A !is article problematizes the complexity of Muslim approaches to the question of modernity. It challenges both a hegemonic voice of a singular and superior Western modernity and an essentialist Islamist response to modernity. It examines the alternative approach of multiple modernities. !is approach calls for a critical dialogue and negotiation between tradition and modernity, expedite...

This Patti Smith song was the fuse that ignited this Special Issue. We would like to acknowledge 2021, year before it, has been a very difficult time for many. The impacts of COVID-19 continue be globally significant, and countries, cities communities grapple with its spread. Issue centres on popular music particularly as an expression power in face social problems. While none articles included...

Using a Foucauldian perspective, we explicate the systems of power which shape lives women in or at risk ‘food poverty’. We develop theoretical framework for analyses contemporary food poverty, apply to data from focus groups with on low incomes two cities north England. Our underlines repressive state as well broader chronicity surveillance. argue that, while disciplinary and pastoral may char...

Abstract Naples in the 1990s enjoyed an extraordinary period of urban and cultural renewal known as ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’. This article addresses two novels – Giuseppe Montesano’s Di questa vita menzognera (2003) Ruggero Cappuccio’s Fuoco su Napoli (2010) which alert us to utopianism ‘symbolic politics’ Neapolitan Renaissance its vulnerability exploitation. Lending credence idea that utopian...