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: 2023-12-01 01:00:09
November 2023
Feminist Solidarities after Modulation
Author: Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period
Author: Benjamin Paul Kantor
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0382
In the present book we survey six specific characteristics of a ‘standard language ideology’ that appear in both the writings of the Hebrew grammarians who wrote in Judeo-Arabic and the Arabic grammarians during the ʿAbbasid period. Such striking lines of linguistic-ideological similarity suggest that it may not have been only grammatical concepts or literary genres that the medieval Hebrew grammarians inherited from the Arabic grammatical tradition, but a way of thinking about language as well.
Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions
Editor: Cymene Howe
Editor: Jeff Diamanti
Editor: Amelia Moore
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform
Author: David Ingram
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0384
In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.
Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 1 - From Adventure of Ideas to Anarchy of Transition
Author: David Ingram
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0335
In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.
Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
Author: Kayvan Tahmasebian
Author: Ida Klitgård
Author: Matthew Reynolds
Author: Andrés Claro
Author: Annmarie Drury
Author: Mary Frank
Author: Paola Gaudio
Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould
Author: Yunte Huang
Author: Eugenia Kelbert
Author: Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos
Author: Cláudia Pazos-Alonso
Author: Abhishek Jain
Author: Ulrich Timme Kragh
Author: Léa Rychen
Author: Madli Kütt
Author: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Author: Eleni Philippou
Author: Céline Sabiron
Author: Giovanni Pietro Vitali
Author: Jernej Habjan
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism.
The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the Covid-19 Crisis
Editor: Julia Ramírez-Blanco
Editor: Francesco Spampinato
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication
Author: Georg Weizsäcker
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0367
What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit of game theory, to show how conversational statements and their interpretations are governed by beliefs. Thinking about beliefs is suitable for communication analysis because beliefs are well-defined and measurable, allowing to differentiate between successful understandings and their less successful counterparts: misunderstandings.
Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer
Author: Judith May Fathallah
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2023
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120
Killer Fandom, in the first long-form treatment, examines serial killer fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play—with close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube.
October 2023
Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity
Author: J. Daniel Andersson
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures
Editor: Laura Czerniewicz
Editor: Catherine Cronin
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0363
After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education?
Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries.
The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing
Author: Amy Koerber
Author: Jesse C. Starkey
Author: Karin Ardon-Dryer
Author: R. Glenn Cummins
Author: Lyombe Eko
Author: Kerk F. Kee
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0364
In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the institutional prizing of quantity over quality has given rise to and perpetuated the dilemma of predatory publishing. Upon a close examination, however, the definition of ‘predatory’ itself becomes slippery, evading neat boxes or lists which might seek to easily define and guard against it. This volume serves to foreground a nuanced representation of this multifaceted issue. In such a rapidly evolving landscape, this book becomes a field guide to its historical, political, and economic aspects, presenting thoughtful interviews, legal analysis and original research. Case studies from both European-American and non-European-American stakeholders emphasize the worldwide nature of the challenge faced by researchers of all levels.
Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor
Author: Ellen Shaffner
Author: Lindsey MacCallum
Author: Michelle Forrest
Author: Ian Reilly
Author: Scott Stoneman
Author: Angela Henderson
Author: Mariana Prandini Assis
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness
Author: Paul Matthews
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0348
Transparent Minds explores the intersection between neuroscience and science fiction stories. Paul Matthews expertly analyses the narratives of humans and nonhumans from Mary Shelley to Kazuo Ishiguro across 200 years of the genre. In doing so he gives lucid insight into the meaning of existence and self-awareness. Rigorously researched and highly accessible, Matthews argues that psycho-emotional science fiction writers both imitate and inform alien and post-human consciousnesses through exploratory narratives and metaphor.
Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight: Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and the Polarized Politics of Reading
Author: Bruce Stone
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
Author: Members of the Choné Tibetan Community
Author: Bendi Tso
Author: Marnyi Gyatso
Author: Mark Turin
Author: Naljor Tsering
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0312
This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format — in Tibetan, Chinese and English — the book reflects a sustained collaboration with and between members of the local community, including narrators, monks, and scholars, calling attention to the diversity inherent in all oral traditions, and the mutability of Shépa in particular.
African Science Granting Councils: Towards Sustainable Development in Africa
Author: Teboho Moja
Author: Samuel Kehinde Okunade
South Africa: African Minds, 2023
September 2023
Frictions: Inquiries into Cybernetic Thinking and Its Attempts towards Mate[real]ization
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Author: Sebastian Vehlken
Author: Andrei Cretu
Author: Wolfgang Ernst
Author: Thomas Fischer
Author: Hans-Christian von Herrmann
Author: Stefan Höltgen
Author: Rolf F. Nohr
Author: Eva Schauerte
Author: Isabell Schrickel
Editor: Diego Gómez-Venegas
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
Frictions is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations—or even, from their non-implementations. Through a series of case studies focused on cybernetics, systems research, and some of their more contemporary inheritors, this book argues that such a middle space, the topology of frictions, offers significant insights to assess the historical and epistemological relevance of these interconnected fields. Characterized here as cybernetic thinking, this broad area of theoretical and applied projects would conceal, precisely within its frictions, the operational principles of our present.
After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1
Author: Paul Farmer
Author: Mark Kilburn
Preface by: Rebecca Hillman
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0329
In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.
Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text
Editor: Elizabeth Robar
Editor: William A. Ross
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0358
This volume is the result of the 2021 session of the Linguistics and the Biblical Text research group of the Institute for Biblical Research, which addresses the history, relevance, and prospects of broad theoretical linguistic frameworks in the field of biblical studies. Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Grammar, generative linguistics, historical linguistics, complexity theory, and computational analysis are each allotted a chapter, outlining the key theoretical commitments of each approach, their major concepts and/or methods, and their important contributions to contemporary study of the biblical text.
Kern
Author: Derek Beaulieu
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Toevallige ontmoetingen: Bio-ethiek voor een gehavende planeet
Author: Kristien Hens
Illustrator: Christina Stadlbauer
Illustrator: Bart H.M. Vandeput
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0370
In dit rigoureuze en noodzakelijke boek brengt Kristien Hens bio-ethiek en filosofie van de biologie bij elkaar, met het argument dat het ethisch noodzakelijk is om in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek een plaatsje vrij te houden voor de filosofen. Hun rol is behalve ethisch ook conceptueel: zij kunnen de kwaliteit en de coherentie van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek verbeteren door erop toe te zien dat specifieke concepten op een consistente en doordachte manier worden gebruik binnen interdisciplinaire projecten. Hens argumenteert dat toeval en onzekerheid een centrale rol spelen in de bio-ethiek, maar dat die in een spanningsrelatie kunnen raken met de pogingen om bepaalde theorieën ingang te doen vinden als wetenschappelijke kennis: bij het beschrijven van organismen en praktijken creëren we op een bepaalde manier de wereld. Hens stelt dat dit noodzakelijk een ethische activiteit betreft.
The Way Things Go
Author: Louis Bury
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Collaboration in Development: A South African Heritage
South Africa: African Minds, 2023
Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter
Editor: Joela Jacobs
Editor: Agnes Malinowska
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction
Editor: Ibo van de Poel
Editor: Jeroen Hopster
Editor: Behnam Taebi
Editor: Lily Eva Frank
Editor: Julia Hermann
Editor: Dominic Lenzi
Editor: Sven Nyholm
Editor: Elena Ziliotti
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0366
Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations and our relation to nature? This book shows how technologies can be socially and conceptually disruptive and investigates how to come to terms with this disruptive potential.
Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Editor: David Atkinson
Editor: Steve Roud
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0347
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature.
August 2023
William Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by Design
Author: Jonathan Mallinson
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0349
William Moorcroft (1872-1945) was one of the most celebrated potters of the early twentieth century. His career extended from the Arts and Crafts movement of the late Victorian age to the Austerity aesthetics of the Second World War. Rejecting mass production and patronised by Royalty, Moorcroft’s work was a synthesis of studio and factory, art and industry. He considered it his vocation to create an everyday art, both functional and decorative, affordable by more than a privileged few: ‘If only the people in the world would concentrate upon making all things beautiful, and if all people concentrated on developing the arts of Peace, what a world it might be,’ he wrote in a letter to his daughter in 1930.
The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Model
Author: Benjamin Paul Kantor
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0210
In recent decades, the field of Biblical Hebrew philology and linguistics has been witness to a growing interest in the diverse traditions of Biblical Hebrew. Indeed, while there is a tendency for many students and scholars to conceive of Biblical Hebrew as equivalent with the Tiberian pointing of the Leningrad Codex as it appears in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), there are many other important reading traditions attested throughout history.
Mediale Teilhabe: Partizipation zwischen Anspruch und Inanspruchnahme
Author: Michel Schreiber
Author: Ruth Lang
Author: nate wessalowski
Author: Erich Hörl
Author: Milan Stürmer
Author: Markus Spöhrer
Author: Robert Stock
Author: Isabell Otto
Author: Urs Stäheli
Author: Anne Ganzert
Author: Mathias Denecke
Author: Matthias Drusell
Author: Elke Bippus
Author: Christoph Brunner
Author: Roberto Nigro
Editor: Beate Ochsner
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
Gesellschaftliche, politische und wissenschaftliche Forderungen nach mehr Beteiligung, Zugang und Mitwirkung sind ebenso allgegenwärtig wie spannungsgeladen und durchzogen von Ambivalenzen. Mediale Teilhabe fragt nach den medialen Ermöglichungs- und Austauschprozessen, als deren Effekt Teilhabe/Nicht-Teilhabe entsteht. Entlang der Modalitäten Verschalten, Temporalisieren und Teilhabende Kritik entwickeln die Beiträge einen differenzierten Blick auf Teilhabe im Spannungsfeld von Anspruch und Inanspruchnahme.
Digital Energetics
Author: Zane Griffin Talley Cooper
Author: Jordan B. Kinder
Author: Cindy Kaiying Lin
Author: Anne Pasek
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
Media and energy require joint theorization as they are bound together across contemporary informational and fossil regimes. Digital Energetics traces the contours of a media analytic of energy and an energy analytic of media across the cultural, environmental, and labor relations they subtend. Focusing specifically on digital operations, its authors analyze how data and energy have jointly modulated the character of data work and politics in a warming world.
Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds
Author: Ellen Kirkpatrick
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies
Editor: SJ Beard
Editor: Martin Rees
Editor: Catherine Richards
Editor: Clarissa Rios Rojas
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0336
This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human extinction and civilization collapse. Bringing together experts from many disciplines, it provides an accessible survey of what we know about these threats, how we can understand them better, and most importantly what can be done to manage them effectively.
A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice
Author: Basem Adi
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0327
This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an alternative approach based on a relational realist-informed critical pedagogy.
Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field
Editor: Dianne Conrad
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0356
This collection of reflective essays is a treasure trove of advice, reflection and hard-won experience from experts in the field of open and distance education. Each chapter offers tried-and-tested advice for nascent academic writers, delivered with personal, rich, and wonderful stories of the authors’ careers, their process, their research and their writing, and the struggles and triumphs they have encountered in the course of their careers.
Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice
Author: Naomi Ortiz
Earth: Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Seabirds in the North-East Atlantic: Climate Change Vulnerability and Potential Conservation Actions
Author: Henry Häkkinen
Author: Silviu O. Petrovan
Author: William J. Sutherland
Author: Nathalie Pettorelli
Author: Nigel G. Taylor
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0343
This book was produced by the Zoological Society of London and the University of Cambridge with two aims: to assess seabirds’ vulnerability to climate change in the North-East Atlantic, and to identify potential conservation actions that could reduce this vulnerability.
Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents
Author: Alex Forman
Introduction by: Ben Ehrenreich
Afterword by: Patric Verrone
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions
Author: Love Ekenberg
Author: Cecilia Gullberg
Author: Gunnar Wettergren
Author: Mathias Cöster
Author: Gard Titlestad
Author: Alf Westelius
Author: Mats Danielson
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0350
Whilst digitisation is far from a new concept, many assume that simply introducing automation and information systems in various forms will be enough to make their organisation’s operations more efficient. This misconception can often lead to disarray and costly mistakes. Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions shows how to avoid such issues via careful consideration of what an enterprise really needs.
July 2023
Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis
Author: Mario Telò
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
The Tales
Author: Jessica Bozek
Introduction by: Sina Queyras
Earth, Milke Way: punctum books, 2023
Destins de femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850
Author: John Claiborne Isbell
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0346
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.
Franklin Ford Collection
Editor: Juliette De Maeyer
Editor: Dominique Trudel
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2023
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.80aee30a
The Franklin Ford Collection, curated and introduced by Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer, includes letters, leaflets, editorials, and treatises by the American journalist Franklin Ford (1849–1918).
Flow: FicSci 01
Editor: Mehita Iqani
Editor: Wamuwi Mbao
South Africa: African Minds, 2023
Open Book in Ways of Water
Author: Adam Wolfond
Preface by: Erin Manning
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
Author: Lee Haring
Foreword by: Mark Turin
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0315
The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.
Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Patricia Auspos
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318
This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two British, three American – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry.
Algorithmic Authenticity: An Overview
Author: Anthony Glyn Burton
Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Author: Liliana Bounegru
Author: Melody Devries
Author: Amy Harris
Author: hannah holtzclaw
Author: Ioana B. Jucan
Author: Alexandra Juhasz
Author: D.W. Kamish
Author: Ganaele Langlois
Author: Jasmine Proctor
Author: Christine Tomlinson
Author: Roopa Vasudevan
Author: Esther Weltevrede
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
What makes information feel true or compelling in our contemporary digital societies? This book brings together different disciplinary understandings of “authenticity” in order to find alternative ways to approach mis- and disinformation that go beyond contemporary fact-checking and its search for the “authentic” truth. Patterned under the algorithmic flows of digital capitalism, authenticity itself is subject to variation, iteration, and outside influence. Linking cross-disciplinary research on the history and practices of algorithmic authenticity points to new research questions to understand the impact of algorithmic authenticity on social life and its role in contemporary information disorder.
Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism
Editor: Ingrid Robeyns
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in economic and political thought. One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as Plato, Aquinas, and Spinoza. But Having Too Much is the first time in contemporary political philosophy that limitarianism is explored at length and in detail.
From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis
Author: Anne Baillot
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0355
Integrating historical, archival and environmental perspectives, From Handwriting to Footprinting illuminates the impact that digitisation has had on the dissemination and preservation of textual heritage and reflects on what its future may hold. It is invaluable reading for anyone interested in textual history from a linguistic or philological perspective, as well as those working on publishing, archival and infrastructure projects that require the storing and long-term preservation of texts, or who want to know how to develop a more mindful attachment to digitised material.
June 2023
Post-Cinematic Bodies
Author: Shane Denson
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023
How is human embodiment transformed in an age of algorithms? How do post-cinematic media technologies such as AI, VR, and robotics target and re-shape our bodies? Post-Cinematic Bodies grapples with these questions by attending both to mundane devices—such as smartphones, networked exercise machines, and smart watches and other wearables equipped with heartrate sensors—as well as to new media artworks that rework such equipment to reveal to us the ways that our fleshly existences are increasingly up for grabs. Through an equally philosophical and interpretive analysis, the book aims to develop a new aesthetics of embodied experience that is attuned to a new age of predictive technology and metabolic capitalism.
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 8: War in the Sudan
Editor: Henriette Hafsaas
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Models in Microeconomic Theory: Expanded Second Edition (He)
Author: Martin J. Osborne
Author: Ariel Rubinstein
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0362
Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the consumer, the producer, and monopoly. Part II (Chapters 8-14) introduces the concept of equilibrium, beginning, unconventionally, with the models of the jungle and an economy with indivisible goods, and continuing with models of an exchange economy, equilibrium with rational expectations, and an economy with asymmetric information. Part III (Chapters 15-16) provides an introduction to game theory, covering strategic and extensive games and the concepts of Nash equilibrium and subgame perfect equilibrium. Part IV (Chapters 17-20) gives a taste of the topics of mechanism design, matching, the axiomatic analysis of economic systems, and social choice.
Models in Microeconomic Theory: Expanded Second Edition (She)
Author: Martin J. Osborne
Author: Ariel Rubinstein
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0361
Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the consumer, the producer, and monopoly. Part II (Chapters 8-14) introduces the concept of equilibrium, beginning, unconventionally, with the models of the jungle and an economy with indivisible goods, and continuing with models of an exchange economy, equilibrium with rational expectations, and an economy with asymmetric information. Part III (Chapters 15-16) provides an introduction to game theory, covering strategic and extensive games and the concepts of Nash equilibrium and subgame perfect equilibrium. Part IV (Chapters 17-20) gives a taste of the topics of mechanism design, matching, the axiomatic analysis of economic systems, and social choice.
For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group
Editor: Ian Parker
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0345
This book is a collection of lectures written by reputable scholars who offer diverse perspectives on the historical, political and cultural struggles in Palestine. Encompassed in the pages are sixteen chapters produced for the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group. Unlike predecessors of this topic, this book offers a thought-provoking and comprehensive analysis of Palestine, including architectural, cultural, legal, sociological, and psychological questions, providing a larger scope of study that has not yet been done before. Ultimately, this book explores oppression in Palestine and beyond in the Middle East.
Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art
Author: Joanna Page
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339
In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.
The(y)ology: Mythopoetics for Queer/Trans Liberation
Author: Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation
Editor: Julia Bishop
Editor: Anna Beresin
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0326
During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19.
May 2023
Irradiated Cities
Author: Mariko Nagai
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters
Editor: Ilana Gershon
Editor: Yasmine Musharbash
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
Editor: Olga Burlyuk
Editor: Ladan Rahbari
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331
This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins.
An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics
Author: José Martínez Delgado
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0351
Delgado presents his view of Andalusi Hebrew metrics, as encountered in medieval manuals of Arabic and Hebrew metrics and scattered notes in the works of Andalusi Hebrew philologists. Whilst twentieth-century scholars spoke about the adaptation of Arabic metrics to Hebrew, he instead approaches these compositions by Andalusi Jews (10th-13th c.) as Arabic metrics written in Hebrew, thus emphasising how Hebrew poetry of the Andalusi Jews can help us to understand the general evolution of Arabic strophic poetry, and its experimental evolution, which is quite unlike classical and strophic Arabic poetry.
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young
Author: Andrew Robinson
Foreword by: Martin Rees
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0344
No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame.
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
Die realpolitische Affirmation der Universalität des Digitalen geht mit einer regelrechten Abwehr der kritischen Reflexion seiner scheinbaren Axiome einher. Umso dringlicher ist es zu fragen: Was sind die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten von Kritik am Digitalen und seiner Kulturen? Wie lässt sich die drängende Notwendigkeit politischer Haltung und kritischer Praxis mit einem wissenschaftlichen Einsatz verbinden, der die Eigengesetzlichkeiten des Digitalen ernst nimmt? Die Beiträge in Kritik postdigital begegnen diesen Herausforderungen aus sozial-, medienwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Perspektive.
Preferable Futures
Editor: Irina Kaldrack
Editor: Rolf F. Nohr
Preferable Futures delves into the question of possible, probable, and desirable futures amidst the pressures of climate change and digitalization. Through a diverse range of perspectives, the book explores ways to negotiate and create desirable futures using the concept of transformation design in theory and practice, economic business simulations, and recent humanistic theories. This thought-provoking read challenges us to imagine and (re)shape a future we cannot predict and find ways to make a difference right now.
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.
Transformative Innovation in times of Change
Cape Town: African Minds, 2023
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
Cape Town: African Minds, 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.
Who Counts
Cape Town: African Minds, 2023
Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science David Mills, Patricia Kingori, Abigail Branford, Samuel T. Chatio, Natasha Robinson and Paulina Tindana
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
Cape Town: African Minds, 2022
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities By Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse
Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries – from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa – make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters – the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development – make up its framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised by national, global and popular forces in the development of these African cities.
Rather than locating the case studies in an exclusively African historical context, the focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-colonial history that has granted it a special place in African consciousness). These trajectories enable comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa – today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly urbanised globe – is in the thick of processes of large-scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by the case studies that make up the foundation of this publication.
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.
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.
Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages
Editor: Michael J. Kelly
Editor: K. Patrick Fazioli
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
https://doi.org/10.53288/0374.1.00