BiblioVault

Latin American and Caribbean Library Resources in the British Isles

A Directory

Alan Biggins and Valerie Cooper

University of London Press, 2001

Legal Records at Risk

A Strategy for Safeguarding our Legal Heritage

Clare Cowling

University of London Press, 2019

Why do so few institutions in the legal sector have professional records managers or archivists on their staff? This book is the culmination of a three year project by experienced archivist and records managers on private sector legal records at risk in England at Wales. It summarises the work of the Legal Records at Risk (LRAR) project and its predecessors, diagnoses the problems of preservation of archives in the legal sector in England and Wales and outlines a national strategy for such records.

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A Liberal Tide?

Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Latin America

Edited by David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier, and Jean-Pierre Gauci

University of London Press, 2015

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regressive and restrictive attitudes on display in other parts of the world? The question is urgent not only for our understanding of contemporary Latin America but also as a means of reorienting the debate in the migration studies field toward the important developments currently taking place in the region and in other parts of the global south. This book brings together eight varied and vibrant new analyses by scholars from Latin America and beyond to form the first collection that describes and critically examines the new liberalism in Latin American law and policy on migration and refugees.

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Literature as Intervention

Challenging Normativity in the Writing of Elisabeth Reichert, Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek

Cornelia Wech

University of London Press, 2020

This study examines how the literary works of Elisabeth Reichart, Charlotte Roche, and Elfriede Jelinek challenge normativity both in their engagement with gender and sexuality and with aesthetic choices. The comparative analysis of texts published over a twenty year-period provides insights into the socio-political and cultural dynamics at the time of publication, and reveals the continuing relevance of feminist authorial voices to the present day, challenging the stable, normative understanding of feminism and feminist writing itself, and showing how literature can function as a form of intervention that provides a reflective space for readers to question norms in their own lives and to take the initiative to change these norms.

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London and beyond

Essays in honour of Derek Keene

Edited by Matthew Davies and James A. Galloway

University of London Press, 2012

This volume contains selected papers from a major conference held in October 2008 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the setting up of the Centre for Metropolitan History at the IHR, and the contribution of Professor Derek Keene to the Centre, the IHR and the wider world of scholarship.

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