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A detailed black-and-white illustration of several men in traditional Scottish Highland attire—kilts, plaids, and feathered caps—shaking hands in front of a small thatched cottage. A child stands nearby watching, and a crowd of villagers looks on from behind. Trees arch overhead, and one man carries bagpipes slung over his shoulder.

Jacobitism and Conceptions of Ethical Colonialism

Briefly challenges the assumption that colonialism is inherently immoral

Edinburgh University Press
December 17, 2025

A sunsets below an ocean horizon

The politics of precarious migration

Highlights the ways in which precarious migration challenges the 'statist quo'

Edinburgh University Press
November 11, 2025