I went to Goettingen in Germany at the start of this week, to kick off OAPEN, a project in open access publishing. It is quite cutting edge, as it is looking at open access in humanities monographs, where other open access projects look at journals in the sciences. Ten years …
In 2005, I published Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism (MUP). It was one of the first critical analyses of the public language employed by the Bush administration to make sense of the 9/11 attacks and justify the nation’s mobilisation for a global ‘war on terrorism’. In …
Great Satan’s Rage, by Scott Wilson, has received a great review in the Times Higher Education Supplement! Read it online for FREE
By Kieron OâHara University of Southampton So overwhelming is the Conservativesâ lead in the opinion polls that it is easy to overlook how precarious their future seemed not so very long ago. In the Summer of 2007, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Tory leader David Cameron started off in …
Still chugging along in our conference season, this and next month looks set to be pretty busy. Hereâs where weâll be (click on the conference titles to find out more) :- International Shakespeare Conference 3rd â 8th August (Stratford)One we make a point of going to every year, not only …
By Lucy Robinson, author of Gay Men and the Left in Post War Britain: how the personal got political. Forty years after the âswinging sixtiesâ and sexual liberation it seems that the boundaries around sexual liberty are still highly contested and contradictory. The lines around what is and isnât legal …
‘Perhaps the worst thing that prohibition has done is create criminal gangs.’ Dr Paul O’Mahony, author of MUP’s bestselling book, The Irish War on Drugs, makes this controversial statement in an article published in The Irish Times this week. Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Editor at The Irish Times talks to …
Tom Gallagher, whose new book Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the Strong, will be published by MUP in 2009, has written an article for The Financial Times this week. Entitled How the EU let Romania off, it asks a few uncomfortable questions about the EU’s attitude …
States of suspense The nuclear age, postmodernism and United States fiction and prose Daniel Cordle When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. States of suspense is about the representation …