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Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
Book SynopsisApproaching religious identity with an emphasis on agency and contestation, this book offers a historical perspective on the development of Muslim identities in Asia. It examines the contingent politics that influence how Muslims constitute themselves as modern subjects.Trade Review"The Politics of Muslim Identities brings together nine case studies from across Asia. The discussions in each chapter together illustrate the contested diversity of Islam as it is understood and practiced by Muslims, and contributes to a growing and much-needed literature which emphasises the need for historicised and anti-essentialist understandings of Islam." -Dr. Syed Farid Alatas, Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead
Book SynopsisDrawing on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise and Williams,the bookexplores their work in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism and object-oriented-ontology.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Corpus Phonology of English
Book SynopsisPlacing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Bullets to Ballots
Book SynopsisBullets to Ballots explores the different trajectories that the deradicalisation process can take - whether it occurs after a military victory, a military defeat, or a draw in an armed conflict between insurgent groups and incumbent authorities.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Modern Arabic Bible
Book SynopsisExplores how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literature
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Defector
Book SynopsisWhen intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Reluctant Remilitarisation
Book SynopsisHow and why the three losers of the Second World War reconsidered their pacifism, embraced a more active military role and transformed their armed forces after the Cold War
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Fragility of Caring for Others
Book SynopsisFerrarese develops our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political always-already political.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements
Book SynopsisExplores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisRiccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Focusing on Spinoza's constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisRiccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Focusing on Spinoza's constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works.Trade Review"Through an accurate analysis of Spinoza's work, from Part I of Ethics to the last line of the Political Treatise, Caporali displays the political thought of the author in all its depth and novelty. Rarely, if ever, has such a controversial topic been presented with this much clarity and coherence." -Diogo Pires Aur lio, New University of Lisbon
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Consuming Female Beauty
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of female beauty in nineteenth-century British print culture.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Death in the Diaspora
Book SynopsisPioneering comparative study of how and why migrants from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales displayed attachment to home on headstones and memorial markers erected across the British World between the 17th and 20th centuries.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Avizandum Legislation on International Private
Book SynopsisThis volume provides ready access to a wide-ranging selection of materials on those areas of private law in which a foreign element may arise. It includes UK and Scottish statutes and statutory instruments, EU materials and International Conventions.
£30.39
Edinburgh University Press The Political Theology of Kierkegaard
Book SynopsisSaitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique, not only of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity but also the political theology of Carl Schmitt, that seeks to legitimise the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological foundation.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Exotic Cinema
Book SynopsisA critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemas.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press British Women Amateur Filmmakers
Book SynopsisThe study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the subject in the context of British women's amateur practice.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Prophetic Translation
Book SynopsisIn this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Deleuzes Hume
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Humes Sceptical Enlightenment
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£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press Eu Diplomacy and the IsraeliArab Conflict 1967
Book SynopsisBased exclusively on primary sources, this study offers an up-to-date overview of EU's involvement in the Israeli-Arab conflict since 1967.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The United States and the Iranian Nuclear
Book SynopsisSteven Hurst traces the development of the USIranian nuclear weapon crisis from the conception of Iran's nuclear programme in 1957 to the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015. Hurst adopts a broader perspective on the Iranian nuclear programme and explains the continued failure of the USA to halt it.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Poor Relief and the Church in Scotland 15601650
Book SynopsisThis book sets out the importance of charity in Scottish Reformation studies. Based on extensive archival research involving more than thirty parishes, it sheds new light on the practice of poor relief in the century following the Reformation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Conventions Abbreviations List of Tables Map Introduction Chapter 1. Ideas, Attitudes and Ambitions Section I: The Development of Kirk Session Poor Relief Chapter 2. Urban Beginnings and Developments, c. 1560-c. 1610 Chapter 3. Poor Relief Beyond the Main Burghs, c. 1590-c. 1650 Chapter 4: Poor Relief under Stress Section II: The Nature of Kirk Session Poor Relief Chapter 5. The Mechanics of Relief Chapter 6. Who Were the Poor? The Recipients of Relief Chapter 7. Who Was Deserving? Decision-Making and Discrimination Chapter 8. Beyond the Kirk Session: Mixed Economies of Relief Conclusion Appendix: Equivalent Values from Wages and Prices Bibliography
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Living in Technical Legality
Book SynopsisThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Theology in the Turkish Republic
Book SynopsisExplores how modern Turkish theologians have grappled with issues such as nationalism and democracy; conceptions of God and humanity; the definition of religion itself and theological arguments for secularism; and theologies of human rights, gender and sexuality.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Arabic Prose Poem
Book SynopsisHuda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction
Book SynopsisExaminesAttar's didactic poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, reader-centered perspective
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Film Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces
Book SynopsisInvestigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in film
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Film Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces
Book SynopsisInvestigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in film
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Greek Imaginary
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£23.74
Edinburgh University Press American Snobs
Book SynopsisArguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press On the Threshold
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of hospitality in Shakespeare.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Pulse in Cinema
Book SynopsisThe Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is felt in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than simply the physiological response of the spectator to the image it's the affective force in cinema.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Living with Agamben
Book SynopsisThe book shows how Agamben's political concerns emerged and evolved as Agamben responded to contemporary events and new intellectual influences while striving to remain true to his deepest intuitions. Kotsko reveals the trajectory of Agamben's work and shows us what it means to practice philosophy as a living, responsive discipline.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Spinoza the Epicurean
Book SynopsisBy radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Spinoza the Epicurean
Book SynopsisBy radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood
Book SynopsisAndrew Jampol-Petzinger pursues Gilles Deleuze's significantly under-discussed interpretation of Soren Kierkegaard. He presents a view of ethics and selfhood that responds to theories of moral judgment and selfhood based on stable, substance-orientated forms of identity.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Disney Animation
Book SynopsisReconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theoryTrade Review"Benhamou's book offers a thorough and much needed critical exploration of contemporary animation from Disney and its competitors. Drawing on a multidisciplinary framework from genre to post-feminism through an animation studies lens, Benhamou offers the reader a well-considered, and very well written account of some of the key debates in screen studies." -Nichola Dobson, University of Edinburgh
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Disney Animation
Book SynopsisReconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Documenting Fashion
Book SynopsisOffers the first edited collection with an explicit documentary focus on fashion icons, events, cultures and industries
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction
Book SynopsisExplores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms
Book SynopsisExamines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century, enabling a developing cosmopolitanism to emergeTrade Review"This very welcome addition to the scholarship on transnational Chinese cinema provides the needed depth and breadth to appreciate the expansive historical and geographic sweep of Chinese-language film with Hong Kong at its beating heart.? Tan deftly moves from Shanghai roots through cross-dressing operatic romances, softcore court intrigues, James Bond-style spy stories, and swordplay actioners as they circulate through Hong Kong and throughout the Chinese diaspora.? Culminating with Tsui Hark's New Wave Chinese-accented cosmopolitanism, this book highlights the continuing importance of Hong Kong at a cinematic crossroads that connects Asia to the rest of the world." -Gina Marchetti, author of Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Zoya Akhtar
Book SynopsisExamines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya Akhtar
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Democracy and Defiance
Book SynopsisPuts forward a bold, polemical interpretation of democracy as an emancipatory political project through the work of Jacques Ranciere, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour
£76.50
