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When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland (2015)
Journal Article
Janes. (2015). When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland. Cultural and Social History, 425-439. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800414X13893661072843

Anti-Catholic polemics from the mid-nineteenth century made frequent comparisons between religious practices in Britain, Ireland and India. The supposed atrocities taking place at locations such as Lough Dearg in County Donegal and ‘Juggernaut’ (Jagg... Read More about When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland.

The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality (2015)
Journal Article
Janes. (2015). The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality. Legal Information Management, 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669615000092

Visual materials are often neglected by legal researchers. However, as Dominic Janes explains, attitudes to appearances played an important role in the way in which many criminal investigations were undertaken, notably in the years prior to the Sexua... Read More about The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality.

“Heroes” and “villains” of world history across cultures (2015)
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(2015). “Heroes” and “villains” of world history across cultures. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.+pone.0115641

Emergent properties of global political culture were examined using data from the World History Survey (WHS) involving 6,902 university students in 37 countries evaluating 40 figures from world history. Multidimensional scaling and factor analysis te... Read More about “Heroes” and “villains” of world history across cultures.

The Spaces of Dream: Lutoslawski's Modernist Heterotopias (2015)
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(2015). The Spaces of Dream: Lutoslawski's Modernist Heterotopias. Twentieth-Century Music, 37 -70. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478572214000152

This article offers a revisionist perspective on the contested notion of Witold Lutoslawski's authenticity as a modernist composer. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to musicology's increasingly nuanced narration of the story of musical modernism.... Read More about The Spaces of Dream: Lutoslawski's Modernist Heterotopias.

Open Hearing in a Closed Sea: migration policies and postcolonial strategies of resistance in the Mediterranean (2015)
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Palladino, M., & Gjergji, I. (2015). Open Hearing in a Closed Sea: migration policies and postcolonial strategies of resistance in the Mediterranean. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 18(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2014.998255

In the early 2000s migration towards Italy, both as a destination and transit country, was on the rise and gained increasing importance on the political agenda. In this context, enhanced security measures of border control in the Mediterranean became... Read More about Open Hearing in a Closed Sea: migration policies and postcolonial strategies of resistance in the Mediterranean.

'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s (2015)
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Bentley, & Bentley, N. (2015). 'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s

The latter years of the 1950s represent a period in which Lessing is experimenting with literary forms that extend beyond narrative fiction. In 1958 she produced the play Each to His Own Wilderness and the following year published Fourteen Poems. Bot... Read More about 'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s.