All ScholarLed presses

This page shows the latest publications (in descending order of publication date) from all of the open access publishers in the ScholarLed consortium (Mattering Press, meson press, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, African Minds, and mediastudies.press).

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Last updated: 2023-04-30 00:00:08

April 2023

all except you

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Author: Roland Barthes

Translator: Joe Milutis

Earth: Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0444.1.00

Chaucer’s Comic Providence

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Author: Janet Thormann

Author: Aranye Fradenburg Joy

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0362.1.00

Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books

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Author: Kathryn M. Rudy

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0337

The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment.

re: evolution

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Author: Kim Rosenfield

Introduction by: Sianne Ngai

Contributions by: Jennifer Calkins

Contributions by: Diana Hamilton

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0503.1.00

About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community

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Author: Matthew Cheney

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0409.1.00

March 2023

Queer Communal Kinship Now!

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Author: Robinou

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0415.1.00

By Kelman Out of Pessoa

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Author: Doug Nufer

Introduction by: Louis Bury

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0500.1.00

Counter-Dancing Digitality: On Commoning and Computation

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Author: Shintaro Miyazaki

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023

https://doi.org/10.14619/0481

Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning. The aim is a world where profit and property no longer exist, but instead where a cooperative dance – between all the needs posed by our ecosystems, and all the needs of people – becomes practicable. This book is a critical media theory of future-building, modulated by a focus on the potentials of counter-dancing as providing ways to unfold fugitive practices.

Introduction to Systems Biology: Workbook for Flipped-classroom Teaching

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Author: Thomas Sauter

Author: Marco Albrecht

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0291

This book is an introduction to the language of systems biology, which is spoken among many disciplines, from biology to engineering. Authors Thomas Sauter and Marco Albrecht draw on a multidisciplinary background and evidence-based learning to facilitate the understanding of biochemical networks, metabolic modeling and system dynamics.

The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33

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Author: Yankev Leshchinsky

Editor: Robert Brym

Translator: Robert Brym

Translator: Eli Jany

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0341

Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876–1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened interest in interwar Jewish communities in Poland in recent years, these essays (like most of Leshchinsky’s works) have never been translated into English. The Last Years of Polish Jewry helps to rectify this situation by translating some of Leshchinsky’s key essays.

Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

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Author: Philip Graham

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0297

This revised and expanded edition of Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs’ childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to historians of British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and psychoanalysts.

The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

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Author: Edward Pettit

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0308

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda.

Exoanthropology: Dialogues with AI

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Author: Robert Leib

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0398.1.00

February 2023

The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000

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Editor: Jochen Hung

Editor: Jaroslav Ira

Editor: Judit Klement

Editor: Andrew Tompkins

Editor: Jan Hansen

Editor: Juan Luis Simal

Editor: Sylvain Lesage

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323

The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000.

Kritik postdigital

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Editor: Laura Hille

Editor: Daniela Wentz

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023

https://doi.org/10.14619/0832

Preferable Futures

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Editor: Irina Kaldrack

Editor: Rolf F. Nohr

https://doi.org/10.14619/0337

Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

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Author: José Ignacio Wert

Author: Montserrat Gomendio

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0332

Responding to an ‘educational emergency’ generated largely by the difficulties of implementing education reforms, this book compares education policies around the world in order to understand what works where. To address the key question of why education reforms are so difficult, the authors take into account a broad range of relevant factors, such as governance, ideology, and stakeholder conflicts of interest, and their interactions with one another.

The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew

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Author: Aaron D. Hornkohl

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0310

This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text.

January 2023

Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change

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Author: Joanna Wild

Author: Femi Nzegwu

South Africa: African Minds, 2023

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502708

This book focuses on digital approaches to capacity development, reflecting the greater interest in how digital tools and platforms can be used for capacity development in the ‘Global South’. While Covid-19 demonstrated some of the benefits of online learning, the widespread, often uncritical adoption of online tools driven by necessity has left many with an experience of ‘emergency online learning’. This book aims to assist in the design of technology-enhanced capacity development by sharing evidence of practices that are principled rather than rushed; inclusive rather than creating new digital divides.

Part 1 sets out the main thinking that informs our overall approach and the frameworks that guide our practice. Part 2 explores a series of assumptions about technology-enhanced learning (TEL) that are common in the literature and against which we tested our data. It brings new evidence to bear on how TEL can be used more effectively as part of learning and capacity strengthening. Part 3 is designed as a practical guide to walk practitioners through the steps to create relevant, inclusive and sustainable digital learning interventions. Part 4 offers a collection of 16 case studies that illustrate how we have put the principles into practice. We have worked to evidence how technology can be leveraged effectively to enhance or strengthen capacities of individuals, teams or systems. We make clear that there are no magic bullets, that online approaches are not simply quicker or cheaper substitutes, and that solutions need to be selected carefully, designed well, and significant time invested if it is to work well.

We hope Digital Technology in Capacity Development will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in a range of institutions, whether they are directly responsible for designing, delivering or evaluating new initiatives or whether they are advising or funding those who do.

Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science

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Author: David Mills

Author: Patricia Kingori

Author: Abigail Branford

Author: Samuel T. Chatio

Author: Natasha Robinson

Author: Paulina Tindana

South Africa: African Minds, 2023

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502647

Since the 1990s, global academic publishing has been transformed by digitisation, consolidation and the rise of the internet. The data produced by commercially owned citation indexes increasingly defines legitimate academic knowledge. Publication in prestigious ‘high impact’ journals can be traded for academic promotion, tenure and job-security. African researchers and publishers labour in the shadows of a global knowledge system dominated by ‘Northern’ journals and by global publishing conglomerates. This book goes beyond the numbers. It tells the story of how the Ghanaian academy is being transformed by this bibliometric economy. It offers a rich account of the voices and perspectives of Ghanaian academics and African journal publishers. How, where and when are Ghana’s researchers disseminating their work, and what do these experiences reveal about an unequal global science system? Is there pressure to publish in ‘reputable’ international journals, what role do supervisors, collaborators and mentors play, and how do academics manage in conditions of scarcity? Putting the insights of more than 40 Ghanaian academics into dialogue with journal editors and publishers from across the continent, the book highlights creative responses, along with the emergence of new regional research ecosystems. This is an important Africa-centred analysis of Anglophone academic publishing on the continent and its relationship to global science.

Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home

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Author: David Markus

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023

https://doi.org/10.53288/0366.1.00

Creativity: Process and Personality

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Author: Larry Gross

Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2023

https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.60b97b6f

Creativity: Process and Personality, a 1964 thesis published for the first time, features interviews on creativity with prominent psychologists, including B. F. Skinner, Herbert Simon, Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, Jerome Bruner, and Milton Rokeach.

Reshaping Food Systems to improve Nutrition and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

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Author: Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh

Author: Alexa Meyer

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0322

This detailed and comprehensive study examines nutrition and health in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, presenting the six game-changing food systems actions proposed by the WHO and the progress of their implementation in the region.

December 2022

Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies: Treasures from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Daryl S. Paulson Collection

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Author: T. Lawrence Larkin

Author: Stephen Little

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0383.1.00

The Angels Won’t Help You

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Author: M.H. Bowker

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0388.1.00

Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

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Editor: Cynthia Kros

Editor: Reece Auguiste

Editor: Pervaiz Khan

South Africa: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502678

This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image.

Reframing Africa?makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences.

Reframing Africa? will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners across the continent and beyond.

Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet

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Author: Kristien Hens

Illustrator: Christina Stadlbauer

Illustrator: Bart H.M. Vandeput

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0320

In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the philosopher. As well as ethical, their role is conceptual: they can improve the quality and coherence of scientific research by ensuring that particular concepts are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. Hens argues that chance and uncertainty play a central part in bioethics, but that these qualities can be in tension with the attempt to establish a given theory as scientific knowledge: in describing organisms and practices, in a sense we create the world. Hens contends that this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Landscapes of Investigation: Contributions to Critical Mathematics Education

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Editor: Miriam Godoy Penteado

Editor: Ole Skovsmose

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0316

Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes of Investigation provides many illustrations of how this can be done in primary, secondary, and university education. It also illustrates how exploring landscapes of investigation can contribute to mathematics teacher education programmes.

Communication Conduct in an Island Community

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Author: Erving Goffman

Introduction by: Yves Winkin

Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022

https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af

Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, published here for the first time on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Greening Europe: 2022 European Public Investment Outlook

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Editor: Floriana Cerniglia

Editor: Francesco Saraceno

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0328

The third installment of the ‘European Public Investment Outlook’ series is an important and timely publication that draws together recent analyses to recommend significant increases in public investment in green ventures. Compelling data from key economists affiliated with international organizations like the International Monetary Fund, European Investment Bank and the European Commission, as well as academic departments and policy institutes are a clarion call for green investment to boost the economy and put the planet on a sustainable path.

Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music

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Author: Steven Jan

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0301

Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory – and vice-versa.

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

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Editor: William J. Sutherland

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0321

There are severe problems with the decision-making processes currently widely used, leading to ineffective use of evidence, faulty decisions, wasting of resources and the erosion of public and political support. In this book an international team of experts provide solutions.

William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art

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Author: Dorinda Evans

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0304

William Rimmer (1816–1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York.

Static Palace

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Author: Leora Fridman

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0411.1.00

November 2022

Engaging with Everyday Sounds

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Author: Marcel Cobussen

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0288

‘Engaging With Everyday Sounds’ is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, emotions, and imagination. Marcel Cobussen intertwines sonic studies with philosophy, sound art, sociology and more to create an impressively lucid and innovative guide to sonic materialism, calling for a re-sensitization to our acoustic environment and arguing that everyday sounds have (micro)political, social, and ethical impact to which we should attend.

The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls

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Author: Daniel James Waller

Contributions by: Dorota Molin

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0305

The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic.

My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News

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Editor: Alexandra Juhasz

Foreword by: Tara McPherson

Afterword by: Margaret Rhee

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0394.1.00

Women and Migration(s) II

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Editor: Cheryl Finley

Editor: Ellyn Toscano

Editor: Deborah Willis

Editor: Kalia Brooks

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0296

Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showcasing the breadth of intersectional experiences of migration, from diaspora to internal displacement. Building on conversations initiated in Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, this edited volume features a range of written styles, from memoir to artists’ statements to journalistic and critical essays. The collection shows how women’s experiences of migration have been articulated through art, film, poetry and even food.

Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy

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Author: C. Jon Delogu

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0392.1.00

Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible

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Editor: Daniel J. Crowther

Editor: Aaron D. Hornkohl

Editor: Geoffrey Khan

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0330

This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title of the volume as the ‘Masoretic Tradition’. The papers are innovative studies of a range of aspects of this Masoretic tradition at various periods, many of them presenting hitherto unstudied primary sources.

October 2022

Records of Disaster: Media Infrastructures and Climate Change

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Author: Solveig Qu Suess

Author: Gabriele Schabacher

Author: Susan Schuppli

Author: Marie Sophie Beckmann

Author: Charlotte Bolwin

Author: Katrin Köppert

Author: Armin Linke

Editor: Petra Löffler

Editor: Jakob Claus

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/2089

Anthropology of Transformation: From Europe to Asia and Back

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Editor: Juraj Buzalka

Editor: Agnieszka Pasieka

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0282

This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west.

‘Fragile States’ in an Unequal World: The Role of the g7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation

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Author: Isabel Rocha de Siqueira

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0311

This is a book about people. ‘Fragile States’ in an Unequal World: The Role of the g7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation introduces the members of the g7+, a group formed by 20 conflict-affected states: why they came to believe in politics and policy; how they feel about their work, their family and their communities; and what they want to leave behind for the next generations. It is the story of their personal and collective values, their mistakes, and the challenges they faced, and it will resonate with anyone who has tried to organize and work with a group of very different people.

Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District: From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the Present Day

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Author: Roberta Morano

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0298

In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ’Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific in shaping our knowledge of Omani Arabic during the twentieth century, until the 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on the Arabic varieties spoken in Oman began to appear.

Something More Splendid Than Two

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Author: josé rivers alfaro

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0412.1.00

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

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Editor: Liliane Campos

Editor: Pierre-Louis Patoine

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0303

This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination.

The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation: The History and Politics of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya

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Author: Fadhli Lukman

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0289

This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation of the Qurʾān into Indonesian by the Indonesian government. It investigates how the translation was produced and presented, and how it is read, as well as considering the implications of the state’s involvement in such a work.

September 2022

Guantánamo Frames

Author: Rebecca Boguska

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/2065

Nonconscious: On the Affective Synching of Mind and Machine

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Author: Marie-Luise Angerer

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/2041

Growing numbers of nonhuman companions are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes.

The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1: 1865–1887

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Editor: Andrew Hobbs

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0262

Anthony Hewitson was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press, provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1862 and 1912, lift the veil of anonymity hiding the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian newspapers. Andrew Hobbs’s introduction and footnotes provide background and analysis of these valuable documents. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers.

The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World

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Author: Stephanie Polsky

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0381.1.00

Speaking for the Social: A Catalog of Methods

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Editor: Gemma John

Editor: Hannah Knox

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0378.1.00

A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter

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Author: Peter Valente

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0391.1.00

An Outline of Romanticism in the West

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Author: John Claiborne Isbell

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0302

Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it.

Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No!

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Author: Joseph Nechvatal

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0387.1.00

August 2022

The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World

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Author: William St Clair

Editor: Lucy Barnes

Editor: David St Clair

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0279

Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how?

Second Chance: My Life in Things

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Author: Ruth Rosengarten

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0285

In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays.

Vera Lex Historiae?: Constructions of Truth in Medieval Historical Narrative

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Editor: Catalin Taranu

Editor: Michael J. Kelly

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0369.1.00

Technopharmacology

Author: Joshua Neves

Author: Aleena Chia

Author: Susanna Paasonen

Author: Ravi Sundaram

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/029-0

Technopharmacology is a modest call to expand media theoretical inquiry by attending to the biological, neurological, and pharmacological dimensions of media and centers on emergent affinities between big data and big pharma.

Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation

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Author: David Torollo

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0299

This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book Sefer ha-Pardes [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini.

July 2022

Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty

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Author: Gavin Keeney

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0375.1.00

Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings

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Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0284

In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts.

paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic

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Editor: Floris Schönfeld

Editor: Kees Ligtelijn

Editor: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

Editor: David Yonge-Mallo

Translator: Marc Okrand

Preface by: DeSDu’ jen puqloD

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0345.1.00

A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics

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Editor: Frank Stadler

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0300

Since the revival of maggot therapy in Western wound care approximately thirty years ago, there has been no comprehensive synthesis of what is known about its clinical practice, supply chain management, and social dimensions. This edited volume fills the information vacuum and, importantly, makes the current state of knowledge freely accessible. It is the first to provide sound, evidence-based information and guidance covering the entire supply chain from production to treatment.

Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body

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Author: Roy Christopher

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0416.1.00

The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence

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Author: Susan Hallam

Author: Evangelos Himonides

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0292

Building on her earlier work, ‘The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People’, this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology.

Pitch and Revelation: Reconfigurations of Reading, Poetry, and Philosophy through the Work of Jay Wright

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Author: Matthew Goulish

Author: Will Daddario

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0380.1.00

June 2022

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1

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Author: Geoffrey Khan

Author: Dorota Molin

Author: Masoud Mohammadirad

Author: Paul M. Noorlander

Contributions by: Lourd Habeeb Hanna

Contributions by: Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari

Contributions by: Salim Abraham

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0306

This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.

Nothing As We Need It: A Chimera

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Author: Daniela Cascella

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0382.1.00

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2

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Author: Geoffrey Khan

Author: Paul M. Noorlander

Author: Masoud Mohammadirad

Author: Dorota Molin

Contributions by: Lourd Habeeb Hanna

Contributions by: Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari

Contributions by: Salim Abraham

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0307

This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.

Fahrradutopien: Medien, Ästhetiken und Aktivismus

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Author: Julia Bee

Author: Linda Keck

Author: Markus Stauff

Author: Ulrike Bergermann

Author: Sarah Sander

Author: Herbert Schwaab

Author: Franzi Wagner

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/1952

The Merger Mystery: Why Spend Ever More on Mergers When So Many Fail?

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Author: Geoff Meeks

Author: J. Gay Meeks

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0309

Drawing on findings from a wealth of statistical analyses and case evidence from many businesses, the book presents answers to this merger mystery. In a synthesis of ideas from several disciplines, solutions are detected in misaligned incentives, distorted financial engineering and information asymmetry. By revealing how weaknesses at multiple points can interact and cumulate to produce inefficient outcomes, the discussion serves as a corrective to the overwhelmingly positive tone of most commentary on M&A, whilst also advocating changes in participants’ contracts, in taxation, and in regulation which could significantly reduce the number of mergers that fail.

