Books published by Manchester University Press

Transitional justice in process is the first book that comprehensively studies the Tunisian transitional justice process, covering its initiation, design, and performance.

According to numerous scholars and policymakers, Roma are the most disadvantaged ethnic minority in Europe. But while the predicament of Roma has often been discussed, it is invariably seen as an unfortunate anomaly in otherwise inclusive liberal democratic states. The fringes of citizenship offers a novel socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as marginalised citizens, using the perspective of global citizenship studies. It argues that while the Romani minorities in Europe are unique, the forms of civic marginalisation they face are not. States around the globe have applied similar legislation and policies that made traditionally settled minorities marginalised. The book examines topics such as free movement and migration, statelessness and school segregation, as well as how minorities themselves respond to marginalisation. It shows how minorities can have a wide spectrum of 'multicultural rights' and still face racism and significant human rights violations. To understand this paradox, the book offers new theoretical concepts, such as the 'invisible edges' of citizenship and 'citizenship fringes'. The fringes of citizenship will be of interest to students and scholars of citizenship, migration, ethnic and racial studies. It also contains much that will be of value to policymakers dealing with human and minority rights, as well as to general readers eager to understand the position of Roma as citizens.

This book brings a new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking. This is an essential skill when children are involved in finding out about the world around them through science enquiry. This book challenges the assumption that because children ask lots of questions in science, that this automatically leads to meaningful learning of the enquiry curriculum. QuBuild is important for all children developing as scientific thinkers. It outlines an approach to explicitly plan for, practice and develop the craft of scientific question-asking. Unlock your children's science learning potential exploring the QuBuild Process.

This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984 to 2008, analysing the systems through which his work is produced and disseminated. -- .

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Covering movements for parliamentary reform up to and including Chartism, Catholic Emancipation, transatlantic Anti-Slavery and the Anti-Corn Law League, as well as the receptions of international celebrities such as Lajos Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi, it offers a unique perspective on the connections between politics and historical cultures of fame and celebrity. This book will interest students and scholars of Britain, Ireland, continental Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, as well as general readers with an interest in the history of popular politics. Its exploration of the relationship between politics and celebrity, and the methods through which public reputations have been promoted and manipulated for political ends, have clear contemporary relevance.

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid, first staged by the King's Men in 1615, is a fascinating exploration of the performativity of gender and the transformative power of human desire. Based on a Spanish Golden Age comedia, the play is a provocative take on the construction of gender identity in its unusual retelling of the lives of two transgender characters. The play dramatises the story of two siblings, Clara and Lucio, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders. Clara has lived with their father as a male soldier in Flanders, while the mother has educated Lucio at home as a lady. After twenty years apart, their family is reunited and they are ordered to switch around their genders. The play explores the struggle they face within the fiercely heteronormative society of early modern Seville. The aftermath of the brutal siege of Ostend, and the bitter family feud between the siblings' domineering father, Álvarez, and his mortal enemy, the young Vitelli, serve as tragicomic backdrop for their difficult re-education and add flavour to this superbly performable play. This Revels Plays volume is the first fully annotated critical edition of the play ever to be published. It provides a modernised text and thorough commentary that clarifies the play's language and cultural references. The introduction sheds new light on the play's engagement with its Spanish sources and it discusses the dating, authorship, and literary and theatrical reception of this hidden jewel of Jacobean drama.

The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of 'reform' or 'renaissance', where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio. This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite. However, attention to understudied texts and manuscripts of the period reveals a vibrant striving for moral improvement and positive change at all levels of society. This expressed itself in a variety of ways for different individuals and communities, whose personal relationships could be just as influential as top-down prescription. The often anonymous creators and copyists in a huge range of centres emerge as active participants in shaping and re-shaping the ideals of their world. A much more dynamic picture of Carolingian culture emerges when we widen our perspective to include sources from beyond royal circles and intellectual elites. This book reveals that the Carolingian age did not witness a coherent programme of reform, nor one distinct to this period and dependent exclusively on the strength of royal power. Rather, it formed a particularly intense, well-funded and creative chapter in the much longer history of moral improvement for the sake of collective salvation.

Bestsellers and masterpieces investigates the strange fact that many of the texts we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of European and Middle Eastern medieval writing were, in fact, not popular - or even read at all - in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are taught and studied with far less frequency. The most dramatic demonstration of this disparity can be found in the surprising number of medieval texts now regarded as 'masterpieces' that have survived in just one single copy, in an unicum manuscript. On the European side this list includes Beowulf, El Poema de mio Cid and others; similarly canonical Arabo-Mediterranean examples include Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-Hamama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) and Usama ibn Munqidh's Kitab al-I'tibar (Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh). While respecting the complicated history of each, contributors explore the processes that have contributed to the rise or eclipse of these canonical or neglected texts. Bestsellers and masterpieces provides cross-cultural insight into both the literary tastes of the medieval period and the cultural and political forces behind the creation of the 'modern canon' of medieval literature.

Riddles at work assembles multiple scholarly voices to explore the vibrant, poetic riddle tradition of early medieval England and its neighbours. The chapters present a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. They treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition, but, most importantly, they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side, bringing together texts that originally developed in conversation with each other but have often been separated in scholarship. Following the introduction, which situates the book in its scholarly context, Part I (Words) presents philological approaches to early medieval riddles - interpretations rooted in close readings of texts - since riddles work by making readers question what words really mean. However, while reading carefully may lead to elegant solutions, such solutions are not the end of the riddling game. Part II (Ideas) therefore explores how riddles work to make readers think anew about objects, relationships, and experiences, using literary theory to facilitate new approaches. Part III (Interactions) then looks at how riddles work through connections with other fields, languages, times, and places. Together, the chapters reveal that there is no single, right way to read these texts but rather a multitude of productive paths - some explored here, some awaiting future work. Riddles at work will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval studies. It features a mixture of new and established voices, including Jonathan Wilcox, Mercedes Salvador-Bello, and Jennifer Neville.

Intimacy and injury maps the travels of the global #MeToo movement in India and South Africa. Both countries have shared the infamy of being labelled the world's 'rape capitals', with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, both boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege. Voices and experiences from the global north have dominated debates on #MeToo which, although originating in the US, had considerable traction elsewhere, including in the global south. In India, #MeToo revitalised longstanding feminist struggles around sexual violence, offering new tactics and repertoires. In South Africa, it drew on new cultures of opposing sexual violence that developed online and in student protests. There were also marked differences in the ways in which #MeToo travelled in both countries, pointing to older histories of power, powerlessness and resistance. Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, the book tracks histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, it provides new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates that are rarely brought into conversation with one another. With contributors located exclusively in South Africa and India, this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.

European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies which rethink European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post-)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such various cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations of global urban studies, from various historical perspectives, with postcolonial, decolonial and critical race studies. Primarily inspired by the notion of Provincializing Europe (Dipesh Chakrabarty) the collection interrogates dominant, Eurocentric theories, representations and models of European cities across the East-West divide, offering the reader alternative perspectives to understand and imagine urban life and politics. With its focus on Europe, this book ultimately contributes to decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on varied global urban regions. European cities is a vital reading for anyone interested in the complex interactions between colonial legacies and constructions of 'modernity', in view of catering to social change and urban justice.

This groundbreaking book explores key methods for investigating emotions in medieval literary texts, proposing innovative approaches, drawing upon psychological theory, 'history of emotions' research and close critical reading, to uncover the emotional repertoire in play in English literary culture between 1200-1500. The extensive introduction lays out medieval philosophical and physiological theorisations of emotion, closely bound up with cognitive processes. Following chapters investigate the changing lexis for emotion in Middle English, examining how translations from French affect the ways in which feelings are imagined. Bodily affect, both involuntary displays and deliberate gesture, is discussed in detail. Performativity - getting things done with emotions - and performance are shown to become interlinked as more sophisticated models of selfhood emerge. Concepts of interiority and the public persona, the self and self-presentation complicate the changing modes through which feeling is expressed. Literary texts are pre-eminently devices for producing emotion of various kinds; the book proposes ways of tracing how authors built techniques for eliciting emotions into their narratives and their effects on their audiences. By the end of the medieval period two vital developments had expanded the possibility for varied and complex emotional expression in texts: the development of the long-form romance, encouraged by the advent of printing, and the concept of auto-fiction: new possibilities emerged for authors to write the emotional self. Through its comprehensive account of emotions in the medieval period, Approaches to emotion explores how literary texts educated and informed their audiences about changing ways to be human in medieval England.

Exile, loss of homeland through compulsion or choice, has confronted women from prehistory to the present day. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas analyses the important yet largely untold stories of women exiles of diverse status, origin, and political and religious outlook between 1492 and 1790. They include Jewish women expelled from Spain, Indigenous women enslaved and taken to Spain, British indentured women crossing the Atlantic, and enslaved African women transported to the Americas. Religious and political upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries created other exiles: Huguenot women went to the Netherlands and England, English royalists left for the Netherlands and France, while English radicals went to the continent and even Connecticut. Women in exile explores how these women faced life-changing questions of whether and where to go and how to create a new life in a new home. The book's themes include women's crucial efforts to turn to religious, political, and family networks, although not always with success. Whether poor or royal, their financial circumstances remained precarious. Drawing on varied primary sources, the book captures women's narratives of exile. In many ways, the experience of exile could become a constitutive element of identity, shaping how these women viewed themselves and how they were viewed by others. Women often exercised extraordinary agency, many grasped new opportunities despite adversity. Women in Exile not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes significant new scholarship to the history of women.

Medieval afterlives presents ten new essays which examine the ways traditions of early drama were transformed over time, as well as the inherent capability of the traditions themselves to transform space, audience, time, and belief. The collection, which includes an afterword by Theresa Coletti, is unique in its focus on the dramaturgical and cultural traditions that shaped and were shaped by early English drama until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Framing its argument in terms of traditions, this collection moves beyond the biases imposed by period categories, thereby addressing the continuities of early English drama that persisted in the face of cultural and religious change. The essays demonstrate that, alongside textual records, it is also crucial to look at other physical traces of past theatre traditions, including evidence of embodied memory, non-literary sources and the acknowledgement of audience memory. In so doing, it seeks to refine and deepen our understanding of the richness of early English drama: its copiousness, versatility, and playfulness.

Land and Labour charts the controversial history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution seven years later. The brainchild of a Welsh-born trade unionist and editor, William Evans, it was the most widely discussed project of its kind in the era of mass migration. The Society aimed to solve the problems of surplus labour by transforming potters into farmers on land acquired on the Wisconsin frontier. The study examines the industrial background to the emigration scheme, and the establishment of the first settlement in America, the duly named Pottersville. Short of funds and facing competition from Feargus O'Connor's Chartist Land Plan, in 1848 it widened its membership to other trades and regions, opening branches in Lancashire, Scotland, and London and other industrial communities. Over-ambition, relentless criticism and the inherent difficulties of long-distance colonisation brought about its collapse at the beginning of 1851. While many emigrant families remained and prospered, others found less success, with an undetermined number returning to Britain. Land and Labour is based on intensive research into British and American newspapers, passenger lists, census, manuscript, genealogical and other sources. Despite its failure, the potters' emigration scheme was not an unrealistic response to the anxieties and displacements wrought by industrialisation, including fears over mechanisation. Its history offers unique insight into working-class dreams of landed independence in the American West and significantly contributes to our understanding of the complex and contingent character of transatlantic emigration in the nineteenth century.

With the outbreak of WWI and British expansion into the Middle East, certain Bahá'í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders found it necessary to form new relationships with that government and its representatives, relationships which would prove to be of pivotal importance for each and have a lasting impact on future generations. This book, based upon extensive archival research, explores how Bahá'ís in England and Palestine, Muslim missionaries from India based in Woking, and Jews in England on both sides of the Zionist debate understood interactions with the British state and larger imperial culture prior to and during the war. One of the most significant findings of this study is that while an appreciation of diversity tends to be regarded as a modern, postcolonial phenomenon, a way to remedy the unjust remnants of an imperial past, the men and women of the early twentieth century whose words and actions come to life on the pages of this book understood diversity as defining characteristic of the empire itself. They found real meaning and value in the variety of religions, races, languages, nations, cultures and ethnicities that comprised that vast, global entity. This recognition of its diversity, along with certain British liberal ideals, allowed extraordinary individuals to find common ground between that state and their own beliefs, goals and aspirations, thus helping to lay the foundation for the eventual development of the Bahá'í faith as a world religion, a new era of Muslim missionary activity in the West and a Jewish state in Palestine.

The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort of men and women in Britain now entering mid and later life, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this 'revolutionary cohort' breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on an innovative combination of ethnographic fieldwork in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and 'new' - or renewed - intimacies, among women in mid and later life. Beginning with women at a transition point, when they were newly single or newly dating in midlife, the chapters look back over life histories at prior relationship experiences at different life stages, engage with the fine-grain of navigating the terrain of dating and repartnering in midlife, and look forward to hopes for future intimacies. Fieldwork in salsa classes demonstrates the sensory, sensual and affective nature of heteronormativity whilst biographical interviews show how femininity is informed by memories of the past, of the generations that came before and class-based desires. Making important contributions to our understanding of ageing, intimacy and gender this book illuminates the intersections of age, class and whiteness in romance and desire. We see how rather than being revolutionary, a pervasive concern with being respectable throughout the lifecourse endured.

This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England. Stimulated by recent scholarship on England's 'long Reformation', this volume provides fresh perspectives on the multifaceted legacy of Reformed Protestantism to the Elizabethan and Stuart Churches, showing how competing notions of Reformed identity often dictated the terms of ecclesiastical and political debate, particularly concerning the boundaries of conformity. This volume enriches scholarly understandings of how Reformed identity was understood in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and how it influenced both clerical and lay attitudes towards the English Church's government, liturgy, and doctrine. In order to reflect how established religion pervaded all aspects of civic life and was sharply contested within both ecclesiastical and political spheres, this volume integrates chapters that focus variously on the ecclesio-political, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects of conformity. Its eleven chapters traverse issues of conformity to the Tudor and Stuart Church and show how intrinsically they reflected contesting notions of Reformed identity conceived within a broader European Reformed milieu, but marked by a distinctly English character due to the idiosyncrasies of the Church of England.

This book examines the everyday struggles and activism arising from the racialised injustices and bordering practices characteristic for today's European countries. Unlike most social movement literature, the book brings together analyses of antiracist activism and migrant (solidarity) mobilisations, as well as centring everyday struggles rather than protests or mass demonstrations. It elaborates theoretically and empirically how disobedient knowledge is created by racialised minorities and postcolonial migrants living their lives at the crossroad of different kinds of (b)ordering practices, as well as from the often disharmonious and sometimes painful negotiations between differently positioned actors in the everyday struggles of activism, antiracism practices, migrant and solidarity movements, and collaborative research. Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge detects the processes through which border regimes and ordering into racialised, classed and gendered hierarchies are connected to each other, reinforced and challenged in antiracist and migrant (solidarity) activism. It examines resistance and disobedience in the context of social movement practices, art and culture, education and learning, legal and administrative bordering, global coloniality and racial capitalism. It is essential reading for scholars and students in sociology, ethnic and racial studies, international migration, social movement studies, gender studies and education.