Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.  Meer

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.  Meer

A study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation -- .  Meer

Focusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, this book explores the complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities and the cultural politics of their representation, seen as a neglected dimension of conflict transformation in the Northern Irish peace process.  Meer