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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2020(B)ordering Britain
Law, race and empire
by Nadine El-Enany
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as a gift once given to the world. Meanwhile immigration laws are justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out. In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back what is theirs.
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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2019It's a London thing
How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city
by Caspar Melville, Peter Martin
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. It conceives of the linked scenes around black music in London, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to rare groove and rave in the 1980s and jungle and its offshoots in the 1990s, to dubstep and grime of the 2000s, as demonstrating enough common features to be thought of as one musical culture, an Afro-diasporic continuum. Core to this idea is that this dance culture has been ignored in history and cultural theory and that it should be thought of as a powerful and internationally significant form of popular art.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829
by Christina Morin
The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. Countering traditional scholarly views of the 'rise' of 'the gothic novel' on the one hand, and, on the other, Irish Romantic literature, this study persuasively re-integrates a body of now overlooked works into the history of the literary gothic as it emerged across Ireland, Britain, and Europe between 1760 and 1829. Its twinned quantitative and qualitative analysis of neglected Irish texts produces a new formal, generic, and ideological map of gothic literary production in this period, persuasively positioning Irish works and authors at the centre of a new critical paradigm with which to understand both Irish Romantic and gothic literary production.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016Islamic charities and Islamic humanism in troubled times
by Jonathan Benthall, Bertrand Taithe
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Films, cinemaAugust 2017Decentring France
Multilingualism and power in contemporary French cinema
by Gemma King
In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such as Arabic or Kurdish, multilingual characters in these films exploit their knowledge of multiple languages, and offer counter-perspectives to dominant ideologies of the role of linguistic diversity in society. Decentring France is the first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eight emblematic films,this book argues that many contemporary French films take a new approach to language and power, showing how even the most historically-maligned languages can empower their speakers. Through studies on social power combined with close film analysis, this book offers a unique insight to academics and students alike, into the place of language and power in French cinema today.
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Politics & governmentMarch 2017Go home?
The politics of immigration controversies
by Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhatacharyya, William Davies, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Kirsten Forkert, Emma Jackson and Roiyah Saltus
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate toughness on immigration. The authors set out to explore the effects of such performances: on policy, on public debate, on pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. This book presents their findings, and provides insights into the practice of conducting research on such a charged and sensitive topic.
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SociologyJanuary 2017Frontiers of the Caribbean
by Dr Philip Nanton. Series edited by Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra
This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognized element of Caribbean island culture. Combining analytical and creative genres of writing, it explores historical and contemporary patterns of frontier change through a case study of the little-known Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Modern frontier traits are located in the wandering woodcutter, the squatter on government land and the mountainside ganja grower. But the frontier is also identified as part of global production that has shaped island tourism, the financial sector and patterns of migration.
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -December 2016Almost nothing
Observations on precarious practices in contemporary art
by Series edited by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Anna Dezeuze
What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every five seconds? This book argues that they are both examples of a 'precarious' art that flourished from the late 1950s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, in light of a growing awareness of the individual's fragile existence in capitalist society. Focusing on comparative case studies drawn from European, North and South American practices, this study maps out a network of similar concerns and practices, while outlining its evolution from the 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book will provide students and amateurs of contemporary art and culture with new insights into contemporary art practices and the critical issues that they raise concerning the material status of the art object, the role of the artist in society, and the relation between art and everyday life.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2015Rocks of nation
The imagination of Celtic Cornwall
by Shelley Trower
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2015Tolerance and diversity in Ireland, north and south
by Iseult Honohan, Natalie Rougier
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Debt as Power
by Richard H. Robbins, Tim Di Muzio, Gurminder K. Bhambra
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The book is distinctive in offering a historically sensitive and comprehensive analysis of debt as an interconnected and global phenomenon. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016Rebel by vocation
Seán O’Faoláin and the generation of The Bell
by Niall Carson
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016Rebel by vocation
Seán O’Faoláin and the generation of The Bell
by Niall Carson
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2016Family rhythms
The changing textures of family life in Ireland
by Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty, David Ralph
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2015Rocks of nation
The imagination of Celtic Cornwall
by Shelley Trower
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