This article investigates the ways in which Lucy Hutchinson’s manuscript verse draws on pastoral and related modes frequently associated with royalist poetics. It situates her approach context of awareness tensions over private landholding during Civil War period, suggesting that both looks back nostalgically to an ideal elite landownership recognises challenges presented by popular democratic ...

In this paper, we situate New Orleans’ post-Katrina “restaurant renaissance” within a context of historical and contemporary racial gender inequities. This provides space for critical consideration the celebratory narratives popularly attached to city’s most prominent chefs their roles in “rebuilding” Orleans wake Hurricane Katrina 2005. Our critique focuses on practice chef “celanthropy” (cele...

How should toymakers represent a diverse society? Surprisingly, given the force of recent debates over race and nation migration, multiculturalism, postcolonial condition Europe North America, there is relatively little scholarship on how toy industry engages with these particular themes. This article seeks to remedy this by taking single company, Playmobil, as case study for exploring politics...

Narrative change and strategic communications are attractive tools for city officials setting policy integration migration. These allow the construction development of shared stories place-based identity belonging. Stories about migration often focus on (border) control, value contribution migrants, need compassion. However, these frames compassion control oppositional: they can alienate rather...

Abstract This article seeks to historicize both the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and debate on realism occasioned by aggression since 2014. Using research Gerard Toal Russia’s construction its security interests post-Soviet spaces that include Ukraine, argues neorealist geopolitical explanations fail do justice roles contingency culture setting so-called ‘red lines.’ It also identifies a...

Abstract Augustine's understanding of the church as part totus Christus – ‘whole Christ’ has become an important resource in contemporary theology, offering a robust vision church's union with God. Yet key critique maintains that it threatens to elide distinction between perfected Christ and created church. This article addresses this issue by asking how doctrine relates participation. For Augu...

RESUMOS A realização de grandes projetos infraestrutura é fomentada e justificada por meio da retórica do desenvolvimento, categoria que produz efeitos sentidos atribuem aos uma inexorabilidade frente às “exigências” mercado. Contudo, embora tratada sob a rubrica impactos no âmbito licenciamento ambiental das obras, produção violências diversas, expropriação em particular, inerente tais projeto...

For a brief period, discourses of feminism were brought into discussions the British royal family through figure Meghan Markle. Such conjuncture demands closer look at monarchy's relationship to feminism. This article considers ‘feminist princess’ in context an inherently antifeminist institution and alongside deeply ‘wayward prince’ - both specifically case sexual abuse accusations against Pri...

Articles in this special issue probe the relationships between strategies for upward socio-economic mobility and intergenerational aspirations Asia. With capitalism, urbanisation, mass media, education migration increasing throughout Asia, now is a time of flux opportunities subjectivities. Such changes are lived as deeply personal relational. Young people often instrumental to familial ‘develo...