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Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2016.1218188

The police massacre, in the center of Paris, of hundreds of protesting Algerians on the 17th of October 1961 has become one of the most recognized events of the Algerian War. Amid a wealth of historical and fictional works that treat the event, Jacqu... Read More about Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre.

Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002). The Journal of North African Studies, 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1229184

This article charts the roles and representations of Algerian Women as both agents and victims of violence in the War of Independence (1956–1962) and the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s in which the role of women emerged as a significant site of ideo... Read More about Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002).

London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street (2016)
Journal Article
McWilliam. (2016). London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street. Victoriographies, 6(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0210

The moral justification for the rollback of benefits and services under the austerity programme unleashed by George Osborne since 2010, when he was first appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by British Prime Minister David Cameron, is predicated on... Read More about London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street.

Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010) (2016)
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(2016). Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010). French Cultural Studies, 62-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815602158

This article addresses the audio-visual representation of the victims of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in Algeria in the 1990s, drawing on both historical and testimonial sources before examining Xavier Beauvois’s Des hommes et des dieux (2010). B... Read More about Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010).

Materiality, magic and belief: framing the countryside in fantastical live-action roleplay games (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Materiality, magic and belief: framing the countryside in fantastical live-action roleplay games. Ethnography, 326-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138115609376

This account of a UK live-action roleplay (LARP) event highlights complex shifts between different interpretive frames, foregrounding the role of the physical setting as well as non-players and locals in providing symbolic resources that inhibit or s... Read More about Materiality, magic and belief: framing the countryside in fantastical live-action roleplay games.

Subjectivity 2.0: digital technologies, participatory media and communicative capitalism (2015)
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Giraud, E. (2015). Subjectivity 2.0: digital technologies, participatory media and communicative capitalism. Subjectivity, 8, 124-146. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2015.5

Drawing on observations and focus group material from pervasive drama project, The Memory Dealer, this article explores both the dynamics and the limitations of existing models of digital subjectivity. It interrogates, in particular, constructions of... Read More about Subjectivity 2.0: digital technologies, participatory media and communicative capitalism.

The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space. Journal of Sonic Studies,

This article argues that pervasive drama has the capacity to illuminate the cultural politics of urban space, by highlighting microsociological power relations that shape everyday movement. It suggests that the medium does this in two ways: firstly,... Read More about The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space.

The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space. Journal of Sonic Studies,

This article argues that pervasive drama has the capacity to illuminate the cultural politics of urban space, by highlighting microsociological power relations that shape everyday movement. It suggests that the medium does this in two ways: firstly,... Read More about The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space.

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.

Has radical participatory online media really 'failed'?: indymedia and its legacies. (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Has radical participatory online media really 'failed'?: indymedia and its legacies. Convergence, 419 - 437. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856514541352

This article evaluates the contemporary state of radical participatory online news network Indymedia. After examining criticisms levelled at Indymedia from within critical communications and social movement studies, it provides a tabulated overview o... Read More about Has radical participatory online media really 'failed'?: indymedia and its legacies..

A Body That Will Speak (TV Documentary; Public Service Brodcasting Trust, 2007) (2007)
Digital Artefact
(2007). A Body That Will Speak (TV Documentary; Public Service Brodcasting Trust, 2007)

A filmmaker, a university student, an entrepreneur and a radio jockey. Women who feel hungry, eat, grow fat and feel anxious about it. A film about not being perfect. A film about the never ending attempts to make the body “speak for the self in a me... Read More about A Body That Will Speak (TV Documentary; Public Service Brodcasting Trust, 2007).