Category: Guest Post

Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society

Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society

2 April 2020 Guest Post

The guest author for this post is Colette Mazzucelli. She is an Editor for the Anthem Press book series Ethics of Personal Data Collection Series alongside James Felton Keith, which publishes scholarly works at the intersection of data, ethics and digital technology in the 21st century. In a March 29, 2020 interview on...

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The Fanfare of Progress: Foreign Occupation and the Viability of the 2030 Agenda

The Fanfare of Progress: Foreign Occupation and the Viability of the 2030 Agenda

3 February 2020 Guest Post

Five years ago, the UN passed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This resulted in the establishment of seventeen different goals, more commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accompanied by 169 targets and indicators to achieve this agenda by 2030. Building upon the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and...

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The Art of Startups: do you really need an MBA to launch your company?

The Art of Startups: do you really need an MBA to launch your company?

25 January 2020 Guest Post

Should startup founders get an MBA? If you are planning to work in consulting, or dream of a corporate job, there are many advantages to studying for an MBA. For one thing, it will definitely help you to get your foot in the door. It is also true many co-founders...

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The Fuzzy Edges of Contemporary Theater

The Fuzzy Edges of Contemporary Theater

10 December 2019 Guest Post

  Theater has always been mercurial if not chimeric, a hybrid of art forms. It is unstable and pliable by definition, since its realization relies on a multiplicity of collaborators under unstable, often tenuous conditions. The result is invariably a composite beast, reconfigured in each iteration.  Unsurprisingly, then, theater today...

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A Fibrous Weave of Literary Scholarship

A Fibrous Weave of Literary Scholarship

16 July 2019 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jeffrey C. Robinson. Author of Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825–1833: Fibres of These Thoughts, out on Anthem Press this month.  In the 1980s I first gained sympathy for the poetry of the “late” Wordsworth while helping to edit the “Last Poems” volume of the Cornell variorum. In...

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Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative: An Introduction

Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative: An Introduction

2 July 2019 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Michael Peter Bolus, Ph.D. Author of Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative: An Introduction, out on Anthem Press this month.  The welcome and entertaining distraction that defines most movie-going experiences has become the default expectation for general audiences. The commercial cinema, as a pop-cultural phenomenon, is...

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The Post-Truth About Fake News

The Post-Truth About Fake News

26 September 2018 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Anthem Press author Steve Fuller, University of Warwick. His new book, Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game, is now available. Steve recently spoke to the BBC. Check out his interview here: — In Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, I argue that the post-truth condition was first...

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Middlebrow – Feelings and Fury

Middlebrow – Feelings and Fury

6 August 2018 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow. She is an editorial board member for Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture.   What does “middlebrow” mean? Is it a label for a particular kind of book, film or artwork – one that is unchallenging, conventional,...

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Consensus Building in the Age of Trump

Consensus Building in the Age of Trump

15 November 2017 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Press Environment and Sustainability Programme What’s special about the Age of Trump? I would point to two things. First, our political leaders (not just the President) no longer feel an obligation to represent...

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Here’s How to Help Manage Local Climate Change Risks

Here’s How to Help Manage Local Climate Change Risks

11 September 2015 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the Director of the MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP) and co-director of the Water Diplomacy Workshop. We’ve spent far too much time thinking about the global causes of climate change, and not nearly...

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