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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 5h
Really looking forward to our event later this evening! We'll be live posting so do follow along...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 7h
New article in Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: "Methodology in Feminist Economics: A Historical Account" by Ritwika Patgiri: doi.org/10.16995/RHE...
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Methodology in Feminist Economics: A Historical Account
This paper explores the evolution and methodology of feminist economics. Early feminist economics was shaped by a sustained critique of positivist notions of objectivity, value-neutrality, and rationa...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 29/09/2026
The OLH has joined the Library Publishing Coalition’s Strategic Affiliates Program! We look forward to strengthening connections across the library publishing and open access community and working together toward a more open and equitable future. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/1023/
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OLH joins Library Publishing Coalition’s Strategic Affiliates Program
The Open Library of Humanities has joined the Library Publishing Coalition’s Strategic Affiliates Program, strengthening our connections with the international library and open access academic publish...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 29/09/2026
New publication in Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: "Rosenstein-Rodan’s Interpretations of Chile in the First Half of the 1970s" by Diogo Alberto de Moraes et al.: doi.org/10.16995/RHE... Published as part of the 2025 ALAHPE Conference Collection
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Rosenstein-Rodan’s Interpretations of Chile in the First Half of the 1970s
This paper examines how Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan, a pioneer of development economics, interpreted the Chilean experience during the final months of Salvador Allende’s presidency and the early peri...
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How do you persuade your institution to fund open access? Join us on 22 October (11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST) for a free Open Access Week webinar with colleagues from the University of Essex and TU Delft, plus the Open Book Collective. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Navy promotional graphic with a magenta diagonal panel on the right. Text reads: Open Access Week, Free Webinar. Making the case: how libraries justify support for open access. Speakers: Hannah Crago, Open Access Service Manager, University of Cambridge; Louise Otting, Collections & License Manager, TU Delft; Caroline Ball, Community Engagement Lead, Open Book Collective. Event details in a light panel: Thursday 22 October 2026, 11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST, on Zoom, free to register. Open Book Collective logo bottom right.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 28/09/2026
New @intransition.bsky.social issue, featuring 9 new #videoessays on topics including Red Desert, One Night in Miami, surveillance footage, visual representations of sound, feminist zombie narratives, the British cine-club movement, and Before Sunrise 🔗 intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1969/i...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 28/09/2026
New publication in Orbit: A Journal of American Literature: "Orchestrating the Furies: Feminist Ceremonial Rage in Contemporary US Slam Poetry" by Marianne Kongerslev: doi.org/10.16995/orb...
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Orchestrating the Furies: Feminist Ceremonial Rage in Contemporary US Slam Poetry
This article explores the affective and political power of rage in contemporary U.S. slam poetry, focusing on performances by racialized women poets. Drawing on Audre Lorde’s concept of a “symphony of...
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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New issue just launched, with nine new video essays on topics including Red Desert, One Night in Miami, surveillance footage, visual representations of sound, feminist zombie narratives, the British cine-club movement, and Before Sunrise! Check them out: intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1969/i...
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[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 3(13) (2026)
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 26/09/2026
Check out the latest articles published in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social: www.glossa-journal.o...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 25/09/2026
Latest from Digital Studies/Le champ numérique: “Sustainability, Sound, and Sites: Case Studies in Reconciling Minimal Computing Practices with the Preservation and Presentation of Audio Media” by Catherine Ilona Bevan et al.:
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Sustainability, Sound, and Sites: Case Studies in Reconciling Minimal Computing Practices with the Preservation and Presentation of Audio Media
How can we design sustainable web projects involving audio? While minimal computing workflows and the Endings Project provide an excellent general foundation for developing sustainable sites, most minimal projects are geared towards images and text with little regard to the complexities of audio. Additionally, minimal computing’s insistence on pruning dependencies can clash with complex institution-run repositories for preserving multimedia. How might we adapt minimal computing practices to accommodate the unique needs of preserving and presenting audiovisual collections? This paper presents two case studies preparing oral/aural history websites: SpokenWeb UAlberta and Work Life in Canada. Developing these two audiovisual collections proved an exercise in give-and-take, not only between the presentation of audio files and minimal computing/sustainability, but even between minimal computing and sustainability. After introducing sustainability, minimal computing, and the complexities of presenting audio, we discuss the lessons learned and the steps taken to reconcile their competing differences, including custom HTML and JavaScript, the parallel implementation of repositories, project-appropriate file compression, and more. Comment concevoir des projets web durables intégrant de l’audio ? Si les méthodes de travail de l’informatique minimale et l’Endings Project constituent une excellente base générale pour développer des sites durables, la plupart des projets minimalistes sont conçus avant tout pour les images et le texte et tiennent peu compte des difficultés propres à l’audio. En outre, l’insistance de l’informatique minimale sur la réduction des dépendances peut entrer en conflit avec les dépôts complexes, gérés par des institutions, destinés à la préservation des contenus multimédias. Comment pourrait-on adapter les pratiques de l’informatique minimale afin de répondre aux besoins particuliers de la préservation et de la présentation des collections audiovisuelles ? Cet article présente deux études de cas consacrées à la préparation de sites d’histoire orale/aurale : SpokenWeb UAlberta et Work Life in Canada. Le développement de ces deux collections audiovisuelles s’est révélé être un exercice de concessions mutuelles, non seulement entre la présentation des fichiers audio et l’informatique minimale/la durabilité, mais aussi entre l’informatique minimale et la durabilité elles-mêmes. Après avoir présenté la durabilité, l’informatique minimale et les difficultés liées à la présentation de contenus audio, nous examinons les enseignements tirés ainsi que les mesures prises pour concilier leurs exigences parfois concurrentes, notamment le recours à du HTML et du JavaScript sur mesure, la mise en œuvre parallèle de dépôts, une compression des fichiers adaptée au projet, entre autres solutions.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 24/09/2026
"Calling the Mountains in East and West: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis on the Language of German Climbing Communities" by Katharina Claudia Hummel & Robert Cornelis Schuppe: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, Seismic Shifts in Mountaineering
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Calling the Mountains in East and West: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis on the Language of German Climbing Communities
Across Germany, cultural and linguistic norms in climbing communities differ significantly. Many of the differences which developed during the separation of the country into two independent states can...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 24/09/2026
New publication in the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social: "External legitimacy as a bridge over troubled waters: International organizations, employment relations and the State" by Sari Madi (@sarimadi.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/ilr... Also available in French and Spanish
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External legitimacy as a bridge over troubled waters: International organizations, employment relations and the State
This article examines employment relations (ER) reform initiatives in Lebanon between 2000 and 2019, focusing on those directly and indirectly initiated by international organizations. It analyses the...
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Sari Madi @sarimadi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣 I am very pleased to see this article out in @ilr-rit.bsky.social. It reflects on employment relations reforms at the intersection of national and international influences. doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
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External legitimacy as a bridge over troubled waters: International organizations, employment relations and the State
This article examines employment relations (ER) reform initiatives in Lebanon between 2000 and 2019, focusing on those directly and indirectly initiated by international organizations. It analyses the...
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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎉 Open Book Publishers is 18 today! 🎉 To celebrate this milestone & reflect on 18 years of publishing Diamond #OpenAccess books, we share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years' on our experience as an independent, scholar-led #OA press Enjoy & raise a glass of your drink of choice with us! buff.ly/jOJAfYR
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18 Thoughts for 18 Years: A Birthday Message from OBP
Open Book Publishers (OBP) turns eighteen today! As we reach our maturity as official publishing ‘adults’, we have dipped into our story so far and pulled out eighteen pieces of advice for anyone…
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Rebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wrote in @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus about Diamond Open Access in the UK. Give it a read and check out these incredibly vital OA initiatives: @oipassoc.bsky.social, @ojcollective.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @eudch.bsky.social. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/diamo...
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Diamond open access publishing: what it is and how to do it
For researchers interested in publishing their work with no fees for authors or readers, diamond open access publishing could be the answer. Here is a guide to the basics
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Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
v1.8.2 of Janeway is now up! Contains mainly some bugfixes. github.com/openlibhums/...
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Release v1.8.2 Daedalus · openlibhums/janeway
What's Changed Fix an inaccurate help message when adding an author by @joemull in #5499 Fix a bug that broke the ORCID affiliation getter by @joemull in #5457 Fixes a bug that caused imported aut...
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today at Copim we're reflecting on 'community' & 'collectivity' in #OpenAccess - & #OA marketing - & revisiting this post from 2024 when the #OAWeek theme was 'Community over commercialisation' How can we tell when these terms are buzzwords or meaningful principles? buff.ly/eAmRGen #OASPA2026
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 23/09/2026
New article in C21 Literature / @c21literature.bsky.social: "‘It’s Not My Life’: Social Mobility and the Melancholia of Class in Naomi Booth’s Exit Management and Natasha Brown’s Assembly" by Konstantin Helm & Mark Schmitt: doi.org/10.16995/c21...
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‘It’s Not My Life’: Social Mobility and the Melancholia of Class in Naomi Booth’s <em>Exit Management</em> and Natasha Brown’s <em>Assembly</em>
This article analyses narratives of upward social mobility in two recent English novels, Exit Management (2020) by Naomi Booth and Assembly (2021) by Natasha Brown. It identifies various trajectories ...
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Next weds! 📆
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 22/09/2026
New publication: "Blue Infrastructures: Reading Victorian Sailor Writing as Oceanic Ecofiction" by Hannah Pardey: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies
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Blue Infrastructures: Reading Victorian Sailor Writing as Oceanic Ecofiction
The article brings infrastructure studies into dialogue with the blue humanities to examine how Victorian sailor writing appropriates the generic conventions of narrating the sea. Building on original...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 21/09/2026
New publication: "‘Drowning is a very prosaic arrangement’: Narrating the shipwreck in the age of steam" by Jonathan Stafford: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies
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‘Drowning is a very prosaic arrangement’: Narrating the shipwreck in the age of steam
The introduction of steam propulsion to transnational shipping in the second quarter of the 19th century marked a profound infrastructural shift, fundamentally reshaping global mobilities and the cult...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 19/09/2026
New in the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social: "How States govern platform work: An evaluation of regulatory approaches in Latin America" by Luciana Zorzoli: doi.org/10.16995/ilr... Also available in French and Spanish
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How States govern platform work: An evaluation of regulatory approaches in Latin America
In this article, I examine recent laws regulating platform work in Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. Drawing on legal and policy documents and interviews with key informants, I develop a multi-dimensional framework for comparing how these laws distribute rights, obligations and risks, considering eight dimensions: (1) employment status and legal classification; (2) regulatory scope and coverage; (3) access to social protection; (4) platform firms’ obligations and employers’ responsibilities; (5) algorithmic management; (6) data rights; (7) freedom of association and collective bargaining; and (8) enforcement institutions and accountability mechanisms. Most of the reforms examined recognize platform workers through differentiated regimes that preserve platform exceptionalism, fragment social protection and collective rights, and address algorithmic management and workplace data primarily through procedural safeguards. Mexico is moving towards integrating platform work into the architecture of labour protection, whereas Argentina exemplifies what I refer to as “regulatory recoupling” through its relocation under civil-commercial regulation. Given the recent adoption of the ILO Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention, 2026 (No. 193), the article offers a preliminary assessment of these regulatory trajectories against the new standard.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 18/09/2026
New in the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social: "The impact of the minimum wage on gross employment flows: An analysis at province level in Spain" by Ana María Silva, José María Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano: doi.org/10.16995/ilr... Also available in French and Spanish
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The impact of the minimum wage on gross employment flows: An analysis at province level in Spain
This study investigates the effect of the minimum wage on gross employment flows, focusing on hiring and employment separations, as well as on net employment outcomes. Using aggregate data from an administrative data source covering Spanish provinces from 2015 to 2023, we find a significant negative effect of the minimum wage on hires and separations in provinces where a larger share of minimum wage earners exists compared to other provinces. However, the net employment effect, although positive, is close to zero, indicating that the size of the reduction in hires and separations is similar. Furthermore, a rise in minimum wage incidence leads to an increase in hiring and separations among part-time time workers, while it reduces them among full-time workers. The effects, although statistically significant, are small and economically negligible.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 17/09/2026
Now published in Open Screens: '“Don’t Tell Mama”: Empathic Unsettlement and the Body as Living Archive in Sharp Objects' by Chiara Quaranta and Silvia Angeli: doi.org/10.16995/OS....
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“Don’t Tell Mama”: Empathic Unsettlement and the Body as Living Archive in <em>Sharp Objects</em>
This article considers the mini-series Sharp Objects (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2018) through Dominick LaCapra’s notion of “empathic unsettlement”. This concept defines an empathic experience in which the ima...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 17/09/2026
C21 Literature: Then & Now Join @c21literature.bsky.social online on 30th September at 5pm (GMT+1) to celebrate the republication of the journal’s first three volumes: Programme and tickets here: www.openlibhums.org/news/1021/
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Online event: C21 Literature: Then &amp; Now
Online event C21 Literature: Then &amp; Now C21 Literature is celebrating the republication of its first three volumes. C21 Literature is the official journal of the British Association for Contempora...
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🗣️ New article! Konstantin Helm & Mark Schmitt on Social Mobility in Naomi Booth’s Exit Management and Natasha Brown’s Assembly doi.org/10.16995/c21...
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‘It’s Not My Life’: Social Mobility and the Melancholia of Class in Naomi Booth’s <em>Exit Management</em> and Natasha Brown’s <em>Assembly</em>
This article analyses narratives of upward social mobility in two recent English novels, Exit Management (2020) by Naomi Booth and Assembly (2021) by Natasha Brown. It identifies various trajectories ...
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please do join us for this event online 30th September 5-7 celebrating the republication of our first three volumes. Programme and tickets here:
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C21 Literature: Then & Now
C21 Literature is celebrating the republication of its first three volumes.
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Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Open Journals Collective's Executive Director Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social was recently interviewed by Research Professional about our $711,900 grant from the Gates Foundation! You can read more at: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
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Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative - Research Professional News
Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 16/09/2026
New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social > “Second Personal Politics and Political Authenticity” by Samuel A. Mortimer: doi.org/10.16995/pp....
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Second Personal Politics and Political Authenticity
Authenticity is widely invoked as a central force in modern politics. Yet contemporary philosophical accounts usually portray authenticity as a distinctly individualistic ideal, arising from a Romanti...
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Political Philosophy Journal @polphiljournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New article in Political Philosophy: "Second Personal Politics and Political Authenticity" by Samuel Mortimer (Kyoto), available open-access at politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/2...
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Second Personal Politics and Political Authenticity
Authenticity is widely invoked as a central force in modern politics. Yet contemporary philosophical accounts usually portray authenticity as a distinctly individualistic ideal, arising from a Romanti...
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Political Philosophy Journal @polphiljournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New article in Political Philosophy: "Enforceability, Legitimacy, and the Right to do Wrong" by Thomas Sinclair (Oxford), available open-access at politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/2...
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Enforceability, Legitimacy, and the Right to do Wrong
This article addresses the puzzle of enforceability: why are some moral duties enforceable and others not—and which are which? After raising doubts about “duty-first” approaches that approach the puzz...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 15/09/2026
Now published in Open Screens: “Constructing Childhood on Screen: The Social Gaze and the Cinematic Child in François Truffaut’s Les quatre cents coups” by Polychronis Giannikopoulos: doi.org/10.16995/OS....
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Constructing Childhood on Screen: The Social Gaze and the Cinematic Child in François Truffaut’s <em>Les quatre cents coups</em>
This article examines the cinematic representation of childhood in François Truffaut’s Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), framing it as a socially and historically constructed concept. Thro...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 14/09/2026
New in Open Screens: "Beyzai’s Bashu: Exploring Tuchés of Iranian Body" by Amir Barati: doi.org/10.16995/OS....
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Beyzai’s Bashu: Exploring <em>Tuchés</em> of Iranian Body
Bahram  Beyzaie’s 1989  film, Bashu: The Little Stranger, presents  a  distinct  portrayal  of  the  social suffering endured by Iranian civilians during the Iran-Iraq war. Through this work, Beyzaie ...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 14/09/2026
New Issue Out Now! Explore the Journal of Embodied Research (JER) 9, featuring new work in #videographic scholarship and embodied research. Includes six peer-reviewed video articles and two curated video essays. 🔗 jer.openlibhums.org/issue/1976/i...
