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Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics
Read more: Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector SemanticsKurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.
Cross-border Hydrogen Valleys – A step towards a hydrogen economy
by Marco Conte and Katharina Bouchaar, Enercy1 In recent years, the increasing interest in the clean Hydrogen sector has led key stakeholders across Europe to develop ambitious projects, with green hydrogen as the main protagonist: the so-called “Hydrogen Valleys.” The…
How should Big Oil spend big money?
by Ernesto Bonafé Big Oil faces an existential question: How to spend its very large and, for some, ‘windfall’ or ‘excessive’ profits at a time when the consumption of oil, gas and coal is expected to reach its peak in the near…
The Egyptian Social Contract – Q&A With The Author
by Relli Shechter Tell us a bit about your book The Egyptian Social Contract discusses the long-term history of the social contract in Egypt since partial independence from the British (1922) and until the Arab Uprising (2011). It focuses on…
Judah P Benjamin: 19th Century Asylum Seeker
by Bill Gilmore Throughout much of the western world, the issue of the granting of asylum has assumed ever greater visibility over recent months. Nowhere is this more so than in the United Kingdom. The numbers of, restrictions on, and…
From the Appalachian to the Highlands and the Pyrenees, energy futures are all about permitting
By Ernesto Bonafé The gas pipeline project MidCat intended to cross the Pyrenees was abandoned on 20 October 2022. It could have been completed in only one year and would have served as an alternative gas corridor for gas imports…
The second life of the Energy Charter Treaty
by Dr Ernesto Bonafé Born in the aftermath of the Cold War, the Energy Charter Treaty will have a second life, in a warmer planet, with reminiscent tensions heating up. The goal in the early nineties was to extend market-based…
“A floating charge” – A Conversation with Jonny Hardman and Alisdair MacPherson
by Jonathan Hardman and Alisdair MacPherson This Q&A with Jonny Hardman and Alisdair MacPherson introduces their new edited collection for EUP series Edinburgh Studies in Law: Floating Charges in Scotland: New Perspectives and Current Issues. **Throughout the blog, Dr Alisdair MacPherson…
Anniversary of the African Union: AJICL Virtual Issue
By Prof. Hajer GUELDICH Prof Hajer GUELDICH introduces our special African Journal of International and Comparative Law Virtual issue on the anniversary of the African Union. This issue is free to access on the Edinburgh University Press journals website until…
Video: A Conversation with Daniel Matthews and William MacNeil
Having won the Penny Pether Prize for his book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene, author Daniel Matthews joined series editor William MacNeil for a discussion on the book. They discuss how Matthew’s theory of language informed his…