All Books

This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond. 

This book uses photography to explore Mexico City’s many and varied landscapes as they emerge from the rich urban culture and vernacular artistry of the people who live there.

Manfred Thierry Mugler encapsulates the notion of a fashion auteur. Championing the subversion of cultural codes, the late designer built a fashion house that transcends and transgresses boundaries of formal and social convention that in turn influenced the generation of designers to emerge in his wake.

The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American academy: Himani Bannerji, Inderpal Grewal, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sherene H. Razack and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 

Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.

An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice—that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.

Geopolitics shapes daily life and key human geography processes, and this book introduces its historical and theoretical development to support critical thinking. Using contemporary case studies, it challenges assumptions about global power while providing accessible yet academically rigorous frameworks for deeper understanding.

This study examines how convicts sent to France’s most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.

The book interprets Dallapiccola’s one-act opera The Prisoner (Il Prigioniero) as an allegory about how people remain hopeful in the face of authoritarianism.

This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.

Resisting from Morocco’s Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani’s oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.

This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecologically sensitive, glacier-rich areas of Argentina.