Outputs (5)

‘Who Tells Your Story’: A Reflection on Race-Conscious Casting and the Musical (2023)
Book Chapter
Thuraisingam Robbins, H. (2023). ‘Who Tells Your Story’: A Reflection on Race-Conscious Casting and the Musical. In R. Gordon, & O. Jubin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical (893-913). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190909734.013.33

This think-piece reflects many of the current conversations on race-conscious casting in stage and screen musicals in 2022. Drawing on the author’s lived experience as a ‘mixed-race’ fan and researcher of musicals, they consider how we position the q... Read More about ‘Who Tells Your Story’: A Reflection on Race-Conscious Casting and the Musical.

Invisible Animals: Exploring Public Discourses to Understand the Contemporary Status of Donkeys in Britain (2023)
Journal Article
Clancy, C., McClaughlin, E., & Cooke, F. (2023). Invisible Animals: Exploring Public Discourses to Understand the Contemporary Status of Donkeys in Britain. Anthrozoös, 36(6), 951-970. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2023.2248762

Established representations of donkeys in western literature and popular culture have often been negative, portraying the animals as stupid, inept, and bad tempered. To understand whether such representations are reflected in contemporary understandi... Read More about Invisible Animals: Exploring Public Discourses to Understand the Contemporary Status of Donkeys in Britain.

Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2023). Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S008044012300021X

What was daily life like for old people in Russian villages at the turn of the twentieth century? Elderly people feature as an integral part of Russian rural family life in literary and in scholarly accounts, and are predominantly framed as able, ski... Read More about Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village.

Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2023). Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus. Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435

An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena, including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpr... Read More about Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus.

Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (2023)
Book
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2023). Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003093084

‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both crit... Read More about Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life.