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
Author: Roland Barthes
Translator: Joe Milutis
Earth: Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Chaucer’s Comic Providence
Author: Janet Thormann
Author: Aranye Fradenburg Joy
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books
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
Author: Kim Rosenfield
Introduction by: Sianne Ngai
Contributions by: Jennifer Calkins
Contributions by: Diana Hamilton
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community
Author: Matthew Cheney
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
March 2023
Queer Communal Kinship Now!
Author: Robinou
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
By Kelman Out of Pessoa
Author: Doug Nufer
Introduction by: Louis Bury
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Counter-Dancing Digitality: On Commoning and Computation
Author: Shintaro Miyazaki
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
Author: Robert Leib
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
February 2023
The Goths & Other Stories
Author: Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
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
Editor: Laura Hille
Editor: Daniela Wentz
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
Preferable Futures
Editor: Irina Kaldrack
Editor: Rolf F. Nohr
Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence
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
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
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
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
Author: David Markus
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Creativity: Process and Personality
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
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
Author: T. Lawrence Larkin
Author: Stephen Little
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
The Angels Won’t Help You
Author: M.H. Bowker
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Author: Leora Fridman
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
November 2022
Engaging with Everyday Sounds
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
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
Editor: Alexandra Juhasz
Foreword by: Tara McPherson
Afterword by: Margaret Rhee
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Women and Migration(s) II
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
Author: C. Jon Delogu
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible
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
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
Anthropology of Transformation: From Europe to Asia and Back
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
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
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
Author: josé rivers alfaro
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
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
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
Nonconscious: On the Affective Synching of Mind and Machine
Author: Marie-Luise Angerer
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
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
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
Author: Stephanie Polsky
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Speaking for the Social: A Catalog of Methods
Editor: Gemma John
Editor: Hannah Knox
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter
Author: Peter Valente
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
An Outline of Romanticism in the West
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!
Author: Joseph Nechvatal
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
August 2022
The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World
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
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
Editor: Catalin Taranu
Editor: Michael J. Kelly
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
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
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
Author: Gavin Keeney
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings
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
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
A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics
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
Author: Roy Christopher
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence
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
Author: Matthew Goulish
Author: Will Daddario
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
June 2022
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1
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
Author: Daniela Cascella
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2
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
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
The Merger Mystery: Why Spend Ever More on Mergers When So Many Fail?
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
Author: Murat Nemet-Nejat
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Letters on the Autonomy Project
Author: Janet Sarbanes
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
May 2022
Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring
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
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
Author: Elliot C. Mason
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
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)
Author: Maher Habbob
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Out of Place: An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship
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
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
Author: Melanie Walker
Author: Monica McLean
Author: Mikateko Mathebula
Author: Patience Mukwambo
Cape Town: African Minds, 2022
April 2022
The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini’s Recorded Interpretations
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
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
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
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
Author: Henning Schmidgen
Author: Bernhard J. Dotzler
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
Broken Theory
Author: Alan Sondheim
Afterword by: Ryan Whyte
Preface by: Maria Damon
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
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
Author: Lajos Brons
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Mineral Policies
Editor: Marko Stamenkoviç
Translator: Jora Vaso
Translator: Ilirjana Stringa
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
What Was Artificial Intelligence?
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
Author: Kevin Toksöz Fairbarn
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Uexküll’s Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing Thought
Author: Gottfried Schnödl
Author: Florian Sprenger
Translator: Michael Thomas Taylor
Translator: Wayne Yung
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa
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
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
Author: Constantin Noica
Translator: Octavian Gabor
Translator: Elena Gabor
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices
Editor: Ida Bencke
Editor: Jørgen Bruhn
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as Book Artist
Author: Jason Edwards
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022