It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.
Category: Cultural Studies
by John White In the first of a short series of extracts from British Cinema and a Divided Nation (EUP,…
by Patricia Macdonald This is the first of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…
Cultural Studies
Q & A with the author of ‘Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now’
by Patricia Macdonald Tell us a bit about your book… The purpose of the book is to explore the range…
by Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt Film director Robert Altman was one of the leading creative forces of the last…
by Andrew M. Jones Tell us a bit about your book The Revival of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the…
In this great interview from New Books in National Security, Omar Ashour, author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in…
by Elisabeth Özdalga The core of her new book Pulpit, Mosque and Nation, author Elisabeth Özdalga explores five key aspects…
Cultural History
Folk Songs as Communication, Resistance, Lament, and Entertainment Among Women in Northeastern Afghanistan
By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in…
By Peter C. Pugsley In Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline, I write about how high school-based films capture…