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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.

Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World
  • Edited by Melanie Racette-Campbell, Aven McMaster
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2023
  • This book looks at a contemporary concept - toxic masculinity - and considers its usefulness for understanding the ancient Mediterranean world. By concentrating on the particular elements that make up this form of masculine behaviour and identity, briefly defined as a performance of masculinity that is harmful to people who should be protected, to one's community, or to oneself, we illuminate tensions and contradictions within Greek and Roman conceptions of gender, while tracing some origins of modern gender roles. This book also highlights the ways that texts and events from the ancient world are invoked in the construction of toxic masculinity today. Covering Athenian oratory and drama, Roman poetry and history, curse tablets, early Christian writing, Italian cinema, US politics, and more, this collection brings together the ancient and modern to ask what shapes a culture's understanding of masculinity and how to identify the aspects of that understanding that can cause harm.

Virilio and Visual Culture
  • Edited by John Armitage, Ryan Bishop
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 January 2013
  • This collection of thirteen original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.

ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen
  • Edited by Thomas Austin
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2023
  • Working across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC, Steve McQueen's prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency. This vital collection interrogates his body of work, its political, aesthetic and institutional dimensions, and the interfaces between them. It offers critical insights into McQueen's engagements with race, gender, the body, love and pain, and his abiding self-reflexive interest in the potential of multiple audio-visual forms. The first director to win both the Turner Prize and an Oscar for best picture, McQueen is probably the most important working British film maker. This book explores the controversies as well as the achievements in his stellar career so far.

I Refuse to Condemn
  • Resisting racism in times of national security
  • Edited by Asim Qureshi
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
  • In times of national security, scholars and activists who hail from the communities under suspicion attempt to draw readers and listeners to the complexity of the world we inhabit. For those who campaigned against the SUS law in the 1980s, when young Black men were being routinely stopped in the streets, the wave of counter-terrorism legislation and policy that exists today will be very familiar. Similarly, recent discussions about the impact of drill music in the culture of young Black men has drawn questions around the ways in which they should be securitised, with senior police calling for the use of terrorism legislation against them. In this environment, when those who study and have lived alongside the communities who are at the scrutiny of the state raise questions about the government, military and police policy, they are often shut down as terrorist-sympathisers, or apologists for gang culture. In such environments, there is an expectation on scholars and activists to condemn what society at large fears. This volume is about how that expectation has emerged alongside the normalisation of racism, and how these writers choose to subvert the expectations raised on them, as part of their commitment to anti-racism.

Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s
  • Pop culture and politics in the decade that shaped modern Britain
  • Lucy Robinson
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
  • This book is not a nostalgic celebration, or retrospective condemnation of the eighties. It does, however, take popular culture seriously. Rather than using popular culture to illustrate history, popular culture is where history happens. Intellectuals and politicians were not the only people making sense of this changing world around them; as new broadcast and publishing spaces developed, they provided new ways to engage with, analyse and intervene in the world. Children’s television and magazines, Royal wedding souvenirs, censored documentaries or scandalous memoirs all made history. This book is a thought experiment in what happens if we take ideas from the 1980s seriously and use them as a guide for historical analysis. It is history as a compilation album, where each chapter is built around a key object or moment, through which different perforations between institutions, publics, media forms, genres or social functions are explored. From the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, to Princess Diana’s legs, or the puppet pop star Roland Rat, these objects draw together local and global themes and act as counterpoints to established histories. Each becomes a way to work out the big issues – around the meaning of motherhood and the state, the military covenant, the family and childhood, the relationship between the people, the judiciary and the parliamentary system, the medium and the message.

