The guest authors of this post are Julian Dobson and Rowland Atkinson. They are the authors of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope out June 2020. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, the hashtag #BuildBackBetter became a rallying cry on social…
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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…
Reading Francis Hodgson Burnett in a Time of Pandemic
The guest author for this post is Thomas Recchio. He is the author of The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett: In “The World of Actual Literature” out May 2020. As I was writing my study of the novels of Francis Hodgson Burnett, the…
Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?
This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative. I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide…
Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society
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 Fanfare of Progress: Foreign Occupation and the Viability of the 2030 Agenda
Five years ago, the UN passed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This resulted in the establishment of seventeen different goals, more commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accompanied by 169 targets and indicators to achieve this agenda…
The Art of Startups: do you really need an MBA to launch your company?
Should startup founders get an MBA? If you are planning to work in consulting, or dream of a corporate job, there are many advantages to studying for an MBA. For one thing, it will definitely help you to get your…
The Fuzzy Edges of Contemporary Theater
Theater has always been mercurial if not chimeric, a hybrid of art forms. It is unstable and pliable by definition, since its realization relies on a multiplicity of collaborators under unstable, often tenuous conditions. The result is invariably a…
A Fibrous Weave of Literary Scholarship
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…
Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative: An Introduction
This is a guest post by Michael Peter Bolus, Ph.D. Author of Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative: An Introduction, out on Anthem Press this month. The welcome and entertaining distraction that defines most movie-going experiences has become the default expectation for…