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Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2024)
Book Chapter
Ojebode, A. O. (2024). Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities (349-372). Cham, Switerland: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49167-2_18

Despite extensive criticisms of masculinities in Africa, mainly within sociology, critical men’s studies, masculinity studies, feminism and anthropology, there is little compelling research on the intersection between military masculinity, constructi... Read More about Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.

“Dirge to Slit Bodies”: EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku’s Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up (2024)
Book Chapter
Ojebode, A. O. (2024). “Dirge to Slit Bodies”: EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku’s Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up. . Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40754-3_14

Since the post-independent era, Nigerian literary and political activists from Fela Anikupo Kuti’s Zombie to Ken Saro-Wiwa’s “Silence Would Be Treason”, and Wole Soyinka’s The Man Die have utilized a plethora of genres to parody, protest, and provoke... Read More about “Dirge to Slit Bodies”: EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku’s Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up.

Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology (2024)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (2024). Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology. In Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity. Taylor and Francis Group

This paper argues that late antique archaeologists’ focus on space (particularly urban space) reflects the origins of late antique archaeology in challenges to paradigms of “decline” as well as the broader disciplinary histories of classical archaeol... Read More about Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology.

Leaders resisting? The very idea (2024)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P., McKay, A., & Blackmore, J. (2024). Leaders resisting? The very idea. In A. McKay, P. Thomson, & J. Blackmore (Eds.), Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration (3-23). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279334-2

While educational researchers have taken up the question of resistance, their interest is not shared by the majority of researchers in the educational leadership management and administration field. Our review of literatures within and beyond educati... Read More about Leaders resisting? The very idea.

Bargaining the Rules of Evidence (2024)
Book Chapter
Thomason, M. (2024). Bargaining the Rules of Evidence. In M. Langer, M. McConville, & L. Marsh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining & Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing

Plea bargains depend in large part on the available evidence against the defendant. Strictly speaking, these negotiations should be based only on evidence that is likely to be admissible at trial. Bargains therefore implicitly depend on the structure... Read More about Bargaining the Rules of Evidence.

Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems (2024)
Book Chapter
Goffey, A., & Fuller, M. (2024). Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems. In M. Sehgal, & A. Wilkie (Eds.), More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature (153-171). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529227819.ch010

Adopting, as its starting point for the engagement with more-than-human aesthetics, a discussion of the concept of the machinic ‘high’ to be found in the work of Félix Guattari, this chapter proposes an ‘ethico-aesthetic’ engagement with networked di... Read More about Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems.

Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment (2024)
Book Chapter
Kemp, V., & Gibson, C. (2024). Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment. In M. Langer, M. McConville, & L. Marsh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing

This Chapter examines implications for legal education and training of lawyers when working within an environment where clients are under pressure to plead guilty. After first considering the background to plea bargaining, and the increasing pressure... Read More about Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment.

Status and Progress of Nanomaterials Application in Hydrogen Storage (2024)
Book Chapter
Güleç, F., Oakley, W., Liu, X., Nayebossadri, S., Wang, F., Smith, E. K., …Lester, E. H. (2024). Status and Progress of Nanomaterials Application in Hydrogen Storage. In J. A. Okolie, E. I. Epelle, A. Mukherjee, & A. El Din Mahmoud (Eds.), Nanomaterials for Sustainable Hydrogen Production and Storage (136-165). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003371007-8

Hydrogen could be one of the long-term environmentally friendly solutions for a sustainable and clean energy future. The fundamental elements of a hydrogen economy are sustainable and clean hydrogen production, low-cost/high-capacity storage, wide di... Read More about Status and Progress of Nanomaterials Application in Hydrogen Storage.

The Tawḥīds of Ibn Taymiyya (2024)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. The Tawḥīds of Ibn Taymiyya. In W. Amin, S. Rizvi, & A. Hughes (Eds.), Islamic Perspectives on God and (Other) Monotheism(s). AMI Press

Managing flood risk in Blue-Green Cities (2024)
Book Chapter
O’Donnell, E., Dolman, N., Everett, G., Kapetas, L., Ncube, S., & Thorne, C. (2024). Managing flood risk in Blue-Green Cities. In J. Lamond, D. Proverbs, & N. Bhattacharya Mis (Eds.), Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management (97-111). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102981.00015

Blue-Green Cities manage flood risk by recreating more naturally oriented water cycles in urban areas through the restoration of natural drainage channels, reduction in impervious surfaces and implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI - for ex... Read More about Managing flood risk in Blue-Green Cities.

From streets to Sejm: Discourses of feminist protest and political change in Poland (2024)
Book Chapter
Chalupnik, M., & Brookes, G. From streets to Sejm: Discourses of feminist protest and political change in Poland. In Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan

Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike) is a grassroots campaign engaging with social, feminist and women’s rights issues in Poland. Formed in 2016 in response to proposed tightening of abortion laws, the campaign coordinated a series... Read More about From streets to Sejm: Discourses of feminist protest and political change in Poland.

Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria (2024)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2024). Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria. In M. Frangipane (Ed.), The ‘city’ across time: Emergence, developments, and social, economic political, cultural and health impact: (Rome, 8-10 June 2022) (95-115). Bardi Edizioni

Many scholars have proposed criteria for the identification of urban settlements, but such criteria are often premised on their own views of how and why towns emerged. I critically examine the use of the term ‘proto-urban’, generally employed to desc... Read More about Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2024). When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

Tracing a brief genealogy of the emergence of queer theory in Mainland China, this chapter identifies three key historical moments when queer theory travelled to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of... Read More about When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China.

Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies (2024)
Book Chapter
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. (2024). Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

This introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality provides an overview of the edited volume. In this chapter, the co-editors of the Handbook discuss the book’s disciplinary interventions and scholarly contribution, as well a... Read More about Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2024). When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

Tracing a brief genealogy of the emergence of queer theory in Mainland China, this chapter identifies three key historical moments when queer theory travelled to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of... Read More about When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China.

Syria (2024)
Book Chapter
KROPP, A. (2024). Syria. In B. Burrell (Ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire. Volume 2 ( 606-631). Wiley

Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles? (2024)
Book Chapter
Connelly, E., & Lee, C. Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles?. In Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions. Brepols Publishers

This paper answers Strabo’s question of 'what to do with nettles' by discussing the worth of nettles in select research outcomes from a project which examined the potential medicinal qualities of nettles (restricted to Urtica dioica) inspired by ear... Read More about Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles?.

Tinnitus in Children and Adolescents (2024)
Book Chapter
Nemholt, S. S., & Baguley, D. M. (2024). Tinnitus in Children and Adolescents. In W. Schlee, B. Langguth, D. De Ridder, S. Vanneste, T. Kleinjung, & A. R. Møller (Eds.), Textbook of Tinnitus ( 465-482). (Second Edition). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35647-6_39

Childhood tinnitus remains an under-researched topic area, though clinical and research interest in increasing. The literature indicates that childhood experiences of tinnitus are broadly as common as they are in adults and that in some cases it can... Read More about Tinnitus in Children and Adolescents.