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Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction (2017)
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Watson, J., & Wilson, J. (2017). Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 9(1-2), 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-00901006

Until fairly recently most linguistic fieldwork relied on written records of spoken data or audio-only recordings. The recent increase in research focusing on audio-visual data, with emphasis on the co-expressiveness of speech and gesture, has led to... Read More about Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction.

Ireland v UK : the European Court of Human Rights and international relations, 1971–1978 (2017)
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1971–1978. European Human Rights Law Review, 2017(3), 272-284

It is rare for states to lodge inter-state cases with the European Court of Human Rights because they fear damaging their relations with the respondent states. Yet in 1971 the government of the Republic of Ireland began a case against the United King... Read More about Ireland v UK : the European Court of Human Rights and international relations, 1971–1978.

Establishing a creative identity : rebranding a creative space (2017)
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Sant, T., & Visanich, V. (2017). Establishing a creative identity : rebranding a creative space. City, Culture and Society, 10, 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2017.04.001

Strategies on audience development have become central to cultural debates in Malta. Such interest stems partly from Malta's current low rate of participation in cultural events. While there has been a rising interest in analysing cultural consumptio... Read More about Establishing a creative identity : rebranding a creative space.

Vital signs : poetry, movement and the writing body (2017)
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Thurston, S., & Slee, S. (2017). Vital signs : poetry, movement and the writing body. Choreographic Practices, 8(1), 9-25. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor.8.1.9_1

This article outlines a collaborative enquiry between a dancer and a poet. It considers some past and present collaborations between poets and dancers before framing the authors’ interest in the traditions of North American Post-modern dance and Euro... Read More about Vital signs : poetry, movement and the writing body.

Theresa May’s premiership : continuity or change? (2017)
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Williams, B. (2017). Theresa May’s premiership : continuity or change?. Political Insight, 8(1), 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905817702730

Theresa May promised a fresh approach to government but how distinctive is she from her predecessors? Ben Williams analyses the Prime Minister’s administration and finds some striking similarities – and differences – with Conservative governments pas... Read More about Theresa May’s premiership : continuity or change?.

Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK (2017)
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Hernandez Perez, M., Corstorphine, K., & Stephens, D. (2017). Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK. Mutual images, 2, 5-43. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.2.HER.carto

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain. Comp... Read More about Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK.

Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable : Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’ (2017)
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Sykes, R., Keeble, A., Cordle, D., Scott, J., De Cristofaro, D., KIng, D., …Srivastava, N. (2017). Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable : Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’. Open Library of Humanities, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.153

In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps,... Read More about Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable : Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’.

Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs (2017)
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Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs. C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 5(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.14

This paper considers the visions of Scottish identity projected in twenty-first century, post-devolution Scots literature, and seeks to read them against Paul Gilroy’s Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) which examines the protean identities of post-impe... Read More about Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs.

The year of the penguin (2017)
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Bekerman, M. (2017). The year of the penguin

A reflection on the global political trends and aspects of discrimination in the current climate or right-wing tendencies and isolationism in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk) (2017)
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Loubser, J. (2017). Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk). Journal of World Popular Music, 3(2), 289-295. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v3i2.28305

When the first edition of Christopher Ballantine’s Marabi Nights appeared in 1993, I was delighted. As a young musician at the time, this book, along with David Coplan’s In Township Tonight! South Africa’s Black City Music and Theatre (1985) and Veit... Read More about Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk).

Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960 (2017)
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Barnett, N., & Smith, E. (2017). Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960. Labour History Review, 82(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2017.3

This article is concerned with different factions within the British peace movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, each of which gave the word ‘peace’ a different meaning. We argue that the movement was made up of several, often contradictory sect... Read More about Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960.

Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions (2017)
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Williams, B. (2017). Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions. Renewal, 25(3-4),

Theresa May has sought to construct a distinctive social policy offering during her time as Prime Minister, but remains stymied by a toxic combination of triangulation and austerity. Labour must demonstrate the vacuity and incoherence at the heart of... Read More about Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions.

The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (2017)
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Bichet, M. (2017). The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe

The present paper explores the way intertextuality is dealt with in the latest English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949). Intertextuality was described by Genette as a ‘piège à traducteurs’ (1982: 295-6), or as “a trap for t... Read More about The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe.