Category: Guest Post

Soft power and all the tools of statecraft by Dr. Geoff Heriot

20 April 2023 Guest Post

No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’ approach to the nation’s multi-dimensional threat environment, especially across the...

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How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

14 November 2022 Guest Post

When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work on psychic numbing. We have all seen this happen with...

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Techniques & Aesthetics in 3D Films of 1950s and their Impact on Later Productions by David A. Cook

7 October 2021 Guest Post

Although I have written about 3D films before in A History of Narrative Film (HNF, W. W. Norton, 1981; 1990; 1996; 2004; 2016) – both polarized and digital – in Chapters 12 and 21 respectively, I wanted to understand stereoscopy in moving images better and thought an historical survey of...

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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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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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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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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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The Ruskin–Morris Connection

25 September 2014 Guest Post

In late nineteenth-century Britain, theorist and critic John Ruskin and the designer, writer and activist William Morris began pioneering new approaches to design and the decorative arts. But what sort of relationship did they have and how did their approaches to crafts and politics differ? Dr Mark Frost, author of The Lost...

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From the Editor’s Desk | How We Choose What to Publish

18 March 2013 Guest Post

The first in a series of short posts designed to give a glimpse into the inner workings of academic publishing at Anthem. Anthem Press is made up of distinct but overlapping divisions (have a look at the structure of our lists), but our bread and butter – and the real backbone...

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