Items where Subject is "P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism"

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Aldaz Pena, Raul (2019) Book review: research impact and the early career researcher: lived experiences, new perspectives edited by Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Emma Heywood and Kate Walker. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (15 Dec 2019). Blog Entry.

Angelou, Angelos (2025) Book review: EU climate diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO. By George Dikaios, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 244 pp, ISBN:978–3-031–51123-3. European Political Science. ISSN 1680-4333

Antona, Laura ORCID: 0000-0002-1283-2838 (2024) Remaindered life: by Neferti X. M. Tadiar Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022, 456 pp., $31.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478017769. The Journal of Development Studies. ISSN 0022-0388

Azra Bin Azlira, Armand (2024) Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore: the Malayan generation, 1953-1963, by Thum Ping Tjin, Abingdon, Routledge, 2023, 350 pp., £140.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032484259. South East Asia Research, 32 (3). 324 - 326. ISSN 0967-828X

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Barber, Karin, Jeyifo, Biodun, Julien, Eileen and Vinson, Steve (2022) Africa. In: Damrosch, David and Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla, (eds.) Literature: A World History. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 107 - 127. ISBN 9780470671900

Barwise, Patrick (2015) There’s no public benefit in BBC programmes being ‘distinctive’. Media Policy Blog (20 Nov 2015). Website.

Belardinelli, P (2022) Motivating public employees. International Public Management Journal, 25 (1). 159 - 163. ISSN 1096-7494

Bellanova, Rocco, Burns, Ryan, Mignot-Mahdavi, Rebecca, Plantin, Jean-Christophe ORCID: 0000-0001-8041-6679, Aradau, Claudia and Blanke, Tobias (2024) Reading Algorithmic reason: the new government of self and other, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022), 288 pp., Open Access, ISBN: 9780192859624. Political Geography, 113. ISSN 0962-6298

Benson, Matthew Sterling ORCID: 0000-0003-4789-9458 (2023) Peer Schouten, Roadblock politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £64.99 – 978 1 108 49401 4; pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 71381 8). 2022, 299 pp. Africa, 93 (3). 444 - 446. ISSN 0001-9720

Birch, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0001-7517-4759 (2023) Knowing science, by Alexander Bird. Mind. ISSN 0026-4423

Blum-Ross, Alicia (2015) Filmmakers/educators/facilitators? Understanding the role of adult intermediaries in youth media production in the UK and the USA. Journal of Children and Media, 9 (3). pp. 308-324. ISSN 1748-2798

Bokes, Jakub (2024) John Bellamy Foster: The dialectics of ecology: socialism and nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024, 352pp. Filozofia, 79 (9). 1058 - 1061. ISSN 0046-385X

Breen, Gareth ORCID: 0000-0002-5468-145X (2023) Why communism failed. Jasper Becker. London. Hurst & Co., 2022, vi + 334pp., £20.00 h/b. Europe-Asia Studies, 75 (9). 1579 - 1580. ISSN 0966-8136

Breuilly, John (2024) Blut und Eisen: Wie Preußen Deutschland erzwang 1864–1871. By Christoph Jahr. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2020. Pp. 368. €26.95 (cloth); €19.99 (e-book). Journal of Modern History, 96 (2). 498 - 499. ISSN 0022-2801

Brierley, Sarah ORCID: 0000-0002-0902-6763 (2025) Patronage at work: public jobs and political services in Argentina. By Virginia Oliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 9781009082525. Governance, 38 (2). ISSN 0952-1895

Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter (2020) Confined freedom and free confinement: the ethics of captivity in Life of Pi. In: Bogár, Ádám T. and Szigethy, Rebeka Sára, (eds.) Critical insights: Life of Pi. Salem Press, Hackensack, USA, pp. 119-134. ISBN 9781642656671

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Cant, Anna ORCID: 0000-0002-8515-4361 (2024) The shining path in Huancavelica, Peru: conflict and the legacy of exclusion, by Nicholas A. Robins. Journal of Military History, 88 (4). 1173 - 1174. ISSN 0899-3718

Claridge, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-7394 (2024) Peasants making history: living in an English region 1200-1540. Christopher Dyer, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. 396. 55 figs and tabs. ISBN: 9780198847212, Hbk. £81). Economic History Review, 77 (4). 1535 - 1536. ISSN 1468-0289

Coker, Christopher (2015) Book review: imagining the third world war. Ghost fleet: a novel of the next world war. RUSI Journal, 160 (6). pp. 76-77. ISSN 0307-1847

Colley, Linda (1999) Stubble and breath. London Review of Books, 21 (14). pp. 7-8. ISSN 0260-9592

Coolidge Toker, Emily (2013) Book review: Reading new India: post-millennial Indian fiction in English. LSE Review of Books (02 May 2013). Website.

