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China's Battler Poetry: Writing Like There's No Tomorrow
Maghiel van Crevel
China’s Battler Poetry tells the gripping story of an ‘unlikely’ genre. Building on textual and cultural analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and the collection of underground source material, it sits at the interface of the humanities and social science. It is driven by a desire to understand poetry as both art and social practice, looking at its words through the lifeworlds of its authors and the other way around.
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Tourism and the Metropolis: Exploring Conceptual and Geographical Frontiers
Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy
The growing role and relevance of tourism in cities – and of cities in tourism – has in recent decades emerged as a topic of great interest to scholars across many social sciences disciplines. Yet, while urban tourism research has flourished, various issues relating to tourism in metropolitan contexts are in need of greater scholarly engagement.
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The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
A refereed online, open access journal, it is located within a dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and practice. Whilst focused within legal study, the areas it encompasses are necessarily interdisciplinary -- Entertainment Law, Media Law, Sports Law, IP Law, and Licensing Law.
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Active Travel Studies
Active Travel Studies is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal intended to provide a source of authoritative research on walking, cycling and other forms of active travel.
Read free onlineUniversity of Westminster Press (UWP) is a digital-first open access publisher of peer reviewed academic books, policy briefs and journals. UWP exists to provide global public access to academic work in multiple formats.
News and Events
Fewer book sales but more audience reach; why I chose open access publishing
By Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Published October 22nd, 2026
Tourism and the Metropolis explores the future of urban tourism – and anyone can read how
By Kyla Davis
Published October 19th, 2026
Ground-breaking new ‘blue humanities’ publication coming soon
We’re excited to announce Deep Maps: Blue Humanities, a truly innovative publication which UWP will be releasing later this spring.
Published April 16th, 2026