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Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia

University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
  • An Institutional Ethnography
  • Órla Meadhbh Murray
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    23 April 2025
  • Drawing on an unprecedented institutional ethnography of UK universities, this book uses feminist and gender lenses to critique the power, culture and structure of Higher Education institutions. Challenging the myths of how academia is governed by audit processes, it provides an opportunity to re-read and re-write these institutions from within.

Universal Health Coverage
  • Foundations and Horizons
  • Tuba I. Agartan
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025
  • This book traces the origins of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the broader context of universalism since the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on rich first-hand data, including expert interviews and archival research, this book adopts a historical-sociological methodology to analyse some of UHC's key political dynamics.

The Nightwatchman
  • Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa
  • Hlonipha Mokoena
  • Published by:
    Wits University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    01 August 2025
  • The Nightwatchman extends the literature on colonial photography and dress by exploring the representation of black men in South African portraiture. The Nightwatchman: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa brings into focus African men in colonial uniforms as a subject of portraiture. While colonial governments co-opted and conscripted Africans into military and policing services, it was after the Zulu defeat of the English in the battle of Isandlwana that a genre of photography developed around images of the 'Zulu warrior' and 'Zulu policeman'.

    In this illustrated collection of essays, Hlonipha Mokoena extends the literature on colonial ethnographic photography by creating a narrative of nightwatchman portraiture from the rich archive of images. Although the origins of this genre lay in the representation of 'Fingoes' (amaMfengu) during the frontier wars, she argues that the spectacle of the Zulu male body was inaugurated after the last Zulu king, Cetshwayo, was photographed as a posing subject.

    While much research has focused on the African man employed in emasculating labour or as a functionary of settler power, this book shifts debates about how the body moves in history. Placed in uniform, the male subject becomes aestheticised and admired. Mokoena focuses on the sartorial selection processes and co-optation of colonial aesthetic culture that constructed the idea of the Nonqgqayi or nightwatchman as a fully formed photographic presence. The beauty captured in these images upends conceptions of colonial photography as a tool of oppression.

Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures
  • Institutionalizing the Individual
  • Martha Albertson Fineman
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    27 May 2025
  • Vulnerability theory shows that we all depend on each other, so laws should focus on shared responsibility, not just individual independence. Based on lectures at Trinity College Dublin, this book offers a fresh, insightful analysis and urges a shift in law and policy towards collective care.

Transforming Protection
  • The Implications of Unarmed Civilian Protection
  • Rachel Julian
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025
  • Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) is practised globally by civilians protecting fellow civilians without the use of weapons. This book argues that while UCP is useful and transformative in its own right, its principles and values mean it has the potential to transform our responses in a range of social contexts where there is violence.

Satellite Radar Interferometry
  • Theory and Practice
  • David T. Sandwell, Xiaohua Xu, Jingyi Chen, Robert J. Mellors, Meng Wei, Xiaopeng Tong, John B. DeSanto, Qi Ou
  • Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    04 September 2025
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) is an active remote sensing method that uses repeated radar scans of the Earth's solid surface to measure relative deformation at centimeter precision over a wide swath. It has revolutionized our understanding of the earthquake cycle, volcanic eruptions, landslides, glacier flow, ice grounding lines, ground fluid injection/withdrawal, underground nuclear tests, and other applications requiring high spatial resolution measurements of ground deformation. This book examines the theory behind and the applications of InSAR for measuring surface deformation. The most recent generation of InSAR satellites have transformed the method from investigating 10's to 100's of SAR images to processing 1000's and 10,000's of images using a wide range of computer facilities. This book is intended for students and researchers in the physical sciences, particularly for those working in geophysics, natural hazards, space geodesy, and remote sensing. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Death Rituals

Death Rituals
  • The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian
  • Tonicha M. Upham
  • Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025
  • In the study of the early medieval Rūs and the Viking diaspora, Arabic geographical writings on the practice of funerary sacrifice loom large. Against growing uses of this body of source material as evidence on ritual, the treatment of women, and the global connections of the Rūs, critical issues in the use of and access to this source material necessitate a fresh analysis. This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rūs death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rūs funerary practices.

Dynamics on Graphs
  • 2nd edition
  • Rick Durrett
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
  • This extensive revision of the 2007 book 'Random Graph Dynamics,' covering the current state of mathematical research in the field, is ideal for researchers and graduate students. It considers a small number of types of graphs, primarily the configuration model and inhomogeneous random graphs. However, it investigates a wide variety of dynamics. The author describes results for the convergence to equilibrium for random walks on random graphs as well as topics that have emerged as mature research areas since the publication of the first edition, such as epidemics, the contact process, voter models, and coalescing random walk. Chapter 8 discusses a new challenging and largely uncharted direction: systems in which the graph and the states of their vertices coevolve.

The Antidote
  • How People-Powered Movements Can Renew Politics, Policy and Practice
  • Peter Beresford
  • Foreword by Ruth Lister
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    28 May 2025
  • The Antidote explores what we can learn from the equalisation of personal roles and relationships to make possible more participatory and liberatory policy and politics. It sets out the barriers we face and offers a route map to bring an end to the destructive effects of unfettered neoliberal ideology, economics, policy and politics.

Curating the Colonial Past
  • The ‘Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History
  • Riley Linebaugh
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025
  • In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonies approaching independence. The Colonial Office in London arranged the deposit of these documents in high security facilities, where they remained inaccessible until 2011 following a compensation suit by Kenyan survivors of British colonial rule against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Curating the Colonial Past presents the first full length exploration of these 'migrated archives', chronicling the struggle between British attempts to conceal and Kenyan efforts to reveal evidence of the colonial past. Neither displayed nor destroyed, Riley Linebaugh explores how these records formed an archival limbo in which the British government delayed moral and legal judgement of empire. Yet, these practices did not go unchallenged. Linebaugh demonstrates how disputes over the 'migrated archives' facilitated the continuation of anticolonial sovereignty struggles beyond independence, struggles which persist into the present.

State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets
  • Between Subordination and Statecraft
  • Edited by Johannes Petry, Andreas Nölke
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    24 June 2025
  • What is the role of emerging markets within the global financial system? Are they subordinate or do they have autonomy to use finance for state objectives? This book brings together leading scholars to address these important questions, offering profound insights into how emerging markets are reshaping global finance.

Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders
  • How Judges Decide when Discretion Is Wide
  • Diarmuid Griffin
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    08 April 2025
  • Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases. The book is designed to be used in the classroom and the court, as well as providing a solid evidence base to inform the public and policy-makers.

The Language of Memes
  • Patterns of Meaning Across Image and Text
  • Barbara Dancygier, Lieven Vandelanotte
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025
  • Internet memes have been studied widely for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships, and shaping public opinion, online. However, they are also a prominent and fast evolving multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis. This book, the first of its kind, develops the analytical tools necessary to describe and understand contemporary 'image-plus-text' communication. It demonstrates how memes achieve meaning as multimodal artifacts, how they are governed by specific rules of composition and interpretation, and how such processes are driven by stance networks. It also defines a family of multimodal constructions in which images become structural components, while making language forms adjust to the emerging multimodal rules. Through analysis of several meme types, this approach defines the specificity of the memetic genre, describing established types, but also accounting for creative forms. In describing the 'grammar of memes', it provides a new model to approach multimodal genres.

