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Shaping China’s climate diplomacy : wealth, status, and asymmetric interdependence (2016)
Journal Article
Wu, F. (2016). Shaping China’s climate diplomacy : wealth, status, and asymmetric interdependence. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 21, 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-016-9404-4

China’s diplomacy in the post-Kyoto Protocol international climate change negotiations (ICCN) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) bears proactive and reactive feature. On the one hand, China has proactively built... Read More about Shaping China’s climate diplomacy : wealth, status, and asymmetric interdependence.

Does perceived restorativeness mediate the effects of perceived biodiversity and perceived naturalness on emotional well-being following group walks in nature? (2016)
Journal Article
Marselle, M., Irvine, K., Lorenzo-Arribas, A., & Warber, S. (2016). Does perceived restorativeness mediate the effects of perceived biodiversity and perceived naturalness on emotional well-being following group walks in nature?. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 46, 217-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.04.008

Natural environments are associated with positive health and well-being. However, little is known about the influence of environmental qualities on well-being and the mechanisms underlying this association. This study explored whether perceived resto... Read More about Does perceived restorativeness mediate the effects of perceived biodiversity and perceived naturalness on emotional well-being following group walks in nature?.

'My narrative falters, as it must' : rethinking memory in recent Northern Irish fiction (2016)
Book Chapter
Magennis, C. (2016). 'My narrative falters, as it must' : rethinking memory in recent Northern Irish fiction. In C. Andrews, & M. McGuire (Eds.), Post-Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice (43-55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315689746

This chapter explores Nadine Gordimer's profound commitment to change and transformation in South Africa. Aware of the profound impact of colonialism and racism on all South Africans, she used her position as a white South African writer, to bear wit... Read More about 'My narrative falters, as it must' : rethinking memory in recent Northern Irish fiction.

David Bowie, brinquedos adultos e outras dimensões estranhas do universo de Twin Peaks David Bowie, adult toys and other weird dimensions of the Twin Peaks universe (2016)
Journal Article
David Bowie, adult toys and other weird dimensions of the Twin Peaks universe. Questões Transversais - Revista de Epistemologias da Comunicação, 3(6), 120-126

The article is based fundamentally on the authors' participation in the International Conference “I’ll See You Again. The return of Twin Peaks and generations of cult TV”, held on 21 and 22 May 2015, at the Department of Arts and Media, at the Unive... Read More about David Bowie, brinquedos adultos e outras dimensões estranhas do universo de Twin Peaks David Bowie, adult toys and other weird dimensions of the Twin Peaks universe.

Global civil society activism and the public interest in the debate on the future shape of spectrum (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2016, March). Global civil society activism and the public interest in the debate on the future shape of spectrum. Presented at 2016 UK Political Studies Association conference, Brighton

This paper explores the positions of actors representing public interest goals in recent international policy activity around possible changes to the allocation of spectrum. Its focus is the lead up to the consideration of the future of the so-called... Read More about Global civil society activism and the public interest in the debate on the future shape of spectrum.

Punchdrunk, participation and the political : democratization within Masque of the Red Death? (2016)
Journal Article
within Masque of the Red Death?. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(2), 159-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2016.1157748

Democratisation is a term frequently applied to participatory art as an indicator of its value, not necessarily by artists themselves but by arts’ organisations, producers, funding bodies, policy-makers or the media. This article examines the ways... Read More about Punchdrunk, participation and the political : democratization within Masque of the Red Death?.

Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music (2016)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2016). Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music. In S. Whiteley, & S. Rambarran (Eds.), Oxford University Press Handbook of Music and Virtuality. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

This chapter outlines the changes in perceptions of Electronic Dance Music across the phase of the introduction of virtuality. The chapter argues that such music must be read in relation to its conception of its audience, and that the audience, often... Read More about Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music.

Jo Ha Kyū and Fu Bi Xing; Reading|Viewing Haiku (2016)
Book Chapter
Kendall, J. (2016). Jo Ha Kyū and Fu Bi Xing; Reading|Viewing Haiku. In JuxtaTwo: The Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship (37-58). The Haiku Foundation

Theorists and critics such as John Berger, Sabine Gross and Michel Foucault have emphasized the very different experience that occurs when a text is approached through a viewing or a reading mode. The extent to which both modes are used alters the ex... Read More about Jo Ha Kyū and Fu Bi Xing; Reading|Viewing Haiku.