Books published by Manchester University Press

This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned goth culture, alongside political and social conditions. Reaching back further into history, he examines key events and movements that frame the ideas of goth, from the fall of Rome to Lord Byron and the romantic poets, European folk tales, Gothic art and the occult. Finally, he considers the current mainstream goth of Instagram influencers, film, literature and music. The art of darkness features interviews with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Damned, Nick Cave, Southern Death Cult, Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch and many more. It offers a first-hand account of being there at the gigs and clubs that made the scene happen.

Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production. This book is about what happens when an essential part of our democratic citizenship, fundamental to our human rights, is reduced to an industry. Culture is not and industry argues that art and culture need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.

Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into dogs' hearts? Countless celebrations of 'the dog-human bond' suggest that they are. Yet 'the bond' does not always come easily to dogs. Dog politics seeks to denaturalise, in different ways, dogs' 'species story, ' the scientific story that claims that being with humans somehow constitutes dogs' evolutionary destiny. This book asks what evidence exists for this story, what choices dogs have but to go along with it, and what expectations, demands, and burdens it places on dogs, on a daily basis. In doing so, it offers an unfamiliar and discomforting account of the lives of domesticated dogs' today. Dog politics is an empirical investigation of dogs in science which makes important theoretical contributions to debates of contemporary significance. It addresses how the connections between animal behaviours and species identities are established in theory and practice. It analyses the enduring entanglement of racism and speciesism, and how the interlocking relations between these prejudices are shaped by the different ways that the categories of 'race' and of species are conceived of in science over time. In the light of the reification and exploitation of dogs' perceived relationality with humans, it looks again at the ethics and politics of intersubjectivity, becoming-with, entanglements. It disputes that species can be separated from storying. Above all, Dog Politics shows how species stories erase the singular individual animal as a figure of theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political value, and with what dire consequences.

Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

A penetrating investigation into Solomon Islands' historic switch from alliance with Taiwan to China, shedding light on China's wider foreign policy.

Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for interpretation. -- .

This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell.

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney's contribution to the English language.

Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd's of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London's Big Bang reforms as the Conservatives contemplate Big Bang 2.0 in the 2020s.

This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.

Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men's lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain.

This book offers urgent exploration of how 'ordinary' citizens understand and make sense of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy.

'This book, written in crystal-clear style, develops the most profound philosophical discussion ever held of ecological economics.'>'A brilliant contribution to a radical paradigm of social ecological economics concerned with both disciplinary and social-ecological transformation as necessary conditions for achieving a world in which we all, and all other species, can flourish.'>'The book is deeply rooted in the theory of science, offering a very enlightening text about fundamental issues for science that too often are glossed over or misunderstood.'>Exploring radical dissent from orthodox mainstream economics, this book presents a theoretically grounded vision for the emerging paradigm of social ecological economics. At its heart lies the paradigm-shifting acknowledgement that economies are inextricably embedded in biophysical reality and social structure. The struggle for revisioning in the face of environmental crises is articulated through a critical examination of economic thought, and a nuanced evaluation of contributions from Marxists, socialists, critical institutionalists, feminists and Post Keynesians. Synthesising diverse insights, the book navigates the philosophical underpinnings of a critical and realist revolutionary transformative science, emphasising the pivotal role of values and ideology. These radical and philosophical foundations establish a new preanalytic vision of economics, dismantling entrenched notions of growth and efficiency in favour of social provisioning and needs embedded in ethics. An agenda emerges that requires social ecological transformation and diverse alternative economies. This book provides a compelling call to action in the face of contemporary crises.

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses 'ordinary writings' across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines.

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the 'signs' of the maturation used to construct Shakespeare's many adolescent characters.

The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind.

The 25 January Revolution in 2011 placed Egypt at the centre of discussions about the radical transformations taking place in global photographic cultures. Yet Egypt and photography share a longer history that is rarely included in Western accounts of the medium. Decolonizing images presents a new account of the rich visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt, focusing on the camera's ability to conceal as much as it reveals. Moving from the initial encounters between local knowledge and Western-led modernity, the book explores how the image intersects with the politics of representation, censorship, activism and aesthetics. It overturns Eurocentric understandings of the photograph through a compelling account of this indigenous visual culture, providing a complex vision of decolonial difference in contemporary Egypt. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary visual materials, Decolonizing images reveals the diverse ways the medium has been used to influence political affairs and cultural life and to reimagine Egypt in its transformation from colony to sovereign nation.