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Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In Experiments in Life-Writing (249-272). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-progress. When attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Renaissance playwright Elizabeth Cary (1584–1639) foundered, I developed an experimental form in order to accommodate... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

Roma people : are discriminatory attitudes natural? (2017)
Book Chapter
Allen, D. (2017). Roma people : are discriminatory attitudes natural?. In K. Bhatti-Sinclair, & C. Smethurst (Eds.), Diversity, Difference and Dilemmas : Analysing Concepts and Developing Skills. Open University Press

The famous French philosopher Voltaire once wrote that ‘those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities’, and it is in the context of this quote that this chapter is written.
Throughout history, we have witnessed the vario... Read More about Roma people : are discriminatory attitudes natural?.

European Union telecommunications policy (2017)
Book Chapter
Simpson, S. (2017). European Union telecommunications policy. In J. Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.128

This article explores the character and development of telecommunications policy at EU level. For most of the 20th century a matter of national governance and thus of peripheral interest to the EU, from the mid to late 1980s the EU began to develop a... Read More about European Union telecommunications policy.

Digital campaigning (2017)
Book Chapter

It is now over 20 years since political parties began to move online and fight elections using new internet technologies, although in most established democracies it took another decade, or more, before internet access spread to the majority of voter... Read More about Digital campaigning.

Moving away from common sense : the impact of the juridification of human rights (2017)
Book Chapter
Kang-Riou, N. (2017). Moving away from common sense : the impact of the juridification of human rights. In F. Cowell (Ed.), Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act (169-184). Routledge

This chapter insists on taking seriously the criticism that there has been a loss of ‘common sense’ in the application of the law due to the application of the HRA. It can appear that the criticisms made by the press against the court(s) are valid be... Read More about Moving away from common sense : the impact of the juridification of human rights.

The diasporic community's intervention in the Libya uprising (2017)
Book Chapter
Ndlovu, E. (2017). The diasporic community's intervention in the Libya uprising. In O. Ogunyemi (Ed.), Media, Diaspora and Conflict (37-51). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56642-9_3

This chapter examines the conflict resolution initiatives by the diaspora communities during the Libya uprising in 2011. In collaboration with their fellow citizens in the country, organisations like the Libya Outreach Group established online initia... Read More about The diasporic community's intervention in the Libya uprising.