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Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945 (2023)
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Richards, M. (2024). Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945. European History Quarterly, 54(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231216874

Recent accounting for disease in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War has been contained within study of hunger in the early 1940s. Historians have cited the typhus epidemic which hit Spain between 1939 and 1945 as demonstrating a causal link betwe... Read More about Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945.

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
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Richards, M. (in press). Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order. English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead151

This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholi... Read More about Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order.

The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership (2023)
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Kirjavainen, M., Howie, G., Rudge, L. A., & Nicholson, L. (2024). The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership. Journal of Second Language Studies, 7(1), 129-156. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.00020.kir

We present three studies that investigate the effect of group-level language ability expectations on language ability judgements. Study 1 identifies expected English-language ability levels that native English speakers’ have for a number of non-nativ... Read More about The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership.

A short history of humour in travel writing (2023)
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Jarvis, R. (2023). A short history of humour in travel writing. Studies in Travel Writing, 26(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2023.2218048

Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly as the evolution of travel writing from the early nineteen... Read More about A short history of humour in travel writing.

Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo (2023)
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Nakano, D., Gomes dos Santos, E., Mota Lima, E., & Virani, T. (2023). Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo. Geoforum, 144, Article 103789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103789

This paper studies proximity and knowledge creation and sharing in coworking spaces, which are currently abundant in large metropolitan areas. Physical and non-physical proximities can have a positive effect on knowledge sharing, as they facilitate c... Read More about Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo.

Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes (2023)
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Roberts, L. (in press). Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes. Creative Industries Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2023.2210706

This paper uses the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) in the South West, UK, as a case study to examine the diverse economies evident in knowledge exchange (KE) programmes delivering university-industry research and development (R&D). Co... Read More about Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes.

Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk (2023)
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Bould, M. (2023). Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk. American Literary History, 35(2), 1107-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad069

We live in perilous times. Atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise, and with them global temperatures. Business-as-usual immiserates and impoverishes us all, depleting soil and water, melting glaciers and ice caps, acidifying oceans, deforesting, des... Read More about Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk.

Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010 (2023)
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Spicer, A. (2023). Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20(2), 262-264. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0671

Although much comment is passed about male characters and identities in discussions of British cinema, systematic studies of masculinity are extremely rare. To my knowledge, Sarah Godfrey’s is the first to appear since my own Typical Men: The Represe... Read More about Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010.

Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited (2023)
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Anthony, D., & Wallace, J. (2023). Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 52.1(144), 6-19

Why, 70 years after the publication of Lionel Fanthorpe’s first story Worlds Without End (1952), must his reputation as a writer of science fiction (henceforth SF) be reconsidered? In this article we suggest that Lionel Fanthorpe’s techniques and wor... Read More about Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited.

The decline of empires in South Asia (2023)
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Fisher, J. (2023). The decline of empires in South Asia. Middle Eastern Studies, 59(3), 532-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2172247

Heather Campbell’s book discusses British policies towards Persia and Afghanistan after the First World War. She maintains that in order to comprehend these policies, one must understand the persistence of Great Game mentalities among senior policy m... Read More about The decline of empires in South Asia.

The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency (2023)
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Seal, L., & Ball, R. (2023). The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(2), 149-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12513

This article analyses the Howard League's campaigning against the death penalty in mid-20th-century British colonies. It examines two case studies: the Howard League's campaign to limit the death penalty in the Palestine Mandate in the 1930s and thei... Read More about The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency.

Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives (2022)
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Beeching, K., Howie, G., Kirjavainen, M., & Piasecki, A. E. (2022). Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00025.bee

Despite being the object of considerable research effort over several decades, the status and function of discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), fillers and filled pause (FPs) continue to be at the forefront of an expanding field of scholarly debate.... Read More about Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota (2022)
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Kirjavainen, M., & Nikolaev, A. (2022). Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 370-393. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21019.kir

Even though hesitations (e.g., um/uh) were historically perceived as involuntary non-linguistic items (e.g., Maclay and Osgood 1959), more recently, a number of scholars have suggested that hesitations can behave like (a) lexical items (e.g., Clark &... Read More about Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota.

Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children (2022)
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Beeching, K., & Crible, L. (2022). Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 195-221. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21027.bee

Diachronic studies of discourse markers suggest they follow a unidirectional developmental path, from propositional to textual and expressive uses. The present study tests whether children acquire the propositional (literal) before the expressive (pr... Read More about Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children.

Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI (2022)
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Crogan, P. (2022). Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI. Media Theory, 6(2), 25-54

This essay considers the nature and stakes of creative making with computational automation technologies. I will argue that Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach to the human as “technical life” takes care of the question of the nature of creativ... Read More about Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI.

‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation (2022)
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Spicer, A. (2022). ‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation. Viewfinder, 121,

This article discusses the cultural, social and political reasons why Channel 4 moved out of London in 2017-18 and the context of the move with the threat of privatisation by the government. It places Channel 4's relocation as part of a much longer h... Read More about ‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation.

Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London (2022)
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Virani, T. E. (2023). Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London. City, Culture and Society, 32, 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100493

Creative cluster urban policy, aimed at regenerating parts of cities in the UK, has been linked with ameliorating social exclusion in the extant policy literature. This is paradoxical given levels of exclusion within the creative and cultural industr... Read More about Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London.

Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic (2022)
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Tincknell, E. (2023). Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic. Celebrity Studies, 14(4), 568-583. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2149346

In this essay I explore two recent ‘reparative biopics,’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) and Seberg (Benedict Andrews, 2019), which share features found in the resurgent cycle of 1960s-set ‘back studio’ films that have appeare... Read More about Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic.

Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings (2022)
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Ganaah, J., Nartey, M., & Bhatia, A. (2023). Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings. Journal of Language and Politics, 22(1), 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22002.gan

This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van L... Read More about Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings.