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GalleryBook Review: Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920 by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
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, […]
GalleryBook Review: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
With the edited collection Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Anita Heiss brings together a range of multivocal, heterogeneous and […]
GalleryBook Review: Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests by Nic Maclellan
In Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests, Nic Maclellan gathers together oral history and archival materials to bring forth […]
GalleryAuthor Interview: Q&A with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa on her book, Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
In this author interview, we speak to Sharon Crozier-De Rosa about her new book, Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: […]
GalleryBook Review: Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality by F.C. Simon
In Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality, F.C. Simon offers a critique of the theory of […]
GalleryBook Review: The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology by John Smyth
In The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology, John Smyth offers a critical reading of the pathological […]
GalleryReading List: 8 Books on Indigenous Research Methods recommended by Helen Kara
Image Credit: Indigenous Graduate Reception, February 2017, University of the Fraser Valley (University of the Fraser Valley CC BY […]
GalleryBook Review: Close Calls: Managing Risk and Resilience in Airline Flight Safety by Carl Macrae
In Close Calls: Managing Risk and Resilience in Airline Flight Safety, Carl Macrae offers a new study of organisational […]
GalleryBook Review: Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life by Marilyn Strathern
Written in the early 1970s by renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, the manuscript for Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies […]
GalleryReading List: 7 Must-Read Books about Art Ahead of the Turner Prize 2016
Image Credit: London Artist’s Studio (THOR CC BY 2.0)
Tonight, the evening of Monday 5 December 2016, sees the announcement […]
GalleryThe Materiality of Research: Sinking into the Sand: Explorations of the Coast in Sociology by Nick Osbaldiston
In this feature essay, Nick Osbaldiston proposes the notion of a sociology of the coast, linking pre-modern divisions between […]
GalleryBook Review: Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation by Jennifer Loureide Biddle
In Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation, Jennifer Loureide Biddle focuses on the emergence of an avant-garde Indigenous aesthetics […]
GalleryBook Review: A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips by Alan Bollard
LSE economist and inventor Bill Phillips became world famous for The Phillips Curve. Yet, as A Few Hares to […]
GalleryBook Review: Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War by Peter Gill
In Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War, Peter Gill […]
GalleryBook Review: Free Speech after 9/11 by Katharine Gelber
In Free Speech After 9/11, Katharine Gelber compares three liberal democracies – the United States, the United Kingdom and […]
