All Outputs (11)

On writing instability (2024)
Book Chapter

Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses... Read More about On writing instability.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, Laura Harrison considers the multiple decade-long boom of family history and how it connects to the research and practice of working-class history. Family history, the chapter argues, has much to offer the historian both in terms of... Read More about Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories.

Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960 (2024)
Book Chapter

One Sunday in early January 1954, the Rev. Peter Stanley, senior curate of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Darlington, County Durham, pronounced in his weekly sermon that the young people parading in the Darlington main streets on the ‘monke... Read More about Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960.

Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education (2024)
Book Chapter
Grant, W. (2024). Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education. In A. Ash, & P. Carr (Eds.), A Practical Guide to Teaching Art and Design in the Secondary School (156-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377429-14

This chapter explores the practical possibility of Art and Design education as means to activate pupils’ agency on the issues of social equity. Against a background of increasing global connectivity and popular youth movements centred on the issues o... Read More about Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education.

The recreation of 19th century photomechanical processes to aid 21st century research and development (2024)
Book Chapter

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2024)
Book Chapter

Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

AI and the complexity of Black photographic representation and critical analysis (2024)
Book Chapter

In this chapter artist Yuko Edwards and academic Shawn Sobers discuss the complex dynamics of AI image making, with regards both the problems and opportunities in the cultural politics of Black and African heritage representation. The significant cha... Read More about AI and the complexity of Black photographic representation and critical analysis.

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey Roberts, M. ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization. In Angela Carter's futures: Representations, adaptations and legacies. Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

Iter II (2024)
Book Chapter

We have a family funeral in Telford. “The only good thing about that place,” someone says, “is the road out.” Iter II is a hybrid essay, combing teaching notes and prompts, flash fiction and critical reflection in the form of personal essay and... Read More about Iter II.

The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis (2024)
Book Chapter

The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently dominated by Unreal Engine. It argues that the software functionality of Unreal Engine and the logistics of v... Read More about The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis.

Imagined worlds (2024)
Book Chapter

turn the page has, over a period of ten years (2012-2022), introduced the public to the wonders of the wider book arts genre, and artists and collectors to each other, through its showcasing events, symposia and related exhibitions. To celebrate thos... Read More about Imagined worlds.