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The rise and fall of the felt hatting industry (2007)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. (2007). The rise and fall of the felt hatting industry. In Denton and the Archaeology of the Felt Hatting Industry (1-25). Tameside: Tameside MBC

Denton was the largest of the six great hat manufacturing centres of Industrial Britain during the 19th and 20th centuries, and hatting companies within the town specialised in the production of felted fur and woollen hats. Denton hats were exported... Read More about The rise and fall of the felt hatting industry.

Black Police Associations and the police occupational culture (2007)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M., & Holdaway, S. (2007). Black Police Associations and the police occupational culture. In Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (253-274). Elsevier Press / Emerald

In recent years, Black Police Associations (BPAs) have become key forces of change within the police service, involved in minority ethnic recruitment and retention initiatives, working closely with senior management, and also serving as mechanisms of... Read More about Black Police Associations and the police occupational culture.

Introduction: splintering urbanism (2007)
Book Chapter
Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2007). Introduction: splintering urbanism. In H. Priemus, K. Button, & P. Nijkmap (Eds.), Land use planning: classics in planning. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Telecommunications as a paradigm challenge (2007)
Book Chapter
Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2007). Telecommunications as a paradigm challenge. In H. Priemus, K. Button, & P. Nijkmap (Eds.), Land use planning: classics in planning. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Constructing sustainable futures: from models to competing pathways (2007)
Book Chapter
Guy, S., & Marvin, S. (2007). Constructing sustainable futures: from models to competing pathways. In M. Deakin, G. Mitchell, P. Nijkamp, & R. Vreeker (Eds.), Sustainable urban development volume 2: the environmental assessment methods. Routledge

This paper begins to build a conceptual framework that acknowledges the multiplicity of pathways towards different sustainable futures that often co-exist within a single city. There are three stages to the argument: the shift from the concept of a s... Read More about Constructing sustainable futures: from models to competing pathways.

Regulation, engagement, and academic production (2007)
Book Chapter
May, T. (2007). Regulation, engagement, and academic production. In A. Harding, A. Scott, S. Laske, & C. Burtscher (Eds.), Bright satanic mills: universities, regional development, and the knowledge economy (119-132). Aldershot: Ashgate

Michael Foucault (2007)
Book Chapter
May, T., & Powell, J. (2007). Michael Foucault. In T. Edwards (Ed.), Cultural theory: classic and contemporary positions (123-140). London: Sage

Interpretive analytics and the constitution of the social

Introduction (2007)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M., & Singh, A. (2007). Introduction. In M. O'Neill, M. Marks, & A. Singh (Eds.), The police occupational culture : new debates and directions (1-16). Emerald

The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself (2007)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2007). The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself. In J. Briquet, & A. Mastropaolo (Eds.), Italian Politics: The Center-Left's Poisoned Victory (99-118). Oxford: Berghahn

This chapter analyses the origins of the constitutional referendum of June 2006, its significance, the campaign, the result and the implications of the result for Italian politics, arguing that while the referendum ended the idea of a 'grande riforma... Read More about The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself.

Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation (2007)
Book Chapter
Lin, Y. (2007). Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation. In Handbook of research on open source software: Technological, economic, and social perspectives (34-46). IGI

This conceptual paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the FLOSS innovation and how it is shaped by and also shapes various perceptions on and practices of hacker culture. Unlike existing literature that usually normalises, radicalises, mar... Read More about Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation.

'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust Requiem (2007)
Book Chapter
Boswell, M. (2007). 'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust Requiem. In P. Coleman, P. McGowan, & K. Richard (Eds.), 'After thirty falls': new essays on John Berryman (11-27). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi

This essay looks in detail at an unfinished cycle of Holocaust poems called The Black Book that was begun by the American poet John Berryman in 1948. The essay includes close readings of three published poems and analysis of unpublished material from... Read More about 'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust Requiem.

Passive tuned loudspeakers as absorbers for room acoustics (2007)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, R., & Cox, T. (2007). Passive tuned loudspeakers as absorbers for room acoustics. In A. Calvo-Manzano, A. Pérez-López, & S. Santiago (Eds.), 19th International Congress on Acoustics : acoustics for the 21st century : Madrid, Spain, 2-7 September 2007. Madrid, Spain: Spanish Acoustical Society

This paper presents a novel approach to improving the performance, tunability and efficiency of low frequency membrane absorbers. It is shown that a passive loudspeaker within a cabinet can be used as an efficient and adaptable membrane absorber, wit... Read More about Passive tuned loudspeakers as absorbers for room acoustics.

The consumption of Sport (2007)
Book Chapter
Crawford, G. (2007). The consumption of Sport. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Sociology. Wiley-Blackwell