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Flash mob (2022)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2022). Flash mob. The Alchemy Spoon, 6, 28-29

One poem accepted by The Alchemy Spoon for a "Fixed Form" themed issue.

The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description (2022)
Journal Article
Rudge, L. A. (2022). The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description. Word, 68(2), 83-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2021.2024351

Research investigating British Sign Language (BSL)–and sign languages more generally–from systemic functional perspectives is gradually increasing but remains nascent overall. The current paper offers a step towards a steadily growing set of function... Read More about The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description.

The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol (2022)
Journal Article
Selleck, C. (2023). The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol. Current Issues in Language Planning, 24(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2047512

This article adopts a gendered take on Family Language Policy (FLP) by questioning the way that gender impacts on the issues faced by refugee woman during and after flight. For this reason, the ethnographically informed research addresses the concern... Read More about The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol.

Mark Glancy, Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xvii + 550, ISBN: 9780190053130, £22.99 and Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), pp. xiv +556, ISBN: 9781501192111, £25 (2021)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2021). Mark Glancy, Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xvii + 550, ISBN: 9780190053130, £22.99 and Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), pp. xiv +556, ISBN: 9781501192111, £25. Open Screens, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8256

Mark Glancy, Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) and Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020).

Precarious work and creative placemaking: Freelance labour in Bristol (2021)
Journal Article
Genders, A. (2022). Precarious work and creative placemaking: Freelance labour in Bristol. Cultural Trends, 31(5), 433-447. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.2009735

As an occupational group characterized by their responsiveness, resilience and innovation, freelancers make a vital contribution to the UK’s creative economy. However, although there has been a general acknowledgement of their importance, a number of... Read More about Precarious work and creative placemaking: Freelance labour in Bristol.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2021)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2021). Extract from "More on the Plums". Perverse, 6(G),

One poem, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums".

The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings (2021)
Journal Article
Mullings, S., Sobers, S., & Thomas, D. (2021). The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings. Visual Anthropology Review, 37(2), 401-421. https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12253

As a discipline, anthropology has long been subject to the scrutiny of critical race theorists and to questions of ethical practice with regard to ethnicity and representation. This dialogue features critical Black visual anthropologists discussing t... Read More about The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings.

Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture (2021)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2022). Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 459-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999285

This Special Issue provides a collection of cutting-edge research that examines discourses that serve emancipatory agendas by taking a social justice approach. To this end, the issue draws on data from Africa, Latin America, North America and the Ara... Read More about Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture.

‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism (2021)
Journal Article
Mwinlaaru, I. N., & Nartey, M. (2022). ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 556-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999286

Recent studies on colonial discourse have demonstrated that the speeches of freedom activists in colonial Africa served as sites of resistance. One key text type that has, however, been neglected in the critical literature on the discourse of emancip... Read More about ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism.

Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter (2021)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2022). Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 523-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999284

Recent studies on non-dominant or minority groups have begun to look at how their members reconstruct resistance, sculpt a positive identity for themselves and engage in solidarity formation for group empowerment. The present study contributes to thi... Read More about Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter.

How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway (2021)
Journal Article
Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Barr, D., Bell, L., Reicher, S., & Neville, F. (2022). How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway. Political Psychology, 43(4), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12786

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway.

Knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities as creative economy policy assemblage (2021)
Journal Article
Moreton, S. (2021). Knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities as creative economy policy assemblage. Research for All, 5(2), 272-290. https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.05.2.06

The creative economy is a complex assemblage of policy, practice and industrial activity, underpinned by apparently novel configurations of cultural and creative work. In recent years, it has become the focus of a number of schemes which have seen ma... Read More about Knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities as creative economy policy assemblage.

Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media (2021)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2022). Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media. Media, Culture and Society, 44(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211045552

In recent years, LGBT issues have received substantial media attention and engendered heated public debate in Ghana. This paper analyzes the prejudiced construction of LGBT issues in the Ghanaian news media and how this contributes to a discriminator... Read More about Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media.

Negotiating creativity (2021)
Journal Article
Anthony, D. (2021). Negotiating creativity. Writing in Education, 49-55

How research into the relationships between writers and the markets they supply reveals a process fundamental to the nature of industrial creativity: negotiating creativity.

The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama (2021)
Journal Article
Lees, D., Bashford-Rogers, T., & Keppel-Palmer, M. (2021). The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama. Convergence, 27(4), 954–973. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565211030452

This article develops from the findings of an interdisciplinary research project that has linked film practice research with computer science and law, in an exercise that seeks to digitally resurrect Margaret Thatcher to play herself in a contemporar... Read More about The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama.

Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of 'leftover men' (2021)
Journal Article
Yu, Y., & Nartey, M. (2021). Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of 'leftover men'. Gender and Language, 15(2), 184-206. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.18823

Although the Chinese media's construction of unmarried citizens as 'leftover' has incited much controversy, little research attention has been given to the ways 'leftover men' are represented in discourse. To fill this gap, this study performs a crit... Read More about Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of 'leftover men'.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2021)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2021). Extract from "More on the Plums". Streetcake Magazine, 73(2), 15

One poem, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums".

Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries (2021)
Journal Article
Matthews, P., & Glitre, K. (2021). Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(12), 1511-1527. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24525

Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these... Read More about Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries.