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Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream (2018)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2018). Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream. In David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (39-52). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474262132.0008

Nick Bentley This chapter argues that number9dream represents a quest narrative in terms of both content and form. The novel begins by inhabiting the postmodernity of late-twentieth-century Tokyo, a setting in which the main character, Eiji Miyake, s... Read More about Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream.

Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State (2018)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2018). Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11, 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0233-z

In the last three decades, the rise of a populist challenge to the liberal political mainstream exposed how shallow the supposed victory of global liberalism was, even in its heartlands in Europe and North America. Exclusive nationalism and nativism,... Read More about Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State.

La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima) (2018)
Journal Article
Montero Diaz, R. (2018). La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima). Anthropologica, 97 -120. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201801.005

En los últimos años, la fusión intercultural en Lima ha ido creciendo hasta convertirse en un género musical ‘nacional’ portador y visibilizador de interacciones inter-sociales e inter-étnicas, las cuales retan la segregación cultural sistemática de... Read More about La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima).

Mesmeric Rapport: the power of female sympathy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Mesmeric Rapport: the power of female sympathy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Journal of Victorian Culture, 366-380. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcy034

Scenes of mesmerism and hypnotism in gothic novels are commonly read as symbolic of sexual assault that reinforces traditional hierarchies of gendered power. In contrast, Bram Stoker rejects the trope of the helpless woman controlled by the all-power... Read More about Mesmeric Rapport: the power of female sympathy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India (2018)
Thesis
Stringer, G. P. (2023). Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to work in India, and focuses on his portraiture in a quarter-century that saw Britain defeat European rivals during the Seven Years’ War, gain India, an... Read More about Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India.

Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media (2018)
Journal Article
De Quincey, E., Poole, E., & Giraud, E. (2018). Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media. British Academy Review, 33,

Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and Eva Giraud explore the dynamics of a racist hashtag following the Brussels terrorist attack

The water-energy-food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). The water-energy-food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability. Geographical Journal, 406-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12257

The nexus of water-energy-food (WEF) is as apparent at the household scale as it is anywhere else. We introduce the ‘Nexus at Home’ as a starting point for exploring the dynamics of WEF resource use and household sustainability. Drawing on two resear... Read More about The water-energy-food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability.