Outputs (1085)

Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935 (2001)
Journal Article

During the early years of white administration in Southern Rhodesia, few whites spoke the local vernaculars. The state used those few, largely traders and farmers, to translate and interpret. Members of the Native Affairs Department were expected to... Read More about Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935.

Constructed identities and Iberia (2001)
Journal Article

The category of Iberian identity includes national identities within Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The case of Spain and Spanish national identity has been particularly neglected in academic literature, although this situation has been changing... Read More about Constructed identities and Iberia.

Loci Memoriae (2001)
Exhibition / Performance

In 2001 Paul Gough staged parallel exhibitions of large drawings (representations of monuments and other icons of commemoration) in two venues separated by a tract of dockland water. The intention was to offset these works against each other, and in... Read More about Loci Memoriae.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2001-2002 (2001)
Book

The Artists' Book Yearbook (ABYB) serves as a resource for artists, lecturers, students, collectors and researchers. The bi-annual publication includes essays and information on many aspects of the book arts, artists' listings, information on book ar... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2001-2002.

500 pounds of common earth, 1 metre cubed, Transylvania to Los Angeles (2001)
Exhibition / Performance

Performative action and exhibition. The project 500 Pounds of Common Earth, 1 Metre Cubed, Transylvania to Los Angeles attempts to explore the limitations of representational apparatus and cultural paradigms both in an arts economy and in a broader s... Read More about 500 pounds of common earth, 1 metre cubed, Transylvania to Los Angeles.

Is Gibraltar a nation? (2001)
Journal Article

Alan Garner's Red Shift and the Shifting Ballad of 'Tam Lin' (2001)
Journal Article

The British black Pentecostal 'revival': Identity and belief in the 'new' Nigerian churches (2001)
Journal Article

Black Pentecostalism in Britain has proved itself to be a distinctive version of Christianity. Extant academic surveys have tended to interpret it as primarily the means by which black ethnic communities are able to adapt and respond to marginalizati... Read More about The British black Pentecostal 'revival': Identity and belief in the 'new' Nigerian churches.

India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism? (2001)
Journal Article

An efflorescence of the media in India during the 1990s, mainly in television, has revolutionized the South Asian mediascape. After the novelty of foreign channels wore off in the early 1990s, Indian channels consolidated their position, recorded the... Read More about India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism?.

Best Value and the politics of pragmatism (2001)
Journal Article

This article frames and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these the... Read More about Best Value and the politics of pragmatism.