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The Mongols and Religion: Ancestral Pluralism, Selective Appropriation – and Cynical Manipulation? (2024)
Journal Article
Jackson, P. (2024). The Mongols and Religion: Ancestral Pluralism, Selective Appropriation – and Cynical Manipulation?. Central Asiatic Journal, 67(1-2), 75-103. https://doi.org/10.13173/caj.67.1-2.075

In this paper I shall review the current state of scholarship concerning the Mongols' approach to religious matters, question some of the assumptions that we have made, and offer alternative or additional suggestions. Specifically, I shall be conside... Read More about The Mongols and Religion: Ancestral Pluralism, Selective Appropriation – and Cynical Manipulation?.

Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control (2024)
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Bright, R. K., Cleall, E., & Kain, J. S. (2024). Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control. Migration Studies, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf002

Recent work on migration has increasingly demonstrated that, in order to understand the complexity of the current border regimes, we must take the history of their development seriously. This article argues that, in foregrounding complexity, historic... Read More about Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control.

Queer and Trans Martyrdom (2024)
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Janes, D. (in press). Queer and Trans Martyrdom. Brown Journal of World Affairs,

Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach (2024)
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Blackburn, M. (in press). Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 150(2), 47

Discussions of sample-based music as found within academic literature traditionally operate as single authored documents, despite the frequency of multi-genre content found within this repertoire, enabled so via sampling. This article builds a case f... Read More about Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach.

Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs (2024)
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Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (in press). Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs. Adaptation, 18(1), Article apae025. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apae025

Despite the many pop and rock songs adapted from literary texts, there has been little scholarship on the theory and practice of adapting novels and short stories into short-form musical works. This article is part of a British Academy-funded pilot p... Read More about Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs.

Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia (2024)
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Bright, R. K. (2024). Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia. Genealogy, 8(4), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040140

In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognised the ways that colonialism, and related racism, embedded intergenerational trauma within families and communities. The role of domestic violence within families is widely accepted as important, bu... Read More about Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia.

How Human Rights Became Gay Rights (2024)
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Pretsell, D., & Willem Jones, T. (2024). How Human Rights Became Gay Rights. Human Rights Quarterly, 46(3), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2024.a933872

When the Legislative Council of the Australian island state of Tasmania rejected gay law reform in July 1991, a group of enterprising activists took their case to the United Nations. In April 1994, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled in t... Read More about How Human Rights Became Gay Rights.

“The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power” (2024)
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Peacock, J. (2024). “The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769x.2024.2393385

This paper argues that the blot in A Gambler’s Anatomy exists in a long line of deep metaphors in Lethem’s work, an ancestor of “Lack” in As She Climbed Across the Table (1997) and the giant hole in the center of Manhattan in Chronic City. In the con... Read More about “The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”.

Troubled by faith. Insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum. By Owen Davis. Pp. xiv + 350 incl. 6 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £25. 978 0 19 887300 6 (2024)
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Janes, D. (2024). Troubled by faith. Insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum. By Owen Davis. Pp. xiv + 350 incl. 6 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £25. 978 0 19 887300 6. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 75(3), 611-613. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046924000472

Evaluation of the Leishmania Inositol Phosphorylceramide Synthase as a Drug Target Using a Chemical and Genetic Approach (2024)
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Alpizar-Sosa, E., Zimbres, F. M., Mantilla, B. S., Dickie, E. A., Wei, W., Burle-Caldas, G. A., Filipe, L. N. S., Van Bocxlaer, K., Price, H. P., Ibarra-Meneses, A. V., Beaudry, F., Fernandez-Prada, C., Whitfield, P. D., Barrett, M. P., & Denny, P. W. (in press). Evaluation of the Leishmania Inositol Phosphorylceramide Synthase as a Drug Target Using a Chemical and Genetic Approach. ACS Infectious Diseases, 10(8), 2913-2928. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.4c00284

The lack of effective vaccines and the development of resistance to the current treatments highlight the urgent need for new anti-leishmanials. Sphingolipid metabolism has been proposed as a promising source of Leishmania-specific targets as these li... Read More about Evaluation of the Leishmania Inositol Phosphorylceramide Synthase as a Drug Target Using a Chemical and Genetic Approach.

New Wave Women: Paying Attention to Brenda and Doreen in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (2024)
Journal Article
Price, H. (2024). New Wave Women: Paying Attention to Brenda and Doreen in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 21(3), 316-336. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2024.0724

Scholarship in British film history has tended to suggest that the female characters in New Wave films are marginalised, dismissively associated with the trappings of consumer culture, and responsible for the ultimate containment of their ‘Angry Youn... Read More about New Wave Women: Paying Attention to Brenda and Doreen in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

Roundtable discussion (2024)
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Hakim, J., Kanai, A., Redmond, S., Winch, A., & Wood, R. (2024). Roundtable discussion. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2356923

For over three decades now Rosalind Gill has played a critical role in steering the direction of feminist media studies. Her scholarship provides a powerful overview of what it has been like for women (and others) to engage with, work in and be repre... Read More about Roundtable discussion.

Hugh Easton's Neo-Baroque Art and the Stained-Glass Closet in Postwar Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Brocket, J., & Janes, D. (2024). Hugh Easton's Neo-Baroque Art and the Stained-Glass Closet in Postwar Britain. Journal of Religious History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13058

Hugh Ray Easton (1906-1965) was a leading mid-twentieth century British designer of stained-glass windows. His works combined neo-baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique m... Read More about Hugh Easton's Neo-Baroque Art and the Stained-Glass Closet in Postwar Britain.

Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain* (2024)
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Brocket, J., & Janes, D. (2024). Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*. Journal of Religious History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13058

Hugh Ray Easton (1906–1965) was a leading mid‐twentieth century British designer of stained‐glass windows. His works combined neo‐baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique m... Read More about Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*.