Cover of the Journal of Embodied Research, Volume 9 Issue 1 (2026), showing a digital workspace with a small reclining figure against a black, star-like background
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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH is very pleased to announce issue 9.1 (2026), our largest yet, with six peer-reviewed video articles and two curated video essays. jer.openlibhums.org
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Journal of Embodied Research
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 12/09/2026
New publication in @freeandequal.bsky.social / Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs > "Is land special?" by David Rischel:
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Is land special?  
Recent theories of territorial justice, such as those of Avery Kolers, Margaret Moore, and Anna Stilz, are internalist accounts: they argue for distributive principles that are tailor-made for the domain of land, on the grounds that we should construct our theory of territorial justice on the basis of people’s specifically place-based interests. An alternative view is integrationist: land should be integrated into our more general account of justice, one capable of exchanging between the different domains of justice, and where locational interests are given no special priority. In this essay, I argue for the integrationist and against the internalist view. The problem for the internalist is that treating locational interests as sui generis leads to an unfair privileging of place-based over non-place-based claims. The integrationist avoids this problem but faces a natural worry: how can we distribute fairly between landowners and the landless when we cannot simply move people or land? To deal with this worry, I develop a proposal for a fair tax on land, and I defend this proposal against the objection that it is harsh to tax people for their land-holdings when this forces them to change their land-based practices or sell their land. Finally, I also consider how the rights of indigenous people fit into the integrationist account.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 11/09/2026
Another year and another away day gone! Lots of exciting updates and plans for the future, and many interesting conversations with our growing Janeway/OLH team!
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 10/09/2026
"The Soviet-Ukrainian Magazine Chervonyi Perets Imagines Fighters for the Independence of Ukraine" by Kostiantyn Raikhert: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the Special Collection Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes
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The Soviet-Ukrainian Magazine <em>Chervonyi Perets</em> Imagines Fighters for the Independence of Ukraine
This article examines how the Soviet Ukrainian satirical magazine Chervonyi Perets employed the image of the Zaporizhzhian Cossack to represent and discredit fighters for the independent Ukrainian nat...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 09/09/2026
New article in C21 / @c21literature.bsky.social: "Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know" by Marco Caracciolo:
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Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s <em>What We Can Know</em>
Climate change is often framed as an intractable or ‘wicked’ problem, with the temporal scope of the crisis being one of the key challenges. This article explores how climate fiction can deploy nonlinear narrative in tandem with creative metaphorical language to capture this temporal complexity. My example is Ian McEwan’s 2025 novel What We Can Know. In McEwan’s work, spatial metaphors inspired by geology and archaeology convey multiple climate temporalities and the ethical stakes of their convergence. More specifically, the novel links an experience of moral implication to a writer’s criminal behavior, resulting in a satire of literature’s complicity in environmental destruction.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 08/09/2026
New review in C21 / @c21literature.bsky.social: "The Poetics and Aesthetics of Migration: New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Mobility Literature" by Rahul Bishnoi: doi.org/10.16995/c21...
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The Poetics and Aesthetics of Migration: New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Mobility Literature
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🗣️ New article! Marco Caracciolo, 'Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know' #CliFi c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s <em>What We Can Know</em>
Climate change is often framed as an intractable or ‘wicked’ problem, with the temporal scope of the crisis being one of the key challenges. This article explores how climate fiction can deploy nonlin...
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chuffed to announce our online event to celebrate the republication of our first three volumes! Please do join us to hear from some our early contributors in discussion with those from more recent issues. 30th September 5-7. Details below:
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
OLH flips another journal away from Taylor & Francis!
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 07/09/2026
We’re delighted to announce that the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) will join OLH in Spring 2027, moving from Taylor & Francis to our diamond open access model and becoming OLH’s first law journal! Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/986/
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OLH flips Oxford University journal away from a commercial publisher
This September, OLH welcomes another journal that is flipping from a commercial publishing model. The Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) will leave Taylor and Francis and move to OLH …
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 03/09/2026
This announcement is fantastic news for the diamond OA community! We're proud to be a publishing member of @ojcollective.bsky.social & to work with international colleagues to build a more resilient ecosystem of non-profit publishing.
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
MAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 03/09/2026
New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social > “Legal Lynching, Artificial Virtues and To Kill a Mockingbird” by Ward E. Jones:
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Legal Lynching, Artificial Virtues and<em> To Kill a Mockingbird</em>
Theoretical and empirical work provides us with multiple models for explaining why people perpetrate or are complicit in injustice, and a familiar taxonomy distinguishes models of injustice which appeal to common or collective individual psychologies from those which utilize social practices, institutions, and status. In recent years, a well-known fictional wrongdoing with historical antecedents has mistakenly entered the philosophical imaginary as a paradigm case of prejudice-caused collective injustice. Critics and philosophers alike have portrayed the 1930s Southern white jurors in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, who unanimously sentence a black man to death in the face of decisive evidence of his innocence, as too racially prejudiced to believe his word over that of his white accusers. Both the novel and the historical record suggest otherwise. My alternative explanation relies on the model of social normativity developed by David Hume in Book 3 of the Treatise, a model which in my view deserves more attention in this discourse. Humean conventions are exceptionless norms which arise and persist in a population, along with associated ‘artificial’ virtues and vices. I argue that the expectations of one Humean convention – the white prohibition on interracial relationships – leaves the jurors with no reasonable choice but to violate another – obedience to government officials – a practice oriented toward ensuring a fair trial for the defendant. Knowledge of Humean conventions at work in the segregated US South obliges us to reconsider the role of bias not only in Mockingbird, but in any society divided by enforced and exceptionless norms. 
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 31/08/2026
Latest from @theparishreview.bsky.social / The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies > "The Biopolitics of Sleep and Food in Brian O’Nolan’s At Swim-Two-Birds and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” by Marianne O'Kane Boal:
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The Biopolitics of Sleep and Food in Brian O’Nolan’s <em>At Swim-Two-Birds</em> and Aldous Huxley’s <em>Brave New World</em>
According to Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish, the regulation of fundamental human needs such as sleep and food is a central aspect of disciplinary power imposed by state systems and institutions. This regulation, coupled with the on-going presence of surveillance in daily life, is designed to produce compliant ‘docile bodies.’ Where there is any threat of dissent in a biopoliticised society, the internalisation of surveillance and self-governance ensures that the majority of people police themselves. Surveillance and authority are threads throughout Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds which contain commentary on, and oversight of, sleep, food, and drink. Hierarchical control at state-level in the form of biopower is demonstrated as dangerous in Brave New World through its depiction of an engineered society. At Swim-Two-Birds responds to state control through the anarchic structure of the novel itself and its resistance to categorisation. Both texts rebel against the cultural context within which they appear. Within Huxley and O’Nolan’s works, fundamentals of life are ambiguous, turned upside down, and divested of potential. Sleep is restless and stripped of its comfort and restorative dimension. It is either managed and controlled or serves as a time for characters to stage a trade union-type rebellion. Food is stripped of its cultural richness, relational dimension, and commensality. I argue in this article that the pleasure of sleep and food is replaced by governmentality and control. Through biopower, limitations have been imposed on sleep and food and this determines the landscape of the novels as sites of control and resistance.
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 28/08/2026
New article in Laboratory Phonology / @labphon.bsky.social: “Beyond VOT – phonation as a correlate of the laryngeal contrast in Polish” by Geoffrey Schwartz et al.:
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Beyond VOT – phonation as a correlate of the laryngeal contrast in Polish
This article presents an acoustic experiment describing the effects of word-initial stop consonantvoicing on the realization of the following vowel in Polish. We provide data from 30 speakersand include a wide range of acoustic measures of voice quality, fundamental frequency, and thefirst formant of the vowel. Trajectories estimated with Generalized Additive Mixed Models andthe results of a Principal Components Analysis reveal that word-initial voiceless stops in Polishinduce slightly breathier modal phonation than voiced stops, particularly over the early portionof vowel duration. We also observe higher f0 and F1 frequencies at vowel onset after voicelessstops. Taken together, our results are suggestive of an active phonetic effect of voicelessnesson the acoustics of the following vowel. Implications of these results for current models oflaryngeal phonology are discussed.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 26/08/2026
Can't believe it's been nearly five months since we held this webinar on graphic scholarship www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHv...
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The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship
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