Cox, Michael (2024) Cold peace: avoiding the new Cold War. By Michael W. Doyle. London: Liveright. 2023. 336pp. £23.99. ISBN 978 1 63149 606 6. Available as e-book: A life in the American century. By Joseph S. Nye. Cambridge, UK: Polity. 2024. 254pp. £25.00. isbn 978 1 50956 068 4. Available as e-book. International Affairs, 100 (6). 2702 - 2704. ISSN 0020-5850

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Dancikova, Zuzana (2023) Eva Fodor, The gender regime of anti-liberal Hungary. Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 2022, open access, (ISBN: 9783030853129), 117 pp. Work, Employment and Society, 37 (2). 563 - 564. ISSN 0950-0170

Deller, Rosemary (2016) Feature: the inspiration that makes for knowledge: relaunching the left book club. LSE Review of Books (27 Jan 2016). Website.

Driessens, Olivier (2010) Book review: De celebritysupermarkt. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 38 (4). pp. 380-381. ISSN 1384-6930

Driessens, Olivier (2013) Book reviews: Cultures of mediatization and the mediatization of culture and society. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 38 (4). pp. 451-454. ISSN 0341-2059

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Evans, Harriet (2024) Ginkgo village: trauma and transformation in rural China Tamara Jacka. Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 314 pp. AU$60.00 (also available Open Access). ISBN 9781760466411. China Quarterly. 1120 - 1122. ISSN 0305-7410

Evans, Mary (2009) The imagination of evil: detective fiction and the modern world. Continuum literary studies series. Continuum (Firm), London, UK. ISBN 9781847062062

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Falkner, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9990-6926 (2023) Change in global environmental politics: temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions. By Michael W. Manulak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 280p. $110.00 cloth. - Fixing the climate: strategies for an uncertain world. By Charles F. Sabel and David G. Victor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 256p. $24.95 cloth. Perspectives on Politics, 21 (2). 779 - 781. ISSN 1537-5927

Farrar, Laura (2008) Arts criticism in crisis? A Polis special report and event. POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (02 Mar 2008). Website.

Fiala, Lukas (2024) China's strategic arsenal: worldview, doctrine, and systems. Edited by James M. Smith and Paul J. Bolt. Pacific Affairs, 97 (4). 849 - 851. ISSN 0030-851X

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Gaudino, Ugo (2024) Luca Mavelli. Neoliberal citizenship. Sacred markets, sacrificial lives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; 304 pp.: ISBN: 9780192857583, £81.00 (hardcover). Capital and Class, 48 (1). 169 - 171. ISSN 0309-8168

Gill-Tiney, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-7949-2698 (2024) Hybrid sovereignty in world politics. The Journal of Development Studies. ISSN 0022-0388

Glendinning, Simon ORCID: 0000-0002-2312-1839 (2021) Only for you. In: Lessons from Kafka: philosophical readings of Franz Kafka’s works. Filosofia Publishing House, Prague, Czech Republic.

Glennerster, Howard (2024) Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk. Journal of Social Policy, 53 (1). E1 - E2. ISSN 0047-2794

Green, Duncan (2024) Book review: Renegotiating patriarchy by Naila Kabeer. International Development (29 Nov 2024). Blog Entry.

Gusejnova, Dina ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-9530 (2006) Concepts of culture and technology in Germany, 1916-1933: Ernst Cassirer and Oswald Spengler. Journal of European Studies, 36 (1). pp. 5-30. ISSN 0047-2441

Gusejnova, Dina ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-9530 (2017) Embedded cosmopolitanism: Tolstoyan and Goethean ideas of world literature during the Two World Wars. In: Kent, Eddy and Tomsky, Terri, (eds.) Negative cosmopolitanism: cultures and politics of world citizenship after globalization. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Quebec, 217 - 242. ISBN 9780773550971

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Hanrieder, Tine Hanrieder ORCID: 0000-0002-9818-8683 (2023) The struggles and divisions of Indian healthcare workers. International Development (17 May 2023). Blog Entry.

Harder, Anton ORCID: 0000-0002-4207-0168 (2022) Lorenz M. Lüthi, Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,2020, ix + 756 pp.; £26.99 pbk; ISBN 9781108407069. Journal of Contemporary History, 57 (4). 1118 - 1120. ISSN 0022-0094

Hassan, Wesam Adel ORCID: 0000-0001-6863-1624 (2021) Rebecca Cassidy, Vicious games: capitalism and gambling. London: Pluto Press 2020. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780745340395. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online, XIII (2). 201 - 204. ISSN 2040-1876

Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: 0000-0001-8801-8237 (2023) Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard. 2023. The politics of evaluation in international organizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Review of International Organizations, 18 (4). 777 - 781. ISSN 1559-7431

Herten-Crabb, Asha ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8109 (2023) Hegemony. By James Martin. Cambridge, UK: Polity. 2022. 140pp. £45.00. ISBN 978 1 50952 160 9. Available as e-book. International Affairs, 99 (5). 2152 - 2153. ISSN 0020-5850

Heyvaert, Veerle ORCID: 0000-0002-7615-0318 (2023) Global regulatory standards in environmental and health disputes: regulatory coherence, due regard, and due diligence. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 32 (3). 509 - 510. ISSN 2050-0386

Hidalgo-Cordero, Kruskaya (2025) The platform's glitch: workers, algorithms and resistance. Dialogues on Digital Society, 1 (1). pp. 118-120. ISSN 2976-8640

Hiraide, Lydia Ayame (2021) Book review: Being property once myself: blackness and the end of man by Joshua Bennett. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (17 Jan 2021). Blog Entry.

Hollenhorst, Johannes ORCID: 0000-0001-5711-9246 (2023) Book reviews: Annika Skoglund and Steffen Böhm. Climate activism: how communities take renewable energy actions across business and society/ New York: Cambridge University Press. 2022. $110.00 (hardcover). Mobilization, 28 (2). 272 - 273. ISSN 1086-671X

Horder, Jeremy ORCID: 0000-0002-7922-9574 (2025) Adrian Howe: Crimes of passion since Shakespeare: red rage mist unmasked. London: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 978- 1-032-29518-3 (HB). Feminist Legal Studies, 33 (1). 95 - 98. ISSN 0966-3622

Hossain, Mobarak ORCID: 0000-0002-1042-7388 (2024) A political sociology of education policy, by Helen M. Gunter, Bristol, Policy Press, 2023,216 pp., £85.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1447363330. British Journal of Sociology of Education. ISSN 0142-5692

Huju, Kira ORCID: 0000-0002-1364-4708 (2023) Imagining global futures. Edited by Adom Getachew. Cambridge, MA: Boston Review. 2023. 216pp. Pb.: £17.99. ISBN 978 1 94651 174 4. Available as e-book. International Affairs, 99 (5). 2149 - 2150. ISSN 0020-5850

Husain, Tehreem (2025) Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850-1945. Economic History Review, 78 (1). 378 - 386. ISSN 1468-0289

Hyman, Richard (2025) Trade unions and the industrial relations crisis: an intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg, By Peter Ackers, London: Routledge, 2024, 239 pp, £13500. Industrial Relations Journal, 56 (2). 182 - 185. ISSN 0019-8692

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James, Myfanwy ORCID: 0000-0001-7194-1287 (2019) Jean-Hervé Bradol and Marc Le Pape, Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings: Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982–97. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (1). 247 - 249. ISSN 0022-0094

Janega, Eleanor (2022) Cosmos and materiality in early modern Prague by Suzanna Ivanič (review). Slavonic and East European Review, 100 (3). 566 - 568. ISSN 0037-6795

Johnston, Ron (2019) Book review: footsoldiers: political party membership in the 21st century by Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog (15 Dec 2019). Blog Entry.

