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Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945 (2023)
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Richards, M. (2024). Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945. European History Quarterly, 54(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231216874

Recent accounting for disease in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War has been contained within study of hunger in the early 1940s. Historians have cited the typhus epidemic which hit Spain between 1939 and 1945 as demonstrating a causal link betwe... Read More about Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945.

The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership (2023)
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Kirjavainen, M., Howie, G., Rudge, L. A., & Nicholson, L. (2024). The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership. Journal of Second Language Studies, 7(1), 129-156. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.00020.kir

We present three studies that investigate the effect of group-level language ability expectations on language ability judgements. Study 1 identifies expected English-language ability levels that native English speakers’ have for a number of non-nativ... Read More about The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership.

A short history of humour in travel writing (2023)
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Jarvis, R. (2023). A short history of humour in travel writing. Studies in Travel Writing, 26(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2023.2218048

Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly as the evolution of travel writing from the early nineteen... Read More about A short history of humour in travel writing.

Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo (2023)
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Nakano, D., Gomes dos Santos, E., Mota Lima, E., & Virani, T. (2023). Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo. Geoforum, 144, Article 103789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103789

This paper studies proximity and knowledge creation and sharing in coworking spaces, which are currently abundant in large metropolitan areas. Physical and non-physical proximities can have a positive effect on knowledge sharing, as they facilitate c... Read More about Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo.

Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes (2023)
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Roberts, L. (in press). Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes. Creative Industries Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2023.2210706

This paper uses the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) in the South West, UK, as a case study to examine the diverse economies evident in knowledge exchange (KE) programmes delivering university-industry research and development (R&D). Co... Read More about Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes.

Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk (2023)
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Bould, M. (2023). Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk. American Literary History, 35(2), 1107-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad069

We live in perilous times. Atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise, and with them global temperatures. Business-as-usual immiserates and impoverishes us all, depleting soil and water, melting glaciers and ice caps, acidifying oceans, deforesting, des... Read More about Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk.

Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010 (2023)
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Spicer, A. (2023). Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20(2), 262-264. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0671

Although much comment is passed about male characters and identities in discussions of British cinema, systematic studies of masculinity are extremely rare. To my knowledge, Sarah Godfrey’s is the first to appear since my own Typical Men: The Represe... Read More about Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010.

Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited (2023)
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Anthony, D., & Wallace, J. (2023). Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 52.1(144), 6-19

Why, 70 years after the publication of Lionel Fanthorpe’s first story Worlds Without End (1952), must his reputation as a writer of science fiction (henceforth SF) be reconsidered? In this article we suggest that Lionel Fanthorpe’s techniques and wor... Read More about Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited.

The decline of empires in South Asia (2023)
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Fisher, J. (2023). The decline of empires in South Asia. Middle Eastern Studies, 59(3), 532-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2172247

Heather Campbell’s book discusses British policies towards Persia and Afghanistan after the First World War. She maintains that in order to comprehend these policies, one must understand the persistence of Great Game mentalities among senior policy m... Read More about The decline of empires in South Asia.

The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency (2023)
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Seal, L., & Ball, R. (2023). The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(2), 149-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12513

This article analyses the Howard League's campaigning against the death penalty in mid-20th-century British colonies. It examines two case studies: the Howard League's campaign to limit the death penalty in the Palestine Mandate in the 1930s and thei... Read More about The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency.