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Telling richer histories: Christian pacifism and climate change

Increasingly, Christian pacifists are recognizing the need to attend to the violence of climate change.  Thanks to books like Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor and Kevin...

Mark Douglas | 9 Aug 2019

John Calvin’s World

Context matters.  Probably no historian can write a shorter sentence that defends our craft.  This is true whether we speak in terms of politics, or about literature, or the law, or even the hard sciences. ...

R. Ward Holder | 9 Aug 2019

New perspective on the workings of Athenian democracy and its legacy

Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. The Athenians in the fourth century BC distinguished...

Peter Liddel | 7 Aug 2019

Information overload in the legal sphere

TMI (“too much information”), TLDR (“too long; didn’t read”), and DNC (“does not compute”).  These acronyms offer painful reminders of our contemporary relationship with information.  ...

Will Walker, Wendy Wagner | 6 Aug 2019

Who runs the joint? Gangs and social order in prisons

To most people, life in prison is a mystery. In a new study, we examine many aspects of prison life, with a special focus on the role of gangs. We interviewed 802 inmates in prison in Texas, half of whom...

Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz | 6 Aug 2019

Something’s missing: utopian possibility and contemporary narrative

When I started writing Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel ten years ago, I could not have foreseen how relevant many of the book’s core concerns would become. Reeling from the global financial...

Caroline Edwards | 6 Aug 2019

Decadence and Literature

Decadence and Literature is a volume in the Cambridge Critical Concepts series whose larger purpose is not only to show how certain key terms in literary studies have originated and developed in the past...

David Weir, Jane Desmarais | 6 Aug 2019

Powerful but legally non-existent?

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) brings together 57 participating states, including the USA and Russia, which makes it the world’s largest regional security organisation....

Mateja Steinbrück Platise | 6 Aug 2019

Working Wonders: How to Make the Impossible Happen

Working Wonders: How to Make the Impossible Happen puts forth the message that the difference between what’s possible and what’s not is, to a great extent, a construct of the human mind. And it’s...

Ryszard Praszkier | 5 Aug 2019

Of bias and frames: Forgotten episodes and mechanisms of transitional justice

Cambridge Author, Marcos Zunino, talks about Transitional Justice and his new book - Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice.

Marcos Zunino | 2 Aug 2019

Reading Ted Hughes as an American

Like most Americans, I encountered Sylvia Plath’s poetry before that of her husband, Ted Hughes, and I approached his work with some reluctance – as only seemed natural, considering his customary...

David Troupes | 1 Aug 2019

The Wrong Kind of Working-Class Woman?: Domestic Servants and the Suffrage Movement

On Saturday 18th June 1910, the Women’s Social and Political Union staged one of its largest and most spectacular demonstrations. The Great Procession through the streets of central London was carefully...

Laura Schwartz | 31 Jul 2019