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“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.

German global soft power, 1700-1920 (2016)
Book Chapter
McLelland, N. (2016). German global soft power, 1700-1920. In K. Sanchez-Summerer, & W. Frijhoff (Eds.), Linguistic and cultural foreign policies of European states: 18th-20th centuries. Amsterdam University Press

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.

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.

The Language of the Past (2016)
Book
Wilson, R. (2016). The Language of the Past. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak o... Read More about The Language of the Past.

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.

Feedback on feedback – does it work? (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Speicher, O., & Stollhans, S. (2015). Feedback on feedback – does it work?. In F. Helm, L. Bradley, M. Guarda, & S. Thouësny (Eds.), Critical CALL: proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy (507-511). https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2015.000384

It is well documented that providing assessment feedback through the medium of screencasts is favourably received by students and encourages deeper engagement with the feedback given by the language teacher (inter alia Abdous & Yoshimura, 2010; Brick... Read More about Feedback on feedback – does it work?.

Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases (2015)
Book Chapter
Kumaraswami, P. (2015). Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases. In I. Rodríguez, & M. Szurmuk (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature (228-242)

‘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.

Still fighting in the trenches: ‘War discourse’ and the memory of the First World War in Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, R. J. (2015). Still fighting in the trenches: ‘War discourse’ and the memory of the First World War in Britain. Memory Studies, 8(4), 454-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015575174

This article examines how the memory of the First World War (1914–1918) across Britain has been structured by the use of a specific ‘war discourse’. This means of communication draws upon the vast array of words, phrases and sayings that were popular... Read More about Still fighting in the trenches: ‘War discourse’ and the memory of the First World War in Britain.

New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City (2014)
Book
Wilson, R. (2014). New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598215

The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far so... Read More about New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City.

Mad puns and French poets: visual-verbal punning and 'l'art des fous' in Apollinaire's Calligrammes (2014)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2014). Mad puns and French poets: visual-verbal punning and 'l'art des fous' in Apollinaire's Calligrammes. Nottingham French Studies, 53(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2014.0070

This article examines the use of visual-verbal punning structures in Guillaume Apollinaire's calligrammes, or visual poems. It considers how Apollinaire's mobilization of these punning structures may have emerged out of an interest in ‘l'art des fous... Read More about Mad puns and French poets: visual-verbal punning and 'l'art des fous' in Apollinaire's Calligrammes.

Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, R. (2014). Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Media, War and Conflict, 7(3), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635214557987

© The Author(s) 2014. The focus of this article is the manner in which media representations in Britain of the 21st century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drew upon the terms, allusions and imagery of the First World War. The application of these... Read More about Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity (2013)
Journal Article
Sen, U. (2014). The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity. Modern Asian Studies, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X12000613

Within the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy and nostalgia. The refugees, or more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central a... Read More about The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity.

From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting (2013)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2013). From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting. Media, Culture and Society, 35(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712472088

In debates about the commercialization of public service broadcasting little attention has been paid to the ways in which the public might experience the commercial and public service activities of public service broadcasters and the impact that this... Read More about From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting.