Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
In a time of volatility, complexity and uncertainty, research and education across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are critical to unlocking human creativity, to engaging in a human-centred way with the world around us, and to building the inclusive understanding that will help us to co-create a better future. The faculty is comprised of nine departments, all of which undertake fundamental discovery research, as well as applied activity and skills development and reflect areas of economic, social and cultural importance. The faculty hosts the University Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI) and the Faculty Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), which are key structures for further promoting interdisciplinarity within the faculty and across others. For more information, please visit http://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/hass/
Recent Submissions
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Automatic puppets, Toy Carts, and Robots. Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Artefacts and the Question of Automata
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Understanding Migration Power in International Studies
(Oxford University Press, 2024)Where and how does power operate in the governance of international migration? Migrants and refugees are increasingly used for strategic purposes in international politics, but scholarship on this matter has yet to ... -
Sources of Liberalism: the Geopolitics of Beauty
(Manchester University Press, 2025)The ARC grant noted a lack of attention to the emotions in scholarship on liberalism in recent Victorian literary studies. This paper duly takes up liberalism and aesthetics. While our contemporary cognitive psychology is ... -
The informal economy and the reach of policy interventions: Evidence from the COVID-19 lockdown in India
(Wiley, 6 July 2024)This essay examines the influence of the informal economy on the reach of government interventions in public health crises. It reports the results of an analysis of the self-reported suspension of business operations during ... -
Uncolonialism/Bāb Art
(Duke University Press, 1 May 2024)How can we see beyond colonialism? And how might we be able to apprehend the work of those who saw themselves as living and creating the strictures of imperial control? This article argues for an uncolonial approach to ...