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Child health research and planning in Europe disadvantaged by major gaps and disparities in published statistics. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Child health research and planning in Europe disadvantaged by major gaps and disparities in published statistics. European Journal of Public Health, 693-697. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa052

BACKGROUND: Population data, such as mortality and morbidity statistics, are essential for many reasons, including giving context for research, supporting action on health determinants, formulation of evidence-based policy for health care and outcome... Read More about Child health research and planning in Europe disadvantaged by major gaps and disparities in published statistics..

Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam (2020)
Journal Article
Poole, E., De Quincey, E., & Giraud, E. (2020). Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam. New Media and Society, 23(6), 1415–1442. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820903319

This article sets out findings from a project focused on #stopIslam, a hashtag that gained prominence following the Brussels terror attack of 2016. We initially outline a big data analysis which shows how counter-narratives – criticizing #stopIslam –... Read More about Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam.

Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique. Cultural Politics, https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017200

The emergence of so-called post-truth politics saw popular calls to return to the ‘facts’ clash with humanities and social science work which maintains a commitment to situated knowledge: as crystallised by prominent attacks upon gender studies, post... Read More about Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique.

In Between Old & New, Local & Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move (2020)
Book Chapter
Bisht, P. (2020). In Between Old & New, Local & Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move. In Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilizing Mediated Remembrance (173-196). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_7

Social movement organisations (SMOs) remain under-examined in the burgeoning accounts of collective memory’s transnational movements. There is also an analytical neglect of the difficulties of making memories move and the constraints characterising e... Read More about In Between Old & New, Local & Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move.

The Chicago School goes east: Edward Shils and the dilemma of the Indian intellectuals, c.1956-67 (2020)
Journal Article
Sharma, S. (2020). The Chicago School goes east: Edward Shils and the dilemma of the Indian intellectuals, c.1956-67. Modern Asian Studies, 2087-2111. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000465

The sociologist Edward Shils (1910-95) is a neglected commentator on modern India. Best known in a South Asian context for his involvement in the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Shils also produced an influential study of Indian intellectuals, publish... Read More about The Chicago School goes east: Edward Shils and the dilemma of the Indian intellectuals, c.1956-67.

From ‘minimum dwelling’ to ‘functional city’: reappraising scale transitions in the early history of CIAM (2020)
Journal Article
Kallis, A. (2020). From ‘minimum dwelling’ to ‘functional city’: reappraising scale transitions in the early history of CIAM. Planning Perspectives, 36(1), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2019.1711446

In comparison to the historiographical interest in the founding meeting at La Sarraz (1928) or its fourth congress (1933), less attention has been accorded to the role of CIAM’s previous two congresses in Frankfurt (1929) and Brussels (1930) in shapi... Read More about From ‘minimum dwelling’ to ‘functional city’: reappraising scale transitions in the early history of CIAM.

Conclusion (2020)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2020). Conclusion. In Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany (281-288). (1). Palgrave Macmillan: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54000-3_9

In the conclusion, a short analysis of a founding myth of ‘British’ rock climbing—the ‘Munich Climb’ incident—demonstrates how far contests over the meanings of modernity continued to shape mountain leisure cultures into the twentieth century. It goe... Read More about Conclusion.

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany (2020)
Book
Anderson, B. (2020). Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in... Read More about Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany.