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Gothic Appalachian Literature
  • Sarah Robertson
  • Published by:
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    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    01 October 2024
  • Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental concerns. It argues that across Appalachian fiction, the plight of characters to save their homes, land and way of life from the destructive forces of extractive industries brings sharply to bare the histories of colonization and slavery that problematize questions of belonging, ownership and possession.

    Robertson extensively considers contemporary manifestations of the gothic in Appalachian literature, arguing that gothic tropes abound in fiction that focuses on the impacts of extractive industries that connect this micro-region with other parts of the Global North and Global South where the devastating impacts of extractive industries are also experienced socially, economically and environmentally.

Potential Russia
  • Edited by Lee A. Farrow
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    14 January 2025
  • Richard Washburn Child was an American author and diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy between 1921 and 1924 during the rise of fascism in that country. Earlier, however, Child visited Russia on the eve of the revolution and was greatly impressed with what he saw. He praised the Russians for their spirit and independence. He optimistically believed that Russia was a dormant force ready to liberate itself from its feudal past and spring forward into modernity. He describes Russia's resources, both natural and human, and attempts to explain the Russian mindset.

    Child acknowledged rumours of a stirring revolutionary mood, but he did not believe they were accurate. Reading his observations, given what we know would soon happen, is both fascinating and poignant. Child would later go on to be a huge supporter of Mussolini and editor of the dictator's autobiography.

    Child urged the United States to establish partnerships with Russia and create opportunities with this powerful nation before other countries beat them to it. He believed that Great Britain was already taking steps to invest in Russia. Child also emphasised the importance of sending representatives to Russia who actually understood the customs and spoke the language.

The Seriality of the One
  • Nicola Masciandaro
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    Published online:
    17 June 2025
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    08 April 2025
  • Following the idea of the series as a fundamental feature of reality, The Seriality of the One investigates its metaphysical, ontological, and existential significance in dialogue with an open constellation of modern and premodern authors, giving special attention to the way seriality mediates and measures the relation between the individual and the universal, bridging by ellipsis the unbounded interpenetrating unities of the one and the One. Seen through the ongoing perspective of the series, beings, events, and facts are never discrete and definable identities that can ever be counted or discounted as having greater or lesser importance or status than others. Nothing is merely itself or a part of something else. In the infinity mirror of seriality, all are simultaneously equivalent to all or the totality itself

Orphanage Tourism in Nepal
  • Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry
  • Esther Bott
  • Published by:
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    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    11 February 2025
  • This book tackles, for the first time, the complex issues surrounding the phenomenon of orphanage tourism, which is a growing and highly lucrative tourism niche in Nepal and several other economically developing countries. The book explores the occurrence of orphanage tourism in Nepal - how it is experienced, understood, sustained, opposed and, crucially, how it shapes the lives of the children involved. Rather than exploring the motives of tourists who engage in volunteering in orphanages while on holiday as so much extant literature does, the book examines the factors that contribute to the emergence of commercial orphanages and the experiences of the children involved. A central concern is to illustrate the inadequate ways in which orphanage tourism is understood, framed and politicised, especially in terms of who is blamed for its prevalence and how various Western entities position themselves as agents of rescue. By examining Nepal's socioeconomic and geopolitical landscape, as well as the role of Western international development and structural adjustment and the impacts of tourism, the book presents a deeper and more complete picture of the emergence of orphanage tourism and other forms of child labour.

    By examining the everyday realities of life in Nepal, the depiction of orphans as victims, who need saving from villains by heroes, is dismantled. The book is focused on showing how the historical and everyday realities of life for children compelled to work are all too often ignored, obscured and distorted in the interventionist discourse that is beginning to surround orphanage tourism.

Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
  • Charlotte Beyer
  • Published by:
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    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    12 November 2024
  • Informed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime fiction in the age of #MeToo. The book explores five major fourth-wave feminist topics, #MeToo, rape culture, toxic masculinity, LBGTQ+ perspectives, and transgender. These topics have been the subject of intense feminist scrutiny and campaigning, and the book demonstrates how this attention is reflected in contemporary crime fiction and its generic and thematic preoccupations. The book opens with a chapter presenting an overview of existing critical perspectives and feminist debates, demonstrating how fourth-wave feminist ideas and debates are inspiring innovations in the genre, as well as generating fresh ways of reading past and present crime fictions. Providing an overview and context for both fourth-wave feminism and the #MeToo movement, the chapter establishes the critical and cultural framework for its analysis. The chapter also outlines the book's methodology and approach, detailing the contents of the chapters. Each of the five subsequent chapters uses critical vocabulary and concepts from feminism and the #MeToo movement to reassess canonical works and present new readings of contemporary crime fiction, producing compelling analyses of gender and genre.

    Through its critical examination of crime fiction, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo offers a powerful feminist analysis of the genre which draws links between literature and ongoing urgent social and cultural debates such as the #Metoo movement and fourth-wave feminism.

Learning Leadership from Dogs
  • What can Bulldogs, Dachshunds, Komondors, Pekingese and Otterhounds (Among Other Dogs) Teach Us about Effective Leadership?
  • Aditya Simha
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    04 February 2025
  • The book provides a succinct and enjoyable experience of learning about leadership to multiple groups of readers, by using the world of dogs as an aid to understanding leadership concepts. The book will be interesting for multiple sets of readers (e.g. undergraduates, casual dog lovers, etc.). They will find it to be a practical and interesting book. There is no other book on the market that approaches leadership by using the context of dogs as an explanatory canvas. This familiar canine context will help in making these leadership concepts easy to comprehend. The reader will also learn a lot about several breeds of dogs, across the world, including breeds such as the Bulldog, Dachshund, German Shepherd, Mastiff and Otterhound, among others.

Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021
  • From Alien to Migrant
  • Ben Braber
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    04 March 2025
  • This book reviews changes in attitudes towards immigrants in Britain and the language that was used to put these feelings into words between 1921 and 2021. It analyses in what context attitudes were articulated and where they came from. To determine what was specifically British, it makes international comparisons. It applies a historical and linguistic method for an analysis of so far relatively unused primary sources. It also explores secondary resources and, to provide context, engages with the existing literature that deals with immigration but is not focused on attitudes or not always covers the entire period after 1921, and links post-1921 developments to what was set in motion before 1921 to sketch a long history that runs into the present. The linguistic historical approach applied in this book brings it all together for the first time. It discovers when and how attitudes to immigrants in Britain changed after 1921, where they originated and what language was used to voice these attitudes, in particular specific words, their meanings, the under- or overtones they bore, and what people meant or felt when they used them.

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors
  • Conservation, Compassion and Connectivity
  • Amy D. Propen
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    11 June 2024
  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes some new theoretical contributions related to the design and creation of wildlife corridors in Anthropocene times. The book not only provides much of the knowledge necessary for a general and credible understanding of connectivity projects, but also makes a unique theoretical contribution to current knowledge about wildlife corridors by arguing that theories about compassion, empathy, and traditional ecological knowledge should inform wildlife corridor projects.

    Wildlife corridors, or connectivity projects, are necessary, because when land is set aside or used for human activities, habitats that were once contiguous become fragmented. If species are unable to move between these fragmented areas, they become at risk for inbreeding or extinction. Wildlife corridors attempt to remediate such fragmentation by restoring connectivity and creating expanses of habitat that can provide species with important bridges and points of connection between other habitats. Providing such linkages between habitats reduces these risks and helps maintain genetic diversity and a population's health.

    The book argues for a holistic approach to wildlife corridors that attempts to account for a broad and varied range of stakeholder voices, including those of the vulnerable nonhuman species that underpin the need for corridor projects in the first place. This book should appeal to general audiences and practitioners alike.

The Scientific Legacy of Har Gobind Khorana
  • Total Synthesis and the Genetic Code
  • Sahotra Sarkar
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    06 August 2024
  • This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize - winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana. It begins with the story of Khorana's origins in poverty in rural India and how he manages to emerge from that to be trained in chemistry in Britain and Switzerland before immigrating to Canada and the United States. Science was the dominant focus of Khorana's life, and his biography is treated chronologically in conjunction with his scientific career.

    The book explains in detail Khorana's most important scientific achievements, his role in deciphering the genetic code (the reason for his Nobel Prize), the first synthesis of a functional gene in the laboratory, the elucidation of the idea behind the PCR technology that has since become ubiquitous in biotech, and his seminal studies of how structure determines the function of biological macromolecules in membranes. Finally, it focuses on his scientific legacy, and what his career means for future generations of scientists.

Cultural Processes of Inequality
  • A Sociological Perspective
  • Amanda Udis-Kessler
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    16 July 2024
  • Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective shows how systematic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, often taken-for-granted practices of offering someone the benefit of the doubt and treating them in good faith or, alternatively, of withholding the benefit of the doubt and treating them in bad faith. This straightforward way of thinking about value and devaluation, privilege and discrimination, works across multiple forms of inequality and at social levels ranging from interpersonal interactions to large-scale institutions, while showcasing the importance of different levels and types of social power (decision-making power, cultural power and individual power).