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Kaldor, Sophie (2025) The uncertainty doctrine: narrative politics and US hard power after the Cold War. By Alexandra Homolar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 220pp. £85.00. ISBN 978 1 00935 511 7. Available as e-book. International Affairs, 101 (2). 750 - 752. ISSN 0020-5850

Keen, David ORCID: 0000-0002-7218-8378 (2025) The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires. By Rochelle Terman. Princeton University Press, 2023. 216p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Perspectives on Politics, 23 (1). 354 - 356. ISSN 1537-5927

Kelecha, Mebratu (2023) African refugees. International Journal of Refugee Law, 35 (3). 360 - 364. ISSN 0953-8186

Kissane, Bill ORCID: 0000-0002-0371-7889 and Sitter, Nick (2013) Ideas in conflict: the nationalism literature and the comparative study of civil war. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19 (1). pp. 38-57. ISSN 1353-7113

Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias ORCID: 0000-0003-4637-9477 (2024) Democratism: explaining international politics with democracy beyond the state by Hans Agné. Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 360 pp., £104. ISBN9781802204247. Ebook: free of charge, ISBN9781802204254, open access at https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204254. Political Studies Review. ISSN 1478-9299

Krause, Monika ORCID: 0000-0002-8699-5496 (2024) How are vulnerability and violence governed? - Poulami Roychowdhury, Capable women, incapable states. Negotiating violence and rights in India (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 252 p.). Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, 65 (3). 468 - 471. ISSN 0003-9756

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Lamare, J. Ryan ORCID: 0000-0003-4935-2341 (2021) McKersie, R. B. (2018). A field in flux: sixty years of industrial relations. Work and Occupations, 48 (4). 502 - 504. ISSN 0730-8884

Laver, Michael (2023) Ben Ansell, Why politics fails: the five traps of the modern word – and how to escape them. Society. ISSN 0147-2011

Laver, Michael (2024) George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson, The invisible doctrine: the secret history of neoliberalism (and how it came to control your life). Society. ISSN 0147-2011

Laver, Michael (2024) Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum. Ungoverning. The attack on the administrative state and the politics of chaos. Princeton University Press, 2024, 264 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-25052-6. Society. ISSN 0147-2011

Laver, Michael (2024) Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the minority: how to reverse an authoritarian turn and forge a democracy for all. Society, 61 (1). 128 - 130. ISSN 0147-2011

Laver, Michael (2023) Susan Neiman, Left is not woke. Society, 60 (3). 479 - 481. ISSN 0147-2011

Lee, Youngcho (2023) Book review: Women, welfare and productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu. European Journal of Social Security, 25 (1). 102 - 104. ISSN 1388-2627

Leow, Rachel ORCID: 0000-0002-5182-4830 (2023) Company law: a real entity theory. By Eva Micheler. [Oxford University Press, 2021. xxxv + 282 pp. Hardback £80.00. ISBN 978-0-19885-887-4.]. Cambridge Law Journal, 82 (2). 369 - 371. ISSN 0008-1973

Leow, Rachel ORCID: 0000-0002-5182-4830 (2024) Lionel Smith, The law of loyalty, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 496 pp, hb £97.00. Modern Law Review. ISSN 0026-7961

Liew, Zhen Hao (2025) Losing hearts and minds: race, war, and empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–1960, by Kate Imy, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2024, 342pp., ISBN 9781503634626 (hbk, £108.00). The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 53 (1). 206 - 208. ISSN 0308-6534

Loughlin, Martin ORCID: 0000-0002-6102-6453 (2025) Aziz Rana, The constitutional bind: how Americans came to idolize a document that fails them. University of Chicago Press, 2024, 824 pp., ISBN: 978-022635072. Society. ISSN 0147-2011

Lypp, Jacob ORCID: 0000-0002-8508-106X (2025) Victims of commemoration: the architecture and violence of confronting the past in Turkey. By Eray Çayli (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022), 264 pp.,Paperback, $29.95. Race and Class. ISSN 0306-3968

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Mace, Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9920-8765 (2013) The future and come and gone: managing change in the aging suburbs. In: Dines, Martin and Vermeulen, Timotheus, (eds.) New Suburban Stories. Bloomsbury Studies in the City series. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK. ISBN 9781472510938

Mayhew, Alex ORCID: 0000-0003-3124-2486 (2024) Susan Grayzel, The age of the gas mask: how British civilians faced the terrors of total war. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2022; xiv + 273 pp.: 9781108868068, £25.00 (Hardback). War in History, 31 (3). 291 - 293. ISSN 0968-3445

McGovern, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-3984-2080 (2008) A mystery from the world of book reviewing. British Universities Industrial Relations Association (63). pp. 8-9.

