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  • Instability in centrifugally stable shear flows

  • Kengo Deguchi, Ming Dong
  • Journal:
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 1006 / 10 March 2025
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    05 March 2025, A13
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  • We investigate the linear instability of flows that are stable according to Rayleigh’s criterion for rotating fluids. Using Taylor–Couette flow as a primary test case, we develop large-Reynolds-number-matched asymptotic expansion theories. Our theoretical results not only aid in detecting instabilities previously reported by Deguchi (Phys. Rev. E, vol 95, 2017, p. 021102(R)) across a wide parameter range, but also clarify the physical mechanisms behind this counterintuitive phenomenon. Instability arises from the interaction between large-scale inviscid vortices and the viscous flow structure near the wall, which is analogous to Tollmien–Schlichting waves. Furthermore, our asymptotic theories and numerical computations reveal that similar instability mechanisms occur in boundary layer flows over convex walls.

ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler
  • Edited by John M. Price
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 March 2023
  • In his forty-five-year career, William Wyler not only traversed the silent and the sound eras, but also connected classic Hollywood to 'new Hollywood.' The range of his films also spans a wide spectrum of genres: from westerns to adaptations of classic literature, from crime thrillers to rom-coms, and from controversial topics to musicals. His three Oscars for Best Director are an achievement surpassed only by John Ford. His life experience as one of Hollywood's early immigrant artists also speaks to the foreign influence on classic Hollywood. Yet despite his awards and commercial success, artistic recognition has mostly eluded Wyler. This volume of the ReFocus series attempts to analyze this Wyler paradox and also seeks to contextualize and theorize selections from Wyler's canon and his relationship to American cinematic history and American culture. This collection has gathered contributions from international authors from extremely diverse backgrounds, and therefore differing perspectives on Wyler and his work.

Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
  • Claudia Yaghoobi
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
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    19 May 2023
  • Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors. Yaghoobi argues that this liminal state of fluidity helps them to develop a resilience towards ambiguity and handling ambivalence in dealing with various cultures as well as resisting dualistic thinking which in turn allows them to move beyond national boundaries to transnationalism, yet simultaneously display the collective Armenian identity characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and continuity as a result of both multiple uprooting and a Genocide that continues to this day. They serve as a bridge between the homeland and the host nation, occupying what the author theorizes as verants'ughi - the transformational passageway, which requires them to not only risk being in a transitory space and give up the safe space of home and the power that comes with it, but also through doing so, they create transformative works of literature and art.

Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1
  • Text, Translation and Commentary
  • Giulia Marolla
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
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    31 May 2023
  • Sidonius stands at a crossroads between the last days of the Roman Empire in the Auvergne and Provence and the emergence of Burgundians and Visigoths as territorial powers. An aristocrat, politician, author and bishop, he was involved in and bore witness to this takeover. His literary prose is characterised by a floweriness which at times makes his letters ambiguous and ostentatiously obscure. This volume provides readers with a tool to understand this convoluted prose, enabling them to see the troubled political waters of the fifth century through the eyes of Sidonius.

    The book contains a new critical edition of the first ten letters of Book 5 of Sidonius' 'Epistulae', together with an accessible English translation and a philological and historical commentary. It provides a general introduction to the book as a whole and a detailed exploration of the letters that covers literary themes, models, prosopography, dating problems and prose rhythm. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it addresses historical questions relevant to the specific letters and to Sidonius' position at the centre of the Romano-Gallic aristocracy.

Christian Beginnings
  • A Study in Ancient Mediterranean Religion
  • Stanley Stowers
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
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    31 January 2024
  • Instead of treating Christianity as continuing a utterly unique Judaism alien to Mediterranean religion, the book argues for a pervasive religious dynamic based on three modes; the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion and the religion of freelance literate experts. These modes that cut across ethnically defined cultures such as Judean, Greek and Roman open a window onto a new way of reading the earliest Christian literature and of explaining its religiosity. The chapters lay out the theory and then illustrate it in various ways with essays on the letters of Paul, the Gospel of Matthew and issues surrounding the study of Christian beginnings. This approach provides a different way to understand Judaism and Christianity within Mediterranean religion and its intellectual cultures by drawing on powerful new tools for theorizing religion more broadly.

Gabriele D'Annunzio and World Literature
  • Multilingualism, Translation, Reception
  • Edited by Elisa Segnini, Michael Subialka
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
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    31 July 2023
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio was an internationally renowned artist and one of the most prominent public figures in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels and poetry stirred the enthusiasm of James Joyce and Henry James in the English-speaking world and his repute stretched far beyond - in France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan and South America, D'Annunzio became a pivotal node in the broad networks of decadent exchange. This volume offers an overview of the global dynamics of D'Annunzio's work, from his engagement with multilingualism and translingual writing to the international circulation and reception of his production. Featuring chapters by international scholars, it re-evaluates D'Annunzio with a critical eye and a transnational scope and offers a global assessment of the place that Dannunzian decadence holds in the constitution of a conflicted movement - one that is profoundly cosmopolitan and yet also problematically nationalistic.

Dilemmas of European Democracy
  • New Perspectives on Democratic Politics in the European Union
  • Edited by Niklas Bremberg, Ludvig Norman
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 August 2023
  • Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on European politics, this collection explores how dilemmas associated with key democratic concepts can be understood in relation to the EU. The book renews our understanding of EU democracy in ways that are more attentive to the multiple fault lines and cleavages that structure this political order. It focuses on a set of democratic dilemmas inherent to EU democracy, including representation, deliberation, sovereignty, citizenship, democratic contestation and market, to provide discussions on the specific tensions and trade-offs associated to a particular concept. The book engages in the theoretical groundwork necessary for assessing and analysing the specific dilemmas that arise when translating democratic concepts into concrete institutional designs in the European setting.

The Loneliest Revolution
  • A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
  • Ali Mirsepassi
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
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    31 March 2023
  • In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi - full of anti-Shah protests - ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Tehran for having spoken against Khomeini. In this account, Mirsepassi digs up this and other painful memories to ask: How did the Iranian revolutionary movement come to this? How did a people united in solidarity and struggle end up so divided?

    In this first-hand account, Mirsepassi deftly weaves together his insights as a sociologist of Iran with his memories of provincial life and radical activism in 1960s and 1970s Iran. Attentive to the everyday struggles Iranians faced as they searched for ways to learn about and make history despite state surveillance and censorship, The Loneliest Revolution revisits questions of leftist failure and Islamist victory and ultimately asks us all to probe the memories, personal and collective, that we leave unspoken.

Shakespeare's Stages
  • Harry McCarthy
  • In collaboration with Judy Bae
  • Published online:
    04 March 2025
  • Shakespeare's Stages provides a multimedia introduction to the playing spaces in which Shakespeare's works were first performed. Drawing on the latest theatre-historical scholarship, it guides users through the pleasures and pitfalls of archival and archaeological research to establish what we know (or think we know) about the various locations for which Shakespeare's plays were created. Written in an accessible style and enriched by a host of audio-visual materials, the resource ranges through the physical settings and architectural features of Shakespeare's two 'main' playhouses-the open-air Globe and the indoor Blackfriars-and stops by inn-yards, city streets, and even the River Thames along the way, offering invaluable insight into not only what these venues were like, but how their specific environs affected how plays were written and performed in the first place. Shakespeare's Stages is part of Cambridge Shakespeare Editions, with General Editors Margaret Jane Kidnie, Sonia Massai and Gillian Woods.

Forms of Modernist Fiction
  • Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy
  • Derek Attridge
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 August 2023
  • The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to further innovation. Focusing on the experience of the reader in engaging with a selection of these works from around the globe, this book argues that a rigorous attention to formal features is crucial in appreciating their achievement and in understanding the impact of the early modernists on the history of the novel. Joyce's 'Ulysses' is given particular attention for its feats of formal invention and as an inspiration for many later writers. Among the facets of modernist writing explored are the separation of content and form, the transgression of linguistic boundaries, the defiance of lexical and syntactic rules, the deployment realist techniques to present the unreal, the political significance of literary form, and the relation between formal innovation and affect.

Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage
  • The Discovery of the Mind
  • Claire Guéron
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 August 2023
  • This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing the semiotic potential of playhouse architecture, stage space, gestures, stage properties, performance style and audience participation. These features of production result in allegorical projections of the characters' thoughts, in a way that reflects early modern fascination with the hidden workings of the human mind.

Derek Walcott's Painters
  • A Life with Pictures
  • Maria Cristina Fumagalli
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2023
  • Walcott's lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott's interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history 'of which,' paraphrasing a line from 'Omeros', the Caribbean 'too' was/is 'capable'. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott's published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott's Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott's articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean's contributions to Atlantic and global culture.

Organism-Oriented Ontology
  • Audronė Žukauskaitė
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
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    04 March 2025
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    30 August 2023
  • Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audronė Žukauskaitė argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.

    Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. Žukauskaitė argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.

Islamic Studies in European Higher Education
  • Navigating Academic and Confessional Approaches
  • Edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Stephen Jones
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2023
  • Across Europe there are numerous examples of recent linkages between universities and Islamic seminaries. In Germany the federal 'top-down' experiment, now over ten years old, of establishing departments of Islamic theology in five universities has now recruited over two thousand students, many of whom will end up teaching confessional Islam religious education in schools. In the UK, local partnerships have been developed at under- and postgraduate level between e.g. Warwick, Birmingham and Middlesex universities and Islamic seminaries representing a range of Islamic traditions. Similar experiences are being developed on a smaller scale in other countries. These developments, which have taken place against a backdrop of state pressure to 'integrate' Islam and address 'radicalisation', challenge university traditions of 'scientific' approaches to the study of Islam as well as the confessional expectations of faith-based Islamic theological training. By looking more closely at the developing experience in Germany and Britain and selected other countries this volume explores how the two approaches are finding ways of creative cooperation.

Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia
  • George Kallander
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • This book focuses on the transitional period in late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn dynasty Korea from the 1270s until 1506, situating the Korean peninsula in relation to the neighbouring Mongol Empire and Ming Dynasty China. During this period, Korean statesmen expanded their influence over people and the environment. Human-animal relations became increasingly significant to politics, national security, and elite identities. Animals, both wild and domestic, were used in ritual sacrifices, submitted as tax tribute, exchanged in regional trade, and most significantly, hunted. Royal proponents of the hunt, as a facet of political and military legitimacy, were contested by a small but vocal group of officials. These vocal elites attempted to circumscribe royal authority by co-opting hunting through Confucian laws and rites, either by regulating the practice to a state ritual at best, or, at worst, considering it a barbaric exercise not befitting of the royal family. While kings defied the narrow Confucian views on governance that elevated book learning over martial skills, these tensions revealed how the meaning of political power and authority were shaped. Attention to animals and hunting depicts how a multiplicity of cultural references - Sinic, Korean, Northeast Asian, and steppeland - existed in tension with each other and served as a battleground for defining politics, society, and ritual. Kallander argues that rather than mere resources, animals were a site over which power struggles were waged.

Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation
  • Joey S. Kim
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
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    30 September 2023
  • What happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientations-those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the 'Orient' in British Romantic poetry? To where does the 'Orient' lead? Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation responds by tracing shifting orientations-cultural, geographical, aesthetic, racial, and gendered- through Orientalist sites, subjects, and settings. Kim coins the term 'poetics of orientation' to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation. She focuses on the contestation that occurs at the site of the lyric subject. A 'poetics of orientation', rather than situating the lyric subject in assumed racial whiteness, repositions the lyric subject within discussions of Orientalism and racial formation, tracing the white supremacist logics that have for too long been dismissed as inessential or nonconsequential to Romantic studies.
Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand

Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand
  • Kate Flaherty
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    04 March 2025
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    30 April 2025
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  • While the life and career of Ellen Terry (1847–1928) have attracted decades of attention from theatre historians and feminist biographers, one chapter remains hidden: Terry's tour of her solo Shakespeare lectures to Australia and New Zealand in 1914. This bold venture, made at the age of sixty-six, has been interpreted as an indication of Terry's declining physical andmental health following her 1906 Jubilee. Yet Terry claimed that 'while in Australia, although a woman, I am permitted to be a person', testifying affinity with the geopolitical region in which women had already achieved the right to vote in federal elections and to run for parliament. This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba.
Mass Polarization across Time and Space

Mass Polarization across Time and Space
  • Isaac D. Mehlhaff
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    04 March 2025
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  • Mass polarization is one of the defining features of politics in the twenty-first century, but efforts to understand its causes and effects are often hindered by empirical challenges related to measurement and data availability. To address these challenges and provide a common standard of analysis for researchers, this Element presents the Polarization in Comparative Attitudes Project (PolarCAP). PolarCAP clearly defines polarization as a property of group relations and uses a Bayesian measurement model to estimate smooth panels of ideological and affective polarization across ninety-two countries and forty-nine years. The author uses these data to provide a descriptive account of mass polarization across time and space. They further show how PolarCAP facilitates substantive inference by applying it to three sets of variables often hypothesized as causes or consequences of polarization: institutional design, economic crisis, and democracy. Open-source software makes PolarCAP easily accessible to scholars and practitioners.
Empathy and Political Reasoning

Empathy and Political Reasoning
  • How Empathy Promotes Reflection and Strengthens Democracy
  • Lala Muradova
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    04 March 2025
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    13 March 2025
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  • How do individuals make up their mind about politics? This question has sparked a vigorous debate in the study of political behavior for the last few decades. Some scholars contend that citizens can and should engage in political reflection, while others highlight biases in human political reasoning that make reflection impossible. This Element is about the conditions under which citizens can be motivated to transcend their egocentric biases and engage in reflection. Rather than asking whether citizens are capable of reflection, it shifts focus to a more productive question: how to motivate reflection. Firstly, it argues that (situational) empathy for the other side can inspire citizens to think reflectively about politics. Secondly, the Element proposes that deliberative institutions have the potential to evoke empathy for the other side in individuals. Thirdly, it draws on experimental and qualitative data from Belgium, Chile, Ireland, and the UK to test the theoretical expectations.

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