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Provincialising Pluralism: difference and diversity in South Asian traditions
Black, Brian; Madaio, James
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 545 Pages
How have South Asian traditions responded to plurality and difference? The question lies at the centre of this collection, inviting us to challenge established conceptions of pluralism and understand South Asian ways of thinking about difference, diversity, and 'the other'.
This diverse collection is the first in-depth treatment of the variety of ways that South Asian traditions theorise plurality. Bringing together case studies across South Asia's distinctive religious landscape, it marks a significant contribution to re-thinking pluralism in the 21st century.
Black, Brian; Madaio, James
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 545 Pages
How have South Asian traditions responded to plurality and difference? The question lies at the centre of this collection, inviting us to challenge established conceptions of pluralism and understand South Asian ways of thinking about difference, diversity, and 'the other'.
This diverse collection is the first in-depth treatment of the variety of ways that South Asian traditions theorise plurality. Bringing together case studies across South Asia's distinctive religious landscape, it marks a significant contribution to re-thinking pluralism in the 21st century.
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Legacies of the 1974 ethiopian revolution : imperial heritage and embattled statehood
Dinka, Etana H.
Zed Books
, 2025
; English
; 329 Pages
This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother. By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from the Canada, Finland, India, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood. Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces. They describe a mother as a self-identifying or non-binary person with caregiving responsibilities including but not limited to biological mothers, adoptive mothers, stepmothers, alloparents, grandmothers, mothers who are childless, mothers who are grieving, and mothers who are experiencing infertility
Dinka, Etana H.
Zed Books
, 2025
; English
; 329 Pages
This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother. By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from the Canada, Finland, India, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood. Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces. They describe a mother as a self-identifying or non-binary person with caregiving responsibilities including but not limited to biological mothers, adoptive mothers, stepmothers, alloparents, grandmothers, mothers who are childless, mothers who are grieving, and mothers who are experiencing infertility
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A short history of the English revolution and the civil wars
Appleby, David J.
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 233 Pages
James I and VI bequeathed his son a reasonably peaceful land in 1625, yet over a decade later, Charles I’s kingdoms erupted one by one into open rebellion- this book explores how this came to be. David J. Appleby explains how interconnected conflicts arose in the three kingdoms, and how they gave rise to a revolution which swept away the institution of monarchy and the House of Lords.
This book shows how the embryonic English republic’s need to counter domestic resistance and international threats caused the fighting to spread to the Channel Islands, the Caribbean and the American colonies.
Combining his expertise of the Stuart monarchy and post-conflict culture with a fresh and accessible tone, Appleby unravels why the memory of this conflict remains culturally and politically relevant and hotly contested to this day.
Appleby, David J.
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 233 Pages
James I and VI bequeathed his son a reasonably peaceful land in 1625, yet over a decade later, Charles I’s kingdoms erupted one by one into open rebellion- this book explores how this came to be. David J. Appleby explains how interconnected conflicts arose in the three kingdoms, and how they gave rise to a revolution which swept away the institution of monarchy and the House of Lords.
This book shows how the embryonic English republic’s need to counter domestic resistance and international threats caused the fighting to spread to the Channel Islands, the Caribbean and the American colonies.
Combining his expertise of the Stuart monarchy and post-conflict culture with a fresh and accessible tone, Appleby unravels why the memory of this conflict remains culturally and politically relevant and hotly contested to this day.
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Luxury and the senses: past, present, and future
Sekhon Dhillon, Yasmin K.; Norman, Jo
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
, 2025
; English
; 193 Pages
Luxury has long been seen as an expensive, elegant indulgence.
However, the history of its relationship with the bodily senses has never been fully explored.
Examining luxury from an experiential perspective, this book moves away from the traditional focus on luxury goods, marketing and promotion, and looks instead at the sensory evolution of luxury through time. Bringing together a range of international experts in the field, Luxury and the Senses traces the history of luxury from the over-indulgent banquets of Roman antiquity to the modern swimming pools of Southern California.
The book surveys the importance of sensory triggers like scent, taste and texture to our experience of luxury, while looking at questions of gender, branding and marketing through the lens of fashion and consumption. With case studies which range from perfume making to digital technologies, the book delves into the influence of luxury brands, and the new possibilities opened by technology and virtual reality.
Highlighting the emotional and sensuous aspects of creating and consuming luxury goods and services, this is essential reading for scholars of fashion, luxury studies, and brand management.
Sekhon Dhillon, Yasmin K.; Norman, Jo
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
, 2025
; English
; 193 Pages
Luxury has long been seen as an expensive, elegant indulgence.
However, the history of its relationship with the bodily senses has never been fully explored.
Examining luxury from an experiential perspective, this book moves away from the traditional focus on luxury goods, marketing and promotion, and looks instead at the sensory evolution of luxury through time. Bringing together a range of international experts in the field, Luxury and the Senses traces the history of luxury from the over-indulgent banquets of Roman antiquity to the modern swimming pools of Southern California.
The book surveys the importance of sensory triggers like scent, taste and texture to our experience of luxury, while looking at questions of gender, branding and marketing through the lens of fashion and consumption. With case studies which range from perfume making to digital technologies, the book delves into the influence of luxury brands, and the new possibilities opened by technology and virtual reality.
Highlighting the emotional and sensuous aspects of creating and consuming luxury goods and services, this is essential reading for scholars of fashion, luxury studies, and brand management.
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Negura, Petru; Cusco, Andrei; Suveica, Svetlana
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 321 Pages
This book features contributions that examine the responses of local populations to nationalizing and state-building projects in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on bottom-up, peripheral, and marginal reactions to top-down nation-building efforts, the volume covers border regions of Romania, Austria-Hungary (before 1918), Poland, Finland, the Russian Empire, and the USSR between 1900 and 1940.
Historiography continues to privilege top-down approaches, focused on elites, institutions, and official policies. Despite previous notable works on this topic, in-depth studies of bottom-up perspectives on these regions remain rare. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by emphasizing the perceptions, discourses, and everyday practices of ordinary people confronted with (often repressive) nation- and state-building agendas. It also addresses multiple levels of social interaction (combining perspectives from above, from below, and from the middle), involving several categories of actors and navigating through different scales of analysis. Individual and comparative case studies explore the social and political peculiarities of various local communities, particularly their evolving forms of national identification across neighboring regions.
This volume contributes to both nationalism studies, by critically engaging with the concepts of everyday ethnicity and "national indifference," and borderland studies, through a trans-sectional approach focusing on the agency of various marginalized communities.
Negura, Petru; Cusco, Andrei; Suveica, Svetlana
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 321 Pages
This book features contributions that examine the responses of local populations to nationalizing and state-building projects in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on bottom-up, peripheral, and marginal reactions to top-down nation-building efforts, the volume covers border regions of Romania, Austria-Hungary (before 1918), Poland, Finland, the Russian Empire, and the USSR between 1900 and 1940.
Historiography continues to privilege top-down approaches, focused on elites, institutions, and official policies. Despite previous notable works on this topic, in-depth studies of bottom-up perspectives on these regions remain rare. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by emphasizing the perceptions, discourses, and everyday practices of ordinary people confronted with (often repressive) nation- and state-building agendas. It also addresses multiple levels of social interaction (combining perspectives from above, from below, and from the middle), involving several categories of actors and navigating through different scales of analysis. Individual and comparative case studies explore the social and political peculiarities of various local communities, particularly their evolving forms of national identification across neighboring regions.
This volume contributes to both nationalism studies, by critically engaging with the concepts of everyday ethnicity and "national indifference," and borderland studies, through a trans-sectional approach focusing on the agency of various marginalized communities.
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No godforsaken place : prison chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and practicing life in prison
Jobe, Sarah C.
T&T Clark
, 2025
; English
; 249 Pages
How does the life, arrest, trial, conviction, execution, and release from state-supervision of Jesus Christ enact the salvation of the cosmos?