Micheler, Eva ORCID: 0000-0002-7922-2436 (2023) Corporate attribution in private law. By Rachel Leow. [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022. xxxiv + 246 pp. Hardback £85.00. ISBN 978-1-50994-135-3.]. Cambridge Law Journal, 82 (2). 371 - 373. ISSN 0008-1973

Millar, Katharine M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2511-5325 (2023) Deploying feminism: the role of gender in NATO military operations. By Stéfanie von Hlatky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 248p. $34.95 cloth. Perspectives on Politics, 21 (3). 1020 - 1022. ISSN 1537-5927

Milner-Gulland, Robin and Sobolev, Olga (2016) Стихотворение Хармса «на смерть Казимира Малевича» = The poem of Daniil Kharms “on the death of Kazimir Malevich”. Voprosy Literatury (4). pp. 34-62. ISSN 0042-8795

Mitchell, William H.F. (2024) R. Barry Levis. Render unto Caesar: ecclesiastical politics in the reign of Queen Anne. Journal of British Studies. ISSN 0021-9371

Motadel, David ORCID: 0000-0002-2218-618X (2023) Is Prussian militarism a myth? The New York Review of Books, 70 (16). ISSN 0028-7504

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O'Branski, Megan (2013) Book review: In the beginning, she was. LSE Review of Books (01 Jul 2013). Website.

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Pailey, Robtel Neajai ORCID: 0000-0001-9584-6524 (2023) Bronwen Manby, Citizenship in Africa: the law of belonging. Africa, 93 (5). 704 - 706. ISSN 0001-9720

Parry, Jonathan (2024) How much does material determination explain in Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans? ILR Review, 77 (1). 153 - 156. ISSN 0019-7939

Phillips, Anne (2025) Resisting inequality: the turn towards history. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 38 (1). 132 - 141. ISSN 0955-7571

Phillips, Jacob (2013) Book review: Bakhtin Reframed. LSE Review of Books (25 Jun 2013). Website.

Potter, Naomi (2019) Orientalism: in review. LSE Undergraduate Political Review (15 Jan 2019). Blog Entry.

Prazmowska, AJ (2024) Marcin Zaremba. Entangled in fear: everyday terror in Poland, 1944-1947. Translated by Maya Latynski. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. Pp. 366. Paper $37.00. American Historical Review, 129 (2). 838 - 839. ISSN 0002-8762

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Qaddumi, Dena ORCID: 0000-0003-1144-8460 (2024) Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp. American Ethnologist, 51 (4). 645 - 646. ISSN 0094-0496

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Ramsay, Peter ORCID: 0009-0006-7148-6599 (2022) Review of Vincent Chiao, Criminal law in the age of the administrative state. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 16 (2). 423 - 428. ISSN 1871-9791

Rao, Aliya ORCID: 0000-0003-0674-4206 (2023) Equal partners?: how dual-professional couples make career, relationship, and family decisions. Gender and Society, 37 (6). 987 - 989. ISSN 0891-2432

Ravia, Gal (2024) Virtual Holocaust memory by Matthew Boswell and Antony Rowland. European Journal of Communication, 39 (5). 532 - 534. ISSN 0267-3231

Rogers, Ben (2023) Bright lights, big city: the links between freedom, citizenship and urbanization. Times Literary Supplement (6272). 10 - 11. ISSN 0307-661X

Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2023) India is broken: a people betrayed, independence to today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp. Developing Economies, 61 (4). 345 - 347. ISSN 0012-1533

Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2023) Merchants, bankers, governors: British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786-1920. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 54 (3). 553 - 554. ISSN 0022-4634

Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2022) Peter Robb, Ideas matter: debating the impact of British rule on India. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2020, 305 pp. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 59 (3). 408 - 411. ISSN 0019-4646

Rønn, Anne Kirstine (2024) Resisting sectarianism: queer activism in postwar Lebanon by John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 196 pp., £16,79 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-7869-9799-9. Politics, Religion & Ideology. ISSN 2156-7689

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Salem, Sara ORCID: 0000-0002-7872-5613 (2024) Jean-Yves Frétigné. To live is to resist: the life of Antonio Gramsci. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 328. Paper $19.95. American Historical Review, 129 (4). 1817 - 1818. ISSN 0002-8762

Scalvini, Marco (2010) Glamorizing sick bodies: how commercial advertising has changed the representation of HIV/AIDS. Social Semiotics, 20 (3). 219 - 231. ISSN 1035-0330

Schlosberg, Justin (2015) Ofcom’s Plurality Framework: Protecting the Status Quo? Media Policy Blog (06 Nov 2015). Website.

Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 (2023) Plagues upon the earth: disease and the course of human history. By Kyle Harper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.00. Economic History Review, 76 (3). 979 - 981. ISSN 1468-0289

Seckinelgin, Hakan ORCID: 0000-0002-0286-8618 (2025) Teaching social policy: international, comparative and global perspectives. By Zoë Irving (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 240 pp. £90 (hardback) and £23.35 (softback). ISBN: 978-1-03530-200-0. Social Policy and Administration. ISSN 0144-5596

Sen, Rishiraj (2024) Resisting the backlash: street protest in Italy by Donatella della Porta, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan, Martín Portos and Lorenzo Zamponi (2024). Emotions and Society, 6 (1). 136 - 138. ISSN 2631-6897

Seuferling, Philipp ORCID: 0000-0002-8401-5511 (2025) Balbi, G. (2023). The digital revolution: a short history of an ideology (B. McClellan-Broussard, Trans.). Oxford University Press, 159 pp. Communications, 50 (1). 176 - 178. ISSN 0588-8018

Sherman, Taylor C. (2023) Partition's legacies by Joya Chatterji. 550 pp. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2019. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 33 (3). 794 - 795. ISSN 1356-1863

Sidel, John ORCID: 0000-0002-7230-8210 (2024) The drama of dictatorship: martial law and the communist parties of the Philippines, by Joseph Scalice. Journal of Military History, 88 (3). 861 - 863. ISSN 0899-3718

Sidel, John T. ORCID: 0000-0002-7230-8210 (2023) Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand by Yoshinori Nishizaki, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, 304 pp., US$79.95; £79.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780299338305. South East Asia Research, 31 (1). 110 - 114. ISSN 0967-828X

Sidel, John T. ORCID: 0000-0002-7230-8210 (2024) The sovereign trickster: death and laughter in the age of Duterte. Journal of Asian Studies, 83 (2). 505 - 507. ISSN 0021-9118

Singh, Pritam (2025) Worthy of freedom: indenture and free labor in the era of emancipation. By Jonathan Connolly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2024, 272pp., $115 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-2268-3362-0. Slavery and Abolition, 46 (1). 287 - 288. ISSN 0144-039X

Sobolev, Olga (2016) J M Barrie and the ballets russes. International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, 4 (1). pp. 17-22. ISSN 2202-9451

Sobolev, Olga (2017) The symbol of the symbolists: Aleksandr Blok in the changing Russian literary canon. In: Hodgson, Katharine, Shelton, Joanne and Smith, Alexandra, (eds.) Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK, pp. 123-155. ISBN 9781783740888

Soboleva, Olga and Wrenn, Angus (2017) From Orientalism to cultural capital: the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1920s. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ISBN 9783034322034

Squatrito, Theresa ORCID: 0000-0002-6726-7629 (2023) Transnational lawmaking coalitions for human rights, by Nina Reiners, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 216 pp, £ 85.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781108845540. Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 41 (2). 252 - 254. ISSN 1891-8131

Strong, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-8626-4020 and Nandagiri, Rishita ORCID: 0000-0003-4424-769X (2024) Abortion ecologies in Southern African fiction: Transforming reproductive agency. By Caitlin E.Stobie, Bloomsbury. 2023. £85.00 (cloth); £28.99 (pbk); £76.50 (ebk). ISBN: 9781350250192. Sociology of Health and Illness, 46 (2). 355 - 357. ISSN 0141-9889

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Tambini, Damian (2025) Media freedom and the law: the regulation of a common European idea, by Andras Koltay, Abingdon, Routledge, 2025, 314pp., £145 (hbk)/£35.99 (e-book), 9781003321569. Journal of Media Law. ISSN 1757-7632

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