• Peripheralisation and Economic Development: A Multi-Causal Approach 

  Willett, J; Williams, M; Akerman, L; et al. (Routledge, 2025)

  The concept of peripheralisation explores the agency of peripheries to address uneven development, considering the power dynamics, and material and discursive processes which underpin how peripheries become more (or less) ...

• Was the paranormal good for physics? 

  Noakes, R (Nature Research, 17 January 2025)

  The paranormal looms large in pop culture — witness the phenomenon of the Paranormal Activity film franchise — and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was of interest to many scientists. What does this history ...

• What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies 

  Cianetti, L; Del Panta, G; Owen, C (Routledge, 3 April 2025)

  This article examines how scholars use the concept of “regime” in comparative politics to provide stronger conceptual foundations for the future development of regime studies. We analyse 196 articles in five leading political ...

• What is the post-industrial rural for? Intangible cultural heritage, rural world-making and core-periphery imaginaries 

  Willett, J (Routledge, 2025)

  In common with many other areas of Europe connected with national minority cultures, each of the case study regions is considered to be geographically both peripheral and rural. Within these settings, the insider-outsider ...

• The Iraq War at 20: Anniversary journalism, British cultural memory, and the politics of closure 

  Pennell, C; Kempshall, C; Kupper, G (Routledge, 7 January 2025)

  Anniversaries are important milestones. Acting as a temporal bridge, they are a moment whereby certain understandings of the past can be naturalised in the present. In the case of war commemoration, this is of particular ...

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