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Italy's new Prime Minister can't shake off the stench of a stitch-up (2016)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2016). Italy's new Prime Minister can't shake off the stench of a stitch-up

Only days after its prime minister resigned over a lost referendum, Italy found itself with a new government and a new prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni. But however smooth the transition was, the turbulent circumstances that led up to it were far from... Read More about Italy's new Prime Minister can't shake off the stench of a stitch-up.

Memory of a memory (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Giles, L. (2016, December). Memory of a memory. Presented at Photography and the Everyday : 4th International Conference of Photography & Theory, Nicosia, Cyprus

A collective memory project and digital online archive derived from public call-out in collaboration with the Bluecoat gallery and LOOK International Photography Festival, Liverpool, England. This paper investigates the process by which photog... Read More about Memory of a memory.

The music technologist as collaborator in the contemporaneous co-creation of audio artefacts (2016)
Thesis
Williams, B. The music technologist as collaborator in the contemporaneous co-creation of audio artefacts. (Thesis). University of Slaford

This PhD portfolio of commercially available album releases exemplifies aspects of my practice as I have navigated through the roles of engineer, producer, composer and collaborator over an eight-year period. The six outputs explored are drawn from a... Read More about The music technologist as collaborator in the contemporaneous co-creation of audio artefacts.

What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance (2016)
Journal Article
Vik, P. (2016). What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 37(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2016.1263967

Quantitative approaches figure prominently in social accounting and auditing. This is because of the preference among many investors for simple and ostensibly robust and comparative metrics. Social Return on Investment (SROI), which produces a moneti... Read More about What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance.

Please use the intercom (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Isherwood, T. Please use the intercom. 21 November 2016 - 22 December 2016. (Unpublished)

Throughout a residency within the library, Isherwood spent his time within the environment considering the systems and procedures that are prevalent within the space, such as its cataloguing of titles, and protection for aged publications, amongst ot... Read More about Please use the intercom.

Is Italy about to feel the Trump effect? Matteo Renzi's referendum and the populist threat (2016)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2016). Is Italy about to feel the Trump effect? Matteo Renzi's referendum and the populist threat

This article, published in the run-up to a constitutional referendum held in Italy on 4 December 2016, analyses the impact of the election of Donald Trump to the American presidency on the unfolding referendum campaign in Italy. It argues that it has... Read More about Is Italy about to feel the Trump effect? Matteo Renzi's referendum and the populist threat.

God's own caught in no man's land (2016)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2016). God's own caught in no man's land. [Score]

An aural memorial, a contemporary oratorio, for the fallen of the Battle of the Somme. With special reference to the tragic plight of the Salford Pals.

Fishermen to architects : how is new immersive technology shaping the 21st century documentary? (2016)
Journal Article
Kirby, T. (2016). Fishermen to architects : how is new immersive technology shaping the 21st century documentary?. Cineaction!, 97, 60-66

This paper will explore technological developments in current documentary production, assessing how these are individually and comparatively immersing the audience in the film and the story and creating spectacle. The paper will track how spectacle... Read More about Fishermen to architects : how is new immersive technology shaping the 21st century documentary?.

Animation, branding and authorship in the construction of the ‘anti-Disney’ ethos : Hayao Miyazaki’s works and persona through Disney film criticism (2016)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2016). Animation, branding and authorship in the construction of the ‘anti-Disney’ ethos : Hayao Miyazaki’s works and persona through Disney film criticism. Animation, 11(3), 297-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847716660684

Walt Disney (1901-1966) is one of the most important figures in the history of cinema, but also he may also be one of the most criticized. Adjectives referring to Disney in their different forms (‘Japanese Disney’, ‘Asian Disney’, ‘Disney from the Or... Read More about Animation, branding and authorship in the construction of the ‘anti-Disney’ ethos : Hayao Miyazaki’s works and persona through Disney film criticism.

Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929) (2016)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2017). Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929). Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(4), 401-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1220667

Written and abandoned in the 1870s, and published posthumously in 1929, Undine: A Queer Little Child has remained on the margins of Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) studies, repeatedly dismissed as a juvenile and poor antecedent to The Story of An African... Read More about Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929).

Yodeling and meaning in American music (2016)
Book
Wise, T. (2016). Yodeling and meaning in American music. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi

Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition... Read More about Yodeling and meaning in American music.

Intermedial praxis and Practice as Research : 'Doing-thinking' in action (2016)
Book
Scott, J. (2016). Intermedial praxis and Practice as Research : 'Doing-thinking' in action. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60234-3

In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of performance she developed, called live intermediality. The book offers a much-needed example of fully developed... Read More about Intermedial praxis and Practice as Research : 'Doing-thinking' in action.

Accommodating the mess : the politics of appropriation in it for others (2016)
Journal Article
Blair, P. (2016). Accommodating the mess : the politics of appropriation in it for others. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Social Analysis (Online), 12(1), 149-165. https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2016-0008

In response to Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’s collaborative meditation on art and colonialism in Statues Also Die (1953), Duncan Campbell’s video installation It For Others (2013) takes a complex approach to presenting a Marxist criticism of the co... Read More about Accommodating the mess : the politics of appropriation in it for others.

Concept note : a democratisation programme in Ukraine (2016)
Report
Bekerman, M., Motamed-Afshari, B., & Riber, D. (2016). Concept note : a democratisation programme in Ukraine

A technical report on field research in Ukraine identifying the most promising areas in the sphere of the media and civil society for deployment of DANIDA resources in future development and democratisaton programmes funded by the Danish Foreign Mini... Read More about Concept note : a democratisation programme in Ukraine.

Concept note : a democratisation programme in Georgia (2016)
Report
Bekerman, M., Motamed-Afshari, B., & Riber, D. (2016). Concept note : a democratisation programme in Georgia

A technical report identifying optimal ways of engagement with the Georgian civil society to promote democracy and human rights as part of development programmes funded by DANIDA - the development arm of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.