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  • 6 - How Politicians Tie Money to Electoral Support

  • Amy Catalinac, New York University
  • Book:
    Dominance Through Division
    Published online:
    01 March 2025
    Print publication:
    06 March 2025, pp 173-232

  • Summary

    Chapters 6–8 use a comprehensive new dataset on the universe of Japanese municipalities in existence between 1980 and 2014 to examine whether tournaments are being conducted within tournament-possible electoral districts. Using regression specifications designed to minimize the influence of confounders, weigh up evidence for rival theories, and take advantage of distinctive features of the two electoral systems Japan has used, I test two hypotheses. First, I show that LDP politicians make the amounts of money municipalities in their electoral districts receive after Lower House elections conditional on where each municipality places in a rank order of municipalities. Second, I show that the difference in amounts received by municipalities at different ranks is larger at higher ranks, which is also evidence of a tournament. In addition to regression analyses, I consider two of the theory’s microfoundations which are that LDP politicians are capable of lobbying bureaucrats and voters are aware money is tied to support, respectively. Case studies, anecdotes, interviews, election manifestos, and voter surveys offer evidence for these microfoundations. Finally, I use the logic of a tournament to explain why prior studies of the relationship between votes and money in Japan reached strikingly different conclusions.

  • Fungi gaining ground at recent CBD and IUCN meetings

  • Elizabeth Sanna Barron
  • Journal:
    Oryx , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2025, p. 1
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  • Towards a grammar of theocentric belonging: Kilby, Tanner and beyond

  • Gael Pardoen
  • Journal:
    Scottish Journal of Theology , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2025, pp. 1-11

  • This article provides foundations for how our God-talk can inform the way we think about and live out belonging. It resorts to three key Christian doctrines: the Trinity, creatio ex nihilo and the incarnation. This exploration begins with some brief observations about the issues Karen Kilby and Kathryn Tanner raised regarding social trinitarianism. It then explores the concept of participation as understood by Tanner as another way of conceptualising theocentric belonging rooted in creation and the incarnation. From this emerges the idea of an expansive theocentric theology of belonging, understood as participation in the divine life through creation and the incarnation. This expansiveness is explored further through the concepts of kinship and deep incarnation.

  • Toward Legal, Ethical, and Culturally Informed Care of Animal Remains in American Museum Collections

  • Chance Ward, Jimmy Arterberry, Joseph Aguilar, Natalie Patton, Christina Cain, Emily Lena Jones, William Timothy Treal Taylor
  • Journal:
    Advances in Archaeological Practice / Volume 12 / Issue 4 / November 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2025, pp. 416-423
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  • Repatriation of human remains and associated funerary objects under NAGPRA and the increased use of culturally informed curation practices for sacred, religious, and ceremonial objects are important steps toward restoring control over cultural patrimony to Native Nations in the United States. Many museums holding Indigenous belongings have begun a collaborative care approach involving Indigenous community voices and improving access to collections. However, this framework has not been applied to many animal remains curated in American archaeology museums, which remain broadly beyond the care or administrative purview of Native people. Because many Indigenous worldviews do not hold a clear separation between the human and animal spheres, common practices applied to animal remains are not congruent with the idea of respectful or culturally informed care. Here we outline steps to shift the treatment of animals through the application of Indigenous knowledge to museum collections.

Cinema, Culture, Scotland
  • Selected Essays
  • Colin McArthur
  • Edited by Jonathan Murray
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • This book anthologises selected key works from the oeuvre of Colin McArthur, a pioneering figure within Anglophone Film and Scottish cultural studies since the 1960s.

    Collecting together thirty-seven essays written between 1966 and 2022, twenty-one of which were hitherto out-of-print, the book identifies and illustrates the central strands of scholarly interest that have defined one of British Film Studies and Scottish Cultural Studies' most influential careers: critical investigation and legitimisation of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood cinema and popular American film genres; the cinematic representation of Scotland and the gradual development of a Scottish film production sector; and Scotland's status as a distinctive visual and material cultural signifier within a diverse range of international popular cultures from the eighteenth century to the present.

ReFocus: The Films of Kim Ki-young
  • Edited by Chung-kang Kim
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2023
  • World-renowned South Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho, cite Kim Ki-young as being the greatest Korean influence on their work. During his thirty year career, Kim Ki-young produced thirty-three films and became revered by critics within the national and international community as one of the few South Korean 'auteurs'.

    As the first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young in English, ReFocus: The Films of Kim Ki-young covers his entire career and history of cinematic work, highlighting the thematic and stylistic singularity of Kim's oeuvre, which was produced relative to the specific historical and cultural conditions of post-war South Korea. It offers an innovative departure point from which to explore South Korean film relative to the wider history of world cinema, in addition to situating Kim's work within the broader fields of Korean modern history, transnational cinema and cultural studies.

ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven
  • Edited by Calum Waddell
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    04 July 2023
  • This edited collection provides an insightful look at the career and output of American horror director Wes Craven, whose most famous films - such as 'The Last House on the Left' (1972), 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984) and 'Scream' (1996) - came to define the form in the later decades of the twentieth century. Also paying attention to Craven's more underrated work, from 'Deadly Friend' (1986) through to his melodrama 'Music of the Heart' (1999), this academic study argues that the filmmaker's influence can still be felt on cinema today, many years after his passing. Featuring sixteen chapters and an extensive introduction, this addition to the ReFocus line will prove to be essential reading for scary movie connoisseurs and brings a valuable contribution to the growing field of horror film studies.

George Craig of Galashiels
  • The Life and Work of a Nineteenth Century Lawyer
  • John Finlay
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • What was it like to practise as a lawyer and bank agent in a rural Scottish community on the cusp of modernity? George Craig was Sir Walter Scott's local banker, a writer, insurance agent, election agent and baron bailie of Galashiels. Based on thousands of recently discovered letters, this is the first study of a provincial nineteenth-century Scots lawyer and the community he served.

    Craig's many correspondents, from manufacturers, bankers, lawyers and law agents in London, Dublin, Jamaica and the US to weavers, tenant farmers and town clerks reflect Borders life in all its intensity and his letters paint a detailed picture of everyday existence. His story affords a fascinating glimpse of legal practice and estate management across the Borders, during a time of economic and political change, as Galashiels grew from a village into an important manufacturing centre.

The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History
  • From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades
  • Edited by D. G. Tor, Alexander D. Beihammer
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    28 February 2023
  • This cross-disciplinary book offers a broad spectrum of essays on important aspects of the political, social, religious and historical importance of the Islamic-Byzantine border between 630 - c. 1300 CE, and in particular on the manifold ways in which the Islamic-Byzantine border affected the internal development and culture of each of the two civilisations. The chapters are written by twelve of the leading scholars in the field, including experts on both the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, and explore developments ranging from anti-government riots and dynastic revolutions to the border's influence on religious law, apocalyptic literature, population policy and heroic culture.

Judith Butler and Politics
  • Adriana Zaharijević
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 August 2023
  • This book is the only monograph-length study of the work of Judith Butler to focus on the entire scope of her work, including the last decade of her writing. It presents a completely new interpretation of Butler's political thought, oriented by the idea of an insurrection at the level of the real. Instead of seeing Butler as a thinker of the subversive performance of cultural scripts, the book frames her work for the twenty-first century as an ambitious and coherent egalitarian alternative to liberal political philosophy. The chapters explore the potential of this conceptual framework in relation to questions of social inequality, violence and the experience of precarity. Designed for both researchers and students, the book provides a comprehensive way of accessing what is radically original about this crucial political theorist.

Democracy and the Future
  • Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems
  • Edited by Michael K. MacKenzie, Maija Setälä, Simo P. Kyllönen
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2023
  • This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic systems might be designed so that the long-term consequences of our decisions are considered in policymaking processes. It examines these topics from many different perspectives - it is interdisciplinary and globally oriented - but it also explores Finland as an example of how future-regarding governance might be done. Finland has one of the most advanced governmental foresight systems in the world, including a unique parliamentary institution called the 'Committee for the Future', and it has enjoyed a stable, multiparty government for decades. The contributors identify tensions between the present and the future, as well as between reversibility and commitment, independence and politicisation, and trust and critique, which have to be navigated in order to achieve long-term, collective goals. The book concludes that elite-driven institutions should be complemented by robust institutions for public participation and deliberation in order to retain responsiveness while at the same time forging public commitments for future-regarding action.

The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot
  • Kevin A. Morrison
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2023
  • Although Elizabeth Gaskell was influenced by Mary Russell Mitford, and George Eliot by Gaskell, only a small number of scholars have considered the affinities and resemblances among all three writers of provincial fiction, and none have done so in depth. Establishing a chain of influence, this book considers Mitford, Gaskell, and Eliot's interrelated careers, including the challenges they encountered in achieving distinction within the literary sphere, and the various pressures exerted on them by publishers, reviewers, and editors. It also analyses the career-enhancing possibilities afforded by different modes of publication-including periodicals, anthologies, the three-volume novel, and monthly and bimonthly instalments-as well as their concomitant limitations. In so doing, the book offers a reassessment of Mitford's and Gaskell's provincial fiction, which has been frequently derided as a 'minor literature'. It also demonstrates the importance of their work to the development of Eliot's liberalism in the age of high realism.

