The last few months have seen a huge level of attention on inequality in the arts and media industries. Much of the discussions have been focused on a new term, the ânepo babyâ. This describes a... READ MORE
Book review by Paul Henley, film-maker and founding director, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester With some fifty years of practice in Africa, Australia, Europe and India,... READ MORE
We are delighted to announce that Sophie Haspeslaghâs Proscribing peace: How listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations has won the 2022 BISA L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize.... READ MORE
To mark the today’s anniversary (22nd December) of the untimely death of Clash frontman and punk icon, Joe Strummer, we asked author Gregor Gall to share some of his findings when researching... READ MORE
We’ve been looking through some of our new and old catalogues to pull together a list of our favourite Gothic Studies books. We think they’d make the perfect companion on these dark and... READ MORE
By Kinga Földvåry This book started out as a dilemma, as I suppose many books do, with a simple question, yet one that seemed to present an insurmountable obstacle at the time. I was struggling to... READ MORE
The words borders, migrants and asylum seekers are rarely out of the headlines. Nationalism is on the rise, encouraged by political rhetoric and dehumanising practices. We’ve created this... READ MORE
Nine years ago, we published the 100th book in the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism Series. Andrew Thompson edited a volume, Writing Imperial Histories, to mark the occasion,... READ MORE
A holiday in the UK wouldn’t be complete without an impromptu visit to the local museum. To find out more about these uniquely British institutions, Fiona Candlin, a professor in museology, and... READ MORE
By Patrick Bixby As we swiftly approach the centenary of the foundation of the Irish Free State on the 6th of December 2022, we might pause to consider the role that Friedrich Nietzsche, of all... READ MORE