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Cosmopolitan justice and the globalization of capitalism: The UNDP and ILO proposals (2005)
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van den Anker, C. (2005). Cosmopolitan justice and the globalization of capitalism: The UNDP and ILO proposals. Globalizations, 2(2), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747730500202347

Recently several proposals for more effective, democratic and just forms of global governance have been put forward. In this paper I compare the proposals by the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization and cosmopol... Read More about Cosmopolitan justice and the globalization of capitalism: The UNDP and ILO proposals.

International Dimensions of Women's Suffrage: 'At the crossroads of several interlocking identities' (2005)
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Hannam, J. (2005). International Dimensions of Women's Suffrage: 'At the crossroads of several interlocking identities'. Women's History Review, 14(3-4), 543-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020500200438

This article surveys recent suffrage histories in a range of countries across the world with a focus on the neglected period of the interwar years. It asks what the suffrage movement would look like if viewed through the eyes of women from outside Br... Read More about International Dimensions of Women's Suffrage: 'At the crossroads of several interlocking identities'.

Can improvisation be taught? (2005)
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Peters, G. (2005). Can improvisation be taught?. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 24(3), 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2005.00453.x

The aim of this article is to reconsider the (age old) problem of relating theory to practice in art education by placing it within the largely ignored context of improvisation. In so doing it is hoped that some of the well-known 'difficulties' art p... Read More about Can improvisation be taught?.

Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development? (2005)
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Treffers-Daller, J. (2005). Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development?. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 8(2), 145-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728905002166

In language contact studies, specific features of the contact languages are often seen to be the result of transfer (interference), but it remains difficult to disentangle the role of intra-systemic and inter-systemic factors. We propose to unravel t... Read More about Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development?.

Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même (2005)
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Beeching, K. (2005). Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même. Language Variation and Change, 17(2), 155-180. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394505050076

This article contributes to a growing body of theory that posits language-external, social factors as a primary motor in diachronic change. Politeness theory and the use of variationist approaches enable us to posit, and test, the hypothesis of a typ... Read More about Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même.

German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944 (2005)
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Fedorowich, K. (2005). German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944. Historical Journal, 48(1), 209-230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X04004273

For most of the Second World War, German and Italian agents were actively engaged in a variety of intelligence gathering exercises in southern Africa. The hub of this activity was Lourenço Marques, the colonial capital of Portuguese East Africa (Moza... Read More about German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944.

“Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers (2005)
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Hunt, S. E. (2005). “Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers. Environment and History, 11(1), 5-34

With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victo... Read More about “Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers.

What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran (2005)
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Spicer, A. H. (2005). What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran. Zeithistorische Forschungen, 1(1), 110-118

This was a counterpoint to the book chapter on service comedy. It explored a different type of 'unofficial' counter-hegemonic constructions of the Second World War' by focusing on a group of British films made immediately after the war and sporadical... Read More about What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran.

Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel (2005)
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Jarvis, R. (2005). Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel. Studies in Travel Writing, 9(2), 185-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2005.9634974

Despite the heterogeneity of Romantic-era travel writing, the idea of Romantic travel has become all but identified with a’subjective turn’ in the late eighteenth century, and with narratives of self-realisation or self-discovery, illustrated here ch... Read More about Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel.

Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch (2005)
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Treffers-Daller, J. (2005). Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch. International Journal of Bilingualism, 9(3-4), 477-506. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069050090030901

In this paper we analyze mixed compounds, such as legume+winkel ‘vegetable shop, greengrocery‘ and winter+paletot ‘winter coat’ which contain a French and a Dutch element, and French nominal groups, such as carte d'identité ‘identity card’, and journ... Read More about Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch.

Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art (2005)
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Biggs, I. A. (2005). Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art. Landscape Research, 30(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142639042000324785

The paper examines the concerns of the art critic and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit with the myth of Eden in the book of Genesis, the assumptions of a Judaeo-Christian monotheism and its secular inheritance, as a means to introduce the need for a '... Read More about Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art.

Who benefits from widening participation? A study of targeting in the South West of England (2005)
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Hatt, S., Baxter, A., & Tate, J. (2005). Who benefits from widening participation? A study of targeting in the South West of England. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 29(4), 341-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098770500353508

As the Aimhigher programme is a targeted initiative, partnerships have to find ways of locating groups that are under-represented in higher education (HE) and selecting participants for interventions. If the selection criteria are not robust, resourc... Read More about Who benefits from widening participation? A study of targeting in the South West of England.