This volume publishes British Academy's public lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes, which were posted to the Journal of the British Academy in 2017.
The subjects covered include: penal power in America; papal law; lifelong learning; party realignment at Westminster; globalisation and wage inequality; alternatives to rights-based asylum in the Middle East.
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For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. This volume publishes lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes. The lectures are also made available in the open access Journal of the British Academy.
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- Penal Power in America: Forms, Functions and Foundations
- Stages of Papal Law
- Whatever Happened to Lifelong Learning? And does it Matter?
- The UK's Changing Party System: The Prospects for a Party Realignment at Westminster
- Globalisation and Wage Inequality
- The Stress Test: Can Stress Ever Be Beneficial?
- The Duty to Be Generous (Karam): Alternatives to Rights-Based Asylum in the Middle East
- Some Turns in a 'Journey to the West': Cosmological Proliferation in an Anthropology of Eurasia
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Product details
ISBN
9780197266236
Published
2018-03-15
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
684 gr
Height
247 mm
Width
174 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
356
Biographical note
Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.