Book Review: Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and...
In Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa shows that as different ‘entangled anxieties’ surrounding womanliness, patriotism and imperial...
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In Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath offers an interwoven exploration of diaspora, visuality and queer studies, drawing on film, poetry, photography, memoirs...
View ArticleBook Review: Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up by Gabrielle Chan
In Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up, Gabrielle Chan delves deep into the experiences of the inhabitants of her home, the small rural town of Harden-Murrumburrah, to gain insight into the...
View ArticleBook Review: Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice by...
20 June is World Refugee Day. In their new book Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice, Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker offer a comprehensive discussion of the policies and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement...
In The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, Alison Mountz explores how the proliferation and normalisation of the island as a site of enforcement and detention is...
View ArticleBook Review: Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics by...
In Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics, Ihnji Jon explores how researchers, city planners and the public can develop a bottom-up approach to environmentalism in urban areas,...
View ArticleChanging the gender narrative with open access
Academic success is regularly framed in terms of a particular set of publishing activities that disadvantages women. Katie Wilson and Lucy Montgomery discuss their recent research into how women...
View Article6 Recommended Reads on Epidemics and Religious Change
Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash Epidemics can turn the world upside down. They kill millions, isolate us and wreak havoc on international trade. But what is their impact on religion? During my...
View ArticleBook Review | Stopping Oil Climate Justice and Hope by Sophie Bond et al.
In Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope, Sophie Bond, Amanda Thomas and Gradon Diprose examine Aotearoa New Zealand’s deep-sea oil development agenda in recent decades and the climate justice...
View ArticleE-cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction: History,...
In E-cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction: History, Evidence and Policy, Virginia Berridge, Ronald Bayer, Amy L. Fairchild and Wayne Hall scrutinise the history underlying the...
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