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Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology (2023)
Thesis
Skentelbery, D. (2023). Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology. (Thesis). Keele University

Cosplay is the act of dressing and performing as a character from popular media and is typically associated with fan conventions. The academic study of gender-play cosplay (explicit play with gendered codes) has framed cosplay as a socially transform... Read More about Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology.

Safe Spaces and Good Places: The contribution of safety to community sites and social change (2022)
Thesis
Drummond, M. G. (2022). Safe Spaces and Good Places: The contribution of safety to community sites and social change. (Thesis). Keele University

This project explores the contribution of considerations of safety to communities and sites of social change. In this thesis, the concept of safety is grounded in contemporary conceptualizations and ongoing debates about safety found in discussions o... Read More about Safe Spaces and Good Places: The contribution of safety to community sites and social change.

From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism (2022)
Journal Article
Kauders, A. (2022). From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism. Antisemitism Studies, 6(2), 208-240. https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.6.2.02

This essay traces the recent critique of realistic conflict theory as it pertains to the study of antisemitism. In doing so, it will provide an overview of the arguments comprising the debate, outline the ways in which these arguments depend on speci... Read More about From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism.

Contesting piety: representations of Indonesian internet celebrities on Instagram (2022)
Thesis
Annisa, F. (2022). Contesting piety: representations of Indonesian internet celebrities on Instagram. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis aims to ascertain how, through the social media platform Instagram, Muslim women internet celebrities represent themselves as public figures who can represent the ummah. Through their self-representation on social media, Muslim women inte... Read More about Contesting piety: representations of Indonesian internet celebrities on Instagram.

The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950 (2021)
Journal Article
Janes. (2022). The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950. Journal of Social History, 55(3), 695-723. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shab069

The records of student societies show that cross-dressing was a very popular practice at Cambridge University from the second half of the nineteenth century not only in drama but at a wide range of social events. Male and female students were segrega... Read More about The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950.

Gentrification (2021)
Book Chapter
Peacock. (2021). Gentrification. In The City in American Literature and Culture (103-117). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895262.007

This chapter uproots the border from the perimeter of the country, from the traditional dyad in which it is embedded and releases it in the urban landscape. The premise is that just as the category of space has been mobilized in the work of geographe... Read More about Gentrification.

Disrupting or reconfiguring racist narratives about Muslims? The representation of British Muslims during the Covid crisis (2021)
Journal Article
Poole, E., & Williamson, M. (2021). Disrupting or reconfiguring racist narratives about Muslims? The representation of British Muslims during the Covid crisis. Journalism, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211030129

This article examines British newspaper coverage of Muslims during the first wave of the Coronavirus crisis. A well-established trajectory of research shows that Muslims are negativized in mainstream media representation in the UK. However, it became... Read More about Disrupting or reconfiguring racist narratives about Muslims? The representation of British Muslims during the Covid crisis.

‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past (2021)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2021). ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past. Journal of European Popular Culture, 12(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00026_1

The origins of camp can be traced by exploring the ways in which the past was queered during the inter-war period. Cecil Beaton was establishing himself as one of the world’s leading fashion photographers. He and many of his friends were fascinated b... Read More about ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past.

Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine (2021)
Journal Article
Janes. (2021). Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine. Visual Culture in Britain, 275-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755

Francis Bacon made extensive use of photographs and other images from the visual culture of his time in the production of works that were implicitly queer. Homosexual men were widely represented in prose and through cartoons as camply effeminate ‘pan... Read More about Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine.

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 Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012) (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012). Studies in French Cinema, 246-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1511182

This article explores the connections between vulnerability, gender and terrorist violence, drawing on Algerian filmmaker Djamila Sahraoui’s Yema (2012). The film will first be situated in relation to Sahraoui’s oeuvre, and within a wider context of... Read More about The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012).

Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Holohan. (2019). Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.423

Taking as its starting point Hannah Arendt’s (1994/1943) observations on the public response to the mass exile of Jews during World War Two, I argue that the UK’s mediatized reaction to those escaping conflict during the Mediterranean refugee crisis... Read More about Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

Creative engagement with migration (2019)
Journal Article
Jeffery, L., Palladino, M., Rotter, R., & Woolley, A. (2019). Creative engagement with migration. Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 10(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc.10.1.3_1

This article introduces a special issue on arts-based engagement with migration, comprising articles, reflections, poems and images. The introductory article starts by exploring the ethical, political and empirical reasons for the increased use of ar... Read More about Creative engagement with migration.

The return of Citizenship?: An empirical assessment of legal integration in time of radical socio-legal transformation (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). The return of Citizenship?: An empirical assessment of legal integration in time of radical socio-legal transformation. International Migration Review,

Intra-EU migrants have traditionally faced few pressures or incentives to formalise their 'permanent' residence or to naturalise in their EU host countries. Focusing on the United Kingdom and combining an analysis of secondary administrative data and... Read More about The return of Citizenship?: An empirical assessment of legal integration in time of radical socio-legal transformation.

Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials. Economy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2018.1528103

As part of its anti-corruption campaigns in China, the Communist Party of China (CCP) provides officials opportunities to redeem themselves and renew their vows of loyalty to the Party and the people they serve. Officials must regain honour through a... Read More about Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials.

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).

Review of exhibitions British Library, “Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty” (2017) British Museum, “Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories” (2017) Tate Britain, “Queer British Art, 1861-1967” (2017) (2018)
Journal Article
Janes. (2018). Review of exhibitions British Library, “Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty” (2017) British Museum, “Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories” (2017) Tate Britain, “Queer British Art, 1861-1967” (2017). https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.5.1.0103