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  • Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Q&A with the author

    Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

    February 11, 2026
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5 ways to (un)teach the canon

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  • Cultural Studies / Theatre and Dance

Annelies Van Assche explores five innovative ways to challenge the dance canon and expand beyond Eurocentric narratives.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 6, 2026

Jacobitism and Conceptions of Ethical Colonialism

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Briefly challenges the assumption that colonialism is inherently immoral

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A country that cares: the rocky road to transforming Scotland’s social care system

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  • Cultural Studies / Scottish Studies

A Scotland that gets its social care system right will be a Scotland that cares.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
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How Vocatives in Lebanese Arabic Reveal the Subtle Art of Address

  • Language and Literature / Linguistics

Explore how Lebanese Arabic vocatives shape power, identity, and emotion in everyday conversation.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnDecember 12, 2025

Ten everyday lessons

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Chantelle Gray offers a vivid tribute to Deleuze and Guattari’s radical becomings, calling for creative resistance and world-making.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnDecember 10, 2025

An Anti-Oedipal Tribute to Gilles Deleuze

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Rosi Braidotti explores how Deleuze's ideas foster a non-traditional and nomadic approach to philosophy that emphasises empowerment, multiplicity and a feminist perspective.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
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The Scottish Parliament is Not Working

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James Bundy on why the Scottish Parliament isn't working as it should.

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What’s in a Moment?

  • Deleuzian Philosophy / Philosophy / Politics, Philosophy and Religion

Charles J. Stivale explores what constitutes a 'moment' amid a resurgence of Deleuze's work.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnDecember 4, 2025

Cats and Other ‘Slightly Magical’ Phenomena in Slightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s

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A Q&A with Lucy McDiarmid on her new book exploring Irish poetry’s ‘slightly magical’ worlds.

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  • OnDecember 3, 2025
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