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Carving the sublime (2023)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2023). Carving the sublime. #Journal not on list, 32(125),

Finger pudding (2023)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2023). Finger pudding. #Journal not on list, 32(125),

The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom (2023)
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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)
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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

Critical intelligence studies: a new framework for analysis (2023)
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Newbery, S., & Kaunert, C. (2023). Critical intelligence studies: a new framework for analysis. Intelligence and National Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2023.2178163

As the purpose of the study of intelligence is, in part, to aid the practice of intelligence, scholarship must reflect that practice. This article sets out a theoretical framework for Critical Intelligence Studies that will increase the real-world... Read More about Critical intelligence studies: a new framework for analysis.

Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies (2023)
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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)
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Helm, H. (2023). “My Dear Mute Foundling with Those Telling Eyes of Yours”: female agency, visual forms, and the disabled gaze in “The Little Mermaid”. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 17(1), 23-40

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”.

Teaching Media Forensics (2022)
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Smith, P. B., & Burchell, K. (2022). Teaching Media Forensics. #Journal not on list, 61(9),

Embedding Socially Engaged Pedagogies for The Future of Art and Design Practice (2022)
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Wewiora, E., & Colclough, N. (2022). Embedding Socially Engaged Pedagogies for The Future of Art and Design Practice

This paper describes the shifting approaches to student and teaching experience on the MA Art and Design programmes at the University of Salford, (North West of England), in the wake of the global covid19 pandemic. The paper offers a series of case s... Read More about Embedding Socially Engaged Pedagogies for The Future of Art and Design Practice.

‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’ (2022)
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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)
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Herring, L., & Parkinson, C. (2023). Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism. Celebrity Studies, 14(4), 584-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2154684

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.

Order vs chaos (2022)
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Cherniwchan, C. (2022). Order vs chaos. #Journal not on list, 31(124),

Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens (2022)
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Alkorbi, N., Hernandez-Perez, M., & Simpson, S. (2022). Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens. World academy of engineering and technology, 16(12),

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.

‘Performed Poetics: a two-day event celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg’, King’s College London, 12th-13th March 2022 (2022)
Journal Article
Cook, R. (2022). ‘Performed Poetics: a two-day event celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg’, King’s College London, 12th-13th March 2022. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/bip.9212

‘Performed Poetics’ was a two-day conference celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg through a series of readings, performances, panel discussions, and film screenings. Organised by Valerie Soar and taking place at King’s College L... Read More about ‘Performed Poetics: a two-day event celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg’, King’s College London, 12th-13th March 2022.

Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel (2022)
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Wild, C. (2022). Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel. Industrial Archaeology Review, 44(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2022.2122680

Prisoner-of-war camps were one of the most numerous types of military sites to be established in Britain during the Second World War and yet are one of the least studied. Most comprised a series of temporary huts that were erected from prefabricated... Read More about Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel.