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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.

Interactive documentary: Its history and future as a polyphonic form (2022)
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This chapter looks at the decolonization of interactive documentary practices through the lens of polyphony. Writing as practice-based researchers from a position of privilege, the authors argue that self-reflexivity is a key requirement for “decolon... Read More about Interactive documentary: Its history and future as a polyphonic form.

Metaphorical thinking and delusions in psychosis (2021)
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This paper explores how metaphorical thinking might contribute to an aetiology of florid delusions in psychosis.We argue that this approach helps to account for the pathfrom experience to the delusional assertion, which, though relatively straightfor... Read More about Metaphorical thinking and delusions in psychosis.

“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.

Critical ambience (2020)
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This chapter argues that ambient cultural practices can be reframed as critically focused experiences rather than either passive backgrounds or immersive entertainment. We argue that ambient literature can leave the reader or listener with a heighten... Read More about Critical ambience.

Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half' (2020)
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Between 1967 and 1984, British independent producer Michael Klinger attempted to make a war film initially called Parachute that was renamed A Man and a Half. It was an international production through which as Klinger hoped to establish himself as a... Read More about Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half'.

Bristol mixes - Underground, identity, and the city (2020)
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Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste (2020)
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The venerable fashion magazine Vogue has always associated itself with the interests of the ruling class, through the cultural and symbolic capital exhibited by the diffused aesthetic of its fashion spreads and through its unabashed attachment to the... Read More about Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste.

Creativity and the problem of automation (2020)
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As AI-driven automation systems make their presence increasingly felt in everyday lives, the nature and value of human creativity is becoming an issue requiring urgent attention. While the disruptive impacts of digital innovation are often celebrated... Read More about Creativity and the problem of automation.

‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada (2020)
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The annual migration of harvesters from central and eastern Canada to the prairies had been a regular event ever since 1890. As the wheat economy expanded, larger supplies of manpower were needed to bring in the harvest. In 1906 and 1923 British work... Read More about ‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada.

Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship (2020)
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Entrepreneurialism is widely encouraged across many industrial sectors in the ‘knowledge-based’ economy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Entrepreneurialism, including self-promotion and work on the self, has been held and is a... Read More about Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship.

Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology (2020)
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This chapter seeks to provide a review and overview of technology that has been used to support autistic people. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of technology used by autistic groups contextually and historically. Materials covere... Read More about Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology.

São Paulo’s creative hubs: Local embeddedness as a tool for creative cluster development (2020)
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Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style (2020)
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The publication of Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style in 1979 marks the end of a decade of writings on the creative potential and symbolically resistive youth subcultures. Although it underpinned many of the central ideas originally deve... Read More about Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style.

Male stardom in 1960s British cinema (2020)
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The chapter analyses eight stars – Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Terence Stamp – all of whom were the product of the post-war changes (including the 1944 Education Act) that o... Read More about Male stardom in 1960s British cinema.

The Restoration episcopacy and the Interregnum: Autobiography, suffering, and professions of faith (2020)
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Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare (2019)
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My subject in this paper is the analysis, speculation and recommendations for the future development and deployment of lethal autonomous robotic systems such as they appear in reports, studies and presentations emanating from what is still aptly call... Read More about Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare.

Seeking a family consensus? Anglo-dominion relations and the failed Imperial Conference of 1941 (2019)
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This essay investigates the governmental pressures behind the demands for a conference and the reasons why it never took place. Crucially, it explores the various and competing strategic, foreign and domestic anxieties that forced three of the domin... Read More about Seeking a family consensus? Anglo-dominion relations and the failed Imperial Conference of 1941.

Elite multilingualism (2019)
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A chapter on Elite Multilingualism