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Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) (2002)
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This article seeks to show that a consideration of the use of Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) is illuminated by a study of the structural progression of book 1 (from educational methodologies, to a declamation against courtly vices, t... Read More about Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570).

Towards a democracy of the emotions (2002)
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Anchorage and play in Frenchman's Creek: Children, gender and national identity (2002)
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Electoral strategies and female candidacy: Comparing trends in the 2001 and 1997 general elections (2002)
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'Murdochization' of the Indian press: From by-line to bottom-line (2002)
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The Rupert Murdoch factor in the Western media has been widely debated. However, less attention has been focused on his influence in non-Western locales where he does not have an overt presence. His vision has transformed the press in India - a count... Read More about 'Murdochization' of the Indian press: From by-line to bottom-line.

Learning from experience: Psycho-social research methods in the social sciences (2002)
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There is a growing interest in both psychoanalytically informed theory and practice in the social sciences. Psycho-social studies and psychoanalytic studies address serious social and political issues through a critical welding of sociological and ps... Read More about Learning from experience: Psycho-social research methods in the social sciences.

Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: A comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland (2002)
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This paper takes a comparfative case-study approach, located within the literature on policy networks, to organic agriculture policy in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the late 1980s. An examination of policy development for the organic sector f... Read More about Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: A comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland.

The Rabegh crisis, 1916-17: 'A comparatively trivial question' or 'a self-willed disaster' (2002)
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Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies? (2002)
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The emergence of a relatively new genre, ‘reality television’, has helped to break down the division between text and audience in significant ways, and this presents us with interesting questions for cultural studies. In this article we consider one... Read More about Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?.

From war culture to civil society: Francoism, social change and memories of the Spanish Civil War (2002)
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Morality and biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, revolution and women prisoners in Málaga (2001)
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The psychiatric study of women prisoners in the city of Málaga during the Spanish Civil War provides a starting point for a two-part analysis of the gendered tension between biology and morality. First, the relationship of organic psychiatry and bio-... Read More about Morality and biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, revolution and women prisoners in Málaga.

Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935 (2001)
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During the early years of white administration in Southern Rhodesia, few whites spoke the local vernaculars. The state used those few, largely traders and farmers, to translate and interpret. Members of the Native Affairs Department were expected to... Read More about Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935.

Constructed identities and Iberia (2001)
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The category of Iberian identity includes national identities within Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The case of Spain and Spanish national identity has been particularly neglected in academic literature, although this situation has been changing... Read More about Constructed identities and Iberia.

Is Gibraltar a nation? (2001)
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Alan Garner's Red Shift and the Shifting Ballad of 'Tam Lin' (2001)
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The British black Pentecostal 'revival': Identity and belief in the 'new' Nigerian churches (2001)
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Black Pentecostalism in Britain has proved itself to be a distinctive version of Christianity. Extant academic surveys have tended to interpret it as primarily the means by which black ethnic communities are able to adapt and respond to marginalizati... Read More about The British black Pentecostal 'revival': Identity and belief in the 'new' Nigerian churches.

India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism? (2001)
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An efflorescence of the media in India during the 1990s, mainly in television, has revolutionized the South Asian mediascape. After the novelty of foreign channels wore off in the early 1990s, Indian channels consolidated their position, recorded the... Read More about India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism?.

Best Value and the politics of pragmatism (2001)
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This article frames and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these the... Read More about Best Value and the politics of pragmatism.

Risk, identity and change: Becoming a mature student (2001)
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This article looks at the stories mature students tell about the risks of higher education, in terms of its effects on identity and the implications for relationships with their families and former friends. Two sources of risk are highlighted in thei... Read More about Risk, identity and change: Becoming a mature student.

Landstände und landesherrschaft (2001)
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