How does that one carceral life-in-death link up with life in the face of prison death today?Jobe explores the spiritual and religious life contained within America’s prison systems as it shows up in the profession of prison chaplaincy.
The theological foundations of the text coherently link Barth’s experience of prison chaplaincy and his Christological theology with the theological understandings in the chaplains' interviews; and Jobe’s “practical soteriology” emerges in a thoroughly intricate and compelling contextualized vision.
This book weaves careful ethnographic work, the systematic theology of Karl Barth, and biblical interpretation to craft a textured exploration of life-after-death work.
Jobe, Sarah C.
T&T Clark
, 2025
; English
; 249 Pages
How does the life, arrest, trial, conviction, execution, and release from state-supervision of Jesus Christ enact the salvation of the cosmos?
How does that one carceral life-in-death link up with life in the face of prison death today?Jobe explores the spiritual and religious life contained within America’s prison systems as it shows up in the profession of prison chaplaincy.
The theological foundations of the text coherently link Barth’s experience of prison chaplaincy and his Christological theology with the theological understandings in the chaplains' interviews; and Jobe’s “practical soteriology” emerges in a thoroughly intricate and compelling contextualized vision.
This book weaves careful ethnographic work, the systematic theology of Karl Barth, and biblical interpretation to craft a textured exploration of life-after-death work.
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The Chrysis of Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Liu, Cynthia; Smith, R. A.
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 241 Pages
This book offers an accessible translation and detailed commentary of Piccolomini's only comedy, Chrysis. Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-64), also known as Pope Pius II, is among the Quattrocento's most interesting personalities. An intellectual and public figure, Piccolomini enjoyed remarkable range, one aspect of which is his capacity as a writer and, specifically as regards this volume, as a comedic dramaturge. This book offers a performable English translation of his play, Chrysis, along with a detailed introduction and accessibly written commentary.
The Chrysis is unabashedly a Roman comedy written in the Plautine manner and reveals an awareness of many Latin literary forms. Within its historical context, the Chrysis is a highly interesting piece of Renaissance drama while being, at the same time, not as fully appreciated as it might have been. Piccolomini does not seem to have wanted it to be made public, for the play's plot involves Catholic priests visiting a brothel. However, the Chrysis is also replete with classical allusions, from Catullus to Juvenal and Martial, thus demonstrating that Piccolomini was a serious poet and admirer of Latin literature.
Liu, Cynthia; Smith, R. A.
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 241 Pages
This book offers an accessible translation and detailed commentary of Piccolomini's only comedy, Chrysis. Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-64), also known as Pope Pius II, is among the Quattrocento's most interesting personalities. An intellectual and public figure, Piccolomini enjoyed remarkable range, one aspect of which is his capacity as a writer and, specifically as regards this volume, as a comedic dramaturge. This book offers a performable English translation of his play, Chrysis, along with a detailed introduction and accessibly written commentary.
The Chrysis is unabashedly a Roman comedy written in the Plautine manner and reveals an awareness of many Latin literary forms. Within its historical context, the Chrysis is a highly interesting piece of Renaissance drama while being, at the same time, not as fully appreciated as it might have been. Piccolomini does not seem to have wanted it to be made public, for the play's plot involves Catholic priests visiting a brothel. However, the Chrysis is also replete with classical allusions, from Catullus to Juvenal and Martial, thus demonstrating that Piccolomini was a serious poet and admirer of Latin literature.
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Notes from a working-class playwright
Butler, Leo
Methuen Drama
, 2025
; English
; 233 Pages
"Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights through the
Royal Court Young Writers' Programme, the Young Vic and at universities across the world. With honesty and humour, Butler shares his experiences from his working-class
upbringing in Sheffield to his development into the professional theatre industry. This personal account criss-crosses Butler's life and career, exploring the influences and
experiences that informed his plays; how to make a living from this work; and offering exercises and tips to help readers in their playwriting journey"-- Provided by publisher
Butler, Leo
Methuen Drama
, 2025
; English
; 233 Pages
"Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights through the
Royal Court Young Writers' Programme, the Young Vic and at universities across the world. With honesty and humour, Butler shares his experiences from his working-class
upbringing in Sheffield to his development into the professional theatre industry. This personal account criss-crosses Butler's life and career, exploring the influences and
experiences that informed his plays; how to make a living from this work; and offering exercises and tips to help readers in their playwriting journey"-- Provided by publisher
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The bloomsbury handbook of Wittgensteinian feminism
Laugier, Sandra; Cabrera, Isabel G. Gamero; Trächtler, Jasmin; Braune, Camille
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 361 Pages
"This book provides the first in-depth examination of philosophy and feminism in the works of Wittgenstein, exploring the diverse approaches within this emerging field The four thematic parts are accompanied by an introduction from the editors. They cover the history of ordinary language philosophy, moral and political thought, feminist epistemology and conceptual approaches to gender. Chapters are written by feminist philosophers who question the way in which ordinary language philosophy can enrich moral thought. Authoritative and comprehensive, it increases the visibility of a significant field outside of mainstream philosophy and confirms the continuing impact of Wittgenstein"-- Bloomsbury Collections
Laugier, Sandra; Cabrera, Isabel G. Gamero; Trächtler, Jasmin; Braune, Camille
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 361 Pages
"This book provides the first in-depth examination of philosophy and feminism in the works of Wittgenstein, exploring the diverse approaches within this emerging field The four thematic parts are accompanied by an introduction from the editors. They cover the history of ordinary language philosophy, moral and political thought, feminist epistemology and conceptual approaches to gender. Chapters are written by feminist philosophers who question the way in which ordinary language philosophy can enrich moral thought. Authoritative and comprehensive, it increases the visibility of a significant field outside of mainstream philosophy and confirms the continuing impact of Wittgenstein"-- Bloomsbury Collections
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Hyland, Siobhan; Jackson, Paul; Rothery, Mark
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 265 Pages
In this exciting interdisciplinary volume, researchers, archivists, curators and social scientists offer a fresh exploration of the concept of well-being in Britain throughout history and in the present day. Well-being Past and Present examines the various ways well-being has been invoked as a concept or term throughout historical periods, attending to its multifarious meanings and its significance on the way we live our lives. Focusing on the interactions between historical research and heritage and archival methods and practices, the volume bridges the gap between historical experiences of well-being and contemporary well-being interventions by institutions and communities. Across sixteen chapters the authors in Well-being Past and Present travel from the battlefield to the library, the orchard to the archive, and the country house to the hospital ward, examining well-being's own historical and contemporary position in discourses like leisure, health and happiness. The key questions this volume asks are: has the concept of well-being become too nebulous to carry any real meaning? What happens to the term when we place it in the range of very different contexts that it finds a home in? How do past discourses of well-being connect to the present? How widely is well-being and associated activities spread across our diverse societies? Well-being Past and Present is a timely volume and contributes not just to our historical understanding of well-being but how we can utilise history and heritage to establish communities of care in Britain
Hyland, Siobhan; Jackson, Paul; Rothery, Mark
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 265 Pages
In this exciting interdisciplinary volume, researchers, archivists, curators and social scientists offer a fresh exploration of the concept of well-being in Britain throughout history and in the present day. Well-being Past and Present examines the various ways well-being has been invoked as a concept or term throughout historical periods, attending to its multifarious meanings and its significance on the way we live our lives. Focusing on the interactions between historical research and heritage and archival methods and practices, the volume bridges the gap between historical experiences of well-being and contemporary well-being interventions by institutions and communities. Across sixteen chapters the authors in Well-being Past and Present travel from the battlefield to the library, the orchard to the archive, and the country house to the hospital ward, examining well-being's own historical and contemporary position in discourses like leisure, health and happiness. The key questions this volume asks are: has the concept of well-being become too nebulous to carry any real meaning? What happens to the term when we place it in the range of very different contexts that it finds a home in? How do past discourses of well-being connect to the present? How widely is well-being and associated activities spread across our diverse societies? Well-being Past and Present is a timely volume and contributes not just to our historical understanding of well-being but how we can utilise history and heritage to establish communities of care in Britain
