All Outputs (15)

'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter
Swanson, G. (2015). 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology. In A. Harris, & T. Jones (Eds.), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 (161-187). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328632

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

Variability in native and non-native use of pragmatic markers: The example of well in role-play data (2015)
Book Chapter
Beeching, K. (2015). Variability in native and non-native use of pragmatic markers: The example of well in role-play data. In K. Beeching, & H. Woodfield (Eds.), Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics, 174-197. Palgrave Macmillan

Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, R. (2015). Travel writing: Reception and readership. In C. Thompson (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (89-98). London and New York: Routledge

'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830 (2015)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2015). 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830. In R. Ward (Ed.), A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (71-101). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444011_3

Progressive accounts of the English encounter between capital punishment and modernity have made much of the abandonment c. 1783-1800 of lengthy processions to customary sites on urban peripheries and their replacement with drop systems on elevated p... Read More about 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830.

Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research. In C. Costa, & M. Murphy (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research - On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (191-200). Oxon: Routledge

While education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists over the years, much contemporary theory building in these areas has revolved around the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Theory as Method in Research develops the capacity o... Read More about Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research.

Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research - On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (49-62). Routledge

Doxa, digital scholarship and the academy (Cristina Costa and Mark Murphy)

Psychology and literature (2015)
Book Chapter
Davis, M. (2015). Psychology and literature. In L. Behlman, & A. Longmuir (Eds.), Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (250-257). Abingdon: Routledge

Psychology and literature

Bristol's romantic poets: Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, R. (2015). Bristol's romantic poets: Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (59-82). Bristol: Redcliffe Press

The battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: The regional dimension (2015)
Book Chapter
Fleming, P. (2015). The battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: The regional dimension. In L. Clark (Ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks (91-102). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

This chapter discusses two battles during the 15th-century Wars of the Roses from the point of view of strategy in the west of England and Anglo-Welsh Marches, and suggests that their outcome was crucial - and hitherto unappreciated - to the politica... Read More about The battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: The regional dimension.

The coy cult text: The Man Who Wasn’t There as noir SF (2015)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2015). The coy cult text: The Man Who Wasn’t There as noir SF. In J. Telotte, & G. Duchovnay (Eds.), Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text. Liverpool University Press

Situates the Coen brothers' film in relation to the intersections of film noir and science fiction, uncovering its latent science-fictionality.

Bourdieu and the application of habitus across the social sciences (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Bourdieu and the application of habitus across the social sciences. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research: The Art of Application (3-20). Palgrave Macmillan

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approach... Read More about Bourdieu and the application of habitus across the social sciences.

Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick (2015)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2015). Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick. In S. Schlensag, & A. Dunst (Eds.), The World According to Philip K. Dick (119-136). Palgrave Macmillan

This essay proposes a slipstream cinema along the lines of slipstream fiction proposed by Bruce Sterling - and suggests that it is where we might find the cinematic legacy of Philip K Dick, rather than in the typically disappointing adaptations of hi... Read More about Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick.

The futures market: American utopias (2015)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2015). The futures market: American utopias. In E. C. Link, & G. Canavan (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (83-98). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Critical-historical overview of American utopian texts, from The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations to the current post-genre tumult.

Walking and travel (2015)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, R. (2015). Walking and travel. In A. Bennett (Ed.), William Wordsworth in Context (291-299). Cambridge University Press

Play (for) time (2015)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2015). Play (for) time. In V. Frissen, S. Lammes, M. De Lange, J. De Mul, & J. Raessens (Eds.), Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures (225-244). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Through their deployment of interactivity, virtualisation and simulation, videogames are prime examples of the contemporary form of what philosopher of technology, Bernard Stiegler, has termed the industrial temporal object. The experiences produced... Read More about Play (for) time.