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The possible worlds of VR documentary (2025)
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.

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2025)
Book Chapter

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.

Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources (2024)
Book Chapter

Using historical sources (1804-1913), this paper investigates the influence of Span-ish on the grammar of modern Mosetén, an indigenous language spoken in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining Amazon basin. Focusing on the categories... Read More about Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources.

The journal era: Style and twenty-first century Irish literary magazines (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the roles that literary journals play in twenty-first century Irish literature, by considering the styles of writing they facilitate, the wider cultural and publishing environment, and the reflections of publishers, editors and... Read More about The journal era: Style and twenty-first century Irish literary magazines.

On writing instability (2024)
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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.

Read with me - A psychometric collaboration (2024)
Book Chapter

Sarah Bodman discusses her artist's book Read With Me and the experiments that were made towards its making.

50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books (2024)
Book Chapter

Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books accompanies the exhibition of the same name, celebrating Center for Book Arts’ 50th Anniversary.

The publication features an introduction by Robbin Ami Silverberg, essays by Carole Naggar and Kinohi N... Read More about 50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books.

Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based on Wallis and Johnson’s practical, collaborative work with a number of British criminal justice heritage sites, where the majority of the personal stories interpreted for public audiences might be considered as ‘working-class’ l... Read More about Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites.

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)
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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.

A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the trope of the 1884-5 Berlin Conference as a 'carve-up' of Africa -- whether as a cake or a ham -- especially in the writing of Nigerian pan-Africanist and anti-colonialist Nnamdi Azikiwe. The chapter also discusses early pa... Read More about A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present.

An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries (2024)
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This chapter examines the profound interconnection between the creative and cultural industries (CCI) and neoliberal economic policies, highlighting the influence of such policies on the sector’s development, structural characteristics, and the chall... Read More about An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries.

Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, wit... Read More about Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style.

Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.

The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy (2024)
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Taking seriously the ‘deep time’ of American literature and the current importance of the Anthropocene, this chapter investigates an often overlooked transatlantic origin for Emerson’s conceptualisation of nature, which I also argue is a crucial mark... Read More about The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy.

Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education (2024)
Book Chapter

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.

Ten statements on technics (2024)
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To understand how preeminent scholars and creative practitioners approach the topic of technology today, Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever invited them to reflect on a series of questions: What drew them to technology as a matter of inquiry, and... Read More about Ten statements on technics.

The pleasure of reading against: Embedding lifelong critical literacy from picturebooks to social media (2024)
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In almost all children’s literature somebody lies. Harry Potter is told by the Dursleys that his parents died in a car accident, Lyra believes Lord Asriel to be her uncle, and countless narrators in picturebooks contradict, at some level, the images... Read More about The pleasure of reading against: Embedding lifelong critical literacy from picturebooks to social media.

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

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