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Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925 (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, T. (2016). Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925. Esprit Créateur, 56(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2016.0028

This article argues that the French sinologist Henri Cordier (1849-1926) used his private correspondence with a vast international network of diplomats, administrators, missionaries, writers and scholars of every field of Asian studies between the 18... Read More about Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925.

The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication (2016)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2016). The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication. International Journal of Communication, 5997–6016

This article explores how four British and German theatre companies that originated in the countercultural era continue to survive in an increasingly austere economic climate. Although their survival strategies have been marked by remarkable resilien... Read More about The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication.

Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality (2016)
Book Chapter
Goffey, A. (2016). Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality. In P. Harvey, C. Bruun Jensen, & A. Morita (Eds.), Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622880-45

The National Programme for IT, or NPfIT for short, was a flagship IT project of the first Labour administration initiated by Tony Blair in 2002. Headed by Richard Grainger and costing an alleged £18.7bn, it was widely billed as the ‘biggest IT project... Read More about Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality.

Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925 (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, T. (2016). Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925. Esprit Créateur, 56(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2016.0028

This article examines the French sinologist Henri Cordier’s correspondence as a form of crowdsourcing between 1875 and 1925. Cordier’s multinational and multidirectional exchanges show the vital role of letter writing in his development as a student... Read More about Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925.

‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns (2016)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2017). ‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns. Journalism, 18(10), 1346-1363. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916671159

This article examines the use of personal narratives in two tabloid newspaper campaigns against a controversial welfare reform popularly known as the ‘bedroom tax’. It aims firstly to evaluate whether the personal narratives operate as political tes... Read More about ‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns.

Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited (2016)
Book Chapter
Cullen, F. (2016). Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited. In J. Fenlon, R. Kenny, C. Pegum, & B. Rooney (Eds.), Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period: New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620-1820. Irish Academic Press

Examination of a painting produced in Dublin in 1780 of the interior of the Irish House of Commons. Explores the format of the painting and its failure as a large scale work of contemporary history. Concludes that contents of picture is a political a... Read More about Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited.

Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley, R. (in press). Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris. Oxford Art Journal, 39(2), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcw012

The article shows that the well-established association of the flaneur with art, artists is mistaken by reviewing the major primary source texts. It offers an alternative reading of the invention of the flaneur, arguing that it is rooted in early 19... Read More about Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris.