leaders have
succeeded in achieving margins by design. Thanks to original tools and processes this book shows how you might also succeed. It is
about better, but reachable and real, products and services. The book features insights from the world of customer science and design
research.
The key challenge for the world today is finding out how sustainable is the underlying process that is driving this apparent desire for
more and more indulgent material possessiveness? This book might not have all the answers, but it will provoke and trigger a long
overdue debate in the premium and image driven industries about tomorrow's values. As a result it is a must read for anyone in this
market, or aspiring to it.
Contents:
Foreword; Preface; Part 1 'Hope at Checkout' for Everybody: Achievable dreams; Horizons where aspiration gazes; Luxury - aim high
for a strong head start; Business tool - deciphering the 'algebra' of consumers' minds. Part 2 'Practical DNA': the 5 'Must-Haves' (Rules)
of the High End: Rule 1: it is all about the 'beef' (dimension: authenticity and value); Rule 2 it is all about the design and the experience;
Rule 3: it is all about creating the 'new' (dimension: innovation and leadership); Rule 4 It is all about 'fame' (dimension: marketing,
communication and distribution); Rule 5 It is all about 'higher values' (dimension: sustainability and simplicity). Part 3 Vistas and New
High End Experiences: Urban futures - opportunities for tomorrow's high end; Premium products and experiences through high design;
Design for tomorrow. Part 4 Business Tools that Jump Start Your High End: Creating new high end propositions; Know thy customer:
sequencing the genome of the high end mind; Conclusions; Index.
About the Author:
Marco Bevolo is Lecturer in International Leisure Management / Sciences at NHTV University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands,
and an independent consultant. As Director at Philips Design, he worked on the set up and launch of CultureScan and in areas of urban
futures programs and foresight. He graduated from the University of Turin (Psychology major) and started his career at Italdesign
Giugiaro. He is co-author and contributor to some 35 articles, conference papers and books on design, branding and trends. He
published his first independent book, "The Golden Crossroad", in 2009.
Dr Alex Gofman is an accomplished consumer research executive, scholar and author with a strong portfolio of successes for major
global clients. With well over 100 publications, he is widely published and recognized internationally for contributions to consumer
intelligence. Alex is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Pace University teaching graduate courses. He is a co-author of the award
winning Selling Blue Elephants book (Wharton School Publishing) translated into 14 languages. Alex is a frequent speaker at
international conferences and a guest lecturer at universities around the world.
Dr Howard Moskowitz is President of Moskowitz Jacobs Inc. He is a well-known experimental psychologist in the field of psychophysics
and an inventor of world-class market research technologies. He graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in experimental
psychology; and Queens College (New York) with degrees in mathematics and psychology. Dr. Moskowitz has won numerous awards,
including the 2010 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation and the Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award. He frequently
speaks at scientific and market research conferences; he is a guest lecturer at leading business schools. He has written/edited eighteen
books, including the internationally acclaimed Selling Blue Elephants, has published well over 300 articles and serves on the editorial
board of major journals.
Subjects:
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Design Strategy; Brand Management; Consumer Marketing; Market Research
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There are luxuries that most of us will never be able to afford in a lifetime, but just off the shores of the moneyed is a huge, fast growing,
land of premium value which inspires people to get there, even if they need to stretch their budget to reach it.
The Price of Global Health
Drug Pricing Strategies to Balance Patient Access and the Funding of Innovation
Ed Schoonveld
Ed Schoonveld, a leading expert and consultant in global pharmaceutical pricing and market access issues, explains
how pharmaceutical prices are determined in a complex global payer environment and what factors influence the
process. His insights will help a wide range of audiences from healthcare industry professionals to policy makers and the
broader public to gain a better understanding of this highly complex and emotionally charged field.
The Price of Global Health is the first book of its kind: an in-depth but straightforward exploration of the pharmaceutical
pricing strategy process, its underlying market access, general business and ethical considerations, and its implications
for payers, physicians and patients. It is a much needed and invaluable resource for anybody interested, involved in or
affected by the development, funding and use of prescription drugs. In particular, it is of critical importance to
pharmaceutical company executives and other leaders and professionals in commercialization and drug development,
including marketing, business development, market access and pricing, clinical development, drug discovery, regulatory
affairs, health outcomes, market research and public affairs.
The Price of Global Health is the first book of its kind: an in-depth but straightforward exploration of the pricing process
and its implications. The authors insights are designed to help a wide range of audiences gain a better understanding of
this complex and emotionally charged field. This book is an invaluable resource for anybody who is interested, involved
in or affected by the development, funding and utilization of prescription drugs. In particular, it is of critical importance to
pharmaceutical company executives and other leaders and professionals in commercialization and drug development,
including marketing, business development, market access and pricing, clinical development, drug discovery, regulatory
affairs, market research and public affairs.
Contents:
Introduction; Part A Drug Pricing and Market Access Basics: The drug pricing challenge; Payers; Fundamentals of
pricing; Reference based pricing; Health outcomes and health economics; Features, benefits, value and price. Part B
Structured P&MA Approaches: Pricing and drug development; Global payer segmentation; Key situation factors, the
PODIUM approach; The Best Price framework to pricing and market access. Part C Developing an Integrated Global
Strategy: Corporate pricing and market access function; Developing a global pricing strategy; Public policy and ethical
considerations; Risk sharing and alternative pricing schemes; Pricing research. Part D Key Healthcare Systems: United
States; Canada; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; UK; Japan; Australia; Brazil; China; India; References; Index.
About the Author:
Ed Schoonveld is one of the leading experts in Global Pharmaceutical Pricing and Market Access. He has unparalleled
experience as head of Global Market Access and Pricing functions in Wyeth, Lilly and BMS, as well as a consulting
leader in Cambridge/IMS and a number of other organizations. Currently he is helping drug industry clients structure
strategic solutions as Principal and Practice Lead for the Market Access and Pricing research and consulting practice at
ZS Associates.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Pharmaceutical Industry; Pricing; Corporate Social Responsibility; Investment
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Global drug pricing is one of the most hotly debated yet least understood aspects of the pharmaceutical industry. How do
drug companies set prices and what does it mean for patients? Why do governments increasingly get involved, and what
is its impact on the global competitive environment? How can an industry that produces life saving drugs have a poorer
public reputation than gun and tobacco industries that produce products that kill?
Project Management for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Revised Reprint
Laura Brown and Tony Grundy
Project management is the key to addressing these needs, and also to effective drug development. Given the costs of
development and the critical issue of 'time to market', project management techniques - appropriately used - are a key factor in
bringing a drug to market. In this book, Laura Brown and Tony Grundy's pharmaceutical expertise and experience offers the
reader a guide to the most relevant project management tools and techniques and how to rigorously apply them in the
pharmaceutical industry. The authors cover the technical, strategic and human aspects of project management, including
contingency planning, simulation techniques and different project options.
Complete with decision-tree diagrams, checklists, exercises and a full glossary, Project Management for the Pharmaceutical
Industry provides clinical research, drug development and quality assurance managers or directors with a one-stop reference for
successfully managing pharmaceutical projects.
The text has been revised for this edition and now includes some additional material on risk management.
Contents:
Preface; Managing pharmaceutical projects strategically; Linking pharmaceutical projects with business strategy; Defining
pharmaceutical projects; Developing pharmaceutical project strategy and plans; Evaluating pharmaceutical projects:
pharmaceutical project mobilization, control and learning; Influencing people and behaviour; Project management checklists and
cost-management project case study; Conclusion; Glossary of key project management definitions; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Laura Brown, BSc, PhD, MBA, Diploma in Clinical Science, is a Director of LB Training and Development, an independent
management consultancy and training organization for the pharmaceutical industry.She is Director of the MSc programme in
Clinical Research, School of Pharmacy at the University of Cardiff. She is also Director of TOPRA's MSc in Regulatory Affairs.
Laura has 20 years' experience of the pharmaceuticals industry and has worked with GSK, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Good
Clinical Research Practices and MDS. She has worked as a Life Cycle Project Manager, Clinical Research Manager, and as
Head of Training for a pharmaceutical training company.
Laura is co-author of five books on management and is author of the latest SCRIP report in GCP.
Tony Grundy, MA, MBA, MSc, MPhil, FCA and PhD is also co-Director of Cambridge Corporate Development, He is a Visiting
Lecturer in Strategy at Cranfield School of Management and in Corporate Finance and Strategy at Henley Management School.
He is also academic advisor on TOPRA's MSC in Regulatory Affairs.
Tony has researched the strategic and financial appraisal of major projects, and the strategic behaviour of teams involved in
complex projects. He specializes in strategic thinking, strategic team working, and project appraisal in a variety of contexts, and
has also consulted extensively in the pharmaceutical industry.
Tony is author of 17 books.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Pharmaceutical Industry; Project Management
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The pharmaceutical industry has encountered major shifts in recent years, both within the industry, and in its external
environment. The cost of healthcare rising due to an ageing population, the intensification of regulatory requirements and
mergers within the industry have led to an increased need for restructuring, cost reduction and culture change projects.
Successful OSS Project Design and Implementation
Requirements, Tools, Social Designs, Reward Structures and Co-ordination Methods
Hind Benbya and Nassim Belbaly
While software development is perhaps the most prominent example of open source, its principles have now
been applied across a wide range of product classes, industries and even scientific disciplines. Decision
makers at different levels and in a variety of fields need to improve their understanding of the factors that
contribute to the Open Source Software (OSS) effectiveness: approaches, tools, social designs, reward
structures and metrics. Successful OSS Project Design and Implementation provides a state-of-the-art
analysis of OSS design principles, their emergence and success and how they are extending well beyond
the domain of software.
Contents:
Preface; Part 1 OSS Emergence and Development: Introduction; Principles of distributed innovation. Lakhani
and Panetta; Firm'' participation i FOSS: theory and preliminary evidence, Bonaccorsi et al.; OSS adoption in
the public sector: results from the Emiglia-Romagna, Dimitri and Tartari. Part 2 OSS Rewards and Incentives
Structure: Introduction; What motivates developers to participate in OSS projects, Benbya; Social capital in
OSS communities: a cross-level research model, Robey and Wang; How far to informal credits in free
software go?, Barwolff. Part 3 OSS-Success, Measurement and Metrics: Introduction; Studies of success in
OSS projects, Stewart; FLOSS project effectiveness measures, Crowston and Howison; A little fish in a big
pond, Rainer and Gale; Index.
About the Author:
Hind Benbya is Associate Professor of Information Technology (IT) Management at GSCM-Montpellier
Business School in France. Her research consists of designing and implementing complex IT (for example,
knowledge management systems, internal knowledge markets and co-creation communities). She spent the
last 7 years working with leading firms in Europe and the United States to develop theories, models, and
frameworks to better understand how complex IT create value.
Nassim Belbaly is Associate Professor of Information Technology Management and Dean of Academic
Affairs at GSCM-Montpellier Business School, France. Before joining GSCM, he was Visiting Scholar
and Principal Researcher at the Anderson Business School at UCLA, Los Angeles.
Subjects:
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Product Development; Programme and Portfolio Management; Information Technologies
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The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy
Proposing an original and important re-conceptualization of Italian Renaissance drama, Kristin Phillips-Court
here explores how the intertextuality of major works of Italian dramatic literature is not only poetic but also
figurative. She argues that not only did the painterly gaze, so prevalent in 15th- and 16th-century devotional
art, portraiture, and visual allegory, inform humanistic theories, practices and themes, it also led prominent
Italian intellectuals to write visually evocative works of dramatic literature whose topical plots and structures
provide only a fraction of their cultural significance.
Through a combination of interpretive literary criticism, rigorous art historical analysis and cultural and
intellectual historiography, Phillips-Court offers detailed readings of individual plays juxtaposed with specific
developments and achievements in the realm of painting. Revealing more than historical connections
between artists and poets such as Botticelli and Belcari, Mantegna and Trissino, or Michelangelo and Caro,
the author locates the history of Renaissance art and drama securely within the history of ideas. She
provides us with a story about the emergence and eventual disintegration of Italian Renaissance drama as a
rigorously philosophical and empirical form.
Considering rhetorical, philosophical, ethical, religious, political-ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of each
of the plays she treats, Kristin Phillips-Court draws our attention to the intermedial conversation between the
theater and painting in a culture famously dominated by art.
Her side-by-side analysis of visual and
dramatic works brings to light how the lines and verses of the text reveal an ongoing dialogue with visual art
that was far richer and more intellectually engaged than we might reconstruct from stage diagrams and
painted backdrops.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction: written drama and visual art; Delighting the spirit: Belcari's Rappresentazione quando
la Nostra Donna Vergine Maria fu annunziata dall'Angelo Gabriello (1469); Writing for the eyes: Trissino's
Sofonisba (1514–1515); The arts of monument: Caro's Comedia degli Straccioni (1543); The interpreter's
tale: Tasso's Aminta (1573); Perspective's end: Bruno's Candelaio (1582); Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Kristin Phillips-Court is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Early Modern Literature; Renaissance Art and Visual Studies; Italian Studies; Theatre Studies
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Kristin Phillips-Court, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
The Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors
Bob Reinalda, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
How do Non-State Actors matter in international relations? This volume recognizes three types of non-state actor: non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and transnational corporations. It illustrates how they play roles alongside nationstates and are interrelated in matters of international regulation and coordination.
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parliamentarians and agencies set up by IGOs.
Part III studies the perceptions and understandings in political philosophy, international law and international relations theory. It questions
concepts used (civil society, NGO, governance) and covers the limitations to be kept in mind.
Part IV analyses the nature and impact of non-state actors. Chapters discuss processes within international bureaucracies (diplomacy,
dynamism, bureaucratic power, contribution to democracy) and the quintessence of deliberation and decision making within NGOs and IGOs
and of implementation, accountability and dispute settlement.
Part V studies specific worlds of non-state actors: humanitarian aid, human rights, security, the North-South divide, health, trade and
environment.
The accessible and articulately written Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors is aimed at a wide readership of scholars and
practitioners in international relations.
Contents:
Part I Introduction and Sources: Non-state actors in the international system of states; The Yearbook of International Organizations and
quantitative non-state actor research; Researching transnational history: the example of peace activism; The United Nations Intellectual History
Project and the role of ideas. Part II Actors Other than Governments: Transnational Religious Actors, Business Representatives and Experts:
Transnational religious actors; Transnational corporations and the regulation of business at the global level; Unravelling the political role of
experts and expertise in the professional services industry; Parliamentarians and Autonomous Agencies: Parliaments and parliamentarians as
international actors; Autonomous agencies of the European Union as non-state actors. Part III Perceptions and Understanding: Political
Philosophy, International Law and International Relations Theory: Liberal political philosophy: the role of non-state actors and considerations of
global justice; Non-governmental organizations and non-state actors in international law; Intergovernmental organizations in international
relations theory and as actors in world politics; Inter-organizational relations: an emerging research program; Concepts and Limitations: Civil
society and NGO: far from unproblematic concepts; Non-state and state actors in global governance; Limitations of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations. Part IV Nature and Impact: Processes within International Bureaucracies: Non-state actors and the transformation of
diplomacy; Dynamism and resilience of intergovernmental organizations in a world of persisting state power and rising non-state actors;
International bureaucracies: organizing world politics; Interest representation and advocacy within the European Union: the making of
democracy?; Deliberation and Decision Making: From agenda setting to decision making: opening the black box of non-governmental
organizations; Non-governmental organizations and decision making in the United Nations; The ongoing organizational reform of the United
Nations; Implementation, Accountability and Dispute Settlement: Reporting and peer review in the implementation of international rules: what role
for non-state actors?; Accountability of public and private international organizations; Non-state actors and the proliferation and individualization
of international dispute settlement. Part V Separate Worlds: Humanitarian Aid, Human Rights and Security: Politics and the world of humanitarian
aid; Non-governmental organizations in the human rights world; Non-state actors in the global security world; The North-South Divide: Non-state
actors in the development aid world as seen from the South; Cities for citizens in the global South: approaches of non-governmental
organizations working in urban development; Health, Trade and Environment: Non-state actors in the global health world; Non-state actors in
multilateral trade governance; Non-state actors and environmental governance: comparing multinational, supranational and transnational rule
making; Index.
About the Author:
Bob Reinalda is a Researcher in Political Science at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has written a history of international
organizations between 1815 and 2009, covering both intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. He has also co-edited studies
about autonomous policy making by, decision making within, and implementation by international organizations (with Bertjan Verbeek and Jutta
Joachim). He is currently preparing a biographical dictionary of secretaries-general of intergovernmental organizations.
Subjects:
Politics & International Relations:
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Critical Buddhism
Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into
chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro,
dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest to reestablish a "true" - rational, ethical and humanist - form of East Asian Buddhism, the Critical Buddhists
undertook a radical deconstruction of historical and contemporary East Asian Buddhism, particularly Zen.
While their controversial work has received some attention in English-language scholarship, this is the first
book-length treatment of Critical Buddhism as both a philosophical and religious movement, where the lines
between scholarship and practice blur. Providing a critical and constructive analysis of Critical Buddhism,
particularly the epistemological categories of critica and topica, this book examines contemporary theories of
knowledge and ethics in order to situate Critical Buddhism within modern Japanese and Buddhist thought as
well as in relation to current trends in contemporary Western thought.
Contents:
Introduction; Buddhism, criticism and postwar Japan; The roots of 'topicalism'; Problems in modern Zen
thought; Criticism as anamnesis; Radical contingency and compassion; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
James Mark Shields received a B.A. in politics and anthropology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in
1991, followed by a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, U.K. in 1993, and a M.A. in
philosophy of religion from McGill University in 1997. In 2000 he received a Monbugakusho (Ministry of
Culture and Education) Fellowship from the Japanese government, allowing him to study at Kyoto
University's Institute for Japanese Philosophy from 2000-2002. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhism and
philosophy of religion from McGill University in 2006. His research includes modern Buddhist thought,
Japanese philosophy, comparative ethics and philosophy of religion. He has published over a dozen articles,
chapters and translations in peer-reviewed scholarly publications, and is currently engaged in writing a
manuscript on the progressive and radical 'New Buddhist' movements of late-Meiji, Taisho and early Showa
Japan. He has taught courses on a variety of subjects, including Asian and comparative religions and
philosophy, sexual ethics, religion and gender studies, and religion and the arts for McGill University, Antioch
College, Bucknell University and Doshisha University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Asian and
Comparative Thought at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA and Visiting Faculty Fellow at Doshisha
University, Kyoto, Japan, 2009-10.
