books, News

University of Pittsburgh Press partners with Liverpool University Press for UK and European distribution

The University of Pittsburgh Press has appointed Liverpool Distribution Services as its exclusive print distributor for the UK and Europe, starting November 3, 2025. This partnership enhances UPP's sales, marketing, and distribution efforts, aligning with its expansion in scholarly publishing alongside other university presses that utilize LDS’s specialized services.

Journals, open access, Urban Studies

Featured in International Development Planning Review 47.2: Should indigenous knowledge in development be redefined? Lessons from the artisanal mining sector in Ghana.

'Should indigenous knowledge in development be redefined? Lessons from the artisanal mining sector in Ghana' by Alesia Dedaa Ofori and Anna Mdee is the latest Featured Article in IDPR.

Journals, News, science fiction

Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors

Science Fiction Film and Television, internationally recognized as a leader in the scholarly study of science fiction visual media, invites applications for the position of co-editor.

Enlightenment, Intellectual History

‘The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice’ by Denys Van Renen

The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post highlights its intervention as the first book-length study to analyze the genre of the picaresque as drawing attention to how the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century iterations of it respond to environmental disasters. Ultimately, the economic precarity of the genre’s low-born characters renders them more attuned to environmental precarity.