    Good-faith and bad-faith assumptions and practices intersect with moral inclusion and exclusion, processes by which certain people or groups of people are defined as deserving or undeserving of moral treatment, often with tragic consequences. Cultural Processes of Inequality covers ways in which good-faith and bad-faith assumptions and practices play out through moral alchemy, false equivalencies, self-fulfilling prophecies, positive and negative visibility and invisibility and the linking of social groups to definitions of social problems, providing contemporary U.S. examples of how these often -underutilized sociological concepts make sense of racism, sexism and heterosexism. The role of members of devalued groups in reproducing or struggling against their devaluation is also considered.

Samuel Beckett and the Arts
  • Italian Negotiations
  • Edited by Davide Crosara, Mario Martino
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    11 June 2024
  • Beckett's dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Beckett's relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side - and on Italian artists' response to Beckett's oeuvre on the other - is still missing. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett's presence on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an 'Italian' artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.

Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony
  • Shadrack W. Nasong'o
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    06 August 2024
  • This book sets out to probe, explore and evaluate the betrayal of anticolonial nationalism in Kenya. Contemporary Kenya's emergence is rooted in the colonial enterprise, its deleterious effects and the subsequent decolonization spearheaded by a fierce anti-colonial nationalism that was embodied in freedom struggles at the cultural, political, and military levels. As a settler colony, the colonial settlers hived off millions of hectares of the best land in the highland areas of Kenya and appropriated them for themselves thereby generating a large mass of the landless. This land alienation constituted one of the most deeply felt grievances which, together with the exclusivist, exploitative and oppressive colonial system, inflamed anti-colonial nationalism that undergirded the struggle for independence. The expectation on the part of the masses was that independence would bring about social justice, restitution of the stolen lands, and a government based on the will and aspirations of the governed. Political developments soon after independence, however, demonstrated the extent of betrayal of the cause of anti-colonial nationalism, which has remained the reality to date. This book covers the extent of this sense of betrayal from the time of independence to the present.

How Not to Be Human
  • The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers
  • Matthew Calarco
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    09 July 2024
  • Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with 'the human'? Is the human a category worth preserving? Should it be replaced with the post-human? Should marginalized and minoritarian groups advocate for a universal humanism? What is the relationship between humanism and anthropocentrism? Is a genuinely non-anthropocentric mode of thinking and living possible for human beings?

    This book argues that the writings of twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers offer twenty-first-century readers a number of crucial insights concerning such questions and timely advice about how not to be human. For Jeffers, our tendency to turn inward on ourselves and to indulge in human narcissism is at the heart of the social, economic, and existential ills that plague modern societies. As a remedy, Jeffers recommends turning ourselves outward - beyond the self and beyond the human - and learning to affirm and even love the inhuman cosmos in all of its terrible beauty. In articulating this vision of 'inhumanism,' Jeffers develops a full-orbed and radical non-anthropocentrism that stretches across ethical, political, ontological, and aesthetic registers. In the process, Jeffers helps us find our way back to ourselves, but this time no longer as 'human' in the traditional sense but as plain members of the inhuman world.

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence
  • Mind and Language
  • Brian Ball, Alice C. Helliwell, Alessandro Rossi
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    10 September 2024
  • This collection brings together work on the relevance of Wittgenstein's philosophy to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Over two volumes, our contributors cover a wide range of topics from different disciplinary approaches. In this Volume (I), contributions are centred on two major themes in the philosophy of AI: questions of mind and language. Contributions include chapters on AI thought, intentionality, logic and language, as well as the relationship between Wittgenstein's thought and Turing's.

Refugee Support and Moral Practice in Slovakia
  • An Ethnographic Study
  • Eva-Maria Walther
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    02 July 2024
  • Slovakia has never been a major destination for refugees or migrants and follows a strictly anti-refugee politics. Like other formerly socialist countries in Central Europe which are now EU member states - especially its fellow Visegrád countries Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic - Slovakia fiercely rejected refugee redistribution during the 'long summer of 'migration' in 2015-2016. Meanwhile, the few refugees living in Slovakia face restrictive authorities and deficient support infrastructures. Building on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2017 and 2019 and focusing on those often-overlooked actors who do support refugees as NGO employees or volunteers, this book provides an empathetic and ethnographically rich account of their everyday efforts to accommodate 'refugees' needs and state 'authorities' expectations.

