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The Martyr’s Many Faces

In 2012, I first heard about the spate of self-immolations happening in the traditional lands of Tibet. It seemed every day more people burned themselves to death while publicly condemning the Chinese...

John Soboslai | 19 Aug 2024

Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’...

Aditi Malik | 14 Aug 2024

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

Not long after we submitted this book for production, Zadie Smith’s new novel, The Fraud, was published. It was something of a surprise, largely a welcome one, that it seemed to have so many references...

David Stewart, John Gardner | 14 Aug 2024

The Archaeology of Southern Africa

Southern Africa is in the news: South Africa’s recent elections have seen the ruling African National Congress lose its majority in parliament for the first time since apartheid ended in 1994, producing...

Peter Mitchell | 14 Aug 2024

Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama

Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play seeks to demonstrate that the overwhelming popularity of revenge drama in the English Renaissance is best understood in the context of the unique...

Noam Reisner | 13 Aug 2024

Literary Vegetarianism & Veganism

‘Diet’ is derived from the Greek diaita, meaning ‘way of life’, so that what we eat is intimately connected with who we perceive ourselves to be. Historically, those who chose to abstain from...

Theophilus Savvas | 13 Aug 2024

Why I decided to challenge the entire basis of my field

My favorite moments as a teacher were when I would pause and surveil my classroom, my eyes flitting from one child to the next, all equally engrossed in serious tasks, the quiet hum of experimentation,...

Rebecca R. Garte | 6 Aug 2024

Teachers’ Unions, the Labor Movement, and Education Reform

Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture...

Christopher Chambers-Ju | 5 Aug 2024

A Broad Philosophical View of Linguistic Theory

Human beings, homo sapiens, are linguistic creatures. One of the things that make us particularly sapient is our ability to convert a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts into coherent language,...

Ryan M. Nefdt | 1 Aug 2024

Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy

Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy is a book describing the specific field of child rights, but it is also a reflection of how human rights evolved in the post-Cold War era. Human rights,...

Maria Grahn-Farley | 25 Jul 2024

Do Debates Matter?

A few weeks ago on May 15, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to at least two general election debates: one on June 27, 2024 and one on September 10, 2024.  The first debate...

Patrick J. Kenney, Kim L. Fridkin | 22 Jul 2024

Understanding Entrepreneurial Decision-Making

Entrepreneurship has been the theme of my research for four decades. My first article on entrepreneurship was published in 1984. I must confess, however, that I had not truly understood the nature of...

Weiying Zhang | 29 May 2024