Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crim…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…
Disamarkan oleh “Covid-19,” perang kelas global yang tidak dideklarasikan dimulai pada tahun 2020, yang bertujuan untuk menggantikan demokrasi liberal dengan teknokrasi, sebuah bentuk totalitarianisme baru yang bersifat biodigital. Kampanye pembukaannya melibatkan operasi psikologis terbesar dalam sejarah, yang dimaksudkan untuk mendemoralisasi, mendisorientasi, dan melemahkan masyarakat. B…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of t…
This book investigates the impact of the mediation of menstruation and menstrual activism on young people’s knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and interpersonal relationships. Since 2015, the menstrual movement has become increasingly visible on social media and in news media from across the globe. In Great Britain, the menstrual movement brings together a diverse group of activists who …
This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and perception of key themes broadcast by radio and associated with women’s empowerment in the three countries. Each chapter contextualises a specific topic in the country and th…
Buku Open-Access ini memberikan kontribusi teoritis, metodologis, dan empiris yang koheren terhadap pemahaman pemrosesan informasi dalam kelompok. Orang sering menggunakan dan memproses konten media secara bersama-sama. Namun, masih ada sedikit penelitian yang terutama berfokus pada tingkat individu mengenai resepsi media kolektif atau pemrosesan informasi kolektif secara umum. Sebagai kontribu…
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ‘adaptation’…
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish…
Buku ini menyatukan para akademisi dan praktisi terkemuka dari seluruh dunia untuk mengkaji peran saat ini dan tren masa depan dalam struktur dan mekanisme pemerintah daerah di 16 negara federal dan negara berbentuk federal yang berbeda. Dengan demikian, buku ini mengeksplorasi topik-topik penting seperti lembaga-lembaga pemerintah daerah, pengakuan konstitusional, manajemen keuangan, hubungan …