Bristol mixes - Underground, identity, and the city
(2020)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (1673)
‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century (2020)
Journal Article
Stan was born in 1911 in a small village near the north Somerset coast. When recalling his life in the countryside, he felt that ‘there wasn’t much to do in the evenings … at least not here’. Drawing upon evidence from personal accounts of growing up... Read More about ‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century.
Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste (2020)
Book Chapter
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)
Book Chapter
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.
Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (2020)
Book
A collective publication by South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellows. This collection presents thoughts, provocations and reflections on AI and automation in the arena of creative making from some of the South West Creative Technolog... Read More about Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation.
Creative producers international report (2020)
Report
Creative Producers International was an international talent development programme which worked with 15 Creative Producers based in cities across the globe. Their areas of expertise ranged from contemporary art, place making and community engagement... Read More about Creative producers international report.
‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada (2020)
Book Chapter
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.
Multisensory ethnography through emplaced Augmented Reality (2020)
Journal Article
Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging their bod... Read More about Multisensory ethnography through emplaced Augmented Reality.
Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship (2020)
Book Chapter
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.
Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market (2020)
Journal Article
This paper critically engages with how the notion of community is used in local economic development in England. Its primary concern is how current understandings of the concept of ‘community’ in regeneration, as well as how it is instrumentalised th... Read More about Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market.
Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis (2020)
Journal Article
Recent therapeutic approaches to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) exploit the person-like qualities of voices. Little is known, however, about how, why, and when AVH become personified. We aimed to investigate personification in individuals' earl... Read More about Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis.
People with delusions understand metaphor differently - here’s how it could help explain schizophrenia (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
The forward view: Austen Henry Layard and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
As British Ambassador at Constantinople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, Austen Henry Layard was the proverbial ‘man on the spot’: an emissary, on the fringes of empire, entrusted to defend Britain’s informal empire in the Near East. Layard’s fo... Read More about The forward view: Austen Henry Layard and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877.
Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language (2020)
Journal Article
A central tenet of systemic functional theory is the rank scale: an ordered representation of the part-whole relationships of units within semiotic systems. Linguists have schematised the rank scales for the lexicogrammars of English, French, Spanish... Read More about Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language.
Why do we talk to ourselves? (2020)
Journal Article
Human beings talk to themselves; sometimes out-loud, other times in inner speech. In this paper, I present a resolution to the following dilemma that arises from self-talk. If self-talk exists then either, (i) we know what we are going to say and sel... Read More about Why do we talk to ourselves?.
Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles? (2020)
Journal Article
Coworking spaces (CWS) are workplaces created to provide infrastructure and interaction opportunities for independent professionals and freelancers. They are a result of a trend toward flexible and project-based assignments, shared use of durable ass... Read More about Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles?.
A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control (2020)
Journal Article
This is the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering (AML) policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry. In the aftermath of these initial compromises in 198... Read More about A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control.
Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style (2020)
Book Chapter
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.