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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

Judges Under Attack

In our world, judicial independence is perennially contested.  Threats from the political branch pose obstacles to judges’ ability to perform their constitutional duties. Marie Seong-Hak Kim talks about her title, Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges, and how this affects the freedom & liberty of the Korean people.

Marie Seong-Hak Kim | 29 Jul 2019

Henry VIII’s Final War: Conquest, Colonialism and Violence

In the summer of 1544, Henry VIII invaded France with 36,000 soldiers – the largest army sent overseas by an English ruler until the reign of William III (1689-1702) – and captured the town of Boulogne...

Neil Murphy | 26 Jul 2019

Revolutions in the contemporary world

There are two main ways of approaching the study of revolution in the contemporary world – and they are both wrong.  On the one hand, revolutions are everywhere: on the streets of Kobane, Caracas, and...

George Lawson | 25 Jul 2019

WHAT IF HUMAN WORK ON RELIGION IS JUST GETTING STARTED?

Gather everything that we humans, religious and nonreligious, have ever done to satisfy ourselves about transcendent things under this label: the religion project. Then ask yourself whether the effort...

J. L. Schellenberg | 25 Jul 2019

History and Historiography on the Internet: Rewarding Truths or Fake News?

In this post, Professor Daniel Woolf, author of A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present cuts to the core of the debates around the internet and its pros and cons...

Daniel Woolf | 24 Jul 2019