    The book explores those engagements not as negotiation of political or ideological positions, but primarily as emotional and moral practices. It argues that moral codes and emotional templates shape the implementation of refugee support, structuring encounters and clashes between refugees, helpers, and bureaucrats. They generate lasting formal or informal solutions and even inform new policies in refugee care. Closely connected to this observation is a second finding, namely, that moral dilemmas and conflicting emotions often cause more distress and greater complications than the political controversies surrounding the topic. Actors on opposite ends of the political spectrum - like liberal NGO employees and state bureaucrats - experience the same conflicts of conscience and adopt the same indecisiveness.

The Persistent Poverty of African Americans in the United States
  • The Impact of Public Policy
  • Daphne M. Cooper
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    01 October 2024
  • The primary purpose of this book is to introduce and question the persistent poverty that exists among African Americans in the United States. It will provide scholars and policy makers with the needed context to understand what constitutes poverty, and how and why African Americans have remained persistently poor and underprivileged in the United States. This book will provide new knowledge that will be useful to improving public policy. This book focuses on the factors that have influenced public policies concerning African Americans.

Confronting the Irish Past
  • The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
  • Séamus Murphy
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    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    10 September 2024
  • The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement established power-sharing arrangements between the two divided communities in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not set in stone but is rather a hopeful yet uncertain project. Making it put down deep cultural roots requires some confrontation with and transformation of the history, and the socially constructed memories, of Ireland's decisive decade 1912-1923, which was violent and divisive.

Australian Women's Historical Photography
  • Other Times, Other Views
  • Anne Maxwell, Lucy Van
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    02 July 2024
  • Australian Women's Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views examines the photographs produced by six talented women photographers against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the First Women's Movement, the Great War of 1914-1918, Australia's imperial occupation of New Guinea, the final years of Chinese Nationalist Party rule in China and debates about photography's status as an art form. Women's works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been down-played or even ignored in existing accounts of Australia's cultural history, and this study is aimed at rectifying this situation. At the same time, the book demonstrates why amateur works are just as important as commercial works to our understanding of the past.

    The book draws on scholarship from history, art history, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies to create an interdisciplinary critical framework that will be of interest to a broad range of academic and archival researchers.

    This book responds to the pronounced lack of visibility of Australian realist, documentary and commercial women's works. By presenting a carefully contextualized and detailed study of works by six Australian women photographers who worked in the late colonial era and whose works chronicled the impacts of some of the periods more disturbing as well as enlightened events, we will also broaden and enrich the frames of women's photography and Australian history.

Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s-1980s
  • Ameer Chasib Furaih
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    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 September 2024
  • This book examines the poetries of two Aboriginal Australian poets, namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958-) and two African American Black Arts poets , namely Amiri Baraka (formerly Everett LeRoi Jones; 1934-2014) and Sonia Sanchez (1943-) to demonstrate their role in the struggle for civil and human rights of their peoples from the 1960s. The book demonstrates commonalities and differences in the strategies of these poets' literary and political resistance. These poet-activists, though ethnically diverse and geographically dispersed, share comparable socio-political concerns and aspirations. Their activism is not a reflection of a single ideological current, but a bricolage of many ideologies and perspectives. They have engaged in trans-Pacific political movements and transgressed the borders of any one ideological territory. It is important to establish Aboriginal and African American trans-Pacific communication because these poets have collaborated and engaged in global politics (whether in the form of Garveyism or the 'transnation'). Their poetries are characterized by an irresistible drive towards international rhizomatic collaboration and engagement. This is a transcontinental literary influence exerted by African American poets on Aboriginal poets during the 1960s and beyond.

The Nostalgia for Origins
  • Religion, Evolution, Cognition and Memory
  • Carl Olson
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    11 June 2024
  • This book proposes to examine the nature of religion by seeking its origin within the context of the theory of evolution and the development of the human brain. It is argued that religion is the way the mechanism of natural selection in the theory of evolution operates to help humans survive in the context of a dangerous and hostile world. Survival is accomplished when profound experiences like trance cause a rewiring of the brain, giving birth to what later is identified as religious attitudes and ways of behaving. It is possible to speculate that without the development of religion, humans might not have survived to create cultures and civilizations. Therefore, the development of religion makes it possible for early humans to thrive. This evolutionary process involved adaptation to one's environment, creation of social groups, and development of the body and the brain.

    With a review of the so-called Big Bang theory about the beginning of the universe, Darwin's theory of evolution, the quest for the birth of religion, and the cognitive contribution to this quest, the initial chapter commences a major theme of this book, namely the importance of origins. For our human ancestors, religion was not a way to get rich or to distinguish oneself from others, it was a means of survival. This was a perfectly natural development and response to one's hostile environment.

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