Anthem Studies in Encounters between Peripheral Regions publishes studies on encounters and interactions between peripheral regions of the world system. The editor of the series is Tomasz Ewertowski from Shanghai International Studies University, China. He graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and moved to China in 2013. He has served as the principal […]

This is a guest post by Krzysztof Nawratek, Series Editor of Anthem Studies in Religion, Space and Design When people hear ‘religion and architecture’, they usually think of churches, temples, mosques, perhaps a shrine hidden somewhere in the forest if they are feeling slightly adventurous. In other words: buildings. Objects. It is not wrong, but […]

This is a guest post by Asegul Hulus, author of Beyond the Metrics: The Psychological Impact of Fitness Technology on Self-Image and Social Anxiety Six months have passed since I stashed my fitness watch in a drawer. Not because it broke, but because I did. Being a dedicated female bodybuilder and self-proclaimed ‘gym rat’, I […]

This is a guest post by Christian Robitaille, editor of The Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon It is often argued by contemporary sociologists that the quest for a value-free, scientific study of society is vain. Indeed, sociology is currently heavily influenced by critical theorists, poststructuralists and other normatively oriented theorists. To them, the very idea […]

This is a guest post by Paul Allen Miller, author of Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric The world we live in is not that of Plato’s Socrates. It is a world of fragments. The tropic language with which we try to put it back together testifies […]

On 5 May 2021 the UK government dispatched two Royal Navy patrol boats, HMS Severn and HMS Tamar, to the waters off the coast of Jersey in the English Channel. The ships were not there to commemorate the end of the Second World War in Europe but to scare off French fishermen who were threatening […]

Anna S. Rogers and Mathieu Deflem What happens to women when they do something only men have traditionally been expected and accepted to do? What motivates these women to move beyond conventional mores and enter communities and subcultures that are not only dominated by men but shaped by their values as well? How are these […]

The guest author of this post is Blake Stricklin. He is a lecturer at the University of Houston – Victoria and the author of ‘American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication’. In April 1968 students at Columbia University overtook the campus. Members from Columbia’s Student Afro-Society (SAS), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and […]

The guest authors of this post are Julian Dobson and Rowland Atkinson. They are the authors of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope out June 2020. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, the hashtag #BuildBackBetter became a rallying cry on social media for those who saw the need and opportunity to reconstruct our cities. Demands included […]