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This pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness.

Published in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this collection acknowledges his contribution to the field of language and society in general, and to that of language analysis of socio-political realities in the Middle East in particular.

Examining the 21st century presidencies of the United States and their comparative policies, strategies, attitudes and behaviours towards the People's Republic of China.This book draws critical attention to the core security challenges that have defined U.S. foreign policy in relation to China and its rise on the international stage. During the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama the traditional safeguards and stabilizers to strategic competition were broadly adhered to, albeit in some cases not without great difficulty. Under the leadership of Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping, however, these bulwarks have alarmingly diminished. Abrupt departures in engagement platforms and asserting regional defensive postures have become the new norms.With brevity and nuance, this book provides much needed connective tissue in examining these departures and their antecedents across the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. It reveals Washington and Beijing are moving towards a new period where, unlike previous ones, this one will be characterised by an amplified preponderance of competition, and the enhanced probability of conflict and confrontation.Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne. Adam Bartley is a lecturer and China foreign relations specialist at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne.

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University. Bill Angus is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Massey University in New Zealand.

Annual of European and Global Studies Editors: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wagner An annual collection of the best research on European and global themes, the Annual of European and Global Studies publishes issues with a specific focus, each addressing critical developments and controversies in the field. Examining the ongoing processes of migration in Europe and beyond This book deals with the ongoing processes of migration and boundary-(re)making in Europe and other parts of the world. It takes stock of recent and hitherto unpublished research on the refugee crisis in Europe, migration dynamics in the Middle East and migration flows in Africa and Latin America, specifically in relation to their political, social and cultural framing. In particular, chapters in this collection focus on newer cases of transnational migration and their socio-political implications. Alongside the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe, which can be seen as one of the most divisive political issues in recent European history, new patterns of migration and re-bordering can also be seen across Europe, the Middle East and beyond. These include both the rise of anti-immigration populism within the nation-states and practices of discouraging migration at the regional level such as the EU. Robert Sata is Associate Research Fellow with the Political Science Department at the Central European University. Jochen Roose is Coordinator for Surveys and Party Research at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin. He is also Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Free University of Berlin. Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is Professor of Political Theory and Democracy Research at the University of Leipzig.

The present collection of 16 original essays offers fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf's sentences.

This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Presents a new way of thinking about the relationship between law and language Legal rhetoric is not confined to persuasion but to an understanding of law's organisation of its own system and its relationship with other jurisdictions. Bringing together an international range of common law and civil law scholars, this book draws on contemporary legal discourse to examine the shared practice of exemplarity and extraordinary judgments in both national and international fields of law. It takes a comparative approach, examining practice across a range of legal jurisdictions including the US, Russia, Portugal, Italy and the Czech Republic. In doing so, it opens up a new dialogue on the question of the hermeneutic practices of legal reasoning. In response to the changes in legal form and transmission that have been generated both by globalisation and by common law's irreversible encounter with the civilian methods of European law, New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse develops new rhetorical approaches to law at a time when new legal forms are urgently required. Key Features - Brings together a range of common law and civil law scholars from countries including the US, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Canada and Brazil - Invites the reader to rethink the value of legal rhetorics - understood as a broad field including argumentation, epistemology, and legal practice and experience - Introduces casuistry as a new perspective that is valuable also for civil law systems - Illustrates how single cases interpolate general norms Angela Condello is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Law Department, University of Messina; she is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, where she holds a Jean Monnet Module on human rights and critical legal thinking within the European legal culture.

This book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations.

'Chad Kia convincingly demonstrates the poetic richness and cultural depth of the late fifteenth-century paintings produced in the spiritually imbued intellectual and artistic atmosphere of the Herat elite. Written in rich language and with intellectual sharpness, this book is a pleasure to read.'Rachel Milstein, The Hebrew University, JerusalemTransforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings. It reveals the hidden meaning behind enigmatic figures and scenes that have puzzled modern scholars, focusing on five 'miniature' paintings. Chad Kia shows how the cryptic elements in these works of art from Timurid Persia conveyed the mystical teachings of Sufi poets like Rumi, Attar and Jami, and heralded one of the most significant events in the history of Islam: the takeover by the Safavids in 1501 and the conversion of Iran to Shiism.Key Features. Interprets celebrated but enigmatic paintings from collections in the Metropolitan Museum, the British Library and the Freer Gallery. Brings poetry and art together in a transformative reading of Persian illustrated manuscripts. Bridges art history, literature and religion to reconsider Shia and Safavid cultural and intellectual history. Connects Persian figural painting to the rise of the Safavids and Shiism in IranCHAD KIA has been a Smithsonian Fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art in Washington DC, and has taught Persian and Arabic literatures and Islamic art and intellectual history at Harvard University and Brown University.Cover image: 'Majnun on Layla's Tomb' from Khamsa of Nizami, 1494 © The British Library Board, Or. 6810, f.144vCover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-5038-6

A critical and multidisciplinary analysis of Turkish democracy from the perspective of necropolitics This book analyses Turkey's precarious democracy and its contradictions from the perspective of its entwinement with death and destruction. It makes a strong case that Turkey's regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Bringing together historical, discursive, and ethnographic approaches from multiple disciplines, including political theory, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies, this collection of 11 case studies offers a sobering and original analysis of contemporary Turkey and, indirectly, the changing dynamics of the Middle East. Focusing on different forms of violence, ranging from counterinsurgency warfare and enforced disappearances to the strategic neglect and exposure of select populations, these essays put forth provocative readings that address the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power. Building on the insights of critical and contemporary theory, this collection offers a new and rich lexicon of violence. Banu Bargu is Associate professor in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Building on critical and contemporary theory, these essays address the multiple ways in which the Turkish regime controls its citizens through physical destruction, structural violence and exposure. The 12 case studies include counterinsurgency warfare, enforced disappearances, cemeteries, monuments, prisons, courts and the army.

