In the past decades, there has been a growing production of scholarly literature devoted to understanding rise Hindu nationalist movement in India, particularly emphasizing its invocation monolithic consolidate idea India as nation. Banu Subramaniam, leading researcher field feminist science studies and professor Department Women, Gender Sexuality Studies at University Massachusetts Amherst, ma...

“Murugan sat suddenly upright, the sweat pounding off his face, not sure whether he was still dreaming or awake. The net was buzzing with mosquitoes; he could see them dancing like motes, in the finger of light that bisected his bed. His whole body was aflame, covered with bites. He had been scratching himself furiously in his sleep; he could see blood on his fingernails, and on the sheets.” So...

The growth and development of academic nursing is being hampered, if not sabotaged, by our very own mandarins of mediocrity. These are the academic ‘leaders’ whose own slender scholarship and contribution to nursing is out of all proportion to the stifling and inhibiting influence that they wield. Our focus is on nursing academe in the UK and Australia (although our New Zealand colleagues may a...

Over the summer of 2019, I was on a work placement in British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA. My task to catalogue and describe correspondence Doris Lessing. developing online set boxes called ‘The 2008 Deposit’, making it accessible searchable researchers. The Deposit (unlike 2013 Deposit, which arrived after Lessing’s death that year) is not under embargo by its copyright holders, so...

Regulation & Governance was founded 15 years ago based on a vision and an ambitious set of goals laid out by the founding editors, John Braithwaite, Cary Coglianese, David Levi-Faur (see their introduction to first issue: “Can regulation governance make difference?”, 2007). Fifteen later, current editors Governance, in dialogue with founders, reflect that vision, journal's accomplishments, next...

This paper introduces the cultural r/k theory an evolutionary theory that explains why different cultures evolve in different directions. The cultural r/k theory links differences in artistic style with war and peace, geography, political system and religion. This theory is useful for explaining cultural differences, for classifying artefacts and for predicting sampling bias in the archaeologic...

Liberal theories of civil disobedience have long come under attack.1 The list charges is considerable. What often called the “orthodox” liberal view has been reproached to limit aims claims equal rights, while actors used reclaim democratic participation (Markovits, 2005). accounts are also said “sanitized” practice by subjecting it overly strict conditions, too at odds with intensifying dynami...

At first glance, it may be difficult to see a relationship between Haitian Vodou and Mormonism.1 How could Mormonism, which established upheld racist policies doctrines, associated with religion born out of Black power?2 Connections however, are worth investigating because thousands people living in Haiti have been converting Mormonism since the official opening an LDS mission 1983.3 This artic...

‘The common grave of Europe’: with these negative words the Netherlandish humanist Justus Lipsius described Low Countries. His adaptation Catullus’ famous verse on Troy1 reveals an essential aspect role territories in early modern Europe. Although their privileged centrality had contributed to function as a nodal point transmission culture, it also turned Countries into theatre war for bloody a...

By the end of sixteenth century, English theatre companies were first professionals to play audiences in Germany. On tours, impressive both for their range and duration, they brought a popular repertory from London places Low Countries, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden eastern Baltic region. Skilled arts acting, dancing, singing performing home theatres London, shows on tour would easily outsh...