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A unique exploration of caste oppression and caste resistance around the world, from one of India's leading public intellectuals.

Humanity has always craved, and feared, information. Alicia Wanless offers a fresh understanding of the relationship between people, technology and knowledge, today and throughout history.

In the early second century CE, someone was described as playing a pipe 'with a bag tucked under his armpit.' That man, the first named piper in history, was the Roman Emperor Nero. Since then, this improbable conflation of bag and sticks has become one of the most beloved and contested instruments of all time. When another piping emperor, Tsar Peter the Great, watched his pet bear take its last breath, he decided the creature would live on-as a bagpipe. This rich and vivid history tells the story of an instrument boasting over 130 varieties, yet commonly associated with just one form and one country: Scotland, and its familiar Great Highland Bagpipe. In fact, the pipes are played across the globe, and their story is a highly diverse one, which illuminates society in remarkable, unexpected ways. Richard McLauchlan charts the rise of women pipers; investigates how class, privilege and capitalism have shaped the world of piping; and explores how the meaning of a 'national instrument' can shift with the currents of a people's identity. The vibrancy and inventiveness characterising today's pipers still speak to the potency of this fabled and once-feared instrument, to which McLauchlan is our surefooted guide.

An unsettling journey through the calamitous consequences of settler colonialism in Patagonia--and the story of the world-renowned scientist who witnessed it.

From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion through changing social and cultural climates.

Thanks to smartphones, war is everywhere, all the time. Anyone can view, analyse and comment on photos, videos or other warzone media, far from the frontlines. Where did this technology come from? And what does it mean for the future of war?This book explains why you see what you do on your phone. It asks how these devices shape our knowledge, conduct and representation of war in the 2020s. It shows why the smartphone is indispensable in peace and wartime, with a profound impact on modern conflict. Every smartphone is a potential weapon: lines blur between war and daily life, and conflict becomes a shared digital experience. Global tech giants orchestrate connectivity, displacing state-controlled narratives. Through social media, smartphones become powerful tools amplifying violence and shaping war's legitimacy. Apps democratise conflict, enabling anyone to identify and attack perceived enemies. As the Ukraine war has shown, this new reality involves complex, unevenly distributed infrastructures, merging civilian communication with military targeting. With war accelerating beyond our comprehension, militaries have raced to exploit and adapt to the smartphone age. As technology distorts our understanding of conflict, even while offering the hope of progress, Matthew Ford explores critical questions about today's hyper-connected battlefield.

An absorbing journey through a region caught between history, geography and ideology.

A captivating journey into the heart of divine communion and spiritual evolution, through the lives of Christian mystics-from the early Church to the 1900s.

A fresh take on the history of post-independence India, revealing how Muslim leaders in Congress and the community abandoned those they claimed to represent.

How a revolution in Ukraine precipitated an international economic conflict affecting us all.

An award-winning critical biography of Finland's towering leader, charting his statecraft, his political journey and his strategic bravado, carving out independence between Stalin and Hitler.

Since its beginnings--born out of the Enlightenment--liberalism has risen to become the global standard; an almost utopian ideal, against which political and moral philosophies have been judged. Yet, one quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, we wonder if the liberal idea is all but dead. The freedoms imbued by civil and human rights, individualism and private property have built the modern world, but not without growing pains and vestigial aches. More than a simple philosophy, liberalism has informed economics, secularism, language and culture. As the global hegemon, it has at times been cast as an enemy of the 'other'; but, in fact, the liberalism that dominated in the West is not without its non-Western seeds and influences. This issue of Critical Muslim gives liberalism a long overdue analysis, evaluating how well it has fared up to the present, and considering how the future will continue to be shaped by its legacy. About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews.

Muslims have a very special relationship with water. In the desert-dwelling populations where Islam was born, it was a coveted asset. The great Muslim cities were built around rivers. Water still accompanies each of the daily prayers, through the performance of wudu (ritual ablution); the Sharia provides rules for using and preserving it; and the Qur'an and hadith mention, numerous times, that water is essential for life. An ancient respect for this element, which covers 71 per cent of our planet's surface, runs through Islamic teachings-but rivers are dying, ecosystems have been thrown into disarray, and pollution and plastics are making it undrinkable. While water is normally a metaphor for calm and purity, as climate change becomes climate catastrophe, we see some cities overstressed and running out of water, while others are sinking beneath the waves. This issue of Critical Muslim confronts the existential threats around water and seeks to restore the balance between the human and natural worlds. About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews.

A revelatory account of the cohabitation of religious traditions and practices in South Asia.

What can we learn from India's postcolonial experience of fashioning a democracy despite its extensive poverty, entrenched inequalities and widespread illiteracy?

A continent-crossing panorama of women's rights, women's oppression and women's politics in the twenty-first century.

A personal history of conflict, imprisonment and unrepentance, from the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian war.

From war with the British to the enslavement of Indians, Ivermee uncovers the dark history of France's doomed imperial project in South Asia.

How have Central Asians responded to China's growing role in their countries? Can Beijing maintain its dominant position in an increasingly hostile region?

A definitive study of a hotly debated phenomenon: migration into Europe and America, its socioeconomic impacts, and the eternal policy efforts to stop the inevitable.

A renowned social scientist reflects on democratisation theory as applied in the Middle East.

A new look at the life and works of William Blake, revealing the full complexity and enduring legacy of this deeply spiritual, politically radical figure.

A compelling history of the women who started their own police force in 1914-as war, social upheaval and gender injustice gripped the UK.

A vivid history of the 100-year battle for British disability rights, spotlighting enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns, past and present: this fight isn't over.

An offbeat meander through the streets and histories of the great Italian capital, where the past is always present.

A lively history of an extraordinary island and the people who call it home.

In this haunting, probing book, an award-winning journalist interviews ordinary Kashmiris about the tales of war told in their homes-and shaping their communities.

Explores how neoliberal ideology and historical governance traditions come together in contemporary Morocco.