Journalism in the Grey Zone
  • Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia
  • Kjetil Selvik, Jacob Høigilt
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    08 February 2023
  • Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media organisations and individual journalists to shore up support for themselves and attack opponents. This book explores the political role of journalism in these hybrid settings where democratic and authoritarian practices co-exist - a growing trend all over the world. Through interviews with journalists in different positions and analyses of key events in recent years, Journalism in the Grey Zone explains the tensions that media instrumentalisation creates in the news media and how journalists navigate conflicting pressures from powerholders and a marginalised populace. Despite 'capture' of the media by political and economic actors, journalism remains a powerful and occasionally disruptive force.

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century
  • A Literary Guide
  • Julian Murphet
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2023
  • Tracking the evolutionary arc of prison writing across the twentieth century in an international and comparative framework, this study proposes an integrated account of the major shifts and movements in this relatively neglected genre of autobiography. Dwelling on works - memoirs, novellas, poems - by actual detainees, the book offers a close stylistic analysis of twelve important texts to show how prison writing moved away from the confessional and self-scrutinizing modes of an earlier tradition, to espouse openly political sentiments and solidarities. Looking at works by Oscar Wilde, Rosa Luxemburg, Ezra Pound, Primo Levi, Bobby Sands, Angela Davis, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Behrouz Boochani (among others), the book shows how themes such as the annihilation of experience, dehumanization, sensory deprivation, brutality, and numbing routine are woven into distinctive textual artefacts that give evidence of an abiding human resilience in the face of raw state power.

Hemingway and Agamben
  • Finding Religion Without God
  • Marcos Antonio Norris
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2023
  • Marcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben's notion of 'secularized theism' to resolve a critical disagreement among Hemingway scholars who have portrayed the writer as either a Roman Catholic or a secular existentialist. He argues that Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a theist, but a 'secularised theist', whose 'religion' is practiced through sovereign decision making, which, in its most extreme form, includes the act of killing. This book resolves an important debate in Hemingway studies and uncovers fundamental similarities between theism and atheism, building upon the theoretical undertaking first introduced by 'Agamben and the Existentialists' (EUP, 2021). Bringing Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Giorgio Agamben into close conversation, the author reconceptualises existentialism, issues a posthumanist critique of moral authoritarianism and advances an original interpretation of Hemingway as a secularised theist.

Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard
  • John Lechte
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • What is violence - what is an image? How does violence relate to the image, and how do violence and the image implicate and define the victim? These questions underpin the thinking of Bataille, Agamben and Girard - thinkers of the moment in as much as they each aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred. To study power and the sacred, the book shows, is to reveal the connection between violence and the image, a connection that shows what it means to be a victim.

    Separate chapters are devoted to the study of violence and the image as these appear in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard.

    The book concludes that no study of violence and the image can avoid engaging with the issue of the injustice of being a victim.

Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation
  • Wilful Bodies
  • Tara MacDonald
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2023
  • Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies argues that Victorian sensation novels - long dismissed as plot-driven, silly, and feminine - develop complex theories of narrative affect, our embodied responses to reading, imagining, and even writing a narrative. The popular sensation novel thus should be understood as a key contribution to the novel's assessment of its own workings, especially the ways in which reading and writing figure as affective acts. Additionally, the book radically expands the field of sensation fiction, taking seriously lesser-known female authors, and reading them alongside a range of writers not typically considered sensational. These novels insist that feelings are not bound to a single body and that bodies generate meaning when they are put in relation to other bodies and systems of knowledge.

Memory, Patriarchy and Economy in Turkey
  • Narratives of Political Power
  • Meral Uğur-Çınar
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • Through the narrative analysis of texts, ranging from political speeches to museum documents as well as graffiti and posters from protests, this book tries to shed light on contemporary Turkish politics as well as offering a glance into how narratives operate in the political realm. Following the journey of political narratives and counternarratives in the Turkish context facilitates the mapping of the cultural terrain while being attentive to power, resistance and dynamism.

    By analyzing narratives of collective memory, patriarchy and economic development, all of which are deeply embedded culturally, it traces the ways in which narratives shape politics. The chapters deal with issues such as the role historical narratives play in hegemonic power struggles among political parties, the narrative resources upon which populist regimes draw, how economic development narratives affect prospects of and threats against democratic practices and institutions, and how protesters subvert dominant notions of citizenship through counternarratives.

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