All Outputs (197)

The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525 (2016)
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This essay examines the place of affectivity and emotion in Martin Luther's early theology 1513-25. After a critical discussion of the terminological complexities involved in analysing affectivity and the related category of desire in Luther's Latin... Read More about The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525.

Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual (2016)
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This chapter outlines the different conceptualisations of 'discourse' in the work of Foucault and Lacan. If Foucault's understanding has been much more influential in academic approaches such as Discourse Analysis, the links between Lacan's notion of... Read More about Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual.

Carducho and the Spanish Literary Baroque (2016)
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Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation (2016)
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Specialist artisans and commodity producers as social actors in early medieval Britain, c. AD 500-1066 (2016)
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This contribution explores the many questions that need to be asked in regard to how specialist craft-working was organised in early medieval Britain, and how specialist artisans and traders exercised initiative as social actors. A particular emphasi... Read More about Specialist artisans and commodity producers as social actors in early medieval Britain, c. AD 500-1066.

Icons of Speed - Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture (2016)
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Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
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The twenty-first century is often invoked as a period of greater sexual freedom, with restraint and traditionalism partitioned to the past. The new rights accorded to LGBTQ groups and women have cemented such a perception. But whilst some theorists (... Read More about Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms.

Troping in Mainz and the (Re-)Construction of Metropolitan Identity (2016)
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Orlando Patterson, property, and ancient slavery: the definitional question revisited (2016)
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This essay provides a critique of Orlando Patterson's analysis of property and slavery. Traditionally, the notion that the slave was the property of his or her owner was seen as the distinguishing characteristic of slavery. Patterson criticised this... Read More about Orlando Patterson, property, and ancient slavery: the definitional question revisited.

Location filmmaking and the Hong Kong crime film: anatomy of a scene (2016)
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Organising Sound: labour organisations and power struggles that helped define music and sound in Hollywood (2016)
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Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society (2016)
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© The Author(s) 2016. Drawing on the critical theories of Ernst Bloch and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, as well as on the knowledge and learning practices of counter-capitalist social movements, Amsler’s chapter offers a reading of political hopelessne... Read More about Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society.

Harriet Taylor Mill (2016)
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John Stuart Mill's System of Logic was a significant early work in the history of the philosophy of science. The goal of this essay is to characterize Mill's views concerning the central purposes of the sciences and the methods that give to scientifi... Read More about Harriet Taylor Mill.

The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum (2016)
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This Chapter addresses three questions: What is good quality university teaching? How can it be achieved? How can it be assessed? To address these questions we start by making a case for a multi-dimensional, rich conceptualisation of teaching, drawi... Read More about The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum.

Getting what we want: experience and impact in research with survivors of slavery (2016)
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This chapter examines the ethical and moral dilemmas present in conducting research within vulnerable populations. In particular, we explore the process of conducting interviews with trafficking victims that identify as transient minor sex workers. I... Read More about Getting what we want: experience and impact in research with survivors of slavery.

German global soft power, 1700-1920 (2016)
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This article provides the first overview of the reach and 'soft power' of German language and culture in Europe and beyond, from 1700 to 1920, shortly after the end of the First World War. Besides the role of the state (weak, until deliberate policie... Read More about German global soft power, 1700-1920.

 Apostles of anamnesis: the abolitionist aesthetic in early anti-Lynching protest literature (2016)
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Angel delight: Patrick Pearse and modernist experiment (2016)
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Time travels in literacy and pedagogy: from script to screen (2016)
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Judicial panel selection in the UK Supreme Court: bigger bench, more authority? (2016)
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