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This month Bloomsbury Collections features titles on elections. Explore titles below to learn more about elections, voting, organized politics, and political campaigns from a few different places around the world, some of which have recent or upcoming elections or have announced changes to voting laws.
Does the accuracy of the information in political advertising matter—to voting behavior or vote choice––whether turnout goes up or down? Would voting more, while knowing less that is true be sufficient in a democracy? Truth in Advertising? examines how the accuracy of political ad claims, the visuals and sound of ads, and ad tone (particularly negativity) are related to voting behavior, showing the importance of understanding how the accuracy of political ad claims affects voters.
Read this chapter to explore the role of audio and visual elements in political advertising.
Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: to freely associate, to form opinions, and to express them online without fear of violence or arrest. Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech using examples from across the continent.
This chapter analyses the emergence of digital citizenship and asks the question of how Namibian citizens used social media to hold politicians accountable during the 2019 election.
Modern political campaigns are more professional, technologically advanced, and responsive to changing conditions than ever before in human history. In this book, readers will learn how campaigns are organized, state-of-the-art tools of the trade, and how some of the most interesting people in politics got their big breaks. It combines academic insights and practical advice to show how elections are won.
Read this chapter to learn about how data and analytics are used in political campaigns, including voter files, owned data, and predictive modeling.
In July 2025, the UK government announced plans to lower the voting age to 16. Want to learn more about the arguments behind this decision and what can be down to inform and empower young voters? This book explores the arguments and evidence for lowering the voting age.
In this chapter, learn about how citizenship education can be enhanced to support the introduction of votes at 16.
This book argues that the bureaucracy and the Commission on Elections in the Philippines is dysfunctional and covers the impact of corruption on how the state operates. This book uses the unprecedented May 2010 synchronized automation of elections—an attempt at electoral engineering—to better understand the lingering paradox of Philippine politics and its public administration system.
This chapter describes the various attempts at electoral reform in the Philippines, alongside the steady increase of systemic corruption in the country and the implications of these on preserving democracy.
This month, Bloomsbury Collections features volumes from The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, newly added to the platform. The long-awaited 24-volume set adds a new layer of revisions, translations, and explanatory annotations under the executive editorship of neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, and Freud scholar Mark Solms. Explore the volumes below to learn more about what’s covered in the set.
Freud reviews the world literature on dreams and comes to the conclusion that they are valid psychological acts, with purpose and meaning. Through a deep analysis of his own dreams, he concludes that every dream is an attempt to fulfill a repressed infantile wish, and thereby to protect sleep. In this volume, we see Freud’s first description of ‘dream-work’, which includes such key processes as condensation, displacement and regression.
This volume contains Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, in which Freud formulates an entirely novel conception of human sexual development and behaviour. It opens, however, with another, equally momentous work: ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’. This was Freud’s first full-length report of a case of psychoanalytic treatment, in which he developed his theory of transference.
‘On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement’ opens this volume. By the time of its writing in 1914, Freud had parted company from Jung and Adler, despite both of the latter still claiming that their theories were psychoanalytical. Therefore, Freud set out in this work to plainly describe his psychoanalytic method in its own fundamentals and postulates, showing how Jung’s Analytical Psychology and Adler’s Individual Psychology diverge from it, and arguing that to designate all three theories as ‘psychoanalysis’ was far too confusing.
This volume contains one of Freud’s most enduring works, The Ego and the Id, a robust revision of his topographical model of the human psyche and the development of his later structural model of the mind in subsequent psychoanalysis. Freud explores the internal tensions between the ego and id, the ego and superego and the life and death drives, all of which are at odds with his earlier distinctions between consciousness and unconsciousness. The internal and external forces that give rise to the superego have a powerful effect on the ego, leading to shame and guilt.
Moses and Monotheism was one of Freud’s more controversial books which would also become his final major work. An early version was written in 1934, but unpublished due to concerns about the response from the Catholic Church. It was finally published in the shadow of World War II, during Freud’s exile in London. Taken together, the three essays assert that Moses was Egyptian royalty, murdered by his followers, and that their repressed collective guilt over this act led to a recommitment to biblical monotheistic religion.
This month, Bloomsbury Collections features titles from Philosophy, specifically in Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Explore the titles below to learn how different philosophers and schools of thought approach ethics and morality.
Leonard Harris is a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. His writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark him out as a bold cultural commentator and a deft theoretician.
Read this essay by Harris from A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader: Philosophia Nata Ex Conatu: “Insurrectionist Ethics: Advocacy, Moral Psychology, and Pragmatism” (2002) to learn more about Harris’ thoughts on ethics.
Hannah Arendt’s best-known ethical concepts are the notion of the banality of evil and the link she posits between thoughtlessness and evil, both inspired by her study of Adolf Eichmann. Hannah Arendt’s Ethics draws out the most salient aspects of Arendt’s ethics, provides a critical review of the more philosophically problematic elements, and places Arendt’s work in this area in a broader moral philosophy context, examining the issues in moral philosophy.
In the introduction, learn some context around Arendt’s life and theories and read about the ethical dimension in the her politics and thought.
In recent years there has been an increase in interest in Kant’s philosophical thought, but there remains little consensus on exactly how his ideas should be organized and understood. In Practical Kantian Ethics: A Commonsense Account of Moral Life, Donald Wilson reinterprets Kant’s moral theory through his later practical works offering a new “inner freedom” account informing obscure aspects of Kant’s formal moral philosophy.
Read this chapter to learn more about Kant’s Doctrine of Right and how it should be understood and the Doctrine of Right in the context of human nature.