'Privatization can be for the public good, even in the realm of national security. That is the hypothesis that this accomplished and profoundly significant volume sets out to test, and the author's insights are crystal clear.'Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America'The role of outside contractors in government intelligence activities has been controversial. In the face of impediments to research, this book provides a wealth of insight into the challenges of accountability when democracies outsource their intelligence responsibilities.'Loch K. Johnson, University of GeorgiaExplores the challenges posed by the evolving role of contractors in the American intelligence communityIn the twenty-first century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the swell of intelligence outsourcing in the context of American political culture and considers what this means for the relationship between the state, its national security apparatus and accountability within a liberal democracy. Through analysis of a series of case studies, recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with national security experts in the public and private sectors, the book provides an in-depth and illuminating appraisal of the evolving accountability regime for intelligence contractors.Damien Van Puyvelde is Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security at the University of Glasgow.Cover image and cover design: www.richardbudddesign.co.uk[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-5022-5Barcode

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights in this field.

'This new book on Pablo Larraín is comprehensive - it investigates the early films as well as the masterpieces, El club (2015) and Neruda (2016) - and it reveals Larraín as not only Chile's most important film director but the twenty-first-century master of the precise point in cinematic space where cinematography intersects with politics. A joy to read!'Stephen M. Hart, University College LondonPablo Larraín is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's troubled contemporary history, his work presents an unflinching portrait of one of the most notorious regimes of modern Latin America (indeed, the world) and its problematic aftermath. In a straightforward, often surprising, and reliably controversial series of films, Larraín never retreats in the face of violence or the painful truths that still undergird Chilean reality.Assessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, ReFocus: The Films of Pablo Larraín is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.Laura Hatry earned her PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Hispanic Studies.Cover image: Alfredo Castro on the set of Post Mortem, Pablo Larraín, 2010 © FabulaCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4828-4Barcode

Assessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, this is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.

'From A-Z, this book is full of astute companion writers and scholars entangled in rich webs with the lives and deaths of animals, in story, evolution, politics, science fiction, religion, ethics, queer theory, performance, ordinary living, and more. Here is a book that takes seriously the unanswerable but necessary question that gives the Afterword its title, "Who are these animals I am following?" Follow, read, and emerge in the compost that is always more than human.'Donna Haraway, author of When Species Meet (2008) and Staying with the Trouble (2016)Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in the humanitiesThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on animal studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? Rather than a narrow specialism, the 34 newly commissioned chapters in this book show how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism and relations as common as friendship.Fostering cutting-edge research the Companion opens up new methods, alignments and directions as well as challenges for the future of animal studies. Uniquely, the chapters each focus on a single topic, from 'abjection' to 'voice' and from 'affection' to 'technology', thus embedding the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines. The book concludes with an Afterword by Cary Wolfe, author of Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (2012).Lynn Turner is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research explores how animal and sexual differences matter in visual and aural culture as well as in continental philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis.Undine Sellbach is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. Her research explores the edges of sentience through ethology, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy of science and performanceRon Broglio is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. His research focuses on posthuman phenomenology, exploring how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment.Cover image: Black Tiger, Olly & Suzi, Northern India, 1998, Chinese ink and water on paper, 74 x 102.5cmCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1841-6Barcode

Presents a new way of thinking about the relationship between law and language Legal rhetoric is not confined to persuasion but to an understanding of law's organisation of its own system and its relationship with other jurisdictions. Bringing together an international range of common law and civil law scholars, this book draws on contemporary legal discourse to examine the shared practice of exemplarity and extraordinary judgments in both national and international fields of law. It takes a comparative approach, examining practice across a range of legal jurisdictions including the US, Russia, Portugal, Italy and the Czech Republic. In doing so, it opens up a new dialogue on the question of the hermeneutic practices of legal reasoning. In response to the changes in legal form and transmission that have been generated both by globalisation and by common law's irreversible encounter with the civilian methods of European law, New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse develops new rhetorical approaches to law at a time when new legal forms are urgently required. Key Features - Brings together a range of common law and civil law scholars from countries including the US, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Canada and Brazil - Invites the reader to rethink the value of legal rhetorics - understood as a broad field including argumentation, epistemology, and legal practice and experience - Introduces casuistry as a new perspective that is valuable also for civil law systems - Illustrates how single cases interpolate general norms Angela Condello is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Law Department, University of Messina; she is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, where she holds a Jean Monnet Module on human rights and critical legal thinking within the European legal culture.

Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 18th and 19th centuries in three case studies: adultery, child criminality and rape testimony.

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres.

11 essays by international experts look at how cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman technology, science, medicine, material culture, philosophy and literary studies.

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria

Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender.

This edited volume addresses the ways in which the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern 'Arab' authors from different theosophical and ideological backgrounds.