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Domesticating Political Feeling, Affect and Memory in Marilynne Robinson's Home
(Manchester Unviersity Press, 2022-03-29)
Pain, Paradox, and Polysemy
(2021-07-05)
The paradox of pain refers to the idea that the folk concept of pain is paradoxical, treating pains as simultaneously mental states and bodily states (e.g. Hill 2005, 2017; Borg et al. 2020). By taking a close look at our ...
Migratory Pasts and Heritage Making Presents: Theory and Practice
(Routledge, 2020-08-03)
This chapter makes a case for an urgent reappraisal of migrant heritage in the context of recent global ‘crises’ – refugee, financial, and environmental. We define ‘migrant heritage’ as that which is made with, by, for, ...
Character and Causation : Hume's Philosophy of Action
(Routledge, 2019-08-22)
In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume’s philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume’s work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer ...
From Deed to Word: gapless and kink-free Enactivism
(2019-04-30)
In their most recent book, Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (MIT 2017), Dan Hutto and Eric Myin claim to give a complete and gapless naturalistic account of cognition, but it comes with a kink. The kink being ...
An Act of War? : The Interview Affair, the Sony Hack, and the Hollywood-Washington Nexus Today
(2019-02-01)
Film has been an integral part of the propaganda war fought between the United States and North Korea over the past decade. The international controversy surrounding the Hollywood comedy The Interview in 2014 vividly ...
Digital Archives Built by Students for Students : Inherited Learning at University of Hertfordshire
(JISC, 2018-09-01)
Inherited learning is the latest stage of a programme to develop digital history methods in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Hertfordshire’s history department. Involving more members of staff than before ...
Masculinities, Wallpaper, and Crafting Domestic Space within the University, 1795-1914
(2018-09)
During renovations in the late 1990s, a ‘wallpaper sandwich’—made up of twelve preserved layers of wallpaper—was removed from the wall of a student room at Peterhouse College, at the University of Cambridge. This sandwich, ...
Speaking the target language outside the classroom in friendship groups: : a comparative study of international and local modern foreign language students with a focus on employability
(2018-04-01)
Foreign language students at university in the UK, both international and local, do not appear to practise the target language much outside class nor form international friendships that would be positive for their learning, ...