Turkish Voices

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Author: Murat Nemet-Nejat

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0390.1.00

Letters on the Autonomy Project

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Author: Janet Sarbanes

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0358.1.00

May 2022

Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring

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Author: Brian Rappert

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0295

In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.

Who Saved the Parthenon?: A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution

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Author: William St Clair

Editor: David St Clair

Editor: Lucy Barnes

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0136

In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32.

Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture

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Author: Elliot C. Mason

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0372.1.00

Democratic Situations

Author: Andrzej W. Nowak

Author: Laurie Waller

Author: David Moats

Author: Anne Kathrine Vadgaard

Author: Véra Ehrenstein

Author: Linda Soneryd

Author: Göran Sundqvist

Author: Helen Pallett

Author: Jason Chilvers

Author: Lotte Krabbenborg

Author: Rachel Douglas-Jones

Author: Alexei Tsinovoi

Editor: Andreas Birkbak

Editor: Irina Papazu

Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2022

https://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729302

Democratic Situations places the making and doing of democratic politics at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American democracy – elections, bureaucracies, public debates and citizen participation – into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals are contested and warped in practice. The empirical cases demonstrate that democracy cannot be reduced to theoretical schemes of conflict, institutions or deliberation. Instead, they offer an urgently needed renewal of our understanding of democratic politics at a time when conventional ideas increasingly fail to capture current events such as Brexit, Trump and Covid19.

Nubian Proverbs (Fadijja/Mahas)

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Author: Maher Habbob

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0346.1.00

Out of Place: An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship

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Author: Nuraan Davids

Foreword by: Jonathan D Jansen

Cape Town: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502364

Out of Place offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids’ experience as a Muslim ‘coloured’ woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a number of themes, which include her challenges not only as a South African citizen, and within her faith community, but as an academic citizen at a historically white university. The book is her story, an autoethnography, her reparation.

By embarking on an auto-ethnography, she not only tries to change the way her story has been told by others, transforms her ‘sense of what it means to live’ (Bhabha, 1994). She is driven by a postcolonial appeal, which insists that if she seeks to imprint her own way of life into the discourses which pervade the world around her, then she can no longer allow herself to be spoken on behalf of or to be subjugated into the hegemonies of others.

The main argument of Out of Place is that Muslim, ‘coloured’ women are subjected to layers of scrutiny and prejudices, which have yet to be confronted. What we know about Muslim ‘coloured’ women has been shaped by preconceived notions of ‘otherness’, and attached to a meta-narrative of ‘oppression and backwardness’. By centring and using her lived experiences, the author takes readers on a journey of what it is like to be seen in terms of race, gender and religion – not only within the public sphere of her professional identities, but within the private sphere of her faith community.

Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools: Teaching in the Face of Inequality and Discrimination

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Author: Malve von Möllendorff

South Africa: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502333

Education is considered key for societies to achieve greater social cohesion and equality. Yet, schools, as the main providers of formal education, have increasingly come into question concerning their role in manifesting and perpetuating social categorisations, inequalities and discrimination instead of decreasing existing fragmentations and challenging power relations and hierarchies.

As a diverse society, Kenya is faced with power struggles and rivalries between different groups – for instance, along ethnic lines, often constructed deep in colonial history. This affects teaching and learning in school and the result is that Kenya is faced with vast disparities in terms of educational access and success – rendering some social groups marginalised and others favoured.

Positioning Diversity at Kenyan Schools explores the ways in which teachers in Kenyan primary and secondary schools experience and deal with social categorisations and diversity in terms of ethnicity, gender, wealth, culture, religion, etc. in their professional practice and in the current education system. Using critical pedagogy and diversity theory as a lens for positioning diversity in Kenyan schools, the questions that this book sets out to answer are: In what ways do the teachers’ and schools’ practices lead to transformation in terms of more social equality and less discrimination? In what ways do the practices manifest existing group categorisations, hierarchies and discrimination? How can schools and teaching practices in postcolonial Kenya become more inclusive and foster social cohesion and equality?

Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

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Author: Melanie Walker

Author: Monica McLean

Author: Mikateko Mathebula

Author: Patience Mukwambo

Cape Town: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502395

April 2022

The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini’s Recorded Interpretations

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Author: Massimo Zicari

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0277

This innovative work considers the notion of bel canto and the manner in which this vibrant tradition lives in the records of Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940), one of the most celebrated sopranos ever. Tetrazzini, whose discographic career includes about 120 recordings, belongs to that generation of inspirational performers who heralded the dawn of a new era of music appreciation, alongside such iconic figures as Enrico Caruso, Adelina Patti and Nellie Melba.

