Post-Socialism & Islam in Tajikistan
A review of Re‐producing Social Relations; Political and Economic Change and Islam in Post‐Soviet Tajik Ishkashim, by Aliaa Remtilla Aliaa Remtilla’s fascinating dissertation “Re‐producing social…
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Geological Collections as Material Culture
A review of The Uses, Meanings, and Values of Natural Objects: University Earth Science Objects and Collections as Material Culture, by Hannah-Lee Chalk. As scholars…
Promoting “Modern” Physics in Britain 1900-40
A review of Negotiating Progress: Promoting “Modern” Physics in Britain, 1900-1940, by Imogen Clarke. Imogen Clarke’s dissertation urges us to examine with much greater care…
Homosexual Panic in Literature, Psychiatry, Law
A review of Homosexual Panic: Unliveable Lives and the Temporality of Sexuality in Literature, Psychiatry and the Law, by Matthew T. Helmers. Matthew T. Helmers’…
The Meterological Office & Extreme Weather in UK
A review of Risk, Blame, and Expertise: The Meteorological Office and Extreme Weather in Post-War Britain, by Alexander Hall. In 1987 Michael Fish, a BBC…
The Forbidden Traces of Memory in Bucharest
A review of Chorographies of Memory: Everyday Sites and Practices of Remembrance Work in Post-socialist, EU Accession-era Bucharest, by Alyssa Grossman. “Chorography” is the process…