This is a guest post by Marty Branagan, author of The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding Most of us – maybe even arms dealers – want to live in peace and safety. Yet violence is in epic proportions, particularly towards women, producing widespread fear and despair. Should we rely on governments and the United Nations to […]

This is a guest post by Jude Cocodia, author of Complex Solutions to Local Problems: Constructed Narratives and External Intervention in Somalia’s Crisis My book for Anthem titled Complex Solutions to Local Problems: Constructed Narratives and External Intervention in Somalia’s Crisis focused on the crisis in Somalia, the negative roles of external actors and what the African […]

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 describe politics in one word, […]

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 British paper I was reading […]

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. Significantly, Donald Trump’s 2016 successful […]

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 to consider the impact of […]

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 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 has been a greater focus […]

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 mentions of Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental […]