Category: Guest Post

Can Americans break the cycle of polarisation? History may offer some hope

24 October 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Donald G. Nieman, author of The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic. Most Americans say they’re disgusted with a political system that’s polarised, nasty and incapable of resolving the nation’s most pressing problems.  Asked to...

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Café reflections: gothic and the Nordic countries

24 October 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Robert William, author of Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature Sipping coffee in a street café in Copenhagen on a radiant August day, I found myself surrounded by laughter, the hum of people enjoying the city and tourists buzzing with joy. The...

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Representing Appalachia

24 October 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Sarah Robertson, author of Gothic Appalachian Literature ‘Backwards’. ‘Hillbillies’. ‘Trash’. You’ve heard them all before: the derogatory labels commonly bandied about when discussing Appalachia. In 2016, Appalachia became the nation’s boogey monster once again, an othering spearheaded by two figures on the political right....

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The protest, experimental poetics of African American and Aboriginal Australian poets

14 September 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Ameer Chasib Furaih, author of Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s When I arrived in Australia in late 2014, my original intention was to research African American poetry. However, I soon broadened the scope of my project...

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The prospects for a scientific sociology

2 September 2024 Guest Post

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....

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Tackling the challenges of emotional intelligence in the workplace

4 August 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long & Joseph A. Pisani, author of The Value of Voice in Shared Leadership and Organizational Behavior Emotions impact stakeholders throughout an organization. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes an important skill for success in our current workplace landscape. There...

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Recovering an eighteenth-century gem

14 July 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Melvyn New, author of Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and ‘The Correspondents’: An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775) I first became interested in The Correspondents as the result of an essay in The Shandean, by Peter de Voogd, outlining the work’s several...

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The fourth school on power

30 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as...

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Light pollution and migratory birds: understanding the impacts of urban environments on aerial migration corridors

19 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Amy D. Propen, author of An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors: Conservation, Compassion and Connectivity Between March and June 2024, areas across the United States will experience the highest aerial bird density of the year. In other words, the...

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Islamist transformations of Ottoman history, culture and literature: between scholarship and politics

9 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Kemal Silay, author of Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account Whether wholeheartedly embraced by the modern Turkish generation (or even by Turkish historiography itself) or not, Turkey’s Ottoman past is an indispensable part of its history and identity....

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