All Outputs (26)

Fetlar (2019)
Journal Article

This article rehearses the history of attempts to account for the name of the island of Fetlar in Shetland. It is concluded that explaining it as pre-Celtic is beset with philological difficulties, and that it is probably, after all, Scandinavian, th... Read More about Fetlar.

Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes (2019)
Journal Article

“The world tells a big story: living arrangements that took millions of years to put into place are being undone in the blink of an eye.”[1] In 2015, a team of biologists, zoologists and ecologists[2] published a paper that examined whether human... Read More about Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes.

An invisible nation? The BBC and english-language arts television in Wales (2019)
Journal Article

The history of the BBC’s regional programming is one of perennial tension between representing and reflecting the diversity of the UK’s nations and regions, and what is often perceived as an unrelenting ‘metropolitan centricity’. Through charting the... Read More about An invisible nation? The BBC and english-language arts television in Wales.

Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: The relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder (2019)
Journal Article

Objective: To determine the relationship between language abnormalities and broader cognitive impairment and thought disorder by examining language and cognition in schizophrenia and aphasia (a primary language disorder). Methods: Cognitive and lingu... Read More about Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: The relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder.

Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network (2019)
Journal Article

The Independent Filmmakers Association (IFA) was formed in London in 1974 to represent the various strands of predominantly leftist and experimental independent filmmaking in post-war Britain. For the next fifteen years, the IFA played a key role in... Read More about Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network.

Using virtual reality head-mounted displays with autistic children: Views, experiences and future directions (2019)
Journal Article

This article seeks to place children on the autism spectrum at the centre of a study examining the potential of virtual reality head-mounted displays used in classrooms. In doing so we provide data that addresses three important and often overlooked... Read More about Using virtual reality head-mounted displays with autistic children: Views, experiences and future directions.

Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (2019)
Journal Article

Previous studies suggest that understanding of non-literal expressions, and in particular metaphors, can be impaired in people with schizophrenia; although it is not clear why. We explored metaphor comprehension capacity using a novel picture selecti... Read More about Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Our Man in Fez: James MacIver Macleod (2019)
Journal Article

This article will illustrate several facets of MacLeod’s career. First, it will consider his appointment and the years immediately afterwards, when he struggled to gain recognition of his status from the Makhzen, the Moroccan government. Second, it w... Read More about Our Man in Fez: James MacIver Macleod.

A regional company? RED Production and the cultural politics of place (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores the significance of RED Production’s location in the north-west of England, analysing the complexities of its positioning as a ‘regional’ company contextualised within the broader issues surrounding regional television productio... Read More about A regional company? RED Production and the cultural politics of place.

Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth? (2019)
Journal Article

This essay examines philosopher of technology and media Bernard Stiegler’s propositions concerning the nature and effects of the automation of social existence through computational processes deployed in online media. It argues for the critical perti... Read More about Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth?.

Book review of Emily Steinlight's Populating the novel: Literary form and the politics of surplus life (2019)
Journal Article

Book review

Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666 (2019)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to the literature on the value of financial accounts, demonstrating their worth as both an autobiographical and biographical source. It argues that elite accounts can be seen both as a biography of the master, and an a... Read More about Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666.

Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs (2019)
Journal Article

© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consid... Read More about Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs.

Neo-Victorianism, settler (post)colonialism and domesticity in Patrick White’s Voss (2019)
Journal Article

This article reads Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss as an early example of Neo-Victorian fiction, a relatively recent but critically well-established category of postwar and contemporary fiction that has not yet been deployed with reference to Voss. I... Read More about Neo-Victorianism, settler (post)colonialism and domesticity in Patrick White’s Voss.

Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines (2019)
Journal Article

Studies analysing women’s magazines note contradiction as a common theme, whether it be the content of the magazines and the ideological values presented therein, or at broader, political levels. This paper empirically investigates to what extent con... Read More about Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines.

“When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 BY BOOKBIRD, INC. Focusing on Williams-Garcia’s No Laughter Here (2004) and Craigie’s What Was Never Said (2015), this article questions their representation of female genital mutilation (FGM). It considers the use of voice, writing, and siste... Read More about “When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature.

BBC arts programming: a service for citizens or a product for consumers? (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. The British Broadcasting Corporation occupies what is often considered to be a unique position within UK culture as both a respected national institution that is a pillar of enlightenment values and, increasingly, an agile, entr... Read More about BBC arts programming: a service for citizens or a product for consumers?.

Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Representations of older women of South Asian heritage in British cinema are often assumed to do little more than reiterate familiar stereotypes. Yet some British comedy films an... Read More about Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy.

Dressing up, dressing down! Situating identities and negotiating otherness through the bodies of British Chinese women (2019)
Journal Article

This paper will examine the ways in which the practices of dressing and adornment are employed to manage the otherness experienced by second generation British Chinese women. In amongst the lack of social representation in the wider British imaginati... Read More about Dressing up, dressing down! Situating identities and negotiating otherness through the bodies of British Chinese women.

Naming Shirehampton and the name Shirehampton (2019)
Journal Article

Using the example of the place-name Shirehampton in England, this article explores (1) the complications involved in understanding the history of a particularly difficult place-name (an etymological and philological question) and in the history of th... Read More about Naming Shirehampton and the name Shirehampton.