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By: Peter J. Verovek

ISBN: 9781526143105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe's political, economic and financial crisis to the loss of these memories of the rupture of 1945. In order to survive the EU will have to prove that it can act effectively in the face of future challenges. -- .


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By: Gerasimos Tsourapas

ISBN: 9781526132093
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Gerasimos Tsourapas

ISBN: 9781526179029
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Imogen Richards

ISBN: 9781526171900
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neoliberal, late modern capitalist finance they condemn.


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By: Imogen Richards

ISBN: 9781526143204
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neoliberal, late modern capitalist finance they condemn.


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By: Richard Jobson

ISBN: 9781526113313
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain. -- .


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By: Richard Jobson

ISBN: 9781526113306
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain. -- .


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By: Tony Dundon

ISBN: 9781526146410
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, union representation and community solidarity and agency.


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By: Vincent Quinn

ISBN: 9781526136947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Reading: A cultural practice explores the history and theory of reading from the classical period to the present day. It argues that reading is central to human culture and that this will continue to be the case even if digital cultures change the ways in which we interact with written language. -- .


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By: Dalia Abdelhady

ISBN: 9781526146830
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to build new lives in it. -- .


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By: Naomi Roux

ISBN: 9781526140289
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa's Eastern Cape as a case study. This author examines how the twin processes of memory-making and change have played out in Nelson Mandela Bay. -- .


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By: Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

ISBN: 9781526136831
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This monograph argues that concepts well-established in migration studies such as settlement and integration do not sufficiently capture the features of adaptation and settling of contemporary migrants. The author highlights practical implications to better support individuals facing changes and challenges in new, complex and fluid societies.


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By: Murray Stewart Leith

ISBN: 9781784992552
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture. -- .


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By: Nadia Kiwan

ISBN: 9781526160799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .


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By: Nadia Kiwan

ISBN: 9781784994129
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .


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By: Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9781526142313
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores Shakespeare's presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans. -- .


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By: Victoria Bladen

ISBN: 9781526109088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches. -- .


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By: Victoria Bladen

ISBN: 9781526109064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches. -- .


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By: Quarantine

ISBN: 9781526143471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This illustrated collection documents Quarantine's large scale performance work, Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., together with a collection of writings from many different disciplines and perspectives on its various themes, specifically regarding the human life cycle and human relationships to time. -- .


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By: Anna Watz

ISBN: 9781526132024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.


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By: Wickham Clayton

ISBN: 9781526136572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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With contributions from major scholars such as Mikel J. Koven and Martin Stollery, and a preface by Adele Reinhartz, this collection looks at the new wave of Biblical adaptations from The Passion of the Christ (2004) onwards, taking a range of theoretical positions. -- .


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By: Claire L. Jones

ISBN: 9781526136282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities and to demonstrate the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.


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By: Claire L. Jones

ISBN: 9781526182326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.


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By: Norman Geras

ISBN: 9781526104755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras's argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. -- .

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