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The touched self : Affective touch and body awareness in health and disease
(Springer Nature, 2016)
This chapter focuses on how interpersonal, affective touch shapes our sense of self as embodied beings. In the first section, we highlight the centrality of bodily representations for our psychological sense of self, with ...
Real imagined communities: : National narratives and the globalization of design history
(2016-01-01)
The nation state is no longer the only socio-cultural or political-economic unit forming our identities and experiences, if it ever was, although national and regional histories of design have demonstrated cogent frameworks ...
Necessary Monsters Volume 2 : Murderbox
(First Comics / Devil's Due, 2016)
There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity and play their games of vengeance, murder and intrigue. To police this world there is The Chain; a covert ...
Creating Critical Festival Discourse through flexible mixed Methodological research design
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Our chapter traces a path through previously published doctoral research (Jepson, 2009) which investigates the planning and construction of community cultural festivals. Socio-cultural phenomena such as festivals are ...
Lexikalische Entwicklung von bilingualen Vorschulkindern
(Peter Lang GmbH, 2016)
Previous studies investigating vocabulary in bilingual and monolingual children show that bilingual children’s vocabulary scores are often below monolingual norms. The current study investigates the receptive and productive ...
What is “policy” and what is “policy response”? : An illustrative study of the implementation of the Leadership Standards for Social Justice in Scotland
(2016-01)
This paper examines ‘policy’ and ‘policy response’ through documentary analysis and an illustrative study of policy implementation. Our approach is informed by Foucault’s (2009) theory that power relations in society are ...
'The Figure (and Disfigurement) in the Landscape: The Go-Between’s Picturesque'
(Manchester University Press, 2016)
In order to contextualise The Go-Between’s complex landscaping, this chapter combines close analysis with cross-disciplinary landscape history. It traces the film’s roots from the emergence of a new discourse about the ...
Event Studies: Theory, Research and Policy for Planned Events
(Routledge, 2016)