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  • 5 - Recent work

  • Bart Moore-Gilbert
  • Book:
    Hanif Kureishi
    Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    28 January 2026, pp 149-188

  • Summary

    Since The Black Album, Kureishi has so far produced two volumes of short stories, a screenplay, a novella and his first original play since Birds of Passage. In his recent writing, Kureishi works incrementally, continuously revising and elaborating key themes, attitudes and ideas. This chapter offer some frameworks for understanding the recent work of Kureishi as a whole. Kureishi's recent writing does not mark a complete break from his previous work. Themes, character types and tropes from the novels are all reshuffled and reconsidered. My Son the Fanatic is much the most significant example of Kureishi's enduring interest in issues of race and ethnicity in his recent work. Kureishi's recent work involves some significant differences of emphasis from his previous writing, particularly in relation to his hitherto characteristic preoccupation with issues of race and ethnicity.

  • 4 - Gymslip drinkers

  • Sarah Kenny
  • Book:
    Growing Up and Going Out
    Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    28 January 2026, pp 137-173

  • Summary

    The rise of late-night leisure paved the way for a new culture of youth drinking that had a significant impact on young people’s leisured landscapes. However, the perceived shift in young people’s relationship with alcohol led to numerous attempts to manage their consumption of alcohol and the spaces in which they consumed it. The ‘problem’ of underage drinking was highlighted as a threat to both young people’s morality and their health. However, this chapter demonstrates that while young people’s relationship to alcohol was undoubtedly shifting in this period, the pursuit of intoxication did not supersede sociability as the primary draw of youthful leisure.

  • 10 - Anxiety and influence: Derricke’s

  • Edited by Thomas Herron, Denna J. Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney
  • Book:
    John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne
    Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    28 January 2026, pp 171-184

  • Summary

    John Derricke, this chapter argues, employed the influential collection of historical verse tragedies A Mirror for Magistrates (first published 1559) as a model for various parts of his Image of Irelande. In doing so, however, Derricke found himself forced to acknowledge and to seek to overturn the often uncomfortable messages of that source. Thus, in the opening poem of his collection, Derricke uses a selective celebratory presentation of English monarchs to contest the view in the Mirror of English leaders as often undeserving of rule. Similarly, while he adopts the form and meter of the Mirror for his poems in the voice of Irish rebel Rory Oge O’More, Derricke suppresses the complexity of rebellion’s treatment in the Mirror, including the claims that political resistance is sometimes justified and that erring English officers bring rebellion on themselves. The Image thus reveals the anxious inspiration its author derived from A Mirror for Magistrates.

Comic Gothic
  • An Edinburgh Companion
  • Edited by Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    30 June 2024
  • The Edinburgh Companion to Comic Gothic explores the role of irony, satire, parody, pastiche and the absurd in Gothic texts dating from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Its particular focus on the use of Comic Gothic in social media and popular culture make it a distinctive and original contribution to Gothic studies that will be especially welcomed by undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Invention of Technology
  • An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan
  • Nathan Schlanger
  • Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    05 March 2026
  • What is technology? How and why did techniques – including materials, tools, processes, skills and products – become central subjects of study in anthropology and archaeology? In this book, Nathan Schlanger explores the invention of technology through the work of the eminent ethnologist and prehistorian André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986), author of groundbreaking works such as Gesture and Speech. While employed at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, Leroi-Gourhan initially specialized in ethnographic studies of 'material civilizations'. By the 1950s, however, his approach broadened to encompass evolutionary and behavioral perspectives from history, biology, psychology and philosophy. Focused on the material dimensions of techniques, Leroi-Gourhan's influential investigations ranged from traditional craft activities to automated production. They also anticipated both the information age and the environmental crisis of today. Schlanger's study offers new insights into the complexity of Leroi-Gourhan's interdisciplinary research, methods, and results, spanning across the 20th century social sciences and humanities.

Enemies in Agreement
  • Political Volatility and the Design of Arms Control
  • Jane Vaynman
  • Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    12 February 2026
  • Why do adversaries sometimes cooperate to restrain their military competition? Why do they design arms control agreements with intrusive verification in some cases but rely on minimal transparency in others? Amidst ongoing international competition, arms control remains rare despite potential mutual benefits, and agreements vary dramatically in their approaches to monitoring. This book reveals how uncertainty from domestic political changes-such as leadership transitions or social unrest- can enable arms control. It identifies two paths to agreement: during periods of uncertainty, states that previously relied on informal understandings hedge by establishing lightly-monitored agreements, while those that anticipated deception take calculated risks through agreements with intensive verification. Through comprehensive data analysis and rich case studies, Jane Vaynman challenges conventional wisdom about uncertainty in international relations while offering insights for policymakers. As states confront challenges from nuclear competition to emerging technologies, understanding when arms control becomes viable is more vital than ever.

Japanese High School Films
  • Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline
  • Peter C. Pugsley
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2021
  • Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline explores how these contemporary films capture a distinct view of Japanese adolescent life, uncovering significant links with the themes of discipline and institutionalisation that underpin Japanese society. It illustrates how Japanese high school films link directly to manga, anime, TV dramas and pop music, triggering audience recognition and nostalgia through on-screen use of iconographic images, from school uniforms to rooftop recreational spaces. This book also identifies universal themes of adolescent romance, friendship, and bullying, and the spatial and temporal changes that affect every student's journey. The casting of already-famous music and fashion celebrities as students or as teachers allows the films to capitalise on cross-generational fandom across Japan's prolific entertainment industries. For anyone who wants to understand contemporary Japanese culture, Japanese High School Films is essential reading.

Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze
  • Barbara Glowczewski
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2019
  • This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. She shows that the ways Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space - time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with Guattarian and Deleuzian concepts. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, Glowczewski draws on her own conversations with Guattari, and her debates with various scholars to deliver an innovative agenda for radical anthropology.

Promise the Earth
  • A Safe Climate in Good Faith
  • Julian Allwood, Andrew Davison
  • Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    19 January 2026
  • Politicians and business leaders tell us that climate change can be solved with new technologies, but global emissions keep rising. Engineers show us technological options that could be deployed quickly, but there is no plan there to save us. We can no longer wait for solutions to climate change. To reduce our emissions quickly, we need to cut back on some aspects of modern life through inventive tweaks – and via restraint. Restraint is normal. It is also fundamental across all religious faiths. In this volume, Julian Allwood, an engineer, and Andrew Davison, a theologian, offer a fresh perspective and prescription for combatting climate change. Rather than starting from the vantage points of economics and politics, they rethink climate action in the long tradition of the virtues – Courage, Justice, Prudence, and Temperance -- along with Faith, Hope, and Love from the Bible. By acting in good faith now, a safe climate becomes an expression of our faith in and love for humanity.

A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy
  • Edited by Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell, James Williams
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 January 2018
  • This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, 'A Thousand Plateaus'. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.

    'A Thousand Plateaus' represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory.

The Virilio Dictionary
  • Edited by John Armitage
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 May 2013
  • In Virilio's writings, meanings and interpretations are often difficult and ambiguous. Now, this dictionary explains every major Virilian subject and idea, showing how each functions within his philosophy. Among the concepts are entries on Accident, Body, Cinema, Dromology, and Eugenics, together with Virilian ideas at the forefront of his pioneering thinking in cultural and social theory such as Foreclosure, Grey Ecology, Polar Inertia, Logistics of Perception and the Overexposed City.

Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature
  • A Return to Elemental Symbolism
  • Taylor Knight
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2024
  • Taylor Knight reveals the way in which phenomenology initiates a return to ontology construed through a dialectical relationship between being and element. Within phenomenology's return to the elemental, Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy is a key locus, opening critical paths forward into an ontology for the ecological age. With reference to his phenomenological forebears - Heidegger, Husserl, Levinas - his non-phenomenological influences - Bachelard, Schelling, Freud - and his dialogue with Greek thought - Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle - Knight shows what is authentically new in Merleau-Ponty's late ontology.

Age, Gender and Status in Macedonian Society, 550-300 BCE
  • Intersectional Approaches to Mortuary Archaeology
  • Elina M. Salminen
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2023
  • Building on the largest sample of Archaic to Hellenistic burials from Macedon synthesized to date, this work provides new insight into the society that gave birth to Philip II and Alexander the Great. An intersectional focus on gender, age, and status reveals the lives of Macedonians only rarely discussed, from non-elite men to women and children. Through quantitative analysis and case-studies, the reader gets a view of the complexity and nuance of a society sometimes reduced to mighty warriors and fierce royal women. Change over time is also discussed, introducing depth into the historical narrative that is largely limited to the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods. Finally, the book addresses the promise and challenges of applying intersectionality, a framework that is immensely fruitful but which was developed for contemporary contexts, to archaeological contexts.

Italian graphic design
  • Culture and practice in Milan, 1930s–60s
  • Chiara Barbieri
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
  • Italian graphic design: Culture and practice in Milan, 1930s–1960s explores the articulation of graphic design practice in Italy from the interwar period to the mid-1960s. By offering a critical and historical analysis of the role that graphic design has played in Italian design culture, it contributes to a more diverse, inclusive and contextualised understanding of Italian design and visual culture. Focusing on educational issues, transnational networks, organisational strategies, mediating channels and discourses on modernism, the book explores graphic designers’ continual adaptation to shifting economic, political and cultural environments, as well as changing design discourses. It traces the lineage of graphic design back to typography, tackles its problematic relation with advertising and addresses graphic designers’ efforts to negotiate their professional identity with industrial designers. By showing how macro historical narratives were experienced in everyday practice, it offers a partial history of Italy during a period of about thirty years. In particular, it approaches Italian graphic design during Fascism, addressing the grey area between alignment and resistance. A series of interrelated case studies brings to light lesser-known narratives and neglected actors of Italian design, while providing an original retelling of well-known stories and offering new perspectives on protagonists of the historiographical canon. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and placing a great emphasis on visual analysis, this book provides a model for a contextualised, archive-based and outward-looking graphic design history as an integral part of the history of design, visual culture and cultural history.

Saving sick Britain
  • Why we need the ‘Health Society’
  • Martin Yuille, Bill Ollier
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
  • Saving sick Britain lays down a challenge to every citizen, to British institutions, policymakers and scientists. Epidemics in common diseases and conditions like diabetes and depression pose systemic risks to society, which are as serious as those from Covid-19. These modern plagues are the challenge of our times. The authors argue that these epidemics require us to think afresh about the prevention of disease. They first examine the basics of contemporary political philosophy and modern biology to redefine what ‘health’ really means. They then outline a practical way to focus society relentlessly on maintaining the health of all its citizens. This plan is not just another reform of the National Health Service. It calls for far more than that. The authors aim to construct a national ‘Health Society’ and this requires across-the-board reform of the entirety of public policy. Every department of government – national and local – needs to change. Every workplace, every employer, every community organisation and every citizen has a role to play. Because the authors have a background in basic biology, they come at the problem of prevention from a new direction, unburdened by the traditions of the medical profession or by ideological dogma. Two millennia ago, Hippocrates said prevention was better than cure, and Cicero said population health was the supreme law. They were right. But they could do precious little about it. Yuille and Ollier show how today we can turn their insights into reality.

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