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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, ...
Fashioning Consumers : Ackermann’s Repository of Arts and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018-01-31)
Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks for economic and social change in eighteenth-century Britain. The influence of consumption on debates surrounding political and moral economy has been undeniable, ...
Cold War Sport, Film and Propaganda : A Comparative Analysis of the Superpowers
(2017-04-26)
Films and sports played central roles in Cold War popular culture. Each helped set ideological agendas domestically and internationally while serving as powerful substitutes for direct superpower conflict. This article ...