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Northern Irish fiction (2018)
Book Chapter
Magennis, C. (2018). Northern Irish fiction. In D. O'Gorman, & R. Eaglestone (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (190-198). Routledge (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880235-18

The period following the Good Friday Agreement has seen a marked increase in fiction, particularly collections of short stories, by women. This writing extends and develops the tradition of Northern Irish women’s writing which, since the inception of... Read More about Northern Irish fiction.

Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments (2018)
Book Chapter
Dias, N., Amaratunga, D., Keraminiyage, K., & Haigh, R. (2018). Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments. In P. Gardoni (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (808-825). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142074

Today, urban design plays a key role in the creation of sustainable urban environments in terms of the “triple bottom line,” that encompasses the three dimensions of life–economics; social and environmental sustainability. Even though urban design... Read More about Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments.

'"Monster top-knots and balloon chignons" : purity and contamination in the false hair trade (2018)
Book Chapter
Allan, J. (2018). '"Monster top-knots and balloon chignons" : purity and contamination in the false hair trade. In S. Heaton (Ed.), A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire (1800-1920). London: Bloomsbury

Writing the hidden histories of the “things” that sit at the heart of thing theory, early advocates such as Elaine Freedgood (2006) and John Plotz (2009) have revealed the social and historical, personal and imperial significance of seemingly mundane... Read More about '"Monster top-knots and balloon chignons" : purity and contamination in the false hair trade.

Suffragettes and the Serjeant at Arms : how the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament (2018)
Book Chapter
Neylon, C. (2018). Suffragettes and the Serjeant at Arms : how the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament. In M. Inchley, & J. Vice (Eds.), Amending Speech: Women's voices in parliament (256-261). London: Hansard

From plays written specifically for the cause to huge processions through the streets of UK cities, the British woman suffrage movement relied on spectacle and performance as a key tactic in the fight for votes for women. However, they also employed... Read More about Suffragettes and the Serjeant at Arms : how the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament.

Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law (2018)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2018). Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law. In J. Hage, P. Westerman, & S. Kirste (Eds.), Legal Validity and Soft Law (99-123). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77522-7_5

Following Kelsen’s influential theory of law, the concept of validity has been used in the literature to refer to different properties of law (such as existence, membership, bindingness, and more) and so it is inherently ambiguous. More importantly,... Read More about Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law.

Human resource management in football (2018)
Book Chapter
Lord, J. (2018). Human resource management in football. In S. Chadwick, D. Parnell, P. Widdop, & C. Anagnostopoulos (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management (220-232). London: Routledge

From recruitment to dismissal, football has generally managed to avoid investigation into its HRM practices with only a handful of high profile incidents being highlighted by researchers and the media. However, HRM has always played a vita... Read More about Human resource management in football.

The importance of identifying vulnerable females and males with autism in the prison environment (2018)
Book Chapter
Allely, C., Wood, A., & Gillberg, C. (2018). The importance of identifying vulnerable females and males with autism in the prison environment. In P. Cooper, & L. Hunting (Eds.), Access to Justice for Vulnerable People (156-166). London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterised by impairments in social reciprocal interactions and communication and by restrictive, repetitive pattern of interests and behaviour (American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2000, 2013). T... Read More about The importance of identifying vulnerable females and males with autism in the prison environment.

Ashley Madison (2018)
Book Chapter
Light, B. (2018). Ashley Madison. In J. Morris, & S. Murray (Eds.), Appified. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9391658

As the introduction to this volume indicates, apps are a challenge to study because, among other reasons, they are usually made technically inaccessible to researchers by developers. This chapter is methodological in nature and illustrates the use of... Read More about Ashley Madison.

The disturbance of images (2018)
Book Chapter
Vivian, P. (2018). The disturbance of images. In E. McInnes, & D. Schaub (Eds.), What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries (68-81). Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385931_006

This study explores the appropriation of images, their fracture and unmaking in relation to the practice of collage. It attempts to identify a means of articulating the relationship of trauma occurring within an image, a trauma that results from the... Read More about The disturbance of images.

In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2018). In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis. In M. Bull, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession (13-28). Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the shock was surprising in view of progress Italy had apparently mad... Read More about In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis.

Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism? (2018)
Book Chapter
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2018). Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?. In M. Bull, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession (1-12). Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

Italian politics have undergone momentous changes in the 2007-2017 decade under the impact of the eurozone crisis, whose peak in 2011-2013 could be equated to the earlier watershed years of 1992-1994. The lasting impact of the upheaval in Italian pol... Read More about Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?.

A young-old face : out with the new and in with the old (2018)
Book Chapter
Hewett, R. (2018). A young-old face : out with the new and in with the old. In A. O'Day (Ed.), Twelfth Night: Adventures in Time and Space with Peter Capaldi (13-27). London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury

Defiant Confrontation (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). Defiant Confrontation. In H. Reckitt (Ed.), Art of Feminism : Images That Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017. San Francisco, USA: Chronicle Books / Tate Publishing, London

An in-depth discussion of the 1988 exhibition, "Along the Lines of Resistance", at Rochdale Art Gallery, and artist Chila Kumari Burman's diptych "Convenience, Not Love", 1985. Themes discussed include South Asian migration to Britain, feminist exhib... Read More about Defiant Confrontation.

Disrupted identities : narratives of mothers in prison (2018)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K. (2018). Disrupted identities : narratives of mothers in prison. In T. Taylor, & K. Bloch (Eds.), Marginalized mothers, mothering from the margins. Emerald Publishing

Imprisonment can severely alter, disrupt or even terminate mothering. Yet, often seen by society as giving up on or abandoning their children, women in prison tend to invoke less empathy or tolerance than women whose mothering is disrupted through ot... Read More about Disrupted identities : narratives of mothers in prison.

Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps (2018)
Book Chapter
Gold, M., & Ochu, E. (2018). Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps. In S. Hecker, M. Haklay, A. Bowser, Z. Makuch, J. Vogel, & A. Bonn (Eds.), Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy (146-167). UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352339

This chapter discusses how to harness the potential of creative collaboration through ThinkCamp events – an ‘unconference’ style event with an open and creative environment designed to foster co-creation, co-design and collaborative thinking at key p... Read More about Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps.