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Guest Post

The Second Cold War and beyond

This is a guest post by Richard Sakwa, author of The Culture of the Second Cold War Three decades ago, we believed that the era of the Cold War had come to an end. How wrong we were. The style of politics associated with the Cold War lives on. In the end, this gave rise […]

Guest Post

Farewell Oppenheimer

This is a guest post by Peder Anker, author of For The Love of Bombs It is often said that history is written by its winners, and the history of the atomic bomb is no exception. From 6 August 1945 – the day the United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima – the victorious narrative […]

Guest Post

Visualising climate change effects on urban and rural habitat in African cinema and urbanism

This is a guest post by Marie-Paule Macdonald, author of African Cinema and Urbanism. The African continent, estimated to contribute less than 3% to global emissions while experiencing fast-increasing population growth and corresponding urbanisation, faces the effects of climate change on human habitats. Its youthful population holds the potential to reshape many realms, launch new […]

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A Lady’s Transnational Journey Beyond the Veil: Aesthetics of Female Health and Disease, Social Distancing & Transformative Healing

The guest author for this post is Maryam Farahani, She is a Research Associate at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of Psycho-Literary Perspectives in Multimodal Contexts. During the long nineteenth century, Western Orientalists designed intimate portraits of the East, informed by new aesthetic principles. William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), for instance, painted a striking icon of Oriental romantic […]