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Bloomsbury is celebrating 750+ open access titles on Bloomsbury Collections!
An early adopter and advocate of open access for books, Bloomsbury has been committed to developing sustainable open access publishing routes and publishing high-quality open access research across the arts, humanities, and social sciences for 18 years and counting.
To celebrate this milestone and International Open Access week, browse the titles below to explore the depth and breadth of our open access publishing, including some titles from our Bloomsbury Open Collections programme, our collective-action approach to funding open access books.
Paranormal Britain is the most systematic study available of the nature and scope of paranormal beliefs, experiences, and subcultures in contemporary Britain. Using original survey data from British citizens regarding their beliefs and experiences with UFOs, ghosts, psychics, and other paranormal phenomena, this book details the prevalence and patterns of paranormalism in the U.K.
In this chapter, read about one of the U.K.’s most haunted locations.
The Ecology of Food is a multidisciplinary collection of short, digestible expert essays offering a uniquely rounded introduction to the key contemporary issues around sustainable nutrition. Economists, historians, sociologists, physical biologists, and others present a series of reflections on what food is, how it functions in our societies, how we understand it, and how this has changed over time.
Read this chapter to learn about how food habits have changed due to societal changes, standardized food styles, and changing relationships with food.
Upcycling is a design, business and social practice and—when done with care—it can reduce solid wastes, increase resource and material efficiency, and lower industrial energy consumption, with an aim towards net zero. Exploring themes of design and production, products and systems, and making and consumption, this book provides new theories, perspectives, approaches, and research findings at the cutting edge of global upcycling research.
In this chapter, read about a product designer in Hong Kong designing with waste, including used carpets, old wallpaper sample books, broken bicycle tires, and more.
Bloomsbury makes more new titles globally accessible through our library-funded open access initiative, Bloomsbury Open Collections. Through this model, we make open access publication available to a more diverse set of authors by spreading the cost across multiple organisations, while providing additional benefits to participating libraries.
Explore some of those titles below:
Gathering scholarly voices and case studies from 10 sub-Saharan African countries, Media Accountability and Corruption in Africa looks at how media influences governance, accountability, and public perceptions of corruption on the continent. The book offers an outline of the media's role in corruption in sub-Saharan Africa, then guides readers along as it examines specific countries and issues.
In this chapter, read about journalism and reporting on corruption in Ghana.
In Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine, scholars, artists and activists from around the world expose systems of oppression they come up against with despair, fear, exhaustion, and rage. Instead of fixing what’s trying to break them, they call out violent norms in order to make them assailable and ultimately overcome them. It strives to improve equality and equity for different bodies by exploring how we move through and negotiate with the world around us.
Explore the use of social media by disabled people as a powerful platform for activism and community-building in this chapter.
Higher Flight offers a much-needed critical assessment of the current state of Black/Africana studies in order to chart a path forward. It clarifies and refines the distinctive approaches that currently define the field; shows how creative production in particular can serve as a unique means of cultural analysis and political mobilization; and suggests how to restore the balance between intellectual inquiry and direct action in order to improve the actual lived experiences of people of African descent.
Read this chapter to learn about the current state of the global reparations movement.
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