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The impact of military service on the British Foreign Office and Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1914-8 (2012)
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Fisher, J. (2012). The impact of military service on the British Foreign Office and Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1914-8. International History Review, 34(3), 431-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2012.675211

This article examines the interface of military service and the Foreign Office and Diplomatic and Consular Services during the First World War. That convergence encompassed efforts by those institutions to respond in a patriotic spirit to demands for... Read More about The impact of military service on the British Foreign Office and Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1914-8.

Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England (2012)
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Greenham, D. (2012). Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England. Literature Compass, 9(11), 908-915. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00905.x

In this afterword I look at the period 1850–1910 from a Transatlantic perspective, focusing on key New England writers whose work spans the disciplines of philosophy and literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Herman Me... Read More about Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England.

Inter-institutional decision-making: The case of the Common Agricultural Policy (2012)
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Greer, A., & Hind, T. (2012). Inter-institutional decision-making: The case of the Common Agricultural Policy. Policy and Society, 31(4), 331-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polsoc.2012.09.005

The dominant portrayal of the policy process around the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) emphasises a system of inter-governmental bargaining, close links between institutions and farming interests, and compartmentalised closed policy networks. This... Read More about Inter-institutional decision-making: The case of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Independence movements in the Caribbean: Withering on the vine? (2012)
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Clegg, P. (2012). Independence movements in the Caribbean: Withering on the vine?. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 50(4), 422-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2012.729728

Several countries in the Caribbean are not yet independent. However, none wish to become so, despite politicians in several of them initiating moves towards that end. This contribution evaluates these attempts and explains why they failed. The key fa... Read More about Independence movements in the Caribbean: Withering on the vine?.

Poor whites in recent southern fiction (2012)
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Robertson, S. (2012). Poor whites in recent southern fiction. Literature Compass, 9(10), 631-641. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00920.x

Poor white characters have appeared throughout southern fiction in a number of guises. This article examines the ways in which contemporary depictions of poor whites challenge earlier one-dimensional accounts of this economically disenfranchised grou... Read More about Poor whites in recent southern fiction.

'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev (2012)
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Dolan, J. (2012). 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 9(2), 247-261. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2012.0082

Exploring Letter to Brezhnev through concepts of respectability as feminine cultural capital this article suggests that the film’s affective impulse stems from its representation of a female, working class experience under Thatcherism. This experienc... Read More about 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev.

Angela Carter's bohemian Bristol (2012)
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Brennan, Z. (2012). Angela Carter's bohemian Bristol

An exploration of Carter's use of Bristol in the 'Bristol trilogy'

Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression (2012)
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Charteris-Black, J. (2012). Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression. Metaphor and Symbol, 27(3), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2012.665796

Working from 38 interviews with people who had experienced depression this study compares metaphors with those identified in previous research. It also compares the types of metaphor of men and women talking about depression and how these metaphors w... Read More about Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression.

Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy (2012)
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Crogan, P., & Kinsley, S. (2012). Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy

This is the introduction to the special issue of Culture Machine co-edited by the authors and drawn from the 2010 conference of the same name co-convened by the Digital Cultures Research Centre for the European Science Foundaiton (see www.payingatten... Read More about Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy.

Archiving digital narrative: Some issues (2012)
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Abba, T. (2012). Archiving digital narrative: Some issues. Convergence, 18(2), 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856511433687

The complexities of archiving digital content, particularly those story forms reliant on multiple platforms, highlights technical, cultural and curatorial issues that remain difficult to reconcile coherently. Seeking to frame the issues within this s... Read More about Archiving digital narrative: Some issues.

The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children (2012)
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Kirjavainen, M., Nikolaev, A., & Kidd, E. (2012). The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children. Cognitive Linguistics, 23(2), 273-315. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2012-0009

The acquisition of the past tense has received substantial attention in the psycholinguistics literature, yet most studies report data from English or closely related Indo-European languages. We report on a past tense elicitation study on 136 4a-6-ye... Read More about The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children.

Dramatizing madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics (2012)
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Wilson, S. (2012). Dramatizing madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics

This article explores the TV drama In Two Minds (BBC1, 1967) which was broadcast as a part of the Wednesday Play series. I argue that the play is the product of a constellation of social, cultural and institutional forces that dramatizes the avant-ga... Read More about Dramatizing madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics.

Phenomenology as a resource for patients (2012)
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Carel, H. (2012). Phenomenology as a resource for patients. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 37(2), 96-113. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhs008

Patient support tools have drawn on a variety of disciplines, including psychotherapy, social psychology, and social care. One discipline that has not so far been used to support patients is philosophy. This paper proposes that a particular philosoph... Read More about Phenomenology as a resource for patients.

Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42 (2012)
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Fedorowich, K. (2012). Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(1), 87-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2012.656493

This article explores a number of key facets of Vincent Massey's tenure as Canada's wartime high commissioner in London between 1939 and 1942. Using the personal tensions and mutual suspicions which existed between Massey and the mercurial Canadian p... Read More about Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42.

Transfer and language contact: The case of Pirahã (2012)
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Sakel, J. (2012). Transfer and language contact: The case of Pirahã. International Journal of Bilingualism, 16(1), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006911403212

In this article the author argues that the language contact situation between Pirahã (Muran) and Portuguese can best be explained in a framework combining the theoretical approaches to language contact and transfer. In this contact situation, Portugu... Read More about Transfer and language contact: The case of Pirahã.

Hindianizing Heidi: Working children in Abdul Rashid Kardar's Do Phool (2012)
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Lawrence, M. (2012). Hindianizing Heidi: Working children in Abdul Rashid Kardar's Do Phool. Adaptation, 5(1), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apr007

This article addresses Do Phool (1958), Abdul Rashid Kardar's film adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's novel Heidi (1880). Kadar's film reconfigures Spyri's vision of the Romantic child within the idiom of popular Hindi cinema - with its... Read More about Hindianizing Heidi: Working children in Abdul Rashid Kardar's Do Phool.