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Marginalising co-operation?: A discursive analysis of media reporting on the Co-operative Bank (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Marginalising co-operation?: A discursive analysis of media reporting on the Co-operative Bank. Organization, 794-811. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418763276

Recently there has been renewed academic interest in co-operatives. In contrast, media accounts of co-operatives are relatively scarce, particularly, in the United Kingdom, where business reporting usually focuses on capitalist narratives, with alter... Read More about Marginalising co-operation?: A discursive analysis of media reporting on the Co-operative Bank.

Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS (2017)
Journal Article
Bruce. (2017). Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0349

This article addresses the question: ‘What can popular culture know?’ via an examination of the critique of one British public sector institution (the NHS) articulated through a medical drama aired on another British public sector institution (the BB... Read More about Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS.

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.