The Peacemaking Mandate
  • Nordic Experiences in International Mediation
  • Isak Svensson, Peter Wallensteen
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025
  • Who are the mediators in international mediation? Where do they come from, why do they take up assignments, and what are their mandates? Isak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen – leading experts in mediation and conflict resolution – focus on the experiences of mediators and their mandates in Nordic countries, primarily Sweden, Norway and Finland. They explore why these countries are popular for this type of work, what their assets and shortcomings are, and how smaller countries can generate support for their efforts. Furthermore, they develop the 'Mediation Staircase' to assess achievements of mediation as a way to more effectively evaluate mediation with different types of mandates. The Peacemaking Mandate uses the Nordic experiences to provide valuable lessons for contemporary armed conflicts, wars and peace processes, which are becoming ever more important in times of turbulence across the world.

Haydn's Minuets and Eighteenth-Century Dance
  • Joseph Fort
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025
  • Audiences in eighteenth-century Vienna attended the city's popular public balls, where they danced the minuet. This book explores the public dance culture of Vienna in the late eighteenth century as an essential context in which to understand minuet composition from this period, focusing on the music of Haydn, and restores the array of kinaesthetic associations and expectations that eighteenth-century audiences brought to the listening experience through their knowledge of the dance. It reconstructs the choreography of the minuet as it was performed in the Viennese dance halls and examines the repertoire of minuets composed specifically for dancing, bringing new perspectives to the minuet genre. This recovered bodily knowledge allows the author to put forward an analytical method of 'somatic enquiry' and apply it to Haydn's symphonic minuets from the 1790s, revealing previously hidden features in this music that come to light when listening with an understanding of the dance.

The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
  • Nicolas Bell-Romero
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025
  • In this powerful history of the University of Cambridge, Nicolas Bell-Romero considers the nature and extent of Britain's connections to enslavement. His research moves beyond traditional approaches which focus on direct and indirect economic ties to enslavement or on the slave trading hubs of Liverpool and Bristol. From the beginnings of North American colonisation to the end of the American Civil War, the story of Cambridge reveals the vast spectrum of interconnections that university students, alumni, fellows, professors, and benefactors had to Britain's Atlantic slave empire - in dining halls, debating chambers, scientific societies or lobby groups. Following the stories of these middling and elite men as they became influential agents around the empire, Bell-Romero uncovers the extent to which the problem of slavery was an inextricable feature of social, economic, cultural, and intellectual life. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

The Nature and Limitations of Conscience in Healthcare
  • Stephen W. Smith
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025
  • The role of conscience in healthcare decision-making is explored in this important intervention in the fields of Health Law and Ethics, Medicine, Nursing and Philosophy. It takes a broad approach to conscience, looking beyond the standard examples of conscientious objection to argue that conscience permeates healthcare decisions. However, it also shows that not all decisions of conscience are worthy of legal or societal protection and that these are interests to be weighed rather than rights. Instead, conscience should be protected only when the individual exercising conscience abides by specific responsibilities. Additionally, the book explores the important issues of complicity with healthcare decisions and institutional or organisational conscience and argues they play an oversized role in general discussions of conscience. It further claims that we ought to pay much more attention to conscientious provision. The book concludes by looking at ways to more effectively regulate claims of conscience.

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus
  • Volume 1, Introduction and Part I
  • Editor-in-Chief Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
  • Edited in consultation with Eleanor Dickey
  • Edited in association with Lucia C. Colella
  • Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    04 September 2025
  • The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and unique reference tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1,500 Latin texts on papyrus. Editions are provided with both a palaeographic and a critical apparatus, English translations, and detailed introductions. The texts in CLTP cover a wide chronological range and many different types and genres. They include both literary and documentary texts, dating from the first century BC to the Middle Ages. They provide new knowledge about the circulation of Latin, offering unique insights into textual transmission and indeed into Latin literature itself, but also into topics such as ancient education and multilingualism, economics, society, culture, and multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world. The result is a lasting and crucial reference work for all those interested in the history of Latin and of the Roman world.

The Handbook of Recovery Capital
  • Understanding the Science and Practice
  • Edited by David Best, Emily Hennessy
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    17 April 2025
  • This book brings together all the existing evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application to addiction recovery, and is the 'go to' book on this topic for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and people in recovery.

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