Rather than having formulated an ethical theory, Agamben’s ethical statements are scattered throughout his oeuvre, leaving it to the reader to attempt a montage. Moreover, these ethical fragments vary so widely that it isn’t immediately certain that they allow for a coherent ethical theory. Agamben’s Ethics of the Happy Life: Beyond Nihilism and Morality presents a careful evaluation of Agamben’s overlooked contribution to ethics.
In this chapter, the author examines Agamben’s treatment of ethics in his work The Coming Community.
How can ancient Chinese philosophy contribute to Western discussions of moral philosophy? Covering the characteristics and significance of the Confucian ethical tradition, Confucian Ethics in Western Discourse introduces the main concepts, discusses differing perspectives of moral dilemmas and closely examines whether Confucian ethics should be considered as virtue ethics in the Western tradition.
Read this chapter for an introduction to the concept of morality in Confucian Ethics.
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Bloomsbury Philosophy Library is a digital hub that provides access to the Bloomsbury Philosophy list through subject-specific collections of key areas within the discipline. Featuring a mix of primary texts, translations, secondary literature, exclusive articles, encyclopedia entries and images, this dynamic digital platform makes it possible to study key philosophical sub-fields in depth.
This month, Bloomsbury Collections features titles on LGBTQ+ topics in honor of Pride Month. Explore the titles below to learn about LGBTQ+ identities and themes in different areas of life and culture.
Enabling LGBTQ+ people to achieve their career potential is complex. In Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work, Layla McCay explores the hidden differences that cause LGBTQ+ people to be underrepresented at the most senior levels of professional life, combining data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors.
In this sample chapter, read about being LGBTQ+ in the workplace, diversity as a performance advantage, networking, and challenges.
Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North. While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals fleeing homophobic or transphobic persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about the Global South, reinforcing colonial notions about Africa and its peoples.
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora provides new insights into the drivers and impacts of displacement linked to sexual orientation or gender identity and challenges notions about why LGBT Africans move, where they are going and their experiences.
In the introduction, the authors provide context around queer and trans mobility in Africa.
For many queer people, existing in a straight society – where life is organized around a fixed, gender binary and the assumption everyone is heterosexual – highlights who classification systems are designed to work for and who they are designed to work against. Looking across six areas, Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, documents how inclusive interventions have attempted to bring historically marginalized communities out of the shadows and the challenges LGBTQ+ people face navigating an ever-growing list of classifications, categories, and labels.
Read this chapter to learn about queer classification in the area of film and television specifically and check out the rest of the book for analysis on classification in other areas.
The health of LGBTQ+ Americans is affected by many historical achievements and failures, societal influences, economic disparities, cultural shifts, and political divisions that can greatly impact the world of medicine. LGBTQ+ and Healthcare in America examines these issues to identify the systemic factors and enduring consequences impacting these communities, including first-hand accounts from LGBTQ+ individuals impacted by healthcare challenges through "In their Words" perspective essays.
Read the first chapter for some historical context for and major factors affecting LGBTQ+ healthcare in America.
An enormous mass of LGBTQ+ printed materials has circulated – usually locally or nationally, sometimes more widely – across Europe since the advent of a widespread gay rights movement. How have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present?
Check out this chapter from Queer Print in Europe to read about a French Lesbian Press that developed in the 1980s and the connections and cultures it fostered.
Interested in more titles in this area? Download this title list to see more titles related to Gender & Sexuality on Bloomsbury Collections.
In 2025-26 Bloomsbury Open Collections will continue to offer three collections of 20 titles each, including Gender & Sexuality. Bloomsbury Open Collections is a collective-action approach to funding open access books. Learn more about Bloomsbury Open Collections here.
This month, Bloomsbury Collections features titles related to global warming and climate change. Explore climate change and environmental studies through different lenses, including history, philosophy, and more, and learn how it affects different sectors.
Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. We know the main task is to reduce our emissions as rapidly as possible to minimize the harm to the world’s population now and for generations to come. What on earth can philosophy offer us? How to Think About the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living explains how expanding our philosophical horizons can help get us with this challenge.
In this part of the book, learn about what philosophy can tell us about our relationship to “things”.
In recent years, a world championship marathon was held at midnight to avoid the blistering sun. Professional athletes needed oxygen tanks to play during wildfire season in California. Players collapsed and play was suspended amid the heat and bushfire smoke at the Australian Tennis open. Golf courses are sinking into the sea. The threat climate change poses to sport is clear, but with billions of participants and fans around the world who rely on the sector, this is one industry we don’t want to lose.
Read through this chapter of Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport to learn about the effects of climate change on ice skating.
Studying climate change and international history in tandem allows us to understand the historical and political factors that affect how we view Climate change today. Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice explains the origins of the debates around the environmental emergency, the response of political leaders attempting to address the threat, and the barriers we face in creating an international regime to resolve the climate crisis.
In this sample chapter, Ruth Morgan explores the climate diplomacy of the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the Conference of the Parties where the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997.
The advent of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda have contributed to the deepening of the concept of sustainable development within global and national policy schemes. The key concern now is how this can be achieved equitably by reconciling competing priorities and concerns of the Global South and the Global North. While the Global South countries are eager to adopt and integrate the 2030 Agenda in their respective policy frameworks, local contexts are often at odds with the global model of sustainable development.
Explore this piece from Implementation of Sustainable Development in the Global South: Strategies, Innovations, and Challenges to understand sustainable development in the context of agriculture.
Corporate environmental crime and illegal activities have become normalized within many major corporations. Arguably this is an inevitable consequence of a corporate culture that prioritizes profits and the smooth operation of market activities over environmental concerns coupled with the increased political power of major corporations that can act almost with impunity.
This chapter of Cleaning Up Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Crisis of Capitalism examines the concept of Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) and how many corporations with stated CER policies continue to commit environmental crimes.
Interested in more titles in this area? Download this title list to see more titles related to Environment and Climate Change on Bloomsbury Collections.
