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Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry (2017)
Journal Article
Roberts, G. (2017). Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry. Journal of Canadaian Studies / Revue d'études canadiennes, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.51.1.64

This article examines the representation of settlement in Canada in the wake of Idle No More in recent Anglo-Canadian literature. It argues that Idle No More engendered a new vocabulary for settler-invader citizens to position themselves in relation... Read More about Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry.

Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre (2017)
Journal Article
Heffernan, N. (2017). Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre. Film History, 29(2), 32-65. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.29.2.02

Recent scholarship exhorts film historians to attend to production cycles in order to interrogate established conceptions of genres. This essay identifies and examines a neglected cycle of gangster regeneration films that flourished between 1910 and... Read More about Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre.

“As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation (2017)
Journal Article
Heffernan, N. (2018). “As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation. Journal of American Studies, 52(4), 1095-1121. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000883

In The Souls of Black Folk (1903) W. E. B. Du Bois described African American music as a “gift” to America, contesting the tendency to regard white interest in black culture as appropriation or theft. Yet this metaphor invoked the complex circuits of... Read More about “As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation.

Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009 (2017)
Journal Article
Ryan, M. (2017). Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009. International Politics, 54(5), 561-582. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0054-8

This article challenges the common characterisation of George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “unilateral.” It argues that the Bush administration developed a new post-9/11 understanding of terrorism as a transnational, networked phenomenon shaped by the... Read More about Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009.

Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s (2017)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2017). Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s. Diplomatic History, 41(4), 799-823. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhx029

This article focuses on John Foster Dulles's engagement with religion and the role it played in his worldview. In doing so, it argues that his embrace of Christian internationalism should be seen as a part of an intellectual progression shaped by Pra... Read More about Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s.

The 'war on terror' and the new periphery (2017)
Book Chapter
Ryan, M. (2017). The 'war on terror' and the new periphery. In B. Sewell, & M. Ryan (Eds.), Foreign policy at the periphery: the shifting margins of international relations since World War II. University Press of Kentucky

This chapter exmaines the emergence of 'peripheral' fronts in the Bush administration's 'war on terror.' Since this 'war' was conceived from its inception as global in scope, it permitted the development of both 'core' and 'peripheral' fronts - the l... Read More about The 'war on terror' and the new periphery.