The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 47.4. ‘Challenges and roles of grassroots community organisations in decentralised governance: a case study of Mali’s Office du Niger zone’ by Hamadou Amadou Cissé Barry and Abhilash Babu.
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry at 40 – Editor-Selected Articles from the Archive
In 2026, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry celebrates its 40th anniversary—four decades of publishing authoritative, interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the history, culture, and experience of Polish Jewry.
Monuments in Conversation: Inside the Westminster Abbey Special Issue of Sculpture Journal
This special issue of Sculpture Journal offers the first sustained, collective study of Westminster Abbey’s sculptural canon. In this blog post guest co-editor Gemma Shearwood provides insight into the motivations behind the issue, its methodological innovations, and the fresh perspectives it brings to pantheon studies.
“Marking White Womanhood Between the Wars: Surplus Women and Trafficked Women” by Annaliese Hoehling
The title of the volume captures the stark absence of the acknowledgement of Whiteness at the core of Anglophone Modernism and in Modernist Studies. What happens when a nation suddenly has “too many women”? After World War I, Britain’s 1921 census indicated there were two million more women than men in the population. Newspapers quickly … Continue reading
‘Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas’ by Luis Ramos
'Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas' by Luis Ramos has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In this blog post, Ramos reflects on his research and explains how the book uncovers the transformative role that eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuits played in reshaping European intellectual life.
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