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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Arctic state identity
Geography, history, and geopolitical relations
by Ingrid A. Medby
This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal - understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures - and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a 'peopled' view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of 'state identity'.
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The ArtsFebruary 2019Contemporary Korean cinema
Culture, identity and politics
by Hyangjin Lee
The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and South Korea. Covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s. Introduces the works of Korea's major directors, and analyses the Korean film industry in terms of film production, distribution and reception. Based on this historical analysis, the study investigates ideological constructs in seventeen films, eight from North Korea and nine from South Korea.
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The ArtsNovember 2021The postsocialist contemporary
by Octavian Esanu, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021New slaveries in contemporary British literature and visual arts
by Pietro Deandrea
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April 2019Oslo & Bergen – Lieblingsorte
by Knut Hoem
Zwei fantastische Städte in einem Band: Oslo begeistert mit nordischem Künstlerflair und exzentrischer Kulinarik. In Bergen schlendern wir stundenlang durch schmale Gassen. Gemeinsam liefern die Städte einen schillernden Eindruck des fernen Nordens. In Oslo starten wir mit einem Morgenspaziergang durch den Vigelandpark und einem Besuch des Vigeland-Museums in den Tag. Sein Namensgeber hat die gesamte Anlage mit nackten Figuren bestückt – unter ihnen ein entkleideter Beethoven! Auf den Schock erst einmal eine ordentliche Mahlzeit. Wie wäre es mit Rentier-Granatapfel-Pizza im Café des Kunstnernes Hus? Wir setzen auf die Halbinsel Bygdøy über: Mit Ausblick auf die alten Wikingerschiffe begegnen wir der blühenden Geschichte Norwegens. Anschließend geht es früh ins Bett – denn morgen treten wir die atemberaubende Überfahrt nach Bergen an …Schienen tragen uns vorbei an Schafherden und Fjorden, im Fischerdorf Flåm steigen wir in das Express-Schiff nach Bergen: Fünfeinhalb Stunden später gleiten wir in das Hafengebiet Vågen. Links und rechts reihen sich die farbenfrohen Fassaden schmaler Holzhäuser aneinander, es duftet nach selbstgeröstetem Kaffee. Wir folgen der Spur und kehren in Det lille Kaffekompaniet ein. Gut gestärkt spazieren wir auf den Berg Fløyen, der uns eine malerische Aussicht über die Hansestadt bietet. Am Abend kehren wir beim berühmtesten Kind der Stadt ein: Edvard Griegs ehemaliges Wohnhaus Troldhaugen am See Nordåsvannet ist Veranstaltungsort zahlreicher Sommerkonzerte. Unsere Reise-Reihe im insel taschenbuch führt Sie zu Orten, von denen viele bald zu Ihren Lieblingsorten werden könnten und zu denen Sie immer wieder zurückkehren möchten. Entdecken Sie versteckte Plätze und Parks, kaufen Sie auf den schönsten Märkten ein und genießen Sie die besten Cafés, Restaurants und Bars der Stadt!Unsere Autoren haben ihre (Wahl-)Heimat neu erkundet, wie Fremde, aber mit „Heimvorteil“. Jedem Lieblingsort sind zwei Seiten gewidmet, mit Farbfoto, Extratipps, Wegbeschreibung und Öffnungszeiten. Durch die praktische Anordnung nach Stadtteilen können Sie die Umgebung Ihres Lieblingsortes gleich mit erkunden. Unsere »Lieblingsorte« – Reise-, Geschenk- und Lesebücher, die viele Überraschungen bereithalten und zum Neuentdecken der schönsten Städte einladen!
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April 2019Oslo und Bergen – Lieblingsorte
by Knut Hoem
Zwei fantastische Städte in einem Band: Oslo begeistert mit nordischem Künstlerflair und exzentrischer Kulinarik. In Bergen schlendern wir stundenlang durch schmale Gassen. Gemeinsam liefern die Städte einen schillernden Eindruck des fernen Nordens. In Oslo starten wir mit einem Morgenspaziergang durch den Vigelandpark und einem Besuch des Vigeland-Museums in den Tag. Sein Namensgeber hat die gesamte Anlage mit nackten Figuren bestückt – unter ihnen ein entkleideter Beethoven! Auf den Schock erst einmal eine ordentliche Mahlzeit. Wie wäre es mit Rentier-Granatapfel-Pizza im Café des Kunstnernes Hus? Wir setzen auf die Halbinsel Bygdøy über: Mit Ausblick auf die alten Wikingerschiffe begegnen wir der blühenden Geschichte Norwegens. Anschließend geht es früh ins Bett – denn morgen treten wir die atemberaubende Überfahrt nach Bergen an …Schienen tragen uns vorbei an Schafherden und Fjorden, im Fischerdorf Flåm steigen wir in das Express-Schiff nach Bergen: Fünfeinhalb Stunden später gleiten wir in das Hafengebiet Vågen. Links und rechts reihen sich die farbenfrohen Fassaden schmaler Holzhäuser aneinander, es duftet nach selbstgeröstetem Kaffee. Wir folgen der Spur und kehren in Det lille Kaffekompaniet ein. Gut gestärkt spazieren wir auf den Berg Fløyen, der uns eine malerische Aussicht über die Hansestadt bietet. Am Abend kehren wir beim berühmtesten Kind der Stadt ein: Edvard Griegs ehemaliges Wohnhaus Troldhaugen am See Nordåsvannet ist Veranstaltungsort zahlreicher Sommerkonzerte. Unsere Reise-Reihe im insel taschenbuch führt Sie zu Orten, von denen viele bald zu Ihren Lieblingsorten werden könnten und zu denen Sie immer wieder zurückkehren möchten. Entdecken Sie versteckte Plätze und Parks, kaufen Sie auf den schönsten Märkten ein und genießen Sie die besten Cafés, Restaurants und Bars der Stadt!Unsere Autoren haben ihre (Wahl-)Heimat neu erkundet, wie Fremde, aber mit „Heimvorteil“. Jedem Lieblingsort sind zwei Seiten gewidmet, mit Farbfoto, Extratipps, Wegbeschreibung und Öffnungszeiten. Durch die praktische Anordnung nach Stadtteilen können Sie die Umgebung Ihres Lieblingsortes gleich mit erkunden. Unsere »Lieblingsorte« – Reise-, Geschenk- und Lesebücher, die viele Überraschungen bereithalten und zum Neuentdecken der schönsten Städte einladen!
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Contemporary Spanish cinema
by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas
Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university
by Michael Osborne, Darlene Clover, Kathy Sanford
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Capitalism in contemporary Iran
Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics
by Kayhan Valadbaygi
By situating Iran within the neoliberal global capitalism and resulting geopolitics, this book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and transformations in class and state formation emanating from it. It shows that Iranian neoliberalisation has brought about two capital fractions, namely the internationally-oriented capital fraction and the military-bonyad complex. It substantiates that the co-existence of these competing class fractions with different accumulation strategies has generated hybrid neoliberalism. The book further demonstrates how this new class formation has reorganised the function and operation of state institutions and transformed state ideology. By documenting the ways in which Iranian neoliberalisation has reshaped the subaltern classes and formed Iran's volatile foreign policy, it also provides a novel account of major events and processes in contemporary Iran, such as the post-2017 wave of uprisings, the nuclear programme and international sanctions.
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The ArtsOctober 2024Queer cinema in contemporary France
Five directors
by Todd Reeser
Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with wide international release. Whether having sex on the beach or kissing in the high school swimming pool, these cinematic characters create or embody forward-looking, open-ended and optimistic forms of queerness and modes of living, loving and desiring. Whether they are white, beur or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans* or queer, they open up hetero- and cisnormativity to new ways of being a gendered subject.
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Business, Economics & LawMay 2008The contemporary law of armed conflict
by Leslie C. Green, Iain Scobbie, Jean D'Aspremont, Dominic McGoldrick
Green's The contemporary law of armed conflict has been acclaimed as one of the most significant works on the law of armed conflict to appear in recent years. The first edition was adopted as a basic text by military institutions and educational establishments throughout the world and is among the most comprehensive and readable works on the subject. This new edition brings the work up to date, examining the significance of the World Court's Opinion on the legality of the nuclear weapon. It also considers the importance of such matters as the laser weapon agreement, the mines treaty and the jurisprudence of the two war crimes tribunals, that for the former Yugoslavia as well as for Rwanda, and assesses the role of the proposed International Criminal Court as it may affect the law of armed conflict. The book applies a practical as well as a theoretical approach, and draws on an extensive range of national and international practice. It is thus an indispensable reference for the armed forces and government defence organizations, as well as academics and students interested in the modern law of war. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, Martin Joormann
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Science & MathematicsSeptember 2024
The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences
A call for decolonising global governance
by Joy Y. Zhang, Saheli Datta Burton
This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in the two countries' rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The cult of the Two Grand Elders
by Fabian Graham
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2023
The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
by Michael Kalisch
How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019These Englands
A conversation on national identity
by Arthur Aughey
The term 'conversation' is one of today's jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country's history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness.
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2018The contemporary law of armed conflict (3rd edn)
by Leslie C. Green, Iain Scobbie, Jean D'Aspremont, Dominic McGoldrick
Green's The contemporary law of armed conflict has been acclaimed as one of the most significant works on the law of armed conflict to appear in recent years. The first edition was adopted as a basic text by military institutions and educational establishments throughout the world and is among the most comprehensive and readable works on the subject. This new edition brings the work up to date, examining the significance of the World Court's Opinion on the legality of the nuclear weapon. It also considers the importance of such matters as the laser weapon agreement, the mines treaty and the jurisprudence of the two war crimes tribunals, that for the former Yugoslavia as well as for Rwanda, and assesses the role of the proposed International Criminal Court as it may affect the law of armed conflict. The book applies a practical as well as a theoretical approach, and draws on an extensive range of national and international practice. It is thus an indispensable reference for the armed forces and government defence organizations, as well as academics and students interested in the modern law of war.
