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Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988 (2023)
Journal Article

This article explores how British Asians negotiated the politics of race in the formative years of British broadcasting from the 1960s to the 1980s. Marked by significant changes within the BBC and British society at large, this period saw the first... Read More about Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988.

The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (in press). The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom

The release of reality television series Milf Manor in January 2023 has added to the pantheon of milfs (“Mothers I’d Like to Fuck”) on screen. But from Stacy’s mum to Stifler’s mum: why is our cultural fascination with and fetishisation of the milf s... Read More about The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom.

Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. (2023)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2023). Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 26, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.1000

Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill (2023)
Journal Article
Chiva, C. (2023). Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 6(3), 395–413. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821x16735398665628

This article argues that, given the centrality of gender for recent processes of autocratisation, it has become imperative to understand and theorise the conditions underpinning democratic resilience against opposition to gender equality. I conceptua... Read More about Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill.

Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2023). Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies. #Journal not on list, 3(1), 61-82. https://doi.org/10.1163/26659891-bja10025

This article examines the interconnections between fire and Indigenous politics, geographies and epistemologies. More precisely, the article focuses on how different modes of emergent nonfiction media practice are engaging with the pyrological and in... Read More about Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies.

“My Dear Mute Foundling with Those Telling Eyes of Yours”: female agency, visual forms, and the disabled gaze in “The Little Mermaid” (2023)
Journal Article

The article explores the disabled female gaze through the titular character in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” (1837), arguing that sight is a strategy of empowerment that challenges the able-bodied male gaze. Andersen’s fai... Read More about “My Dear Mute Foundling with Those Telling Eyes of Yours”: female agency, visual forms, and the disabled gaze in “The Little Mermaid”.

‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’ (2022)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (2022). ‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(6), 840-862. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221134344

This article examines ‘huns’ – specifically celebrity huns in the public spotlight – as memetic ‘figures’ who are defined by their loud, tongue-in-cheek and humorous display of British femininities coded as working class. Unlike other female figures... Read More about ‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’.

Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism (2022)
Journal Article

Acceptance speeches have long been used by celebrity activists as platforms from which to promote their personal, political or ethical agendas. The actor Joaquin Phoenix, an outspoken proponent for animal rights and veganism, dominated the Hollywood... Read More about Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism.

Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens (2022)
Journal Article

Twitter is a platform service that has quickly risen to prominence as the social media platform most preferred for strategic communication campaigns. It is used by most of the Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) in Saudi Arabia, making it the most popular... Read More about Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens.

Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham (2022)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2023). Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham. Journal of Urban History, https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442221127055

This study analyses slum journalism in the British provincial press and reveals that it continued to be a major theme until well into the twentieth century. Instead of the rather moralising reporting of the earlier nineteenth century, this journalism... Read More about Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham.