Publications
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The lure of violence
(2025)
This book examines how the British Right responded to the national crisis of confidence that defined the Edwardian years (1901-1914). It analyses the mobilization of nationalist organisations, citizen policing groups, and ...
Understanding displacement aesthetics
(2026)
With the rise of humanitarianism and the international refugee regime in the twentieth century, visual representations of refugees and their forced displacement permeated the cultural sphere. Understanding displacement ...
Humanitarian handicraft
(2025)
This book brings together scholars of various horizons, art and craft practitioners, and historians of humanitarianism in dialogue around the material remnants of craft initiatives in the past: the evidence of large and ...
Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe
(2025)
This book explores actors, practices and meanings of humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It brings together a diverse group of scholars who offer a cutting-edge perspective on how ...
Musical festival floats of Japan
(2025)
This book aims to increase the understanding of festival music in Japan. It is based on more than thirty years of fieldwork. Close study of one local festival in the town of Taketoyo is combined with a wider comparative ...
Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond
(2026)
This book looks beyond the traditional nexus of painting, anatomy, and optics to explore a wider, more complex network of material, institutional, and theoretical connections between visual art and medicine in early modern ...
The first ordained women in the Church of Sweden
(2026)
When the Church of Sweden General Synod decided to open the priesthood to women on 28 September 1958, a long theological and political debate came to an end. On Palm Sunday in 1960 the first three women were ordained as ...
Restless justice
(2026)
Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created an increasingly hostile environment for people seeking asylum that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. This book offers a politically engaged ...
Monarchy in the Age of Liberty
(2026)
This book is about the role of monarchy as an institution when the king has no power. During the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), absolutism was abolished in Sweden and the king reduced to a mere figurehead. Even so, the monarchy ...