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This edited volume is an exploration of what the craft of filmmaking brings to social science research. It invites readers to appropriate and critically examine the power of imagery and sound in narrating (beyond) human experience across cultures and societies around the world.

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Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised British overseas identity.

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The first book-length analysis of EU health policy since the COVID-19 pandemic, encompassing the creation of the European Health Union and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, this volume offers a timely and accessible analysis of the EU's health policy, institutions and governance.

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Offers an accessible account of everyday humanitarianism in Cambodia, as well as wider insights into how people link local actions to global challenges.

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This book offers the first extended examination of extremist Heathenry and occultism in the UK and explores how anti-racist Heathens act to counter this discourse, making an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements, nationalist history and racist politics.

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This book explores how we theorize about fashion, responding to a new increasing attention to critical theory and philosophy in the fashion industry.

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This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain.

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An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an "ideal" family size. The author situates fertility medicine, artificial insemination by donor, and child adoption within larger concerns about the French birthrate.

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This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk.

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This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction.

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From the Alpine pastureland of late nineteenth century Switzerland to the hospitals of post-independence West Africa, Nestle and the shaping of the aid industry tells the story of how Nestle earned a seat at the table of international aid, and uncovers the long-forgotten alliances and controversies that continue to shape the aid industry today.

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This book presents social ecological economics as an emerging paradigm combining critical social science with structural realism to offer a radical, theoretically grounded, alternative economics based on ethical social provisioning and meeting needs. The foundations include its radical roots, philosophical presuppositions and preanalytic vision.

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A groundbreaking study of British women's responses to the South African War of 1899-1902 throwing new light on empire and British society, gender and imperialism, and Victorian women's politics and citizenship.

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This collection examines ghostly presences (and absences) in both classic and lesser-known Gothic texts from the beginning of the genre to the present in a global context.

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Global London on screen presents a melange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.

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This book brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, forming a global network of writers, thinkers, and scholars connected by common investments in Indigenous futures.

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Head in the game critically analyses the global concussion crisis in sport from sociocultural perspectives. This edited collection features essays from humanities, social science, and scientific scholars who analyse how the concussion crisis came to be and provide guidance for developing ethical and evidence-based solutions for the future of sport.

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Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism analyses through diverse disciplinary perspectives and methods - how hierarchies, power asymmetries and exclusion emerge, are maintained and can ultimately be challenged in humanitarian governance. It informs current efforts to increase inclusiveness and equity in humanitarian practice.

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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.

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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.

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This book explores the neglected history of textile crafts in projects of social and moral reform and considers how historical processes have become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craft-work.

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This volume examines humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It challenges the often Western-focused history of humanitarianism by bringing together local, "private", national, "socialist," and international humanitarian actors.

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This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.

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This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood's classical era.