A Philosophy of Cover Songs

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Author: P.D. Magnus

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0293

In A Philosophy of Cover Songs, P.D. Magnus demonstrates that philosophy provides a valuable toolbox for thinking about covers; in turn, the philosophy of cover songs illustrates some general points about philosophical method.

A Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes

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Editor: Mathias Nebel

Editor: Oscar Garza-Vázquez

Editor: Clemens Sedmak

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0290

This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice.

Ecocene Politics

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Author: Mihnea Tănăsescu

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0274

Anchored in the diverse ecological practices of communities in southern Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand, this book devises a unique and considered theoretical response to the shortcomings of global politics in the Ecocene—a new temporal epoch characterised by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life.

Foucault, digital

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Author: Henning Schmidgen

Author: Bernhard J. Dotzler

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/1983

Broken Theory

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Author: Alan Sondheim

Afterword by: Ryan Whyte

Preface by: Maria Damon

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0393.1.00

Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties

Author: Ksenia Ermoshina

Author: Francesca Musiani

Foreword by: Laura DeNardis

Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2022

https://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729227

Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties sets out to explore one of the core battlegrounds of Internet governance: the encryption of online communications. Current debates around encryption have fundamental implications for our individual liberties and collective presence on the Internet. Encryption of communications at scale and in increasingly usable ways has become a matter of public concern, especially since Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations. A new cryptographic imaginary is taking hold, which sees encryption as a necessary precondition for the formation of networked publics. At the same time, there have been major evolutions and accelerations in the field of secure communications, prompted in part by the cryptography community’s renewed efforts to create next-generation secure messaging protocols and applications. The book explores developers’ actions and their interactions with other stakeholders, for instance users, security trainers, standardising bodies, and funding organizations. It also examines their interactions with the technical artifacts they develop, in which a core common objective is to create tools that “conceal for freedom” even as how this objective is met differs according to technical architectures, the user publics being targeted and the tools’ underlying values and business models.

A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism

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Author: Lajos Brons

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0373.1.00

Mineral Policies

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Editor: Marko Stamenkoviç

Translator: Jora Vaso

Translator: Ilirjana Stringa

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0443.1.00

What Was Artificial Intelligence?

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Author: Sue Curry Jansen

Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022

https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523

Sue Curry Jansen’s classic critique of AI rhetoric, republished open access with a new introduction by Jansen.

March 2022

dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism

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Author: Kevin Toksöz Fairbarn

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0360.1.00

Uexküll’s Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing Thought

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Author: Gottfried Schnödl

Author: Florian Sprenger

Translator: Michael Thomas Taylor

Translator: Wayne Yung

Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022

https://doi.org/10.14619/2010

Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

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Editor: Shanali C. Govender

Editor: Tabisa Mayisela

Editor: Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams

South Africa: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502425

This volume investigates the uptake of ‘open learning’ in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to promote a better understanding of open learning practices across the Post-School Education and Training (PSET) sector, including issues such as: recognition of prior learning, access for students with disabilities, work integrated learning, professional development, novel student funding mechanisms, leadership for open educational practices, institutional culture, student support, blended and online learning, flexible learning, online assessment, open educational resource development models and funding, and micro-credentials.

This collection of peer-reviewed chapters contributes to understanding the ways in which South African PSET institutions and educators are interpreting ‘open learning’ as a means of advancing social justice. It includes a historical and contemporary understanding of the economic, cultural and political obstacles facing PSET, drawing on Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice as ‘participatory parity’ to better understand the ways in which ‘open learning’ may address systemic social injustices in order to allow South African students and educators to thrive.

This volume emerges from research conducted by the Cases on Open Learning (COOL) project, an initiative by the Department of Higher Education and Training in partnership with the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.

A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present

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Author: John Andrew Black

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0281

A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an analysis of its evolving political economy.

The Romanian Sentiment of Being

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Author: Constantin Noica

Translator: Octavian Gabor

Translator: Elena Gabor

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0355.1.00

Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices

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Editor: Ida Bencke

Editor: Jørgen Bruhn

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0338.1.00

Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as Book Artist

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Author: Jason Edwards

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022

https://doi.org/10.53288/0328.1.00