Outputs (33)

Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
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Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977) is a darkly satirical novel which explores the crossing of gender in the context of Second Wave feminism. Close connections will be made between this literary text and the visit made by Carter and her hus... Read More about Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.

The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
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The Afrikaner rebellion of 1914-1915 is an under-studied but significant event in South Africa’s troubled history. At its core was the struggle for the leadership and direction of an increasingly polarised Afrikaner community, elements of which were... Read More about The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign.

Children and youth in the Russian Revolution (2022)
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Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first ref... Read More about Children and youth in the Russian Revolution.

Amidst urban edges (2022)
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Urban edges advance a reflection on human territoriality and the capacity of remaking territory in relation to public spaces. This social territory making includes a set of appropriation and consequences of presence in public space. Urban edges are i... Read More about Amidst urban edges.

The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter (2022)
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This chapter draws from Frascari’s discussion of “Drawings as loci for thought” () as well as earlier research on the “situation of drawing” (Banou 2015), to propose that the drawing archive inherits modes of embodied cognition from the particular mo... Read More about The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter.

Lesbian feminism (2022)
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Lesbianism is the term used to describe a sexual orientation, sexual acts and desires, and romantic and sexual love between women. During the period known as the feminist Second Wave across the Western world, roughly from the late 1960s and into the... Read More about Lesbian feminism.

Solidarity today: A problem-based approach (2021)
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This chapter aims at establishing a problem-based approach to solidarity by describing its main characteristics and by testing its effectiveness in light of three pivotal issues today: immigration, the future of work, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The c... Read More about Solidarity today: A problem-based approach.

Unmasking the other: Danger and difference in Hammer's colonial horrors (2021)
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Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa (2021)
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In late 2019, a poetry-writing “walkshop” in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa, was organized in collaboration with two local arts organizations. In this chapter, the walkshop is contextualized within debates on flânerie in South African cities, and att... Read More about Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa.

Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry (2021)
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The Yearbook of English Studies for 2021 examines contemporary poetry from Britain and Ireland. Edited by Samuel Rogers, the volume contains fourteen essays exploring a range of poetry from 1980 and the present. Poetry continues to be a dynamic cultu... Read More about Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry.

Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry (2021)
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In this discussion, the earlier poetry of Zoë Skoulding is analyzed as a case study for an expanded sense of the contemporary lyric genre. Through a fixation on visual apparatuses including eyes, lenses, binoculars, and mirrors, Skoulding’s The Mirro... Read More about Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry.

Birmingham as “composite monster”: Roy Fisher’s city (1961) (2021)
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Roy Fisher (1930–2017) was a major figure in British poetry, with a body of work which bridged the gap between mainstream and modernist writing. A significant artist of English urban space, Fisher’s work insistently returned to his exploration of Bir... Read More about Birmingham as “composite monster”: Roy Fisher’s city (1961).

'Don't Wander Off' and other rules to ignore (2021)
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This article explores the complexities of navigating the city as a photographer during the period of the covid pandemic lockdowns. The article is a response to Chris Hoare's photobook Keywork, in which he took photographs around Bristol during lockdo... Read More about 'Don't Wander Off' and other rules to ignore.

Which of us photographs? (2021)
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How will future historians interpret how the 2020/2021 lockdowns impacted photographic aesthetics? Such a study would likely be done best by scholars who are not yet even born. Practitioners and scholars of today are too close to the moment to be abl... Read More about Which of us photographs?.

Phenomenology, teleology, and theology (2021)
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This chapter will investigate Husserl’s conception of God in relation to his project of a metaphysics of the “higher and ultimate questions”, which follows and presupposes the metaphysics of worldy facticity resulting from the elucidation of empirica... Read More about Phenomenology, teleology, and theology.

Socialist bloc childhoods and children's rights in the Cold War (2021)
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The chapter looks at the globalisation of the Soviet model of education and childhood, first to Central and Eastern Europe, and then to the 'Third World' after the war. It covers the attempts by socialist bloc states to internationalise children's ri... Read More about Socialist bloc childhoods and children's rights in the Cold War.

“Returning Home to Fight:” Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914-1918 (2021)
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One issue that migration historians have ignored as a fruitful field of endeavour is the experience of thousands of British-born migrants who either came back to the United Kingdom to enlist in British regiments or enlisted in the respective dominion... Read More about “Returning Home to Fight:” Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914-1918.

Spending time within books (2021)
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In my work as a researcher in the field of artists’ books, I encounter new books on a daily basis. Artists send information on their publications to go into the Book Arts Newsletter or the biennial Artist’s Book Yearbook, or write about their work fo... Read More about Spending time within books.

European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives (2021)
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Since the end of the Second World War, European construction has developed side by side with reiterated attempts to envision and implement European solidarity. This chapter addresses the complex scenario in which European political actors ostensibly... Read More about European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives.

Philosophical humanity… oder Europa: Philosophy, modern science, and the Europeanization of the world (2021)
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