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An Introduction to Said Nursi
Life, Thought and Writings on Non-Violent and Engaged Islam
Contemporary Islamic thinkers are often studied sociologically rather than as theologians. There are many accessible introductions to
Christian theologians, but very few such studies of Islamic thinkers. This book, and this series, seeks to change this situation: offering
new introductions to influential Islamic thinkers and engaging, at the level of ideas, with the rich depths of contemporary Islamic
theology.
This book introduces to the English-speaking world the leading modern Islamic thinker Said Nursi (1878-1960) - who has some nine
million followers in modern day Turkey and around the world. After an opening chapter that provides an overview of his life, the next
four chapters outline the theology of Nursi on God, the Qur'an, the West and Politics. The final section provides an invaluable resource
of readings from Nursi's most important writings. Providing an introduction to a major form of Islam which is committed to non-violence,
dialogue and constructive relationships with the West, this is the first student textbook to introduce a contemporary Islamic theologian in
a systematic way.
Contents:
Introduction; The life and times of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; The concepts of God and the Qur'an; Said Nursi and spirituality; Said
Nursi's approach to disagreement and pluralism; Readings. Extracts from the Writings of Said Nursi: Part 1 Belief: Differences between
the believer and the non-believer; The four channels; The universe as a book; The supreme sign; God's unity; God has no partner;
Divine oneness and works; There is no god but God. Part 2 Prophethood: The need for prophets; Foundations of prophethood;
Muhammad the Prophet; Revelation and philosophy; Humanity, particles and the divine. Part 3 Afterlife: The 10th word; Benefits of
resurrection; The concept of bodily resurrection; Creation and resurrection; Divine name of 'ever-living'; Death as 'bounty' and the timing
of the last Judgment; Divine unity and humanity. Part 4 Justice and Worship: Centrality of the divine names; Human tendencies that
need justice; The natur and purpose of the worship of God; The importance of daily prayer; The Damascus sermon; Index.
About the Author:
The Very Rev Ian Markham is Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology and Ethics. He is the
author and editor of numerous books, including: Understanding Christian Doctrine, (Blackwell 2007), A World Religions Reader, 2nd
edition (Blackwell, 2000), Do Morals Matter? (Blackwell, 2006), Globalization, Ethics and Islam (2005), A Theology of Engagement
(Blackwell, 2004), September 11: Religious Perspectives and Consequences (2002), Theological Liberalism (2002), Encountering
Religion (Blackwell, 1998), and Truth and the Reality of God (1998). He is a priest in the Episcopal Church.
Suendam Birinci is a PhD candidate through Hartford Seminary's joint doctoral program with the University of Exeter in England. Her
area of study is comparative theologies with a focus on Christianity and Islam. She is the book review editor of the Muslim World
(published by Wiley-Blackwell) and has published in Reviews in Religion and Theology. She was involved in the Wabash Center's grant
to Hartford Seminary on 'Pedagogies of Interfaith Dialogue'. She has taught graduate courses on different aspects of Islam and interfaith
dialogue and worked with various organizations in the US orchestrating and participating in dialogue projects. She is a Muslim.
Subjects:
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Islamic Studies; Philosophy and Theology; Theology; Philosophy of Religion
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The Very Rev Ian Markham, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, USA and
Suendam Birinci, The Muslim World Journal, USA and Turkey
The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750
Visual Imagery before Orientalism
James G. Harper, University of Oregon, USA
Individual essays in this volume examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the "truths"
they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in
European art. The contributors trace the transmission of early modern images and representations across
national boundaries and across centuries to show how, through processes of translation that often involved
multiple stages, the figure of the Turk (and by extension that of the Muslim) underwent a multiplicity of
interpretations that reflect and reveal Western needs, anxieties and agendas. The essays reveal how
anachronisms and inaccuracies mingled with careful detail to produce a "Turk," a figure which became a
presence to reckon with in painting, sculpture, tapestry and printmaking.
Contents:
Introduction and Overview: The Turk and Islam in the Western eye (1450–1750): visual imagery before
orientalism, James G. Harper; Part I Venice: The sultan's true face? Gentile Bellini, Mehmet II, and the
values of verisimilitude, Elizabeth Rodini; Black Turks: Venetian artists and perceptions of Ottoman ethnicity,
Paul H.D. Kaplan; 'And the moon has started to bleed'; apocalypticism and religious reform in Venetian art at
the time of the Battle of Lepanto, Benjamin Paul; Punchinello meets the Turk: Giambattista Tiepolo's chorus
of oriental spectators, Johanna Fassl. Part II Italy and Europe: Bipolar behavior: Ferdinando I de'Medici and
the East, Christopher Pastore; Dürer's depictions of the Ottoman Turks – a case of 'early modern
orientalism'?, Heather Madar; East is East: images of the Turkish nemesis in the Hapsburg world, Larry
Silver; The barbarous and noble enemy: pictorial representations of the Battle of Lepanto, Christina Strunck.
Part III Beyond Europe: Picturing the Ottoman threat in 16th-century New Spain, Maria Judith Feliciano; The
'Frank' in the Ottoman eye of 1583, Baki Tezcan; Integrated bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
James G. Harper (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque
Art at the University of Oregon and a fellow of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies.
Series:
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Subjects:
Art and Visual Studies:
Renaissance Art and Visual Studies; Early Modern History 1500-1700; Religion and the Arts;
Middle Eastern Art and Visual Studies
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Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to
the Ottoman Empire - this collection is the first book in English to probe the place that the Ottoman Turks
occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts.
The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland,
1880–1939
Karen E. Brown, University College Dublin, Ireland
Making use of primary materials and fresh archival evidence, Brown delves into a variety of media including
embroidery, print, illustration, theatre, costume design, poetry, and painting.
Tracing the artistic relationships and outcome of W. B. Yeats's vision through five case studies, Brown
explores the poet's early engagement with artistic tradition, contributions to the Dun Emer and Cuala
Industries, collaboration between W. B. Yeats and Norah McGuinness, analysis of Thomas MacGreevy's
pictorial poetry, and a study of literary influence and debt between Jack Yeats and Samuel Beckett. Having
undertaken extensive archival research relating to word and image studies, Brown considers her findings in
historical context, with particular emphasis on questions of art and gender and art and national identity.
Interdisciplinary, this volume is one of the first full-length studies of the fraternité des arts surrounding W. B.
Yeats. It represents an important contribution to word and image studies and to debates surrounding Irish
Cultural Revival and the formation of Irish Modernism.
Contents:
W.B. Yeats and the Fraternité des Arts tradition; The Dun Emer and Cuala industries during the Irish cultural
revival; W.B. Yeats, Norah McGuinness and Irish modernism; The pictorialist poetics of Thomas MacGreevy;
Word and image relations in the later career of Jack Yeats; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Karen E. Brown is an art historian and curator specialising in modern Irish art, and editor of Women's
Contributions to Visual Culture, 1918-1939 (Ashgate, 2008).
Subjects:
Art and Visual Studies:
Modernism in Art and Visual Studies; Twentieth-Century Art and Visual Studies;
Twentieth-Century Literature; Nineteenth-Century and Victorian Art and Visual Studies
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Focusing on W. B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how
collaborations and differences between members of the Yeats family circle contributed to the metamorphosis
of the Irish Cultural Revival into Irish Modernism.
The Sculpture of John Skeaping
Jonathan Blackwood, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee,
Scotland, UK
Long overdue, The Sculpture of John Skeaping surveys the artist's rich career in the round. Alongside
discussion of Skeaping's best-known animalier works, including the well-known series of 'exotic' animals for
Wedgwood, Jonathan Blackwood also provides insights into the artist's working practices, as developed
under the tutelage of Francis Derwent Wood, and his diverse commissions that he undertook after the close
of the Second World War.
Including a full catalogue of Skeaping's sculptures plus over 200 reproductions of the artist's works, The
Sculpture of John Skeaping is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about this unjustly
neglected figure within British sculpture.
Contents:
Introduction: Who was John Skeaping?; Skeaping as student, teacher and traveller; Skeaping and materials;
Skeaping as animalier; Chronology; Selected bibliography; Selected exhibitions; Public collections;
Catalogue of sculpture; Acknowledgements; Index.
About the Author:
Jonathan Blackwood is Lecturer and Course Director, History & Theory of Art Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Fine Art , University of Dundee. He is the author of Winifred Nicholson (2001) and Portrait of a
Young Scotsman: A Life of Edward Baird (2004), in addition to numerous shorter essays and articles on
Scottish, English and Eastern European art history.
Series:
The British Sculptors and Sculpture Series
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Modern British Sculpture; Sculpture; Twentieth-Century Art and Visual Studies;
British Art and Visual Studies
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While his career spanned six decades, John Skeaping (1901-1980) is often associated with the work he
completed while he was married to Barbara Hepworth. However, this period of just six years (1926 to 1932)
ignores the range and breadth of Skeaping's visual output and fails to reflect his true artistic legacy.
Embodied Food Politics
While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social sciences, critical
geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely ignored by agro-food scholars. This
book helps fill this void by inserting into the food literature living, feeling, sensing bodies and will be of
interest to food scholars as well as those more generally interested in the phenomenon known as embodied
realism.
This book is about the materializations of food politics; "materializations", in this case, referring to our
embodied, sensuous, and physical connectivities to food production and consumption. It is through these
materializations, argues Carolan, that we know food (and the food system more generally), others and
ourselves.
Contents:
Thinking about food relationally; Some backstory; Making sense with CSAs; Thinking with Heritage Seed
Banks; The sensibilities of chicken coops; Cultivating communities; Steps to an ecology of social change;
References; Index.
About the Author:
Michael Carolan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.
Series:
Critical Food Studies
Subjects:
Human Geography:
Social & Cultural Geography; Sociology of Health and the Body; Food Industry; Environmental Geography
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
Throughout history, the functions and roles of borders have been continuously changing. They can only be understood in their context,
shaped as they are by history, politics and power, as well as cultural and social issues. Borders are therefore complex spatial and social
phenomena which are not static or invariable, but which are instead highly dynamic. This comprehensive volume brings together a
multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of all aspects of borders and border
research. It is truly global in scope and, besides embracing the more traditional strands of the field including geopolitics, migration and
territorial identities, it also takes in recently emerging topics such as the role of borders in a seemingly borderless world; creating
neighbourhoods, and border enforcement in the post-9/11 era.
Contents:
Introduction, Doris Wastl-Walter; Section I Theorizing Borders: Conceptual Aspects of Border Studies: A border theory: an unattainable
dream or a realistic aim for border scholars?, Anssi Paasi; Contemporary research agendas in border studies: an overview, David
Newman; The mask of the border, Henk van Houtum; Borders and memory, Tatiana Zhurzhenko; Border regions as neighbourhoods,
Alan K. Henrikson; The border as method: towards an analysis of political subjectivities in transmigrant spaces, Stefanie Kron. Section II
Geopolitics: State, Nation and Power Relations: Borders, border studies and EU enlargement, James Wesley Scott; The 'green line' of
Cyprus: a contested boundary in flux, Nicos Peristianis and John C. Mavris; Post-Soviet boundaries: territoriality, identity, security,
circulation, Vladimir Kolossov; Polar regions – comparing Arctic and Antarctic border debates, Lassi Heininen and Michele Zebich-Knos;
Spaces, territorialities and ethnography on the Thai-, Sino- and Indo-Myanmar boundaries, Karin Dean. Section III Border Enforcement
in the 21st Century: The emerging politics of border management: policy and research considerations, Jason Ackleson; Building borders
the hard way: enforcing North American security post 9/11, Heather Nicol; Blurring boundaries/sharpening borders: analysing the US's
use of military aviation technologies to secure international borders, 2001–2008, Alison J. Williams; A retrospective look at the nature of
national borders in Latin America, Edgardo Manero; The inter-Korean border region – 'meta-border' of the Cold War and metamorphic
frontier of the peninsula, Valérie Gelézeau. Section IV Borders and Territorial Identities: the Mechanisms of Exclusion and Inclusion:
National minorities in European border regions, Jan D. Markusse; The borderland existence of the Mongolian Kazakhs: boundaries and
the construction of territorial belonging, Alexander C. Diener; Borders and territorial identity: Persian identity makes Iran an empire of
the mind, Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh. Section V The Role of Borders in a Seemingly Borderless World: Waiting for work: labour migration
and the political economy of borders, Roos Pijpers; A cross-boundary mega city-region in China under 'two systems': multi-level
governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta, Chun Yang; Global city frontiers: Singapore's hinterland and the contested geographies of
Bintan, Indonesia, Tim Bunnell, Hamzah Muzaini and James D. Sidaway; Cross-border cooperation and regional responses to NAFTA
and globalization, Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi. Section VI Crossing Borders: Everyday practices of bordering and the threatened bodies of
undocumented North Korean border-crossers, Eunyoung Christina Choi; Women and migration in Asia – eroding borders, new fixities,
Parvati Raghuram and Nicola Piper; Western Sahara - territoriality, border conceptions and border realities, Elisabeth Bäschlin and
Mohamed Sidati. Section VII Creating Neighbourhoods: Different neighbours in the Carpatho-Pannonian area, Károly Kocsis and
Monica Mária Váradi; Transcending the national space: the institutionalization of cross-border territory in the lower Danube Euroregion,
Gabriel Popescu. Section VIII Nature and Environment: Natural resources and transnational governance, Juliet J. Fall; One decade of
transfrontier conservation areas in Southern Africa, Sanette L.A. Ferreira; The delimitation of maritime boundaries: an incomplete
mosaic, Clive Schofield; Index.
About the Author:
Professor Doris Wastl-Walter, Director of the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Early Modern Women in the Low Countries
Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past
Combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late
medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art,
architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been
interpreted in modern academic and popular contexts.
Broomhall and Spinks analyse late medieval and early modern women's opportunities to narrate their
experiences and ideas, as well as the processes that have shaped their representation in the heritage and
cultural tourism of the Netherlands and Belgium today. The authors study female-authored objects such as
familial and political letters, dolls' houses, account books; those visual sources, funeral monuments, and
buildings commissioned by female patrons; and further artworks as well as heritage sites, streetscapes,
souvenirs and clothing with gendered historical resonances.
Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites
and urban precincts, the authors argue that interpretations of late medieval and early modern women's
experiences by historians and art scholars interact with presentations by cultural and heritage tourism
providers in significant ways that deserve closer interrogation by feminist researchers.
Contents:
Introduction; Writing elite women into the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands; Visualizing women's work
in the textile trades at the dawn of the Golden Age; Memorializing grief in familial and national narratives of
Dutch identity; Imagining domesticity in early modern Dutch dolls' houses; The Rembrandt House and the
Rubens House: encountering early modern women through heritage sites; Sources and settings: the uses of
place for tourism, heritage and history; Purchasing the past: gender and the consumption of heritage;
Conclusion: from yesterday to tomorrow: seeing and hearing women in the Low Countries; List of woks cited;
Index.
About the Author:
Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia.
Jennifer Spinks is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne,
Australia.
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Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia and Jennifer Spinks, University of
Melbourne, Australia
Exploring the Boundaries of International Criminal Justice
This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of
trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies. In developing arguments in
relation to these problems, the authors use international sentencing and the question of victims' interests and
expectations as a focus.
The conclusions reached are wide-ranging and highly significant in challenging existing conceptions for
appreciating and giving effect to the justice demands of victims of war and social conflict. The themes
developed demonstrate clearly how comparative contextual analysis facilitates our understanding of the legal
and social contexts of international punishment and how this understanding can provide the basis for
expanding the role of restorative international criminal justice within the context of international criminal trials.
Contents:
Introduction: rethinking international criminal justice; Part I Achieving Justice in Post-Conflict Societies: Mass
atrocity: theories and concepts of accountability – on the schizophrenia of accountability, Caroline Fournet;
Collective responsibility for global crime – limitations with the liability paradigm, Mark Findlay; Victims'
expectations towards justice in post-conflict societies: a bottom-up perspective, Ernsto Kiza and Holger
Rohne; Making international criminal procedure work: from theory to practice, Richard Vogler; Should states
bear the responsibility of imposing sanctions on its citizens who as witnesses commit crimes before the
ICC?, Sylvia Ngane. Part II International Criminal Justice as Governance: Exclusion and inclusion: from biopolitics to bio-legality, Edwin Bikundo; Contrasting dynamics of global administrative measures and
international criminal courts: cosmopolitanism, multilateralism, state interests, Nicholas Dorn; Governing
through globalised crime: thoughts on the transition from terror, Mark Findlay; Evaluating sentencing as a
force for achieving justice in international criminal trials, Ralph Henham; The paradox of global terrorism and
community based security, Clive Walker; Index.
About the Author:
Ralph Henham is Professor of Criminal Justice at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. His
research interests are in International and Comparative Criminal Justice and International Sentencing and
Penality in particular. He has published widely on these and related areas.
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Ralph Henham, Nottingham Trent University, UK and Mark Findlay, University of Sydney,
Australia
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France
Stories of Gender and Reproduction
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such
bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political
institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and scientific
discourse. In this study, Kirk Read brings together literary and medical texts that represent a range of views,
from lyric poets, satirists and polemicists, to midwives and surgeons, all of whom explore the popular
sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century narratives of birth in France.
Although the rhetoric of birthing was widely used, strategies and negotiations depended upon sex and
gender; this study considers the male, female, and hermaphroditic experience, offering both an analysis of
women's experiences to be sure, but also opening onto the perspectives of non-female birthers and their
place in the social and political climate of early modern France. The writers explored include Rabelais,
Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches, Louise Boursier, Pierre de Ronsard, Pierre Boaistuau and Jacques
Duval. Read also explores the implications of the metaphorical use of reproduction, such as the presentation
of literary work as offspring and the poet/mentor relationship as that of a suckling child.
Foregrounded in the study are the questions of what it means for women to embrace biological and literary
reproduction and how male appropriation of the birthing body influences the mission of creating new literary
traditions. Furthermore, by exploring the cases of indeterminate birthing entities and the social anxiety that
informs them, Read complicates the binarisms at work in the vexed terrain of sexuality, sex, and gender in
this period. Ultimately, Read considers how the narrative of birth produces historical conceptions of identity,
authority, and gender.
Contents:
Introduction; Spying at the lying-in: Les Caquets de l'accouchée as birthing event; Staging the competent
midwife: the royal birth stories of François Rabelais and Louise Boursier; Touching and telling: gendered
variations on a gynecological theme; Assimilation with a vengeance: maternity without women in male
French Renaissance lyric; Unstable bodies: birthing monstrosities in early modern France; Strange fellows in
bed: exotic men's postpartum blues; Postpartum; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Kirk Read is an Associate Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at
Bates College, USA.
Series:
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Literary Studies:
Early Modern Literature; Women & Gender in Literature; History of Medicine; French Studies
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Heroism in the Harry Potter Series
Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection
examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat
simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The
collection's three sections address broad issues related to genre, Harry Potter's development as the central
heroic character and the question of who qualifies as a hero in the Harry Potter series. Among the topics are
Harry Potter as both epic and postmodern hero, the series as a modern-day example of psychomachia, the
series' indebtedness to the Gothic tradition, Harry's development in the first six film adaptations, Harry Potter
and the idea of the English gentleman, Hermione Granger's explicitly female version of heroism, adult role
models in Harry Potter, and the complex depictions of heroism exhibited by the series' minor characters.
Together, the essays suggest that the Harry Potter novels rely on established generic, moral and popular
codes to develop new and genuine ways of expressing what a globalized world has applauded as ethically
exemplary models of heroism based on responsibility, courage, humility and kindness.
Contents:
Introduction, Karin Berndt and Lena Steveker; Section 1 Heroism in Generic Perspective: A paradox: the
Harry Potter series as both epic and postmodern, Mary Pharr; Harry Potter and the battle for the soul: the
revival of psychomachia in secular fiction, Rita Singer; The diffusion of Gothic conventions in Harry Potter
and the Order of the Phoenix (2003/2007), Suzanne Gruss; Harry and his peers: Rowling's web of allusions,
Lisa Hopkins. Part II The Formation of the Hero: 'Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry': the
heroic self in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Lena Steveker; Harry Potter's archetypal journey, Julia Boll;
Harry Potter – the development of a screen hero, Jennifer Schütz; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(2004), or, how Harry Potter becomes a hero, Nadine Böhm. Section 3 Heroic Originals, Friends and Foes:
Harry Potter and the idea of the gentleman as hero, Christine Berberich; Hermione Granger, or, a vindication
of the rights of girl, Katrin Berndt; The influence of gender on Harry potter's heroic (trans)formation, Karley
Adney; Adult heroism and role models in the Harry Potter novels, Maria Nikolajeva; Heroism at the margins,
Kathleen McEvoy; Index.
About the Author:
Katrin Berndt is assistant professor of English and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Bremen
University, and Lena Steveker is assistant professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland
University, Germany.
Series:
Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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Children's Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; History of Childhood; Women & Gender in Literature
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Katrin Berndt, Bremen University, Germany and Lena Steveker, Saarland University,
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Jane Austen's Anglicanism
In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham White suggests that engaging with
Austen's world in all its strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely different presumptions
about the cosmos and human nature. While Austen's readers often project postmodern and secular
perspectives onto an Austen who reflects their own times and values, White argues that viewing Austen's
Anglicanism through the lens of primary sources of the period, including the complex history of the Georgian
church to which Austen was intimately connected all her life, provides a context for understanding the central
conflict between Austen's malicious wit and her family's testimony to her Christian piety and kindness. White
draws connections between Austen's experiences with the clergy, liturgy, doctrine, and religious readings
and their fictional parallels in the novels; shows how orthodox Anglican concepts such as natural law and the
Great Chain of Being resonate in Austen's work; and explores Austen's awareness of the moral problems of
authorship relative to God as Creator. She concludes by surveying the ontological and moral gulf between
the worldview of Emma and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, arguing that the evangelical
earnestness of Austen's day has become a figure of mockery by the late nineteenth century.
Contents:
Section 1 Jane Austen and Anglicanism: Introduction; Jane Austen's religious inheritance: the Georgian
Church; Jane Austen as an Anglican and Anglicanism in the novels; Austen and the Anglican worldview.
Section 2 The Sins of the Author: Word-play, candor, and malice; World-making; Coda: Austen and the
importance of being earnest; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Laura Mooneyham White is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Eighteenth-Century Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Women & Gender in Literature;
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Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Image, Sound, and Touch
Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among
image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of
literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when
media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized.
Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the
relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's
Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics
include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative;
the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms;
the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how
the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenthcentury information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating
historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new
media and (re)mediation today.
Contents:
Introduction: the 19th-century invention of media, Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley; Part I Image: The Wordsworths'
daffodils: on the page, upon the inward eye, in their media ecology, Richard Menke; 'So that the sense of touch may
supply the want of sight': blind reading and 19th-century British print culture, Vanessa Warne; A literature of its own:
time, space, and narrative mediations in Victorian photography, Daniel A. Novak; Kaleidoscopic vision in late Victorian
Bohemia: George Sims's Social Kaleidoscope, Helen Groth. Part II Sound: A modern poetry of sensation: three
Christmas gift books and the legacy of Victorian material culture, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; Visible sound and auditory
scenes: word, image, and music in Tennyson, D.G. Rossetti amd Morris, Linda Hughes; Piano, telegraph, typewriter:
listening to the language of touch, Ivan Raykoff. Part III Touch: Tactile modernity: on the rationalization of touch in the
19th century, David P. Parisi; Teleny, the secret touch, and the media geography of the clandestine book trade (1880–
1900), Colette Colligan; Touching at a distance: telegraphy, gender, and Henry James's In the Cage, Christopher Keep;
Frankenstein revisited: life and afterlife around 1831, Margaret Linley; Index.
About the Author:
Colette Colligan is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Margaret Linley is a member of the
English Department and Print Culture Program at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Series:
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Literary Studies:
Nineteenth-Century Literature; History of Science and Technology; Cultural & Media Studies;
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Colette Colligan, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Margaret Linley, Simon Fraser
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Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century
The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the
representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period.
Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of
brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair. As the contributors engage with acts of
piracy by men and women in the literary marketplace as well as on the high seas, they show that both forms
were foundational in the promotion and execution of Britain's imperial ambitions. Linking the pirate's
development as a literary figure with the history of piracy and the making of the modern state tells us much
about race, class, and evolving gender relationships. While individual chapters examine key texts like
Treasure Island, Dickens's 1857 'mutiny' story in Household Words, and Peter Pan, the collection as a whole
interrogates the growth of pirate myths and folklore throughout the nineteenth century and the depiction of
their nautical heirs in contemporary literature and culture.
Contents:
Introduction, Grace Moore; Pirate chic: tracing the aesthetics of literary piracy, Mel Campbell; The pirate poet
in the 19th century: Trollope and Byron, Deborah Lutz; Playing pirate; real and imaginary angrias in Branwell
Brontë's writing, Joetta Harty; Ho for China! Piratical incursions, free trade, imperialism and modern Chinese
history, 1832–1834, Ting Man Tsao; The wreck of The Corsair: piracy, political economy and American
publishing, Andrew Knighton; Female pirates and nationalism in 19th-century American popular fiction,
Katherine Anderson; Mutiny on the Orion: the legacy of The Hermione mutiny and the politics of non-violent
protest in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, Deborah Denenholz Morse; Acts of piracy: Black Ey'd Susan,
theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage, Kate Mattacks; The perils of empire: Dickens, Collins and the
Indian Mutiny, Garrett Ziegler; Pirates for boys: masculinity and degeneracy in R.M. Ballantyne's adventure
novels, Grace Moore; Piracy, race and domestic peril in Hard Cash, Sean Grass; The pirates of Penzance:
the slaves of duty in an age of piracy, Abigail Burnham Bloom; 'Dooty is dooty': pirates and sea-lawyers in
Treasure Island, Alex Thomson; Staging the pirate: the ambiguities of representation and the significance of
convention, Victor Emeljanow; Bram Stoker's The Mystery of the Sea: law lawlessness, piracy and
protectionism, Carol A. Senf; Piracy and the ends of romantic commercialism: Victorian businessmen meet
Malay pirates, Tamara Wagner; Index.
About the Author:
Grace Moore teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely on Victorian
literature and culture and is the author of Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004).
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The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie
A Critical Appraisal
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) has had an immense impact on popular culture throughout the world. His folk
music brought traditional song from the rural communities of the American south to the urban American listener and,
through the global influence of American culture, to listeners and musicians alike throughout Europe and the Americas.
Similarly, his use of music as a medium of social and political protest has created a new strategy for campaigners in
many countries. But Guthrie's music was only one aspect of his multifaceted life. His labour-union activism helped
embolden the American working class, and united such distinct groups as the rural poor, the urban proletariat, merchant
seamen and military draftees, contributing to the general call for workers' rights during the 1930s and 1940s. As well as
penning hundreds of songs (both recorded and unrecorded), Guthrie was also a prolific writer of non-sung prose, writing
regularly for the American Communist press, producing volumes of autobiographical writings and writing hundreds of
letters to family, friends and public figures. Furthermore, beyond music Guthrie also expressed his creative talents
through his numerous pen-and-ink sketches, a number of paintings and occasional forays into poetry.
This collection provides a rigorous examination of Guthrie's cultural significance and an evaluation of both his
contemporary and posthumous impact on American culture and international folk-culture. The volume utilizes the rich
resources presented by the Woody Guthrie Foundation.
Contents:
Foreword: hard discoursin': multidisciplinary perspectives and the new Guthrie scholarship, Jorge Arévalo Mateus;
Preface, John S. Partington; Part I 'All You Can Write Is What You See': Woody Guthrie's Songs as Diagnosis and Cure:
'Pastures of plenty'; Woody Guthrie and the New Deal, Richard Nate; 'There's a better world a-coming': resolving the
tension between the urban and rural visions in the writings of Woody Guthrie, John S. Partington; Woody Guthrie and the
cultural front, Will Kaufman; Playing legend maker: Woody Guthrie's 'Jackhammer John', Mark Allan Jackson; 'Words to
shoot back at you': Woddy Guthrie's 'war' against German Fascism, Martin Butler. Part II Creating an Icon: The (Self)Imaging of Woody Guthrie: 'Always on the go': the figure of the hobo in the songs and writings of Woody Guthrie, Martin
Butler; 'Hard travelin'': constructing Woody Guthrie's dust bowl legacy, Jeff Morgan; Woody Guthrie, aka 'the guy who
wrote "This Land is Your Land"', Frank Erik Pointner. Part III Partnering and Siring: Woody Guthrie in Comparative
Perspective: Will Geer and Woody Guthrie: a folk music friendship, Ronald D. Cohen; The performer and the promoter,
Ed Cray; Good man, honest man: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the role of the folk outlaw, D.A. Carpenter;
Bibliography; Index.
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Dr John S. Partington
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Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous
Cultures
The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships
between opera and First Nations and indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject
as its focus, addressing the changing historical depictions of indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary hybridizations of
the form by indigenous and First Nations artists. The use of 're/presenting' in the title signals an important distinction between how
representations of indigenous identity have been constructed in opera by non-indigenous artists, and how indigenous artists have more
recently utilized opera as an interface to present and develop their cultural practices.
The volume explores how operas on indigenous subjects reflect the evolving relationships between indigenous peoples, the colonizing
forces of imperial power, and forms of internal colonization in developing nation-states. Drawing upon postcolonial theory,
ethnomusicology, cultural geography and critical discourses on nationalism and multiculturalism, the collection brings together experts
on opera and music in Canada, the Americas and Australia in a stimulating comparative study of indigenous operatic re/presentation.
Contents:
Introduction, Pamela Karantonis and Dylan Robinson; Part I Critical and Comparative Contexts: Opera's Colonizing Force and
Decolonizing Potential: Orpheus conquistador, Nicholas Till; De-centering opera: early 21st-century indigenous production, Beverley
Diamond; 'Singing from the margins': postcolonial themes in Voss and Waiting for the Barbarians, Michael Halliwell; Performativity and
agency: mimetics and indigenous opera, Pamela Karantonis. Part II Australian Perspectives: 'To didj or not to didj': exploring indigenous
representation in Australian music theatre works by Margaret Sutherland and Andrew Schultz, Anne Boyd; Giving voice to the un-voiced
'witch' and the 'heart of nothingness': Moya Henderson's Lindy, Linda Kouvaras; The Eighth Wonder: explorations of place and voice,
Anne Power. Part III Indianism in the Americas: Indianismo in Brazilian romantic opera: shifting ideologies of national foundation, Maria
Alice Volpe; Native songs, Indianist styles and the process of music idealization in Shanewis, Tara Browner; Composed and produced
in the American West, 1912–1913: two operatic portraits of First Nations cultures, Catherine Parsons Smith. Part IV Canadian
Perspectives: Assimilation, integration, and individuation: the evolution of First Nations musical citizenship in Canadian opera, Mary I.
Ingraham; 'Too much white man in it': aesthetic colonization in Tzinquaw, Alison Greene; Peaceful surface and monstrous depths: a
discursive analysis of Barbara Pentland and Dorothy Livesay's The Lake, Dylan Robinson; The politics of genre: exposing historical
tensions in Harry Somers' Louis Riel, Coleen Lydia Renihan. Part V New Creation and Collaborative Processes: Creating Pimooteewin,
Robin Elliott; After McPhee: Evan Ziporyn's A House in Bali, Victoria Vaughan; West coast First Peoples and The Magic Flute: Tracing
the journey of a cross cultural collaboration, Robin McQueen interviewed by Dylan Robinson, with responses by Cathi Charles W herry
and Tracey Herbert, Lorna Williams, and Marion Newman; Pecan Summer: the process of making a new indigenous opera in Australia,
Deborah Cheetham and Daniel Browning, interviewed by Pamela Karantonis; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Pamela Karantonis, Senior Lecturer in Drama, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and Dr Dylan Robinson, Postdoctoral
Fellow, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Pamela Karantonis, University of the West of England, UK and Dylan Robinson, University
of Toronto, Canada.
Geometry and Atmosphere
Theatre Buildings from Vision to Reality
Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent performing arts buildings
with budgets ranging from £3.4 million to over £100 million, this book presents unique and valuable insights
into the complex process of building for the arts. Each theatre project, from tailor-made spaces for avantgarde companies to iconic and innovative receiving houses yields surprising and counter-intuitive findings.
For each of the six projects, the authors have interviewed all those involved. Combining these interviews with
exhaustive archival research. the authors then provide cross-case analysis which is then distilled into
practical guidance for all stakeholders in new arts projects who hope to transform their vision into reality. In
particular, the book challenges the technical focus of existing design guides for the Performing Arts by
suggesting that current practice in briefing and design does not serve the Arts community especially well. It
shows that there is a need for a more flexible approach that places artistic requirements first.
As well as being of interest to architects, urban designers and those involved in theatre studies, this book will
be useful to other sectors where public money is spent on major building projects.
Contents:
Foreword; Introduction; 'Almost as important as jobs, housing and education': the context of the publicly
funded arts in Britain, Alistair Fair; 'A means of unlocking future opportunity': The Lowry, Salford, Alan Short;
'Defining the essence of the organization through architecture' Contact Theatre, Manchester, Alan Short; 'An
exercise in knowing abstemiousness': Poole Arts Centre – 'The Lighthouse', Alan Short; 'Making something
extraordinary'; Belgrade II, Coventry, Alistair Fair; 'Turn the theatre inside out': Curve, Leicester, Alan Short;
'So fabulously theatrical you can almost chew on it': Hackney Empire, Alan Short and Alistair Fair; 'Many a
theatrical scheme has come to grief because it put bricks and mortar before drama': some familiar issues,
1926–1996, Alistair Fair; An architect's photographic view: the design and life of the theatres, Giorgios
Artopoulos; Emerging themes, Peter Barrett and Monty Sutrisna; Conclusions; Select bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Professor Alan Short is Head of the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK and is also the
Principle of Short & Associates architectural practice. Professor Peter Barrett, is PRo-Vice Chancellor for
Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Salford, UK. He is also Chairman of SCRI and an active
member of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
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Ethics and the Use of Force
Just War in Historical Perspective
Highlighting the just war tradition in historical perspective, this valuable study looks at contemporary
implications drawn out in the context of several important contemporary debates: within the field of religion,
including both Christian and Islamic thought; within the field of debate related to the international law of
armed conflicts; within the field of policy relating to the use of armed force where the issue is just war
thinking vs. realism; and debates over pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of war which cross
disciplinary lines.
James Turner Johnson has been writing on just war tradition since 1975, developing the historical
understanding of just war and seeking to draw out its implications for contemporary armed conflict.
Frequently asked to lecture on topics drawn from his work, this current book brings together a number of
essays which reflect his recent thinking on understanding how and why just war tradition coalesced in the
first place, how and why it has developed as it has, and relating contemporary just war reasoning to the
historical tradition of just war.
Contents:
Introduction: the use of history in thinking about morality and war; Part 1 Two Moral traditions on the Use of
Force: The just war idea in historical tradition and current debate; Just war: breaking the tradition; just war
and jihad: two traditions on the use of force; Tracing the contours of the jihad of individual duty in Islamic
juristic tradition. Part 2 Just War and International Law: Grotius' use of history and charity in the modern
transformation of the just war idea; Looking back as a way of going forward: just war tradition and
international law. Part 3 Just War and Political realism: Moral judgment in international affairs: the limits of
realism; Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism and the idea of just war. Part 4 Pressing Contemporary
Problems: The idea of defense in historical and contemporary thinking about just war; Contemporary warfare
and the challenges to efforts at restraint; The use of armed force and the goal of peace; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Dr. James Turner Johnson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Religion, Rutgers University, USA.
Series:
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New Wars and New Soldiers
Military Ethics in the Contemporary World
Brings together experts on military ethics to discuss the changing nature of the military's role in the
contemporary world. New military technologies, the rise of private military companies, and the increasing
involvement of the military in counterterrorism and humanitarian operations all pose challenges to traditional
ideas about the ethics of war, the relevance of current international law governing armed conflict, and Just
War theory. In particular, the chapters in this volume explore the ethical issues posed by recent
developments such as the war on terrorism, the use of military robotics, the idea of 'new wars', the ethics of
humanitarian intervention, and the role of private military companies. Aimed at both military and academic
audiences, this volume will be of interest to those involved in philosophy, sociology, international relations,
politics, and security studies.
Contents:
Introduction, Paolo Tripodi and Jessica Wolfendale; Part 1 New Visions of Just war Theory: New wars and
just war theory, Jessica Wolfendale; Just war, irregular war, and terrorism, Stephen Coleman; The jus post
bellum, C.A.J. (Tony) Coady. Part 2 Humanitarian Intervention: High-fliers: who should bear the risk of
humanitarian intervention?, Gerhard Overland; On a duty of humanitarian intervention, David Lefkowitz. Part
3 New Technologies in the Battlefield: Emerging military technologies: a case study in neurowarfare, Nick
Evans; Robotic weapons and the future of war, Robert Sparrow. Part 4 New Actors on the Battlefield: Ethics
and mercenaries, Uwe Steinhoff; Ethics and the human terrain: the ethics of military anthropology, George
Lucas; To whom does a private military commander owe allegiance?, Deane-Peter Baker. Part 5 Combat
Behavior and Training: Deconstructing the evil zone. An exploration of why ordinary individuals can commit
atrocities, Paolo Tripodi; Psychological foundations of unethical actions in military operations, Peter Bradley;
Moral formation of the strategic corporal, Rebecca Johnson; Loyalty and professionalization in the military,
Peter Olsthoorn; Index.
About the Author:
Paolo Tripodi, Marine Corps University, USA and Jessica Wolfendale, West Virginia University, USA.
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Paolo Tripodi, Marine Corps University, USA and Jessica Wolfendale, West Virginia
University, USA
Ethnomethodology at Work
Mark Rouncefield, Lancaster University, UK and Peter Tolmie, University of Nottingham, UK
With contributions from leading experts in the field, including Graham Button, John Hughes and Wes
Sharrock, Ethnomethodology at Work explores the contribution that ethnomethodological studies continue to
make to our understanding of the ways in which people actually accomplish work from day to day. As such, it
will appeal not only to those working in the areas of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to
those with interests in the sociology of work and organisations.
Contents:
Overview: Garfinkel's bastards, Mark Rouncefield and Peter Tolmie; The sociologist as movie critic, Dave
Randall and Wes Sharrock; The project as an organisational environment for the division of labour, Wes
Sharrock; Organisational acumen, Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield; On calculation, John A. Hughes;
Plans and planning - conceptual confusions and empirical investigations, Dave Randall and Mark
Rouncefield; The temporal order of work, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield and Peter Tolmie; Talk – talking
the organisation into being, David Martin and Jacki O'Neill; Meetings and the accomplishment of
organization, John Hughes, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield and Peter Tolmie; Documents, Mark
Hartswood, Mark Rouncefield, Roger Slack and Andrew P. Carlin; Text at work – mundane practices of
reading in workplaces, John Rooksby; Technology, Mark Rouncefield, Mark Hartswood and Roger Slack;
Conclusion – ethnomethodology and constructionist studies of technology, Wes Sharrock and Graham
Button; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Mark Rouncefield is Senior Research Fellow in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK and
Peter Tolmie is Principal Consultant for Ethnographic Services at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Series:
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Bringing together one of the most important bodies of research into people's working practices, this volume
outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to work, providing an introduction to the
key conceptual resources ethnomethodology has drawn upon in its studies, and a set of substantive
chapters that examine how people work from a foundational perspective.
God, Eternity and Time
"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means
timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to
answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on
the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be
reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection?
An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem
of God's relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity
(Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein's
Special Theory of Relativity.
This book tackles philosophical questions which are of utmost importance for Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to
deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality:
time.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I In Defence of Divine Timelessness: On existing all at once, Robert Pasnau; Eternity, simplicity, and
presence, Eleonore Stump; Why we need God's eternity, Thomas Schärtle. Part II Divine Omniscience and Human
Freedom: Eternity and fatalism, Linda Zagzebski; Molina on foreknowledge and transfer of necessities, Christopher
Jäger. Part III In Favour of a 'Third Way': Eternity and In-nity, Christian Tapp; The difference creation makes: relative
timelessness reconsidered, Alan G. Padgett; Timeless action? Temporality and/or eternity in God's being and acting,
Reinhold Bernhardt. Part IV In Defence of Divine Temporalism, or: In Debate with Science: Divine eternity and Einstein's
special theory of relativity. E. William Lane Craig; Eternity in process philosophies, Hans Kraml; Bibliography; Index of
persons.
About the Author:
Christian Tapp holds degrees in Catholic Theology, Mathematics, History of Science and Philosophy (the two latter ones
doctoral degrees). He started his career as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Göttingen Philosophical Institute, spent a
year as a postdoc at CMU Pittsburgh Philosophy Dept. and two years at the Institute for Christian Philosophy of
Innsbruck University (Austria). Since August 2008 he is Juniorprofessor (Assistant Professor equiv.) for interdisciplinary
questions of Philosophy and Theology, and Head of the research group "Infinitas Dei" at the Faculty for Catholic
Theology of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). In 2009 he became a member of the Junges Kolleg of the NordrheinWestfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Edmund Runggaldier SJ studied Philosophy at a Jesuit Faculty near Munich (Germany) and Theology at Innsbruck
University (Austria). In 1977 he received his Ph.D. from Oxford University supervised by Alfred J. Ayer. He started his
career the same year at Innsbruck University's Institute for Christian Philosophy, where he received his Habilitation in
1983 and became full professor in 1990. 1993-1995 Dean of the Theological Faculty in Innsbruck; Visiting Scholar at
Notre Dame and Loyola University, Chicago (USA); 2003-2007 adjunct professor of analytical ontology at the Catholic
University of Milano (Italy); 2007-2009 Romano Guardini Chair for Catholic Weltanschauung at the Protestant
Theological Faculty at Humboldt Universität Berlin (Germany).
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Religion & Theology:
Philosophy and Theology; Philosophy of Religion; Systematic Theology; Science and Religion
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Christian Tapp, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany and Edmund Runggaldier, Innsbruck
University, Austria
Architecture and Science-Fiction Film
Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home
The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction
(SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have
proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'.
The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect
on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of
such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. The familiar is often seen to require no
interpretation because it is already understood, yet there is an inquisitive process involved in the unfamiliar
that allows for new understandings. By utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently
linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for
contemporary architecture is made possible.
Contents:
Part 1 Science-Fiction, Architecture and Home: Defining science-fiction: Darko Suvin and the genre; The
future and home; Postfuturism and shifting notions of home; Learning from Dick: architectural perspectives
on science-fiction. Part 2 Re-Visioning Home in Dick-Inspired Films: Killing home: Blade Runner's strange
obsessions and omissions; Relinquishing home: identity through architectural 'otherness'; Resurrecting
home: scattered boundaries and domesti-city; Becoming home: identities, insects, and the dirty dwelling
dilemma. Part 3 Go Home – I'm Home – Becoming Home: Architecture and grammar in SF; Bibliography;
Filmography; Webpages; Index.
About the Author:
Dr David T. Fortin, is an Assistant Professor at the Montana State University, Montana State University,
USA.
Series:
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Architecture/Landscape:
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Material Geographies of Household Sustainability
Constructing a series of imperatives for linking culturally informed research around household sustainability with policy
and planning, this book begins to chart some new directions. The focus on the household, or 'home', in this collection
provides a window into the sheer diversity of homemaking and maintenance activities that entail resource use. These
practices have affective or emotive dimensions as well as habitual aspects. Diversity, innovation and change at the
household scale is often missed in policy approaches which assume that simplistic economic motivations drive demand
and this can in turn be 'managed' through regulation or market pricing.
The research challenge extends beyond describing existing unsustainable political economies driving resource intensive
behaviour and considers realistic options for transformations in cultural practices, material relationships and, ultimately,
the political economies they sit within. Without change in these systems, government initiatives to promote ecological
modernisation run the risk of simply green washing the very political economies of consumption that currently drive
unsustainable practices. Social and cultural change at the household level is critical to promoting sustainability at a range
of wider scales.
Contents:
Introduction, Ruth Lane and Andrew Gorman-Murray; Part 1 Contributions of a Cultural Approach to Household
Sustainability: Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of household sustainability, Chris Gibson,
Gordon Waitt, Lesley Head and Nick Gill; A domestic twist on the eco-efficiency turn: environmentalism, technology,
home, Aidan Davison; Sustainability, consumption and the household in developing world contexts, Willem Paling and
Tim Winter; Discussion, Gay Hawkins. Part 2 Domestic Spaces and Material Flows: Beyond McMansions and green
homes: thinking household sustainability through materialities of 'homeyness', Robyn Dowling and Emma Power;
Remaking home: the reuse of goods and materials in Australian households, Ralph Horne, Cecily Maller and Ruth Lane;
Bottled water practices: reconfiguring drinking in Bangkok households, Gay Hawkins and Kane Race; Discussion, Louise
Crabtree. Part 3 Governance and Citizenship: Mapping geographies of reuse in Sheffield and Melbourne, Matt Watson
and Ruth Lane; Build it like you mean it: replicating ethical innovation in physical and institutional design, Louise
Crabtree; Rethinking responsibility? Household sustainability in the stakeholder society, Andy Scerri; Environmental
politics, green governmentality and the possibility of a 'creative grammar' for domestic sustainable consumption, Kersty
Hobson; Discussion, Aidan Davison; Conclusion: tackling the 'missing scale' in environmental policy, Ruth Lane and
Andrew Gorman-Murray; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Ruth Lane, Senior Lecturer, Human Dimensions of Envt and Sustainability, School of Geography and Environmental
Science, Monash University, Australia.
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Environmental Geography; Environmental Policy; Social & Cultural Geography; Urban Studies
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Ruth Lane, Monash University, Australia and Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of
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Demography at the Edge
Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations
Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and
contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations.
With the emphasis on human populations as dynamic, adaptive, evolving systems, it explores how populations respond in different ways
to changing environmental, cultural and economic conditions and how effectively they manage these change processes. Theoretical
understandings and policy issues arising from demographic modelling are tackled including: competition for skilled workers; urbanisation
and ruralisation; population ageing; the impacts of climate change; the life outcomes of Indigenous peoples; globalisation and
international migration.
Based on a strong theoretical framework around issues of heterogeneity, generational change, temporariness and the relative strength
of internal and external ties, Demography at the Edge provides a common set of approaches and issues that benefit both researchers
and practitioners.
Contents:
Preface; Perspectives on 'demography at the edge', Dean Carson, Prescott C. Ensign, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen and Andrew Taylor;
Part I Methods, Models and Data: The challenge of enumeration and population estimation in remote areas, Andrew Taylor, Lauren Bell,
Per Axelsson and Tony Barnes; The forecasting of remote area populations: numbers aren't everything, Andrew Taylor; International
immigration trends and data, Kate Golebiowska, Marko Valenta and Tom Carter; Indigenous vitals and trends and measurement, Kim
Johnstone, Tony Barnes and Paul A. Peters. Part II The Dynamics of populations at the Edge: Bubbles and craters: analysing ageing
patterns of remote area populations, Catherine Martel, Dean Carson, Emma Lundholm and Dieter Müller; Transnational links at the
edge, Marit Aure, Anne Britt Flemmen and Kate Golebiowska; Indigenous demography: convergence, divergence, or something else?,
Andrew Taylor; The 'problem' of indigenous migration in the globalised state, Andrew Taylor, Gary Johns, Gregory Williams and Malinda
Steenkamp; Labour migration - what goes around comes around, Prescott C. Ensign, Audrey Giles and Maureen G. Reed; Fly-in/fly-out
resource developments: implication for community and regional development, Sean Markey, Keith Storey and Karen Heisler; Why the
other half leave - gender aspects of Northern sparsely populated areas, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen; Education, remoteness and
population dynamics, Bilal Barakat, Dean Carson, Andrew Taylor, Ranu Basu and Lei Wang; Tourist populations and local capital, Doris
Schmallegger, Sharon Harwood, Lee Cerveny and Dieter Müller; The challenge of housing in remote areas, Nick McTurk and Carlos
Teixeira; Weather hazards, place and resilience in remote Norths, Sharon Harwood, Dean Carson, Elizabeth Marino and Nick McTurk;
population policies at the edge: the demographic ambitions of frontiers, Dean Carson; Index.
About the Author:
Associate Professor Dean Carson is the Head of Population Studies at Charles Darwin University in Australia's Northern Territory,
Associate Professor Rasmus Ole Rasmussen is attached to the Department of Geography and International Studies at the University of
Roskilde in Denmark and works as a Senior Research Fellow with the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (NORDREGIO) in
Sweden, Dr Prescott Ensign is an assistant professor with the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Canada, Lee
Huskey is the Professor of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Andrew Taylor, Charles Darwin University, Australia.
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Dean Carson, Charles Darwin University, Australia, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, University of
Roskilde, Denmark, Prescott Ensign, University of Ottawa, Canada, Lee Huskey, University
of Alaska, Anchorage, USA and Andrew Taylor, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning
Dianne Dredge, Southern Cross University, Australia and John Jenkins, Southern Cross
University, Australia
Challenging traditional notions of tourism planning and policy processes, this book also provides critical insights into how
theoretical concepts and frameworks are applied in tourism planning and policy making practice at different spatial
scales. The book engages readers in the intellectual, political, moral and ethical issues that often surround tourism
policymaking and planning, highlighting the great value of reflective learning grounded in the social sciences and
revealing the complexity of tourism planning and policy.
Contents:
Finding new spaces in tourism policy and planning, Dianne Dredge and John Jenkins; Historical development and
contemporary challenges, Dianne Dredge, John Jenkins and Michelle Whitford; Reflexivity, learning and stories of
practice, Dianne Dredge, John Jenkins and Michell Whitford; Tourism, trams and local government policy-making in
Christchurch: a longitudinal perspective, Douglas G. Pearce; Tourism planning, community engagement and policy
innovation in Ucluelet, British Columbia, Oksana Grybovych, Delmar Hafermann and Felice Mazzoni; Development on
Kangaroo Island: the controversy over Southern Ocean Lodge, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles; Neoliberal urban
entrepreneurial agendas, Dunedin stadium and the Rugby World Cup: or 'if you don't have a stadium, you don't have a
future', C. Michael Hall and Sandra Wilson; Local government entrepreneurship in tourism development: the case of the
Hurunui district, New Zealand, Michael C. Shone; 'Huelva, the light': enlightening the process of branding and place
identity development, Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez and Dianne Dredge; The Mekong tourism dilemma: converging forces,
contesting values, Polladach Theerapappisit; A participatory approach to planning using geographic information systems
(GIS): a case study from Northeast Iceland, John S. Hull and Edward Huijbens; Factors affecting collaboration in
destination marketing: the development of www.purenz.com, Sushma Bhat and Simon Milne; An integrated approach to
tourism planning in a developing nation: a case study from Beloi (Timor-Leste), Leo X.C. Dutral, Robert J. Haworth and
Manuela B. Taboada; How the use of power impacts on the relationship between protected area managers and tour
operators, Aggie Wegner and Jim Macbeth; The introduction of tourism destination management organisations in
Hungary; top down meets bottom up, Alan Clarke and Ágnes Raffay; Text and sub-text in the engagement of tourism
development policies with the cluster concept, Adi Weidenfield, Allan M. Williams and Richard W. Butler; Conclusions,
Dianne Dredge and John Jenkins; Index.
About the Author:
Dianne Dredge, Associate Professor, Tourism Planning and Policy, Southern Cross University, Australia and John
Jenkins, Professor and Head of School, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Southern Cross University, Australia.
Series:
New Directions in Tourism Analysis
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Human Geography:
Tourism; Tourism Management; Development Geography; Regional Studies
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Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an
urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed,
international case studies constructed through storytelling, this volume expands readers' knowledge about how tourism
planning and policymaking takes place.
A Decent Provision
Australia Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949
Professor Murphy provides a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime, in
the period from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It places the development of a welfare
state in the 1940s in the context of what had gone before, particularly by showing that choices made in
earlier decades constrained and still constrain what could then, and can now be imagined. It is about the prehistory of a welfare system, exploring how Australia went from being a social laboratory at the start of the
twentieth century to a 'welfare laggard' by mid-century. As such the study not only provides the historical
context, but also shows how contemporary debates can often be illuminated and informed by the past. In
particular it underlines how many of the moral values and policy choices of the past are still with us, for
example in public debates about 'dependency' and in a continuing commitment to residual, targeted welfare.
Vividly written, the book includes biographical vignettes of key figures. Based on extensive new research
from a variety of primary sources it makes a significant contribution to general historical debate, as well as to
the field of comparative social policy. The latter is of significant international interest, given that the
Australasian model is still seen as having some unique features (in particular wage arbitration). By sketching
a narrative up to and including the welfare state of the 1940s, the book highlights the halting way in which
Australia's distinctive welfare regime was built, how key individuals and events were influential in its
successes and failures and how its dilemmas are with us today.
Contents:
Introduction; The pauper in the New World: on not having a Poor Law; The mixed economy of colonial
welfare: faith, self-help and charity; The veterans of labour: old age pensions; The Commonwealth
laboratory; 'The duty of a nation': a parallel welfare state for veterans; The failures of the 1920s: maternalism
and national insurance; The Depression; National insurance, 1938–1939; Unfinished business: Labor's
welfare state, 1941–1949; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Professor John Murphy, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Series:
Modern Economic and Social History
Subjects:
History:
Nineteenth-Century History; Twentieth-Century History; Social History; Australian Studies
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Professor John Murphy, The University of Melbourne, Australia
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France
Print, Rhetoric, and Law
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the
printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the
dignity and misery of man. Analyzing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which
Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or
woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the
virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases--and as Warner demonstrates,
Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and
amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the
writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to
follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in
printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted
the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings
Contents:
Introduction; Booksellers and the market to the 1550s; The dignity and misery of man … and of woman; The
Querelle des femmes; The dialogue: beyond dignity and misery, beyond the Querelle des femmes; Diversity,
citation and the invention of the essay; Books in the Palais de Justice and their readers in the late 1500s to
early 1600s; Lawyers' pleadings, print and rhetoric in the Parlement de Paris; Conclusion; Bibliography'
Index.
About the Author:
Lyndan Warner, an Associate Professor of History, obtained her doctorate from the University of Cambridge
and since 1998 has worked at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Series:
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Subjects:
History:
Early Modern History 1500-1700; Women's & Gender History; Women & Gender in Literature;
Book & Publishing History
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Lyndan Warner, St. Mary's University, Canada
Saving the Souls of Medieval London
Perpetual Chantries at St Paul's Cathedral, c.1200–1548
St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the
diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of
events of national importance. The cathedral was also a powerhouse of commemoration and intercession,
where prayers and requiem masses were offered on a massive scale for the salvation of the living and the
dead. This spiritual role of St Paul's Cathedral was carried out essentially by the numerous chantry priests
working and living in its precinct. Chantries were pious foundations, through which donors, clerks or lay, male
or female, endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls. At St Paul's
Cathedral, they were first established in the late twelfth century; and, until they were dissolved in 1548, they
contributed greatly to the daily life of the cathedral: they enhanced the liturgical services offered by the
cathedral, increased the number of the clerical members associated with it, and intensified relations between
the cathedral and the city of London.
Using the large body of material from the cathedral archives, this book investigates the chantries and their
impacts on the life, services and clerical community of the cathedral, from their foundation in the early
thirteenth century to the dissolution. It demonstrates the flexibility and adaptability of these pious foundations
and the various contributions they made to medieval society; and sheds light on the men who played a role
which, until the abolition of the chantries in 1548, was seen to be crucial to the spiritual well-being of
medieval London.
Contents:
Introduction; Founding chantries; Managing chantries; Monitoring chantries; Serving chantries; Dissolving
chantries; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Marie-Hélène Rousseau obtained her PhD in medieval history at the University of London in 2003 under the
supervision of Professor Caroline M. Barron. She currently lives in Paris, France.
Series:
Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
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History:
Medieval History 600-1500; Religious and Ecclesiastical History; Urban History; British History
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Marie-Helene Rousseau
The Challenges of Justice in Diverse Societies
Constitutionalism and Pluralism
In the rush to find answers to deal with the challenges of justice in diverse societies, sound normative
foundations are often overlooked. This book examines questions raised by diversity and contributes to the
ongoing dialogue which endeavours to better understand and respond to the challenges of justice in the
context of diversity. Using specific and broader examples of injustices of religion, culture, race, ethnicity,
gender, nationality and human rights, the book demonstrates how constitutional pluralist discourses can
contribute both to new and legal responses to diversity.
The book will be of interest to legal professionals, policy makers and scholars concerned with exploring the
pluralities of diversity in the 21st century.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I A Global Normative Framework: Justice and diversity; Nation-states and pluralism. Part II
Locating the Role of the Law: Meeting the challenges of justice; Human rights and diversity. Part III A Local
Normative Framework: A trial of norms; An accurate and just understanding of diversity; Identity markers;
Identity markers and legal pluralism. Part IV A New Vista on Constitutional Pluralism: Constitutional
pluralism; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Meena Bhamra is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of York, Canada. She taught previously in the
area of Minorities and Law at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.
Series:
Cultural Diversity and Law
Subjects:
Law:
Philosophy and Theory of Law; Law & Society; Human Rights; Political Theory and Philosophy
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Meena K. Bhamra, York University, Canada
Class Act
An International Legal Perspective on Class Discrimination
Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue. This book allows readers a better
understanding of the issue of class discrimination and inequality, including the role of education in bridging
the class systems. The study seeks to increase the likelihood of achieving equality at both the national and
international levels for those suffering class discrimination as the international population becomes
increasingly educated, looking at the primary role of legislation, which has an impact on the court process. It
also discusses the two most important trade agreements of our day - namely the North American Free Trade
Agreement and the European Union Treaty - in a historical and compelling analysis of discrimination. By
providing a detailed examination of the relationship between class and education as they relate to the law,
the book will be an important read for those concerned with equality.
Contents:
Introduction to Class Act; Class Act in class discrimination; Class act in the United Nation; Class Act in
Australia and New Zealand; Class Act in Africa and South Africa; Class Act in Canada, Mexico and the
United States; Class Act in the North American Free Trade Agreement; Class Act in the United Kingdom and
Ireland; Class Act in the European Union; Conclusion to Class Act; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter, Attorney/Solo Practitioner of the Social Security Disability Law Firm, USA.
Subjects:
Law:
Law & Society; Human Rights; Comparative Law; International Law
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Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter, The Social Security Disability Law Firm, USA
The Human Rights of Children
From Visions to Implementation
This volume provides a critical survey from the visions which informed the text agreed in the Convention on
the Rights of the Child in 1989 to contemporary and ongoing efforts towards implementation. With
contributions by leading experts in the field, the book is organised in two parts. The first discusses progress,
dilemmas and debates about the CRC as an international instrument. The second examines issues of
implementation at national and regional levels.
The book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and policy-makers working in the area of
children's rights and welfare.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction; The value and values of children's rights, Michael Freeman; Are children's rights still
human?, Nigel Cantwell; Understanding a human rights based approach to matters involving children:
conceptual foundations and strategic considerations, John Tobin; The CRC: dynamics and directions of
monitoring and implementation, Jaap Doek; Acknowledging children as international citizens – a childsensitive communication mechanism for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Geraldine van Bueren;
Has research improved the human rights of children? Or have the information needs of the CRC improved
data about children?, Judith Ennew; How are the human rights of children related to research methodology?,
Harriot Beazley, Sharon Bessell, Judith Ennew and Roxana Waterson; Using the CRC in law and policy: two
ways to improve, Ursula Kilkelly; Using the CRC to inform EU law and policy-making, Helen Stalford and
Eleanor Drywood; The roles of independent human rights institutions in implementing the CRC, Brian Gran;
Multi-level governance and the CRC implementation, Jane Williams; Human rights and poverty in the UK:
time for change, Rhian Croke and Anne Crowley; An exploration of the discrimination-rights dynamic in
relation to children, Elspeth Webb; Child health equity: from theory to reality, Jeffrey Goldhagen and Raúl
Mercer; Our rights, our story: Funky Dragon's report, Funky Dragon; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Jane Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Wales, Swansea. A former practising
barrister, her research interests are in the areas of Human Rights, particularly children's rights, and law and
policy. She has published widely on these and related areas.
Dr Antonella Invernizzi is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Child Research at the University of Wales,
Swansea. She has published extensively in the areas of Family organisation; poverty and survival strategies;
gender; children’s work and child labour.
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Family Law; Human Rights; Childhood and Family Studies; Law & Society
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Jane Williams and Antonella Invernizzi, Swansea University, UK
The American Civil War in the Shaping of British Democracy
When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, a central question for British intellectuals was whether or
not the American conflict was proof of the viability of democracy as a foundation for modern governance. The
lessons of the American Civil War for Britain would remain a focal point in the debate on democracy
throughout the war up to the suffrage reform of 1867, and after. Brent E. Kinser considers four figures
connected by Woodrow Wilson's concept of the "Literary Politician," a person who, while possessing a
profound knowledge of politics combined with an equally acute literary ability to express that knowledge,
escapes the practical drudgeries of policy making. Kinser argues that the animosity of Thomas Carlyle
towards democracy, the rhetorical strategy of Anthony Trollope's North America, the centrality of the
American war in Walter Bagehot's vision of British governance, and the political philosophy of John Stuart
Mill illustrate the American conflict's vital presence in the debates leading up to the 1867 reform, a legislative
event that helped to secure democracy's place in the British political system.
Contents:
Introduction: the trial of the century; Thomas Carlyle: the accidental democrat; Anthony Trollope: strange
paradoxes; Walter Bagehot: the case against America; John Stuart Mill: calculations and feelings;
Conclusion: 'Fare-well' democracy; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Brent E. Kinser is Associate Professor of English at Western Carolina University, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Nineteenth-Century Literature; North American History; Cultural History
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Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France
At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books
written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers
an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context
of Enlightenment concerns about improving education in order to reform society. Works by Anne-Thérèse de
Lambert, Madeleine de Puisieux, Marie-Jeanne Leprince de Beaumont, Louise d'Epinay, Barthélémy
Graillard de Graville, Chevalier de Cerfvol, abbé Joseph Reyre, Pierre-Louis Roederer, and Marie-Antoinette
Lenoir take up a wide variety of topics and vary dramatically in tone. But they all share similar objectives:
acquainting their young female readers with the moral and social rules of the world and ensuring their
success at the next stage of their lives. While the authors regarded their texts as furthering the common
good, they were also aware that they were likely to be controversial among those responsible for girls'
education. Bérenguier's sensitive readings highlight these tensions, as she offers readers a rare view of how
conduct books were conceived, consumed, re-edited, memorialized, and sometimes forgotten. In the
broadest sense, her study contributes to our understanding of how print culture in eighteenth-century France
gave shape to a specific social subset of new readers: modern girls.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Textual Strategies: Between oral and print cultures; Authorial anxieties. Part II Popoi:
Perceptions of motherhood; Maneuvering new social spaces; Marriage and its disillusions. Part III Reception:
The landscape of 18th-century literary journals; Anne Thérèse de Lambert; Marie-Jeanne Leprince de
Beaumont; Louise d'Epinay; Graillard, Cerfvol, Reyre; Conduct books in early literary history; Editorial
Fortunes in the 19th century; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Nadine Berenguier has a Ph. D. from Stanford University and is Associate Professor of French at the
University of New Hampshire, USA. She is the author of L'Infortune des alliances: contrat, mariage et fiction
au dix-huitième siècle.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Eighteenth-Century Literature; Women & Gender in Literature; History of Childhood;
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Nadine Berenguier, University of New Hampshire, USA
R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur
Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough
account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. Though he is best known today as
William Blake's nemesis, Cromek made significant contributions to the vitality of the arts in nineteenthcentury Britain. Read traces Cromek's early years as an accomplished engraver, his collaborations and
falling out with Blake, and his editing and publishing ventures, showing him to be a pioneer who recognized
the opportunities of the emerging market economy. Read's descriptions of Cromek's disastrous associations
with the Chalcographic Society, his publication of Robert Burns's unpublished works, and his duping by the
perpetrator of a literary hoax make for fascinating reading and tell us much about the commercial art and
publishing scenes in England and Scotland. Perhaps most important, Read salvages Cromek's reputation as
an unscrupulous exploiter of Blake and others. A fuller and more balanced portrait emerges that shows
Cromek's efforts to bring the arts to emerging cities of the midlands and beyond, describes his friendships
and associations with luminaries of the fine arts and literature such as Leigh Hunt and Benjamin West, and
challenges more biased reports of his successes and failures as an entrepreneur.
Contents:
Father and son; Cromek the engraver; The Grave; The Canterbury Pilgrims; The Chalcographic Society;
Reliques of Burns; Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song; Last days; Appendices; Selected bibliography;
Index.
About the Author:
Dennis Read is associate professor of English at Denison University, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Nineteenth-Century Literature; Nineteenth-Century and Victorian Art and Visual Studies;
Eighteenth-Century Literature; Book Illustration
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Dennis M. Read, Denison University, USA
The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early
Modern London
The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants'
experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that
female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. Exposed
here are the contractual underpinnings of domestic service for women; the mobility that domestic servants
enjoyed; and the concern that this mobility generated in the authorities. Paid domestic work has traditionally
been regarded by historians simply as a pre-marital phase of women's lives. In fact, the depositions in this
volume show that service was a prototypical form of female wage labour. While some women left service
once they married, others relied on domestic positions as an avenue to generating income as life-long single
women, as married women, and as widows. Even though they usually lived in poverty, labouring women
who worked as servants in London had considerably more agency than has earlier been recognized. Female
servants who deposed before London ecclesiastical and parish courts three centuries ago were mostly nonliterate. Strikingly, their individual voices are clear and distinct as they present information about their
working and personal circumstances.
Contents:
Introduction; Note on editorial method; London Court of Arches records 1667–1675; London Court of Arches
records, 1690–1706; London Court of Arches records, 1715–1735; St Margaret Westminster settlement
examinations, 1718–1725; St Margaret Westminster settlement examinations, 1726–1735; Bibliography;
Index.
About the Author:
Paula Humfrey teaches history in the online programs of Eastern Oregon University, USA, and Laurentian
University, Canada.
Series:
The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500–1750: Contemporary Editions
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Women & Gender in Literature; Early Modern Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature;
Women's & Gender History
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Paula Humfrey, Eastern Oregon University, USA and Laurentian University, Canada
Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790–1870
Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée
Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah
Webster borrowed from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic portrayals of the
deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies for George Washington with William Apess's "Eulogy for King
Philip" to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous history; examines Frederick Douglass's
use of the slave cemetery to represent the costs of slavery for African American families; suggests that the
ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman's war
elegies; and offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar and Emily
Dickinson's poetry as works that explore the consequences of female writers claiming authority over the
mourning process. Informed by extensive archival research, Henderson's study eloquently speaks to the
ways in which authors adopted, revised, or rejected the conventions of memorial literature, choices that
disclose their location within decisive debates about appropriate gender roles and sexual practices, national
identity and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic representation, and structures
of authorship and literary authority.
Contents:
Introduction: grief and genre; The imperfect dead: funeral sermons, fallen women, and the early American
novel; American eulogy: William Apess and national mourning; Geographies of loss: Frederick Douglass and
the slave cemetery; Lincoln's unrest: Walt Whitman and the Civil War cemetery; Mourning books: the
conduct literature of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Emily Dickinson; Afterword; the modern genres of grief;
Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Desirée Henderson is Assistant Professor of English and Interim Director of Women's Studies at University
of Texas Arlington, where she specializes in early American and women's literature.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
North American Literature; North American History; Eighteenth-Century Literature;
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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895
Genre, Gender and Criticism
In a series of representative case studies, Marianne Van Remoortel traces the development of the sonnet
during intense moments of change and stability, continuity and conflict, from the early Romantic period to the
end of the nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to the role of the popular press, which served as
venues of innovation and as sites of recruitment for aspiring authors, Van Remoortel redefines the scope of
the genre, including the ways in which its development is intricately related to issues of gender. Among her
subjects are the Della Cruscans and their primary critic William Gifford, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and his circle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, George Meredith's Modern Love,
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's House of Life, and Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter. As women
became a force to be reckoned with among the reading public and the writing community, the term "sonnet"
often operated as a satirical label that was not restricted to poetry adhering to the strict formalities of the
genre. Van Remoortel's study, in its attentiveness to the sonnet's feminization during the late eighteenth
century, offers important insights into the ways in which changing attitudes about gender and genre shaped
critics' interpretations of the reception histories of nineteenth-century sonnet sequences.
Contents:
Introduction; Invaluable commodities: sonnets in the world; The secret life of the Della Cruscan sonnet:
Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad; The sonnet parodies of Coleridge and his circle; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
sonnets from the Portuguese and women's sonnets of the 1800s-1840s; The inconstancy of genre:
Meredith's modern love' Metaphor and maternity: Rossetti's House of Life and Webster's Mother and
Daughter; Conclusion; Works cited; Index.
About the Author:
Marianne Van Remoortel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
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Mediterranean Modernisms
The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis
Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international
modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist
writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris puts forward a redefinition of European Modernism that
makes the Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, the discursive contact zone and incorporates neglected
elements such as national identity and geography. Beginning with an examination of Greek Modernism,
Pourgouris's study places Elytis in conversation with Albert Camus; analyzes the influence of Charles
Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, and Sigmund Freud on Elytis's theory of analogies; traces the symbol of the
sun in Elytis's poetry by way of the philosophies of Heraclitus and Plotinus; examines the influence of Le
Corbusier on Elytis's theory of architectural poetics; and takes up the subject of Elytis's application of his
theory of Solar Metaphysics to poetic form in the context of works by Freud, C. G. Jung, and Michel
Foucault. Informed by extensive research in the United States and Europe, Pourgouris's study makes a
compelling contribution to the comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the work of
Odysseus Elytis.
Contents:
Introduction: Odysseus Elytis and the specter of nationalism; Modernism: from Paris to Athens; Towards a
new Mediterranean culture; The theory of analogies; Solar metaphysics; Architectural poetics; Odysseus
Elytis: life and works; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Marinos Pourgouris is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Western European Literature; History of Ideas/Intellectual History; Modernism in Literary Studies;
Twentieth-Century Literature
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Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain
Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain explores the conception and production of early
modern Spanish literary texts in the context of the inquisitorial socio-cultural environment of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Author Ryan Prendergast analyzes instances of how the elaborate censorial system
and the threat of punishment that both the Inquisition and the Crown deployed did not deter all writers from
incorporating, confronting, and critiquing legally sanctioned practices and the exercise of institutional power
designed to induce conformity and maintain orthodoxy.
The book maps out how texts from different literary genres scrutinize varying facets of inquisitorial discourse
and represent the influence of the Inquisition on early modern Spanish subjects, including authors and
readers. Because of its incorporation of inquisitorial scenes and practices as well as its integration of
numerous literary genres, Don Quixote serves as the book's principal literary resource. The author also
examines the Moorish novel/ la novela morisca with special attention to the question of the religious and
cultural Others, in particular the Muslim subject; the Picaresque novel/la novela picaresca, focusing on the
issues of confession and punishment; and theatrical representations and dramatic texts, which deal with the
public performance of ideology. The texts, which had differing levels of contact with censorial processes
ranging from complete prohibition to no censorship, incorporate the issues of control, intolerance, and
resistance.
Through his close readings of Golden Age texts, Prendergast investigates the strategies that literary
characters, many of them represented as legally or socially errant subjects, utilize to negotiate the limits that
authorities and society attempt to impose on them, and demonstrates the pervasive nature of the inquisitorial
specter in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish cultural production.
Contents:
Introduction: specters of control; Texts produced, consumed, and controlled; Frontiers of Muslim and Morisco
identity; Inscriptions of transgression, confession, and punishment; Specters, stages, and spectacles;
Afterword; Works cited; Index.
About the Author:
Ryan Prendergast is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Early Modern Literature; Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Religion and the Arts;
Early Modern History 1500-1700
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Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester, USA
Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism
Reading Audiences
Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's
work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among
Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to
propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and
condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the
assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work, arguing these ideas best explain the
diversity of interpretation in Chaucer criticism. Further, Cawsey suggests few studies of Chaucer's own
understanding of audience have been done, in part because Chaucer criticism has been conditioned by
scholars' latent suppositions about Chaucer's own audience. In making sense of the confusing and
conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey also provides insights into the development of
twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction: Chaucer, audiences and critics; George Lyman Kittredge: the dramatic reader; C.S.
Lewis: the psychological reader; E. Talbot Donaldson: the careful reader; D.W. Robertson: the allegorical
reader; Carolyn Dinshaw: the gendered reader; Lee Patterson: the subjective reader; Conclusion: readers
then, now and in between; Index.
About the Author:
Kathy Cawsey is an assistant professor of English Literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Medieval Literature; Book & Publishing History; Literary Theory; History of Authorship
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Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University, Canada
Victorian Transformations
Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection
explores the protean ways in which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and created change.
The volume focuses on literature, particularly issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire. For example,
the essays suggest that changes in the novel's form correspond with shifting notions of human nature in
Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris; technical forms such as the villanelle and chant royal are crucial bridges
between Victorian and Modernist poetics; Victorian theater moves from privileging the text to valuing the
spectacles that characterized much of Victorian staging; Carlyle's Past and Present is a rallying cry for
replacing the static and fractured language of the past with a national language deep in shared meaning;
Dante Gabriel Rossetti posits unachieved desire as the means of rescuing the subject from the institutional
forces that threaten to close down and subsume him; and the return of Adelaide Anne Procter's fallen nun to
the convent in "A Legend of Provence" can be read as signaling a more modern definition of gender and
sexuality that allows for the possibility of transgressive desire within society. The collection concludes with an
essay that shows neo-Victorian authors like John Fowles and A. S. Byatt contending with the Victorian
preoccupations with gender and sexuality.
Contents:
Introduction, Bianca Tredennick; We were never human: monstrous forms of 19th-century fiction, Ian
Duncan; Nothing will make me distrust you: the pastoral transformed in Anthony Trollope's The Small House
at Allington, Deborah Denenholz Morse; On or about July 1877, Michael Hurley; Victorian theatre in the
1850s and the transformation of literary consciousness, Julianne Smith; Reading cant, transforming the
nation: Carlyle's Past and Present, Erin M. Goss; Resurrecting Redgauntlet: the transformation of Walter
Scott's nationalist revenants in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Siobhan Carroll; Dante Gabrial Rossetti: remarketing
desire, Julie Carr; Transforming the fallen woman in Adelaide Anne Procter's A Legend of Provence, Scott
Rogers; The owl flies again: reviving and transforming Victorian rhetorics of literary crisis in the internet age,
Mark Meritt; Feminine endings: neo-Victorian transformations of the Victorian, Louisa Hadley; Index.
About the Author:
Biance Treddenick is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY College Oneonta, USA.
Series:
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Subjects:
Literary Studies:
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Bianca Treddenick, SUNY College of Oneonta, USA
Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography
on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between
Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills
a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised
in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that
needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later
tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are
there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised
in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early
modern multiculturalism.
Contents:
Foreword, Stanley Wells; Introduction; Part I Sources: Supersubtle Venetians: Richard Knolles and the
geopolitics of Shakespeare's Othello, Virginia Mason Vaughan; Venice, Shakespeare and the Italian novella,
Daria Perocco; Genealogy of a character: a reading of Giraldi's Moor, Karina Attar. Part II Political Culture
and Religious Policy in Venice and England: Shakespeare and republican Venice, Andrew Hadfield; 'Selfsovereignty' and religion: from London to Venice via Navarre, Gilberto Sacerdoti; Job in Venice: Shakespear
and the travails of universalism, Julia Reinhard Lupton. Part III Crossing Boundaries and the Play of Identity:
'Strangers … with vs in Venice', Graham Holderness; Shakespeare, Jonson and Venice: crossing the
boundaries in the city, Laura Tosi; The return of the dead in The Merchant of Venice, Kent Cartwright;
Othello and Venice: discrimination and projection, Alessandro Serpieri. Part IV Venetian Plays and their
Afterlife: Merchant of where? The Venetian plays in English visual culture, Stuart Sillars; Rewriting Venice
and radicalizing Shylock: 19th-century French and Romanian adaptations of The Merchant of Venice,
Madalina Nicolaescu; Barefoot to Palestine: the failed meetings of Shylock and Othello, Shaul Bassi; Index.
About the Author:
Laura Tosi is Associate professor of English Literature at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She specializes in
Renaissance drama and children’s literature. Shaul Bassi is Associate professor of English Literature at Ca’
Foscari University in Venice. He specializes in Shakespeare and postcolonial studies.
Series:
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Laura Tosi, University of Venice, Italy. Shaul Bassi, University of Venice, Italy.
W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise
Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the
endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound.
Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and
these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the
shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their
poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences
uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of
desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a
quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and
newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a
paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that
has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.
Contents:
Preface; The old commandment; Embarking for Cythera; Hollow lands and holy lands; The shut garden; Ever
turning other worlds; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Sean Pryor is Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Twentieth-Century Literature; Modernism in Literary Studies; Religion and the Arts
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Sean Pryor, School of English, Media, and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales,
Australia
The Performing Style of Alexander Scriabin
When Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's music was performed during his lifetime, it always elicited ecstatic
responses from the listeners. Wilhelm Gericke, conductor of the Vienna opera, rushed backstage after one of
Scriabin's concerts and fell on his knees crying, 'It's genius, it's genius...'. After the composer’s death in
1915, however, his music steadily lost the captivating appeal it once held. The main reason for this drastic
change in the listeners’ attitude is an enormous gap existing between the printed scores of Scriabin’s music
and the way the composer himself played his works. Apparently, what Scriabin's audiences heard at the time
was significantly different from, and vastly superior to, modern performances that are based primarily on
published scores.
Scriabin recorded nineteen of his compositions on the Hupfeld and Welte-Mignon reproducing pianos in
1908 and 1910, respectively. Full score transcriptions of the piano rolls, which are included in the book,
provide many substantial features of Scriabin's performance: exact pitches and their timing against each
other, rhythms, tempo fluctuations, articulation, dynamics and essential pedal application. Using these
transcriptions and other historical documents as the groundwork for his research, Anatole Leikin explores
Scriabin's performing style within the broader context of Romantic performance practice.
Contents:
Preface; The music of Scriabin: then and now; Scriabin's performing style; Case studies I: the Welte rolls;
Case studies II: the Phonola rolls; Some thoughts on Scriabin and romantic performing traditions; Index.
About the Author:
Professor Anatole Leikin, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
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Music Studies:
Performance Practice; Nineteenth-Century Music; Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music;
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Anatole Leikin, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition
Balancing Conservation and Development
Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public
land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA. Both assessed public land
acquisition programs and state and local growth management efforts have been examined in detail, but while
there is growing recognition that land acquisition can play an important role in smart growth outcomes, there
has so far been little research into the nexus of these areas of public policy. This book investigates various
aspects of the land acquisition-smart growth linkage and describes model programs and makes
recommendations for the adoption of land acquisition efforts nationally and internationally. It will appeal to
practicing planners, policy makers, public officials, and citizen groups, as well as academics of urban
planning, environmental studies, geography and other disciplines which examines issues of urban sprawl.
Contents:
Introduction, Timothy S. Chapin and Christopher Coutts; Section 1 Linking Growth management and Land
Conservation: Land preservation: an essential ingredient in smart growth, Tom Daniels and Mark Lapping;
Farm preservation as a growth management strategy: lessons for state and local governments, Tom Daniels;
Florida forever: conserving land and guiding growth in the Sunshine State, Andrew H. McLeod; Balancing
land conservation and land development: the rise and fall of Florida's Rural Land Stewardship Areas
program, Timothy S. Chapin and Harrison Higgins. Section 2 Challenges and Opportunities: Preservation
backfired? Open space acquisition and its impacts on land markets, Yan Song; Green infrastructure and
public health: an evaluation of the Florida Communities Trust public land acquisition program, Christopher
Coutts; The role of local governments in open space preservation and land acquisition in Florida, SeJin Lee
and Richard C. Feiock; Understanding public support for land acquisition and growth management: the case
of Florida, Timothy S. Chapin; Incorporating land values to improve targeting schemes for land acquisition:
an application to Maryland's GreenPrint program, Karen Palm Szobota and Lori Lynch; A case study of
Wisconsin's Knowles-Nelson stewardship program, W. David Clutter; Conclusion: evaluating prospects for
integrating land conservation and growth management, Timothy S. Chapin and Christopher Coutts; Index.
About the Author:
Timothy S. Chapin and Christopher Coutts, Florida State University, USA.
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Selling EthniCity
Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural
economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural
and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city and
demonstrates how the use of ethnicized cultural production - such as urban branding based on local identities - by the
economic elite raises issues of considerable concern in terms of local identities, as it deploys a practical logic of capital
exchange that can overcome forms of cultural resistance and strengthen the hegemonic colonization of everyday life. At
the same time, it shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or
ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible.
Of wide ranging interest across academic disciplines, this book will be a useful contribution to Inter-American studies.
Contents:
Introduction: selling EthniCity: urban cultural politics in the Americas from the Conquest to contemporary consumer
societies, Olaf Kaltmeier. Part I The Spectacular City and the Performance of Ethnicity: Introduction; Carnival redux:
Hurricane Katrina, Mardi gras and contemporary United States experience of an enduring art form, John R. Gold; 'What
did I do to be so global and blue?' – Blues as a commodity: tourism, politics of authenticity, and Blues clubs in Chicago
today, Wilfried Raussert and Christina Seeliger; Insurrection and symbolic work; graffiti in Oaxaca (Mexico) 2006/2007 as
subversion and artistic politics, Jens Kastner; Black day in the White city: racism and violence in Sucre, Juliana StröbeleGregor. Part II The Use of Ethnicity in the Imagineering of Urban Landscapes: Introduction; Urban landscapes of mallticuturality: (retro-)coloniality, consumption, and identity politics – the case of the San Luis Shopping Centre in Quito, Olaf
Kaltmeier; Religion and culture set in stone: a case study of the Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit, Julie TelRav;
'Ambiguously ethnic' in Sherman Alexie's Seattle: re-imagining indigenous identities in the 21st century, Ruxandra
Radulescu; Against the 'erasure of memory' in Los Angeles city planning: strategies of re-ethnicizing LA in digital fiction,
Jens Burr and Martin Butler. Part III Ethnic Heritage and/or Cultural Commodification in the City: Introduction; Quiuto's
historic center: heritage of humanity or of the market?, Fernando Carrión Mena and Manuel Dammert Guardia;
'Economically, we sit on a cultural goldmine': commodified multiculturalism and identity politics in New Orleans, Nina
Möllers; Mobilizing ethnicity: Yucatecan Maya professionals in Mérida and their participation in the cultural and political
fields, Ricardo López Santillán; A city of newcomers: narratives of ethnic diversity in Vancouver, Alicia Menéndez
Tarrazo. Part IV Gentrification and the Politics of Authenticity: Introduction; (Re-) constructing the ethnic neighborhood:
gentrification in the United States and the longing for a unique identity, Eric Erbacher; No-go areas and chic places:
socio-spatial segregation and stigma in Guadalajara, Ulises Zarazúa; Spaces of alterity and temporal permanence: the
case of New York's and San Francisco's Chinatowns, Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany.
Series:
Heritage, Culture and Identity
Subjects:
Regional & Town Planning:
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Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany
Cities and Global Governance
New Sites for International Relations
Case study rich, this volume advances our understanding of the significance of 'the city' in global
governance. The editors call for innovation in international relations theory with case studies that add
breadth to theorizing the role sub-national political actors play in global affairs. Each of the eight case studies
demonstrates different intersections between the local and the global and how these intersections alter the
conditions resulting from globalization processes. The case studies do so by focusing on one of three subthemes: the diverse ways in which cities and sub-national regions impact nation-state foreign policy; the
various dimensions of urban imbrications in global environmental politics; or the multiple methods and
standards used to measure the global roles of cities.
Contents:
Preface; Foreword; Introduction, Mark Amen, Noah Toly, Patricia McCarney and Klaus Segbers; Sighting or
slighting of cities in international relations, Mark Amen, Noah Toly, Patricia McCarney and Klaus Segbers;
The emerging global landscape and the new role of the globalizing city regions, Klaus Segbers;
Paradiplomacy in the developing world: the case of Brazil, Monica Salomon; The emergence of cross-border
regions and Canadian-United States relations, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly; The evolution of city indicators:
challenges and progress, Daniel Hoornweg; Auditing cities through circles of sustainability, Paul James and
Andy Scerri; Cities, the environment, and global governance: a political ecological perspective, Noah Toly;
Cities and global environmental NGOs: emerging transnational urban networks?, Sophie Bouteligier; The
global city today: advantages of specialization and costs of financialization, Saskia Sassen; World city
networks: measurement, social organization, global governance, and structural change, Peter Taylor;
Concluding remarks, Patricia McCarney, Klaus Segbers, Mark Amen and Noah Toly; Index.
About the Author:
Mark Amen, Ph.D., Academic Director, Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions, Deputy Editor,
Globalizations, University of South Florida, USA, Noah J. Toly, Ph.D.,Director of Urban Studies, Assistant
Professor of Politics and International Relation, Wheaton College, USA, Patricia L. McCarney, Ph.D.,
Director, Global Cities Program, CIS, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
and Klaus Segbers, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Freie Universität/ Free University of Berlin,
Germany, Director, Center for Global Politics, and Director, Institute for East European Studies.
Series:
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Politics & International Relations:
Global Governance; Political Geography and Geopolitics; North American Politics;
South and Latin American Politics
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Mark Amen, University of South Florida, USA, Noah J. Toly, Wheaton College, USA,
Patricia L. McCarney, University of Toronto, Canada and Klaus Segbers, Freie Universität/
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Defining Iran
Politics of Resistance
'Defining Iran' presents a new and revealing analysis of the way in which Iranian political discourses compete
with each other by examining them within the framework of national identity construction. By deconstructing
the intellectual roots and development of Iranian national identity, Shabnam Holliday advocates the need to
study Iran's heritage and historical experience to understand key shifts and processes in contemporary
Iranian politics. Holliday convincingly argues that competing discourses of national identity advocated by
political figures from Musaddiq to the current administration demonstrate a politics of resistance to both
internal and external forces.
With a particular emphasis on Khatami’s presidency, this study compares the meanings attached by
significant members of the Iranian political elite to concepts including Iran’s pre-Islamic heritage, Islamic
heritage, civilisation, 'democracy' and the 'West'. Furthermore, discourses of Iranian national identity exist not
in isolation but rather as part of a continuous process construction and reconstruction in Iran's journey of
political development; a process manifested so vividly in the revolution of 1979 and the fallout from the 2009
presidential election.
'Defining Iran' simultaneously furthers our understanding of the conceptualisation of national identity both
generally and specifically in the case of Iran and political dynamics which shape contemporary Iran.
Contents:
Introduction; Discourse of national identity; Iraniyat and Iranian identity; Islamiyat in Iranian identity; Ayatollah
Khamene'i's Islamist discourse of national identity: Khatami's state counter-discourse; A contemporary
Iranian identity: towards a discourse of Iranian civic national identity; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Shabnam J. Holliday is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Subjects:
Politics & International Relations:
Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism; Middle East Politics; Islamic Studies; Political Sociology
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Shabnam J. Holliday, University of Plymouth, UK
Justice beyond "Just Us"
Dilemmas of Time, Place, and Difference in American Politics
Notions of justice and community in the United States are increasingly challenged by trends like immigration,
multiculturalism, and economic inequality as well as historical legacies like Jim Crow-era racial segregation.
These dynamics continually re-shape the communities in which people live, whether by generating new
forms of interdependency and inequality, creating new social cleavages or exacerbating existing ones, or
generating new spaces in which cross-boundary contact, conflict, or cooperation is possible.
Revealing the ways in which notions of justice and community overlap in American politics and public
discourse through concrete political questions which emerge when considering dimensions of time, place,
and difference, Gregory W. Streich offers a fresh re-examination of the normative ideas of justice and
community. He encourages Americans to move from a view of justice that applies only to people who are
"like us" to a view of justice that applies to people beyond "just us."
Contents:
Introduction; Justice and 'us'; The politics of 'us versus them'; Dilemmas of time; Dilemmas of place;
Dilemmas of difference; Competing discourses: justice for and beyond 'just us'; Conclusion; Bibliography;
Index.
About the Author:
Gregory W. Streich is professor of political science at the University of Central Missouri and has published
articles in Citizenship Studies, Journal of Social Philosophy, and Constellations. His current research
examines the impact of social diversification and economic inequality on conceptions of national identity,
justice, social capital, and citizenship.
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Politics & International Relations:
North American Politics; Political Theory and Philosophy; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnicity
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Gregory W. Streich, University of Central Missouri, USA
Hegemony and Heteronormativity
Revisiting 'The Political' in Queer Politics
This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It
explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination
from a queer perspective, whilst also examining the possibilities for political analysis and strategy building provided by theories of
hegemony and heteronormativity. Moreover, in addressing these issues the book strives to rethink the understanding of the term
"queer", so as to avoid narrowing queer politics to a critique of normative heterosexuality and the rigid gender binary. By looking at the
interplay between hegemony and heteronormativity, this groundbreaking volume presents new possibilities of reconceptualizing 'the
political' from a queer perspective.
Investigating the effects of queer politics not only on subjectivities and intimate personal relations, but also on institutions, socio-cultural
processes and global politics, this book will be of interest to those working in the fields of critical theory, gender and sexuality, queer
theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist political theory.
Contents:
Foreword, Lisa Duggan; Introduction: hegemony and heteronormativity, María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikita Dhawan and Antke Engel;
Revisiting contingency, hegemony and universality, Randi Gressgård; From the 'heterosexual matrix' to a 'heteronormative hegemony':
initiating a dialogue between Judith Butler and Antonio Gramsci about queer theory and politics, Gundula Ludwig; Tender tensions –
antagonistic struggles – becoming bird: queer political interventions into neoliberal hegemony, Antke Engel; Normative dilemmas and
the hegemony of counter-hegemony, María do Mar Castro Varela and Nikita Dhawan; How Sam became a father, became a citizen:
scripts of neoliberal inclusion of disability, Katerina Kolárová; Signifying theory_politics/queer, Susanne Lummerding; The pleasures of
compliance: domination and compromise within BDSM practice, Volker Woltersdorff; Index.
About the Author:
María do Mar Castro Varela is Professor for Gender and Queer Studies at the Alice Salomon University Berlin, Germany, Nikita Dhawan
is Junior Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany and Antke Engel is Director of the
Institute for Queer Theory, Berlin, and research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany.
Series:
Queer Interventions
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Sociology:
Gender and Sexuality; Political Sociology; Political Theory and Philosophy; Cultural & Media Studies
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María do Mar Castro Varela, Alice Salomon University Berlin, Germany,
Nikita Dhawan, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany and
Antke Engel, Institute for Queer Theory and Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin Germany
Probation Practice and the New Penelogy
Practitioner Reflections
The criminal justice system is in a state of flux and there are growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of
crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these
developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever
before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the community, rather than to attempt their
rehabilitation. For these reasons, along with a loss of faith in rehabilitation, the probation service is described
by many as becoming a law enforcement agency, charged by government with the assessment and
management of risk, the protection of the public and the management and punishment of offenders, rather
than their transformation into pro-social citizens. This study discovers the extent to which practitioners within
the National Probation Service for England and Wales and the National Offender Management Service
ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated with these macro and mezzo level changes and how
much their practice has changed accordingly.
By viewing examples of 'real' practice through the lens of modernisation of the public services,
managerialism, 'new public management' and Bourdieu's theories of organisation change, we are able to
consider how 'real' practice is likely to emerge as something different from the intentions of both
government/management and practitioners as a result of the interplay between the 'field' of the former and
the 'habitus' of the latter.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction; Late modernity, the new penality, managerialism and the culture of organisations; The
development of penal and correctional policy and its impact on probation practices and culture; Attitudes,
values and beliefs in the probation service; Reflections on practice (1) –the assessment of offenders;
Reflections on practice (2) – the enforcement of community orders and post custody licences; Reflections on
practices (3) – case management and the supervision of offenders; Probation practices in the early 21st
century?; Probation and the new penality: conclusions and looking forward; List of references; Index.
About the Author:
Dr John Deering is Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales, Newport, UK.
Subjects:
Sociology:
Criminology; Sociology of Work and Organizations; Comparative Social Policy; Welfare
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John Deering, University of Wales, Newport, UK
Queer in Europe
Contemporary Case Studies
Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of
the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is
adapted in different national contexts, where it takes on subtly different overtones, determined by local
political specificities and intellectual traditions. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen relevant
experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European national contexts, including:
Belgium, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Nordic Region, The Netherlands,
Poland, Russia and Spain.
Rather than prescribing a universalizing definition, the book engages with a wide spectrum of what is meant
by 'queer', as each chapter negotiates the contested border between direct queer activist action based on
identity categories, and more plural queer strategies that call these categories into question. The first volume
in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in
contemporary queer studies.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction, Lisa Downing and Robert Gillett; Queer in Belgium: ignorance, goodwill, compromise,
Bart Eeckhout; Queer in Cyprus: national identity and the construction of gender and sexuality, Nayia
Kamenou; Queer in England: the comfort of queer? Kittens Teletubbies and Eurovision, David Nixon and
Nick Gicens; Queer in France: AIDS dissidentification in France, James Agar; Queer in Germany: materialist
concerns in theory and activism, Ute Kalender; Queer in Hungary: hate speech regulation and the queering
of the conduct/speech binary, Erzsébet Barát; Queer in Ireland, Anne Mulhall; Queer in Italy: Italian
televisibility and the 'queerable' audience, Luca Malici; Queer in The Netherlands: pro-gay and anti-sex:
sexual politics at a turning point, Gert Hekma; Queer in the Nordic region: telling queer (feminist) stories,
Ulrika Dahl; Queer in Poland: under construction, Lukasz Szulc; Queer in Russia: othering the other of the
West, Brian James Baer; Queer in Spain: identity without limits, Santiago Fouz-Hernandez; Index.
About the Author:
Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality, University of Exeter, UK and Robert Gillett is
Senior Lecturer in German at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
Series:
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Sociology:
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Lisa Downing, University of Exeter, UK and Robert Gillett, Queen Mary University of
London, UK
The Politics of Proximity
Mobility and Immobility in Practice
Increasingly, everyday living and practices depend on how mobility (and immobility) is articulated through the
ever-present influence of a range of physical and virtual infrastructures. This book focuses in particular on
the 'political' dimension of mobility and immobility, which plays a key role in establishing patterns of proximity
in real and virtual co-presence. Proximity is seen as the result of choices, negotiations and practices carried
out in different settings.
Drawing from different literature streams (Activity Theory, Organization Studies and Science and Technology
Studies), this book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and
proximity to others. Different phenomena - from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile
work - are analysed, illustrating different types of proximity through mobility and immobility. In doing so, this
book offers a cross-cultural and innovative theoretical framing of issues linked to mobility, through the link
with immobility and proximity.
Contents:
Foreword; Preface; Introduction: studying (im)mobility through a politics of proximity, Giuseppina Pellegrino;
Part I Categories of Proximity/Mobility:Space, mobility and new boundaries: the redefinition of social action,
Maria Cristina Marchetti; Mobility and the notion of attainable reach, Kjell Engelbrekt; The harvest of
Dionysus. Mobility/proximity, indigenous migrants and relational machines, Carmelo Buscema. Part II
Discourse/Identity in Proximity and Mobility: The semiotics of (im)mobilities: two discursive case studies of
the system of automobility, Chaim Noy; Mobility after war: re-negotiating belonging in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Eva
Gerharz. Part III Global Firms/Urban Landscapes as Scenery for Proximity and Mobility: Human costs of
mobility: on management in multinational companies, Laura Gherardi; Urban mobility, accessibility and social
equity. A comparative study in four European metropolitan areas, Matteo Colleoni; Mobility practices in
Santiago de Chile: the consequences of restricted urban accessibility, Paola Jiron; Index.
About the Author:
Giuseppina Pellegrino, Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Calabria, Italy.
Series:
Transport and Society
Subjects:
Transportation:
General Transportation; Migration and Transnational Communities; Social & Cultural Geography
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Giuseppina Pellegrino, University of Calabria, Italy
Byzantium and Venice, 1204–1453
Collected Studies
Byzantium and Venice: 1204-1453, a selection of articles by the late Julian Chrysostomides, focuses on
Byzantium after the Fourth Crusade and its relationship with Venice, particularly in the late Palaeologan
period. Seven of the articles deal with aspects of Veneto-Byzantine dealings in the Peloponnese, while the
remainder concentrate on the political and commercial ties between the Byzantines and Venetians. The
essays draw upon Julian Chrysostomides' unrivalled knowledge of the relevant Venetian documents.
Contents:
Preface; John V Palaeologus in Venice (1370-1371) and the Chronicle of Caroldo: a reinterpretation; Studies
on the Chronicle of Caroldo, with special reference to the history of Byzantium from 1370 to 1377; Venetian
commercial privileges under the Palaeologi; Corinth 1394-1397: some new facts; An unpublished letter of
Nerio Acciaiuoli (30 October 1384); Italian women in Greece during the late 14th and early 15th centuries;
Was Nerio Acciaiuoli ever lord of Vostitsa and Nivelet?; Merchant versus nobles: a sensational court case in
the Peloponnese (1391-1404); Glimpses of wealth and poverty in Greece during the 14th and 15th centuries
as seen in Venetian documents; Symbiosis in the Peloponnese in the aftermath of the 4th Crusade; Tenedos
1376 revisited; Index of persons and places.
About the Author:
Julian Chrysostomides (1928-2008) was Emeritus Reader in Byzantine History and Director of the Hellenic
Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. The volume is edited by Michael Heslop, an Honorary
Research Associate in Byzantine Studies at RHUL Hellenic Institute, and Charalambos Dendrinos, Lecturer
in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography, and Director of RHUL Hellenic Institute, UK.
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS972
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History:
Byzantine History; Medieval History 600-1500; Crusades and the Latin East
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Julian Chrysostomides, formerly Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Words and Music in Medieval Europe
This selection of nineteen essays by Nigel Wilkins, in English and in French, is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach crossing the borders between music, language, literature, history, palaeography and
iconography. The principal topic is lyric poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mostly French and
English, both with and without music, and in various contexts. Guillaume de Machaut, the dominant poetmusician of the age, is the central figure: his influence is traced in poets such as Froissart, Deschamps,
Christine de Pisan, Charles d'Orléans, Villon, Gower and Chaucer, and in the poet-musicians who came
after him. The question of patronage is investigated. The development of the principal lyric forms, rondeau,
ballade and virelai, is explored on both sides of the Channel, as is the way they were used, for example in
miracle plays and in court entertainment. A Flemish painting of 1493 helps us discover the rôle of music in
the ceremonies of trade and religious guilds; a memorial brass from King's Lynn reveals the importance of
music in the ceremonial of feasts. Wider themes are also explored, such as the association of music with the
Devil, the use of several languages combined in certain musical contexts, and the controversial role of
inspiration in musical composition.
Contents:
Part I Old and Middle French Literature: Yet more concerning the tavern bills in Jean Bodel's Jeu de Saint
Nicolas; The structure of ballades, rondeaux and virelais in Froissart and in Christine de Pisan; Charles
d'Orléans: avec musique ou non?; François Villon, poète universel; 'En regardant vers le païs de France': the
ballade and the rondeau, a cross-channel history. Part II Lyric Poetry and Music in the 14th Century: The
Codex Reina: a revised description; Some notes on Philipoctus de Caserta; The post-Machaut generation of
poet-musicians; Music in the 14th century Miracles de Nostre Dame; Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377; The
late medieval French lyric: with music and without; A pattern of patronage: Machaut, Froissart and the
Houses of Luxembourg and Bohemia in the 14th century; Music and poetry at court: England and France in
the late Middle Ages; Chaucer and music. Part III Musical Iconography: The birds, the bishop and the music
of brass; Le fête de la guilde des Archers du Maître de Francfort (1493) et la musique des confréries. Part IV
General Studies in Music, Language and Literature: The Devil's music; Le plurilinguisme au Moyen Age dans
le contexte musical; D'où vient la créativité musicale? Le rôle de l'inspiration dans la musique médiévale;
Index.
About the Author:
Nigel Wilkins is Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS976
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Music Studies:
Medieval and Renaissance Music; Medieval History 600-1500; Medieval Literature
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Nigel Wilkins, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
Critical Essays on Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present:
3–Volume Set
This three volume series presents the best academic research on all forms of contemporary warfare in South
Asia. The selected articles and papers are in an accessible format for ease of reference and cover
conventional war, the nuclear shadow, insurgency, counter-insurgency, terrorism and religious conflicts. The
series reflects the huge upsurge of interest in this topic in recent years and is of interest to scholars and
students of military studies, international relations, political history and foreign policy.
Contents:
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About the Author:
Scott Gates is Research Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research
Institute Oslo, Norway and Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India and Senior
Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.
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History:
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Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway and Kaushik Roy, Jadavpur University,
India and Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway
European Politics 1815–1848
The three intervening decades between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolutions of 1848 are marked by
enormous social, political, economic and cultural change. Liberalism, nationalism, romanticism and
industrialism profoundly affected the course of Europe and compelled conservative monarchies to accept the
principles of collective action and military force to curb political revolution. In the years immediately following
1815, the Quadruple and Holy Alliances served the dual purpose of preventing a restoration of Bonapartism
and suppressing revolutions. By the 1820s these international associations dissipated, but the principles
upon which they were founded informed the decisions of the respective governments through 1848. The
classic articles and papers collected in this volume attempt to illustrate that despite the substantial changes
to European society which occurred during these thirty years, European powers accepted common principles
which influenced their state's domestic and foreign policies.
Contents:
Part I The Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe: Did the Vienna System rest upon a balance of
power, Paul W. Schroeder; A political science perspective on the balance of power and the concert, R.
Jervis; Metternich Italy and the Congress of Verona, 1821–1822, Alan Reinerman. Part II The Eastern
Question: The first Serbian uprising (1804–1813) and the 19th century origins of the Eastern Question, L.P.
Meriage; Nationalism in the Danubian principalities, 1800–1825, G.F. Jewsbury; The Adrianople Treaty
(1829) and its European implications, N. Ciachir; The Greek Revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–
1844, D. McClean; Mehmet Ali's expedition to the Persian Gulf, 1837–1840, J. Kelly. Part III The German
Question: From Rheinbund to Deutscher Bund: the raod to European equilibrium, E. Krahe; Violence
between civilians and state authorities in the Prussian Rhineland, 1830–1846, J. Brophy; Prussia aims for
the Zollverein, 1828–1833, D.T. Murphy; The German Zollverein and the European economic integration,
W.E. Henderson; Metternich and the July Revolution, F.L. Hoffman; The war scare of 1831 and the PrussianSouth German plans for the end of Austrian dominance in Germany, R.D. Billinger. Part IV Italy, Spain and
Latin America: Realpolitik and conviction between Piedmont and the Papacy during the Risorgimento, Frank
Coppa; France and the problem of intervention in Spain, 1834–1836, Roger Bullen; Spain and the Latin
American wars of independence: the free trade controversy, 1810–1820, M.P. Costeloe; French policy in
Latin America, 1830–1848, L. Morgan; Name index.
About the Author:
Frederick Schneid is Professor at High Point University, USA.
Series:
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History:
Nineteenth-Century History; Western European History; Political History;
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Cultural Criminology
Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual
alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the
interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime
and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role
of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers
innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a
critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these
dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its
broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States,
Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Theoretical Foundations: Juvenile delinquency and subterranean values, David Matza
and Gresham Sykes; Moral entrepreneurs, Howard S. Becker; Deviance and moral panics, Stan Cohen;
Subcultures, cultures and class, John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson and Brian Roberts; Introduction,
from Seductions of Crime, Jack Katz. Part II Models of Inquiry and Critique: Cultural criminology, Jeff Ferrell;
Merton with energy, Katz with structure, Jock Young; Boredom, crime and criminology, Jeff Ferrell;
Reversing the ethnographic gaze, experiments in cultural criminology, Stephanie Kane. Part III Crime,
Media, and the Image: Media, representation, and meaning: inside the hall if mirrors, Jeff Ferrell, Keith
Hayward and Jock Young; The scene of the crime: is there such a thing as just looking?, Alison Young;
Mapping discursive closings in the war on drugs, Michelle Brown. Part IV Theorizing Crime and the City:
Fortress Los Angeles: the militarization of urban space, Mike Davis; Remapping the city: public identity,
cultural space, and social justice, Jeff Ferrell; Crime vs. cool space, Gregory Snyder. Part V Emotion,
Edgework, and the Body: Edgework, Stephen Lyng; From carnival to the carnival of crime, Mike Presdee;
The body does not lie: identity, risk and trust in technoculture, Katja Franko Aas. Part VI Markets,
Consumption, and Crime: Crime, consumer culture, and the urban experience, Keith Hayward; Squaring the
one percent: biker style and the selling of cultural resistance, Stephen Lyng and Mitch Bracey; The 'chav'
phenomenon: consumption, media and the construction of a new underclass, Keith Hayward; Debate: Steve
Hall and Simon Winlow: Cultural criminology and primitive accumulation versus Jeff Ferrell: For a ruthless
cultural criticism of everything existing; Name index.
About the Author:
Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, USA and Visiting Professor at Kent
University, UK and Keith Hayward is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of Studies for Criminology
at Kent University, UK.
Series:
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Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, USA and Keith Hayward, University of Kent, UK
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a collection of seminal papers examining legal, conceptual and practical questions
regarding the international legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights. The volume discusses what human rights
obligations economic, social and cultural rights entail for states and non-state actors; the nature and scope of substantive
economic, social and cultural rights such as education, health, work, water, enjoyment of the benefits of scientific progress, and
cultural rights; as well as the justiciability of these rights at an international level and at the national level. The paramount
importance of such questions is illustrated, among other things, by the catastrophic situation of economic, social and cultur al
rights as human rights in developing and developed states. The volume is divided into three main parts which focus on human
rights obligations for states and non-state actors arising from treaties protecting economic, social and cultural rights; analysis of
selected substantive rights; and finally the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights in various contexts such as within
the United Nations, Europe, Inter-American, and African systems, as well as within the domestic system.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Human Rights Obligations: The nature and scope of states parties' obligations under the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Philip Alston and Gerard Quinn; The applicability of international human
rights law to non-state actors: what relevance to economic, social and cultural rights?, Manisuli Ssenyonjo; Limitations to and
derogations from economic, social and cultural rights, Amrei Müller; Countering, branding, dealing: using economic and social
rights in and around the international trade regime, Robert Wai. Part II Selected Substantive Rights: Enhancing enforcement of
economic, social and cultural rights using indicators: a focus on the right to education in the ICESCR, Sital Kalantry, Jocel yn E.
Getgen and Steven Arrigg Koh; Health systems and the right to health: an assessment in 194 countries, Gunilla Backman, Paul
Hunt, Rajat Khosla, et al; The persona; application of the right to work in the age of migration, Haina Lu; Human right to access
water? A critique of General Comment No. 15, Stephen Tully; Towards an understanding of the right to enjoy the benefits of
scientific progress and its application, Audrey R. Chapman; What are cultural rights? Protecting groups with individual right s,
Laura Reidel. Part III Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Justiciability of economic, social, and cultural rights:
should there be an international complaints mechanism to adjudicate the rights to food, water, housing, and health?, Michael J.
Dennis and David P. Stewart; Chronicle of an announced birth: the coming into life of the optional protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – the missing piece of the International Bill of Human Rights, Catarina de
Albuquerque; The collective complaints system of the European social charter: interpretative methods of the European
Committee of Social Rights, Holly Cullen; Justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights in the inter-American system of
protection of human rights: beyond traditional paradigms and notions, Mónica Feria Tinta; Enforcing the economic, social and
cultural rights in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: 20 years of redundancy, progression and significant strides,
Christopher Mbazira; Socioeconomic rights: do they deliver the goods?, Dennis M. Davis; Name Index.
About the Author:
Dr Manisuli Ssenyonjo is Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University. He has been a Visiting Professor at a number of
universities around the world, particularly in Africa and the United Kingdom, and is involved with several international huma n
rights organisations and law firms. He has varied research interests within the field of public international law and human rights
law and he has written extensively and provided expert opinions in these areas. He is editor with Mashood Baderin of
International Human Rights Law: 6 Decades After the UDHR and Beyond, Ashgate, 2010.
Series:
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Subjects:
Law:
Human Rights; International Law; Philosophy and Theory of Law; Legal Ethics
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Manisuli Ssenyonjo, Brunel University, UK
Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime
One of the oldest and most extensive forms of criminology falls within what is referred to, among other names, as social
ecology. Beginning with the work of Guerry and Quetelet, this theory became the dominate paradigm in explaining crime with
the work of the Chicago School in the early 1900s, social disorganization theory, and neighborhood research attempting to deal
with crime in deteriorating cities. Social ecology is also the basis for the research being conducted in environmental criminology.
This volume provides some of the most influential works in social ecology and environmental criminology. It begins with
research from human ecology and the Chicago School, extending through some of the research in social disorganization theory.
It encompasses some of the major journal articles from the 1980s and 1990s in neighborhoods and crime, and then addresses
some of the quintessential works in environmental criminology. It ends with some groundbreaking work in this area that may
indicate the future direction of the field. This valuable collection includes an excellent introduction by Jeff Walker.
Contents:
Part 1 The Early Days – Human Ecology: The study of the delinquent as a person, Ernest W. Burgess; The ecological approach
to the study of the human community, Roderick D. McKenzie; Human ecology, Robert E. Park; Ecology and human ecology,
Amos H. Hawley. Part 2 Social Disorganization and Beyond: The neighborhood and child conduct, Henry D. McKay; A rejoinder,
Clifford R. Shaw; The conflict of values in delinquency areas, Solomon Kobrin; Community structure and crime: testing social
disorganization theory, Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves. Part 3 The Focus on Deteriorating Neighborhoods:
Dangerous places: crime and residential environment, Dennis W. Roncek; Community change and patterns of delinquency,
Robert J. Bursik Jr and Jim Webb; Broken windows, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling; Neighborhood and delinquency:
an assessment of contextual effects, Ora Simcha-Fagan and Joseph E. Schwartz; Neighborhood social capital as differential
social organization: resident and leadership dimensions, Robert J. Sampson and Corina Graif . Part 4 The Rise of
Environmental Criminology: Crime prevention and control through environmental engineering, C. Ray Jeffery; The spatial
patterning of burglary, Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham; Some effects of being female on criminal spatial
behavior, George F. Rengert; Crime seen through a cone of resolution, Paul J. Brantingham, Delmar A. Dyreson and Patricia L.
Brantingham; Cities and crime: a geographic model, Keith Harries; The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of
crime, Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck; The methods and measures of centrography and the spatial dynamics of rape,
James L. LeBeau; Nodes, paths and edges: considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment, Patricia L.
Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham. Part 5 Recent Works in Social, Ecological, and Environmental Criminology: Crime
measures and the spatial analysis of criminal activity, Martin A. Andresen; A temporal constraint theory to explain opportunitybased spatial offending patterns, Jerry Ratcliffe; Where size matters: agglomeration economies of illegal drug markets in
Philadelphia, Travis A. Taniguchi, George F. Rengert and Eric S. McCord; The future of Newman's defensible space theory:
linking defensible space and the routine activities of place, Daniell M. Renald and Henk Elffers; Advancing science and research
in criminal justice/criminology: complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker; Index.
About the Author:
Jeffrey T. Walker is Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA.
Series:
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Subjects:
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Jeffery T. Walker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA
Christopher Marlowe
In uncovering the origin of the designation 'University Wits', Bob Logan examines the characteristics of the
Wits and their influence on the course of Elizabethan drama. For the first time, Christopher Marlowe is
placed in the context of the six University Wits, where his reputation stands out as the most prominent, and
the impact of his university education on his works is clarified. The essays selected for reprinting assess the
most significant scholarship written about Marlowe, including biographical studies, challenges to familiar
assumptions about the poet/playwright and his works, compositions on groupings of his works, on individual
works, and on subjects particular to Marlowe. Unique in its perspective and in the collection of essays, this
book will interest all students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, drama, and specialized cultural contexts.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Biography of Christopher Marlowe: Marlowe's Life and Career: Christopher Marlowe: A
Renaissance Life, Chronology and Introduction, Constance Brown Kuriyama; The gift of fire: aggression and
the plays of Christopher Marlowe, Matthew N. Proser. Part II Initiating Controversy: Challenges to Familiar
Assumptions about Marlowe: Christopher Marlowe, T.S. Eliot; Biography, mythography, and criticism: the life
and works of Christopher Marlowe, Lukas Erne; 'Writ in blood': Marlowe and the new historicists, Richard
Wilson. Part III Essays on More Than a Single Work: Marlowe and the 'comic distance', J.R. Mulryne and
Stephen Fender; Marlowe and the will to absolute play, Stephen Greenblatt. Part IV Essays on Individual
Works: A. Dido, Queen of Carthage: Errant Eros: transgressions of sex, gender, and desire in Dido, Queen
of Carthage, Sarah Munson Deats; B. Tamburlaine, 1 & 2: The structure of Tamburlaine, Clifford Leech; The
contemporary perception of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Richard Levin; C. Dr Faustus: 'The forme of Faustus
fortunes good or bad', C.L. Barber; Marlowe and God, David Bebington; D. The Jew of Malta: Innocent
Barabas, Alfred Harbage; Marlowe as experimental dramatist: the role of the audience in The Jew of Malta,
Edward L. Rocklin; E. The Massacre at Paris: Mirrors for foolish princes, Judith Weil; The Massacre at Paris:
Marlowe's messy consensus narrative, Rick Bowers; F. Edward II: History without morality: Edward II, Wilbur
Sanders; The eye of the beholder, Stephen Orgel; G. Hero and Leander: Marlowe, Hero and Lander, and the
art of leaping in poetry, Jane Adamson; H. Marlowe's Other Poetry: 'On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood',
Ovid's Elegies 'The Passionate Shepherd', Hero and Leander, and Lucan's First Book: Marlowe's poems and
classicism, Georgia E. Brown; Theater History: Marlowe's boy actors, Evelyn Tribble; Marlowe reruns:
repertorial commerce and Marlowe's plays in revival, Roslyn L. Knutson; Index.
About the Author:
Robert A. Logan is Professor of English at the University of Hartford, USA.
Series:
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Subjects:
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Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford, USA
John Lyly
Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia
The twenty-four essays in this selection include some older classics, but most date from 1990 onwards and reflect
current critical concerns with politics and sexuality, class and audience. Both Euphues books and the eight plays receive
some detailed attention. The essays are grouped into four sections: Lessons in Wit, Courting the Queen, Playing with
Desire, and Performing Lyly. A biographical summary and critical survey are provided in the introduction; other voices
and insights are alluded to in the notes and listed in the wide-ranging bibliography.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Lessons in Wit: Euphues and his Erasmus, Judith Rice Henderson; A large occasion of discourse,
Catherine Bates; The prose style of John Lyly, Jonas Barish; The humanist in the market: gendering exchange and
authorship in Lyly's Euphues romances, Joan Pong Linton. Part II Courting the Queen: Elizabethan epideictic drama:
praise and blame in the plays of Peele and Lyly, R. Headlam Wells; The monarchy of love in Lyly's Endimion, Robert S.
Knapp; Lyly's Endimion and Midas: the Catholic question in England, David Bevington; 'O unquenchable thirst for gold':
Lyly's Midas and the English quest for empire, Annaliese Connolly; The subversion of flattery: the Queen's body in John
Lyly's Sapho and Phao, Theodora A. Jankowski; Lyly's chimerical vision: witchcraft in Endymion, Christine M. Neufeld; 'I
would fain serve': John Lyly's career at court, Derek B. Alwes; John Lyly and the politics of language, Leah Scragg. Part
III Playing with Desire: John Lyly and the language of play, Jocelyn Powell; The disarming of the knight: comic parody in
Lyly's Endimion, Sara Deats; Ovidian myth in Lyly's courtship comedies, Jeff Shulman; The Woman in the Moon: cursed
be Utopia, Michael Pincombe; Constructions of female homoerotics in early modern drama, Denise A. Walen; Crossdressing and John Lyly's Gallathea, Christopher Wixton; 'Jack hath not Jill': failed courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare,
David Bevington; The transformation of stage courtship, Anne Jannalie Cook. Part IV Performing Lyly: Female roles and
the children's companies: Lyly's Pandora in The Woman in the Moon, Maurice Charney; Speaking pictures: style and
spectacle in Lylyian comedy, Leah Scragg; The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist, Kent Cartwright;
Playing with Lyly: theatrical criticism and non-Shakespearean drama, Kate D. Levin; Name index.
About the Author:
Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia.
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John Lyly is the first collection of essays dedicated solely to the work of this University Wit, celebrity prose writer, and
playwright to the court of Elizabeth. Lyly's energy and wit inspired his contemporaries to follow new directions in prose
fiction and stage comedy, and his writings still illuminate sixteenth-century culture for the modern reader.
Robert Greene
While Robert Greene was the most prolific and perhaps the most notorious professional writer in Elizabethan England, he
continues to be best known for his 1592 quip comparing Shakespeare to "an upstart crow." In his short twelve-year career,
Greene wrote dozens of popular pamphlets in a variety of genres and numerous professional plays. At his premature death in
1592, he was a bonafide London celebrity, simultaneously maligned as Grub-Street profligate and celebrated as literary prodigy.
The present volume constitutes the first collection of Greene's reception both in the early modern period and in our present era,
offering in its poems, prose passages, essays, and chapters that which is most singular among what has been written about
Greene and his work. It also includes a complete list of Greene's contemporary reception until 1640. Kirk Melnikoff's wideranging and revisionist introduction organizes this reception generically while at the same time situating it in the context of
recent critical methodologies.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Greene's Life: Greene's life, Charles Crupi; Robert Greene and his classmates at Cambridge, Johnstone
Parr. Part 2 Early Reception: Roger Portington Esquier, in commendation of this booke, Roger Portington; In praise of the
author and his booke, G.B. [William Boston]; Richard Stapleton gentleman to the courteous and courtlie ladies of England,
Richard Stapleton; Au R. Greene gentilhome, sonnet, John Eliot; In Roberi Greni metamorphosin, carmen enkomiastikon, G.B.
[William Boston]; In laudem Roberti Greni Cantab. In artibus margistri, Unsigned; Thomas Brabine gent. In praise of the author,
Thomas Brabine; From 'To the gentlemen students of both uniuersities', Thomas Nashe; Greene's never too late, Richard Hake;
Francesco's Fortunes, R.S. [Untitled]; From Fovre Leters and Certeine Sonnets, Gabriel Harvey; The printer to the gentlemen
readers, Cuthbert Burby; From Strange News, Thomas Nashe; From Kind-Harts Dreame, Henry Chettle; From Greenes Newes
both from Heauen and Hell, Barnabe Rich; Sonnets IIII, Sonnet VIII, Sonnet IX and Sonnet X, Richard Barnfield; From To the
Christian Reader, Thomas Bowes; From Have with You to Saffron-Walden, Thomas Nashe; An aduertisement to the reader,
John Dickenson; From Palladias Tamia, Francis Meres. Part 3 Greene, Print Culture and Authorship: From The Marketplace of
Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England, Alexandra Halasz; Anti-epic traditions: Greene's romances,
Steve Mentz; Social things: the production of popular culture in the reception of Robert Greene's Pandosto, Lori Humphrey
Newcombe. Part 4 Greene's Early and Mid-Career Fiction: Rhetorical romance: the 'frivolous toyes of Robert Greene', W.W.
Barker; Robert Greene and Greek romance, Walter R. Davis; Humanist poetics and Elizabethan fiction, Arthur Kinney. Part 5
Greene, Romance and Gender: 'Silenced but for the word': the discourse of incest in Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon,
Brenda Cantar; Homosociality, imitation, and gendered reading in Robert Greene's Ciceronis Amor, Kevin Gustafson; Penelope
and the politics of woman's place in the Renaissance, Georgianna Ziegler. Part 6 Greene and Drama: The serious comedy of
Greene's James IV, A.R. Braunmuller; Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth of the present
moment, Kent Cartwright; Masculinity and magic in Frian Bacon and Friar Bungay, Ian McAdam; Greene's attack on Marlowe:
some light on Alphonsus and Selimus, Irving Ribner; The comedy of Greene and Shakespeare, Norman Sanders. Part 7
Greene's True Crime: Greene discovering, Reid Barbour; 'Masters of their occupation': labor and fellowship in the cony-catching
pamphlets, Karen Helfand Bix; Cony-catching: anatomies of anatomies, Lawrence Manley. Part 8 Greene and Repentance:
Gower, Chaucer, and the art of repentance, Jeremy Dimmick; Richard Greene, Richard Helgerson; Index.
About the Author:
Kirk Melnikoff is Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA.
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Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA
Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance,
experimenting in an astonishing variety of forms. His long, eventful, and well-documented life makes him
one of the most individualized figures of his age, and yet also one of the most representative. This is the
first-ever collection of Lodge scholarship. It comprises a selection of the best and most important
biographical and critical work, ranging from 1932 to 2008 and including first-time English translations.
Charles Whitney's discerning introduction discusses each article or book chapter in the context of Lodge
scholarship and beyond, and is supplemented by a bibliography of additional material. This unique collection
offers a distinctive vantage on both Lodge and many current topics in Renaissance and early modern studies
such as humanism, republicanism, romance, intertextuality, plagiarism, gender, colonization, Shakespearean
sources, the histories of print and of reading, authorship, and English Catholicism and religious conflict.
Contents:
Introduction; Part 1 Biography: Thomas Lodge the man, Charles J. Sisson; Conclusion from Thomas Lodge :
Witness of His Times, Éliane Cuvelier; Thomas Lodge (1558–September 1625), Charles W. Whitworth. Part
II General Characterizations of Lodge's Achievement: Lodge, Richard Helgerson; Les maux sociaux, Éliane
Cuvelier; O vita! Misero longa, foelici brevi: Thomas Lodge's struggle for felicity, Arthur Kinney. Part III
Romances: General Characterization: Pastoral romance: Sidney and Lodge, Walter Davis; From Ard'n to
America: Lodge's tragedies of infatuation, Katharine Wilson; Rosalynd and its Intertexts: Lyly's golden
legacy: Rosalynde and Pandosto, Nancy R. Lindheim; Wooing and winning in Arden: Rosalynde and As You
Like It, Charles Whitworth; Feigning female faining: Spenser, Lodge, Shakespeare and Rosalind, Clare R.
Kinney; A note beyond your reach, Steve Mentz; Robin the Devil and Shakespeare's King Lear: Some
romance sources for King Lear: Robert of Sicily and Robert the Devil, Donna B. Hamilton; A Margarite of
America: Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in Lodge's A Margarite of America
(1596), Joan Pong Lonton; 'Horror fiction of the 1590s' and 'Romance and revenge tragedy' from the
Introduction to A Margarite in America, Donald Beecher. Part IV Poetry: Lyrics: 'Poetic interludes' from the
Introduction to Rosalind: Euphues'Golden Legacy Found After His Death in His Cell at Silexedra, Donald
Beecher; Scillaes Metamorphosis or Glaucus and Scilla: Glaucus and Scilla, William Keach; Imagining
heterosexuality in the Epyllia, Jim Ellis; Glaucus and Scilla and the conditions of Catholic authorship in
Elizabethan England, R.W. Maslen. Part V Drama: The Wounds of Civil War: The choice of sources:
evidence and justification for Appian, Vanna Gentili; Thomas Lodge and Elizabethan republicanism, Andrew
Hadfield; A Looking Glass for london and England: Barbarism in Greene and Lodge's A Looking Glasse for
London and England, Pauline Blanc. Part VI Prose: The reading of an Elizabethan: some sources of the
prose pamplhlets of Thomas Lodge, Alice Walker; Le Catholicisme anglais de la Renaissance dans l'œuvre
de Lodge, Éliane Cuvelier; Name index.
About the Author:
Charles C. Whitney is Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.
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Charles C. Whitney, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Thomas Nashe
The current surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of
neglect or undisguised hostility. Yet, as early allusions testify, Nashe was a name which imposed itself on contemporary
culture. Nashe annoyed and even disturbed his contemporaries, but they certainly paid attention to him because he
pioneered new approaches to writing, and indeed to living, and because he was an astute critic. The essays in this
volume have been chosen for the skill with which they present diverse approaches to key issues in Nashe. All Nashe's
texts are covered, as are his relationships with contemporaries, like Shakespeare. The introduction analyses different
approaches, locating them in the history of Nashe criticism, and suggests areas for future research. It argues that
Nashe's importance to Renaissance studies lies in his anomalousness, as he forces us to rethink the Renaissance. He
makes the Renaissance unfamiliar again, and pushes criticism out of its comfort zone.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I Nashe and Early Modern Literature: Contexts, Relationships, Influence: The extemporal vein: Thomas
Nashe and the invention of modern narrative, Kiernan Ryan; 'London' and 'The Wits' Charles Nicholl; Shakespearean
grotesque: the Falstaff plays, Neil Rhodes; The uses of resentment: Nashe , Parnassus, and the poet's mystery, Laurie
Ellinghausen. Part II Earlier Works: The Anatomie of Absurditie: a study in literary apprenticeship, Don Cameron Allen;
The influence of the Marprelate controversy upon the style of Thomas Nashe, Travis L. Summersgill; The miseries of
authorship and Pierce Penilesse, G.R. Hibbard; Pierce Penilesse, the bankrupt's carnival, Lorna Hutson; Christs Teares:
Nashe's 'forsaken extremities', Katherine Duncan-Jones; Summer fruit and autumn leaves: Thomas Nashe in 1593,
Philip Schwyzer; Prototypes of festive comedy in a pageant entertainment: Summer's Last Will and Testament, C.L.
Barber; Summer's Last Will and Testament: revels' end, Marie Axton. Part III Later Works, including the Quarrel with
Gabriel Harvey: Nashe and the poetics of obscenity: The Choise of Valentines, M.L. Stapleton; Transmuted into a
woman or worse: masculine gender identity and Thomas Nashe's Choice of Valentines, Ian Frederick Moulton; 'All this
tractate is but a dream': the ethics of dream narration in Thomas Nashe's The Terrors of the Night, Per Sivefors; The
patrimony of learning, Alexandra Halasz; Day labour: Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England,
Steve Mentz; Nashe's red herring: epistemologies of the commodity in Lenten Stuffe, Henry S. Turner; Rhetoric and
truth, Jonathan V. Crewe. Part IV The Unfortunate Traveller (1594): Thomas Nashe and the functional grotesque in
Elizabethan prose fiction, Barbara C. Millard; The Unfortunate Traveller: the 'newes of the maker' game, Margaret
Ferguson; Inside the outsider, Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller and Bakhtins polyphonic novel, Ann Rosalind Jones; The
epistemological challenge of Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, Raymond Stephanson; The Unfortunate Traveller in
(and out of) France, Richard Hillman; How to turn prose into literature: the case of Thomas Nashe, Stephen Guy-Bray;
Name index.
About the Author:
Georgia Brown, formerly of Cambridge University, UK and now an independent scholar.
Series:
The University Wits
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare; Theatre Studies; Early Modern History 1500-1700
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Georgia Brown, formerly of Cambridge University, UK and now an independent scholar
Music-in-Action
Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology
This volume brings together DeNora’s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays,
some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its
early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the ‘everyday’ perspective, to its current
focus on music in action. Topics covered include Adorno on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, a theory of music
as a space and place for interpretive work, research methods for historical musicology, and the first key
statement of her theory of music as an active ingredient in social life. These building blocks are then
employed to investigate music and embodied experience, sexuality and gender differentiation, and music’s
role as a technology of health. The essays are set in a multi-disciplinary context with an autobiographical
introduction.
Contents:
Introduction: music studies: from interpretation to activity; Structure, chaos and emancipation: Adorno's
philosophy of modern music and post-World War II avant garde; How is extra musical meaning possible?
Music as a place and space for 'work'; Deconstructing periodization: sociological methods and historical
ethnography in 18th century Vienna; The musical composition of social reality? Music, action and reflexivity;
The biology lessons of opera buffa; Music and erotic agency - sonic resources and social-sexual action; The
concerto and society; Music as agency in Beethoven's Vienna; The pebble in the pond: reflections on
community music therapy; Music and health in everyday life; Evidence and effectiveness in music therapy;
Postlude: two or more forms of music; Index.
About the Author:
Tia DeNora, Professor of Music Sociology, Exeter University, UK.
Series:
Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
Subjects:
Music Studies:
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music; Cultural & Media Studies; Theory, Analysis and Aesthetics;
Psychology of Music
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Tia DeNora, Exeter University, UK