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Navigating personal and professional pathways towards the telling of Bath’s African-connected histories (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter is a transcript of a conversation between Polly Andrews - Learning Officer for Bath Abbey, and Convenor of the Bath & Colonialism Action Group; and Professor Shawn-Naphtali Sobers – trustee of Fairfield House , Bath, and Professor of Cul... Read More about Navigating personal and professional pathways towards the telling of Bath’s African-connected histories.

Cross-disciplinary collaborations for sustainable futures and a vital and ‎relevant academic community (2023)
Book Chapter

The challenges of our rapidly changing climate, environments, cultures, populations and labour markets require HE to ‘recognise, own, and engage with the most difficult and intractable issues of our times’ (Sterling, 2019, 61; Pritchard, forthcoming)... Read More about Cross-disciplinary collaborations for sustainable futures and a vital and ‎relevant academic community.

Cli-fi cinema (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the relationship between science fiction (sf) and climate fiction, both literary and cinematic, and urges a broader understanding of what it means to tell stories about anthropogenic climate destabilization. It considers a wide... Read More about Cli-fi cinema.

Understanding VR audiences (2022)
Book Chapter

Becoming an audience member in virtual reality can be a surreal experience; like entering a pocket reality, like finding Narnia in your wardrobe, like popping through a chalk painting on the pavement. Quite distinct from our relationship with big and... Read More about Understanding VR audiences.

Candles (2022)
Book Chapter

In this short auto-ethnographic essay, Sobers uses material culture as a doorway into a deeply personal reflection. Focusing on a pair of candles given to him by his late brother, the chapter leads the reader through the complexity of family dynamics... Read More about Candles.

Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter

As sites of British imperial state-making and resistance to colonial power, India and the United States have found themselves entangled since the late eighteenth century. To choose a paradigmatic moment, the dumping of East India Company tea into Bos... Read More about Afterword.

Revolutionary act (2022)
Book Chapter

Flash fiction longlisted for the Oxford Prize

Bonnington Square (2022)
Book Chapter

Left Cultures 1 will delve deep into the left’s cultural past to discuss gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art and poetry. Culture which has influenced and inspired an eclectic bunch of comrades to continue in this tradition by cre... Read More about Bonnington Square.

The Message (2022)
Book Chapter

How listening to 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982, became a life changing class-conscious moment for a 10 year old boy.