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Beyond the beautiful game (2024)
Book Chapter

Football has always been rooted in working-class culture and celebrated within working-class communities. Criticism of today’s game typically focuses on the capitalisation of some leagues, and football’s growing distance from its own roots. Yet, it r... Read More about Beyond the beautiful game.

Class Action (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

People with a working-class heritage can face deeply entrenched normative and attitudinal barriers in and through education. Yet, they remain a comparatively overlooked social group in academic studies, even with those employing intersectional analys... Read More about Class Action.

Veganism’s anti-anthropocentric capacity: A critical analysis of the advocacy discourse of three prominent vegan organisations (2023)
Journal Article

Anthropocentrism has been identified as a root cause of nonhuman animal and intrahuman oppressions and the environmental crisis. Veganism has been celebrated as a philosophy and practice capable of undermining anthropocentrism, yet the anti-anthropoc... Read More about Veganism’s anti-anthropocentric capacity: A critical analysis of the advocacy discourse of three prominent vegan organisations.

Encounters (2022)
Book

Encounters voices the choreographers, dancers, architects, and urbanists who contributed to the Movement Forum project. It narrates their experiences in London, Paris, and Lisbon which challenged the way they relate to themselves, to others, to a pla... Read More about Encounters.

Exploring stardom: Sean Connery (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sean Connery was one of a select few stars who have become an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular culture and public consciousness.

Best known as the screen’s ‘first’ Ja... Read More about Exploring stardom: Sean Connery.

Catching the light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Every image catches the light. Light is what we see. It is an energy which only forms an image in our heads when it interacts with our environment and is translated in our brains into a fantasy of the
world. How do we catch such an elusive entity?... Read More about Catching the light.

They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Set within the context of populism, patriarchy and the debilitating legacy of colonialism, The Art of Oppression follows three artists as they each rise to the challenge of creating a new work for the film. The women, award-winning artists, are as di... Read More about They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film.

Sean Connery: Beyond Bond (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

This is the background text to my podcast for Watershed Cultural Cinema, September 2022, that accompanied the launch of my book - Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity at Watershed on 4 September 2022. It also contains my brief introduc... Read More about Sean Connery: Beyond Bond.