All Outputs (8)

Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2023). Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana’s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah’s constructio... Read More about Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream.

Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces (2022)
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Lanci, G. (2022). Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature)

This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the c... Read More about Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces.

Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (2022)
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Waller, R., Bradley, H., & Bentley, L. (2022). Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times. Bingley: Emerald

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults’ oppor... Read More about Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times.

Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022)
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Spicer, A. (2022). Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular cu... Read More about Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
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Harrison, L. (2022). Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth... Read More about Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939.

Politics of Impunity: Torture, the Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil (2022)
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Tavares Furtado, H. (2022). Politics of Impunity: Torture, the Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil. Edinburgh University Press

Remedy for Human Rights Abuses under Tort and International Law (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Remedy for Human Rights Abuses under Tort and International Law. (2). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press

This second volume examines laws relating to the civil liabilities of corporations and states in connection with torts or other breaches of international law and human rights law. It illustrates how particular legal principles or rules can be applied... Read More about Remedy for Human Rights Abuses under Tort and International Law.

Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa (2022)
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Anosike, P. (2022). Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa. London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

High foreign aid dependence, poor human capital, rising high youth unemployment and poverty are just some of the reasons that Africa represents a striking symbol of global inequality today. In this book, the author draws on his research and experi... Read More about Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa.