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Technology and femininity in Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine (2019)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2019). Technology and femininity in Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine. Modernist Cultures, 14(2), 236-259. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0252

This article examines the intersection of technology and femininity in Marcel L’Herbier’s 1924 silent film L’Inhumaine, focusing on the film’s articulation of a figure of machine-woman who may be read as alternately inhuman and posthuman. The article... Read More about Technology and femininity in Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine.

Collision and collusion: contrasting representations of the translator-author relationship in two contemporary Francophone novels (2018)
Journal Article
Mevel, P., & Cornelio, D. (2018). Collision and collusion: contrasting representations of the translator-author relationship in two contemporary Francophone novels. TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, 29(1), 139–160. https://doi.org/10.7202/1050711ar

Here we will focus on French writer Brice Matthieussent’s 2009 Vengeance du Traducteur and Québécois Jacques Poulin’s 2006 La traduction est une histoire d’amour which present apparently contradictory viewpoints on the role of the translator and tran... Read More about Collision and collusion: contrasting representations of the translator-author relationship in two contemporary Francophone novels.

Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921 (2018)
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Grocott, C. A., Stockey, G., & Grady, J. (2018). Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921. Labor History, 59(6), 692-719. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2018.1470064

This article examines labour organisation in Gibraltar and its hinterland from c.1902-1921. It demonstrates that the traditionally strong links which had existed between organisations in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain - links based upon a shared be... Read More about Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921.

The history of language learning and teaching in Britain (2018)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2018). The history of language learning and teaching in Britain. Language Learning Journal, 46(1), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2017.1382052

This article provides an overview, based on the most recent research available, of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Britain. After an overview of the state of research, we consider which languages have been learnt, why, and ho... Read More about The history of language learning and teaching in Britain.

An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob (2017)
Journal Article
Scott, H. (in press). An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob. Dix-Neuf, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2017.1386886

Fin-de-siècle writers from diverse disciplines were drawn to the seductive potential of masks and disguise; mask-wearing characters of indefinite identity, indeterminate gender, and insecure psychology proliferate in their texts. However, when charac... Read More about An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob.

Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands (2017)
Journal Article
Sen, U. (2017). Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59(4), 944-973. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417517000330

Copyright © 2017 Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History. This article explores the legal structures and discursive framings informing the governance of one particular backward region of India, the Andaman Islands. I trace the shifti... Read More about Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands.

‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts (2017)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2019). ‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(3), 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417722107

© The Author(s) 2017. Widely known to promote broader involvement in the processes which define the arts and culture, community engagement work in the performing arts – despite employing a set of commonly recognised norms – has tended to be conceptua... Read More about ‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts.

“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.

The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication (2016)
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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.

A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory (2016)
Journal Article
Martinez Dy, A. C., Marlow, S., & Martin, L. (2017). A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory. Human Relations, 70(3), 286-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716650730

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article critically analyses the manner in which intersectionality and related social positionality shape digital enterprise activities. Despite popular claims of meritocratic opportunity enactment within traditional... Read More about A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory.

‘I second that emotion’: a case for using imaginative sources in writing civil rights history (2015)
Journal Article
Monteith, S. (in press). ‘I second that emotion’: a case for using imaginative sources in writing civil rights history. Patterns of Prejudice, 49(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2015.1103439

Imaginative sources are a rich archival store. Facts may be as slippery as the sources in which they are contained, but to limit the sources we use in building a civil rights historiography is to risk curtailing the reach and interdisciplinary scope... Read More about ‘I second that emotion’: a case for using imaginative sources in writing civil rights history.

The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, R. J. (2015). The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain. European Comic Art, 8(2), 83-102. https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2015.080205

This article examines the image of the First World War in British political cartoons, from the aftermath of the conflict to the present day, as an active process of remembrance. Through an analysis of cartoons in newspapers and periodicals in Britain... Read More about The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain.

Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010 (2015)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2015). Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010

This paper examines the history of self-instructional manuals of (Mandarin) Chinese published in Britain between 1900 and 2010, one of the main ways of learning Chinese for most of the 20th century in Britain, when Chinese instruction was virtually n... Read More about Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010.