UCL Press Round-up for February 2020
February has been a really exciting, and busy, month at UCL Press, we’ve published a brand new online resource, Case Studies in Perioperative Medicine, and 4 more titles – across the built environment, literature, popular culture and heritage studies fields. For more information on all of these publications, and links to their free content, please keep reading.
Case Studies in Perioperative Medicine
Edited by Dr Anas Zyada and Professor David Walker
Case Studies in Perioperative Medicine is hosted on our innovative, open access online content platform, and developed in collaboration leading practitioners at UCL’s Centre for Perioperative Medicine. It explores clinically relevant issues, offers authoritative guidance and provides a wide variety of learning opportunities for both students and practising clinicians in perioperative medicine, by experts and practitioners from all over the world.
Each succinct, peer-reviewed, clinical case study is written in a comprehensible and engaging style and focuses on a single question, prefaced with a brief case history, providing a clinical context to the question being answered. Included within the case studies will be an opportunity for readers to interact with links, images, infographics and short videos, to improve knowledge retention and reader understanding.
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Re-Writing Language
How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use
Christiane Luck
Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer: by engaging readers with the issue, literary texts can help to raise awareness and thereby promote wider linguistic change.
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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
Edited by James Scorer
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. The book demonstrates the importance of studying how comics circulate in all manner of ways beyond print media. It also reminds us of the need to think about the creative role of comics in societies with less established comics markets than in Europe, the US and Asia.
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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
Edited by Udo Grashoff
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
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Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
Construction, Transformation and Destruction
Edited by Veysel Apaydin
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.
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UCL Press Journals
We’re pleased to announce that 4 of our journals have been accepted into the DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals. This gives our authors even greater exposure and makes it easier for our readers to find all openaccess articles
These journals are now indexed in DOAJ: Architecture_MPS, Radical Americas, Europe and the World: A law review and International Journal of Social Pedagogy (IJSP).
To find out more about the 8 Open Access journals we publish, and to download any of their recent content, take a closer look here.