Sara Pugach, author of Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945, guest blogs about the stereotypes that continue to pervade discussions about Africa and the conflicts taking place on the continent. In today’s world, people often like to believe that we have gotten beyond the racial stereotyping and prejudices that blighted the past and led to atrocities like the Holocaust. Yet the stereotypes and prejudices of the past have…
Posts Categorized: New Releases
The first month of 2012 has been a busy one for MPublishing, with new staff members, new issues released, and a new journal (to be announced). Philosophy & Theory in Biology, open access journal in biological philosophy and theory, published the first paper in volume four: “The Paradox of Sexual Reproduction and the Levels of Selection: Can Sociobiology Shed a Light?” by Joachim Dagg. 35 new articles were added to The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, including…
The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association is the only academic journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship. In addition to selected scholarly articles, the journal also features photographs and newly discovered Lincoln letters and documents. The Association welcomes submissions on any facet of the life of Abraham Lincoln, his family, his close associates, or his legacy, among other topics. The print version is published by the University of Illinois Press. Because they no longer support…
The Journal of Muslim Mental Health is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research and clinical material, including research articles, reviews, and reflections on clincial practice relating to the mental health of Muslims in the United States and globally. It was published by Taylor & Francis for five years before the publisher ceased supporting the publication. MPublishing has taken over this journal, creating a new website for it and recently releasing the first issue…
While November saw a bounty of new published material, December was a fairly quiet month for MPublishing as we wound our way down to the University’s winter break. ARKIVOC, the open access organic chemistry journal, published 25 new articles in December. These articles are available to download for free, to all. Feminist Studies published issue 37.2. This Race and Transgender Studies special issue features a variety of scholarly articles, poetry, essays, and an interview with Latin…
Open Humanities Press (OHP) and MPublishing are pleased to announce the publication of six open access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Each title will be freely available as full-text HTML and paperback editions. In a unique collaboration, OHP, an international, scholar-run publishing collective, and MPublishing are jointly releasing the books on a rolling publication schedule beginning December 15. “We are tremendously excited with these results,” says Sigi Jöttkandt, a co-founder of…
This month, we are thankful to have such a diverse, interesting collection of new material to share with you. digitalculturebooks announced a new title: Silent Hill: The Terror Engine by Bernard Perron. This is the second book in the Landmark Video Games series. As the digitalculturebooks site indicates, this book is “both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series.” A searchable, full-text version of…
As Occupy Wall Street nears the end of its second month and the future of encampments across the country becomes an increasingly pressing question, Time magazine spoke with When Protest Makes Policy author S. Laurel Weldon for her perspective on what has become an international movement. In the article, Weldon suggested that the two most likely outcomes for any large protest movement are victory or a gradual fading.
MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing. JEP 14.2 is a special issue that gathers together poets, professors, publishers and programmers to reflect and report on the impact of digital technologies—from Blogger and Twitter to Perl and video games—on writing, publishing, and understanding poetry. The issue was guest-edited by Aaron McCollough, librarian for English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature here at the University of…
Despite the arrival of menacing Jack O’ Lanterns and ghastly ghouls, three publications fearlessly released new material this month. The Trans Asia Photography Review (TAP) published an expansive new special issue entitled The Elu[va]sive Portrait: In Pursuit of Photographic Portraiture in East Asia and Beyond. Volume 2, Issue 1 features 5 essays and interviews, 3 book reviews, 4 curatorial projects, noted recent publications, and summaries of several scholarly symposia. Ayelet Zohar, PhD was the guest…