Electronic copies of History and Politics books. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28423 2026-10-03T17:00:05Z 2026-10-03T17:00:05Z Bartmann, Marius Halsband, Aurélie Schapper, Andrea http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35755 2024-02-22T01:22:02Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Climate Justice: Ethical Aspects and Policy Aspects Author(s): Bartmann, Marius; Halsband, Aurélie; Schapper, Andrea Abstract: Human activities associated with greenhouse gas emissions have unequivocally caused global warming. Widespread adverse impacts on people, living organisms, and the environment are already being observed, mostly affecting vulnerable communities who are least responsible for current climate change. Unless drastic mitigation and adaptation measures are taken, continued greenhouse gas emissions will further exacerbate dangerous climate change. This expert report maps and analyses the complex justice issues that arise in the context of climate change and evaluates policy responses to the impacts of climate change from a climate justice perspective.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Bonacchi, Chiara http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34066 2025-09-27T04:48:35Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding populism through big data Author(s): Bonacchi, Chiara Abstract: How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump’s United States of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to answer these kinds of questions? Heritage and Nationalism explores how people’s perceptions and experiences of the ancient past shape political identities in the digital age. It particularly examines the multiple ways in which politicians, parties and private citizens mobilise aspects of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval past of Britain and Europe to include or exclude ‘others’ based on culture, religion, class, race, ethnicity, etc. Chiara Bonacchi draws on the results of an extensive programme of research involving both data-intensive and qualitative methods to investigate how pre-modern periods are leveraged to support or oppose populist nationalist arguments as part of social media discussions concerning Brexit, the Italian Election of 2018 and the US-Mexican border debate in the US. Analysing 60 million tweets and Facebook posts, comments and replies, this book is the first to use big data to answer questions about public engagement with the past and identity politics. The findings and insightful conclusions revise and reframe the meaning of populist nationalism today and help to build a shared basis for the democratic engagement of citizens in public life in the future. The book offers a fascinating and unmissable read for anyone interested in how the past and its contemporary legacy, or ‘heritage’, influence our ‘political’ thinking and feeling in a time of hyper-interconnectivity.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Harrison, Rodney DeSilvey, Caitlin Holtorf, Cornelius Macdonald, Sharon Bartolini, Nadia Breithoff, Esther Fredheim, Harald Lyons, Antony May, Sarah Morgan, Jennie Penrose, Sefryn http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33299 2025-09-26T02:17:01Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices Author(s): Harrison, Rodney; DeSilvey, Caitlin; Holtorf, Cornelius; Macdonald, Sharon; Bartolini, Nadia; Breithoff, Esther; Fredheim, Harald; Lyons, Antony; May, Sarah; Morgan, Jennie; Penrose, Sefryn Abstract: Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon. Heritage Futures draws on research undertaken over four years by an interdisciplinary, international team of 16 researchers and more than 25 partner organisations to explore the role of heritage and heritage-like practices in building future worlds. Engaging broad themes such as diversity, transformation, profusion and uncertainty, Heritage Futures aims to understand how a range of conservation and preservation practices across a number of countries assemble and resource different kinds of futures, and the possibilities that emerge from such collaborative research for alternative approaches to heritage in the Anthropocene. Case studies include the cryopreservation of endangered DNA in frozen zoos, nuclear waste management, seed biobanking, landscape rewilding, social history collecting, space messaging, endangered language documentation, built and natural heritage management, domestic keeping and discarding practices, and world heritage site management. Open Access available at: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/125036

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Kerry, Matthew http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31910 2021-04-22T14:02:10Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic Author(s): Kerry, Matthew Abstract: In October 1934 the northern Spanish region of Asturias was the scene of the most important outburst of revolution in Europe between the early 1920s and the Spanish Civil War. Thousands of left-wing militants took up arms and fought the Spanish army in the streets of Oviedo while in the rear-guard committees proclaimed a revolutionary dawn. After two weeks, however, the insurrection was crushed and the widespread repression was central to the polarization and fragmentation of Spanish politics prior to the Civil War (1936-9). Weaving together a range of everyday disputes and arenas of conflict, from tenant activism to strikes, boycotts to political violence, Unite, Proletarian Brothers! reveals how local cleavages and conflicts operating within the context of the Spanish Second Republic (1931-6) and interwar Europe explain the origins, development and consequences of the Asturian October. The book sheds new light on the long-debated process of ‘radicalization’ during the Second Republic, as well as the wider questions of protest, revolutionary politics and social and political conflict in interwar Europe.

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