Lawmaking under Authoritarianism
  • Factions, Institutions, and Outcomes Across Dictatorships
  • Alejandro Bonvecchi, Emilia Simison
  • Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    05 March 2026
  • Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than others? Why does influence on policies and politics vary across dictatorships? To answer these questions, Lawmaking under Authoritarianism extends the power-sharing theory of authoritarian government to argue that autocracies with balanced factional politics have more influential legislatures than regimes with unbalanced or unstable factional politics. Where factional politics is balanced, autocracies have reviser legislatures that amend and reject significant shares of executive initiatives and are able to block or reverse policies preferred by dictators. When factional politics is unbalanced, notary legislatures may amend executive bills but rarely reject them, and regimes with unstable factional politics oscillate between these two extremes. Lawmaking under Authoritarianism employs novel datasets based on extensive archival research to support these findings, including strong qualitative case studies for past dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.

Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260-1460
  • Alasdair C. Grant
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 May 2024
  • Captivity and enslavement were characteristic experiences of Greek Christians in the late medieval Mediterranean. During this time, Muslim Turks and Christian western Europeans conquered and traded at the expense of the shrinking Byzantine Empire. By bringing together literary and documentary sources spanning a geographical canvas from the Aegean to Egypt and from Cyprus to Catalonia, this book tells that story in full for the first time. It traces this crisis of captivity from its origins in thirteenth-century Asia Minor to its explosion into a Mediterranean-wide phenomenon, interrogating different types of unfreedom and forced movement and evaluating their significance for Greeks' religious and diplomatic relationships with their neighbours, both Christian and Muslim.

    This book tells the story of thousands of ordinary people caught up in conflict and dispersed across the Mediterranean against their will. It is the first study to examine the social, cultural and political ramifications of this late medieval trade in Greeks. The book's wide geographical horizons and its accessible style ensure that it will appeal to anyone interested in the medieval Mediterranean or the history of slavery. Its use of previously unpublished or little-known textual sources and its extensive synthesis of Byzantine, Latin European and Islamic sources and scholarship ensure that it will offer new perspectives and revelations for the specialist.

Agents of European overseas empires
  • Private colonisers, 1450–1800
  • Edited by Agnès Delahaye, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L.H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2026
  • Agents of overseas empires considers overseas colonisation as a process initiated by myriad private, individual and institutional actors, whose relationships with governments varied. Instead of regarding colonisation as a phenomenon orchestrated from a governmental centre on to overseas territories or governed in accordance with the ‘centre–periphery’ model proffered by sociology, this collection demonstrates how ‘private interests’ – as they would be termed today – fuelled the exercise and management of power in overseas enterprises. It investigates the extent to which individuals or trading companies both advanced imperial prerogatives and formed colonial societies, whether in conjunction with or in spite of governmental interests. It is from this perspective that the contributors to Agents of Overseas Empires have analysed often understudied primary sources in which commercial companies established their proceedings, and company agents and recruits recorded the fulfilment or failure of their commissions – the records, papers and narratives in which merchant adventurers and colonial sponsors devised and promoted their colonial projects. The authors regard empire as a series of assumptions, failures and innovations in the practices of overseas trade and colonisation, through which European overseas interests became entrenched over the course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Transition Imaginaries

Transition Imaginaries
  • Contested Temporalities, Affective Politics, and Decolonial Technology
  • Benoit Dillet, Sophia Hatzisavvidou
  • Published online:
    27 January 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026
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  • The idea that the world needs to transition to a more sustainable future is omnipresent in environmental politics and policy today. Focusing on the energy transition as a solution to the ecological crisis represents a shift in environmental political thought and action. This Element employs a political theory approach and draws on empirical developments to explore this shift by probing the temporal, affective, and technological dimensions of transition politics. Mobilising the framework of ecopolitical imaginaries, it maps five transition imaginaries and sketches a counter-hegemonic, decolonial transition that integrates decolonial approaches to knowledge and technology. Transition Imaginaries offers a nuanced exploration of the ways in which transition politics unfolds, and a novel argument on the importance of attending to the coloniality of transition politics. A transition to just sustainable futures requires the mobilisation of post-extractivist visions, knowledges, and technologies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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