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The 2015 Charlie Hebdo Killings, Media Event Chains, and Global Political Responses (2016)
Journal Article
Sreberny, A. The 2015 Charlie Hebdo Killings, Media Event Chains, and Global Political Responses. International Journal of Communication, 10, 3485-3502

The forms and flows of global media coverage of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations of January 2015 compel a reexamination of cherished nostrums in media studies. Limited coverage of analogous lethal attacks elsewhere suggests the privileging of certain... Read More about The 2015 Charlie Hebdo Killings, Media Event Chains, and Global Political Responses.

People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity (2016)
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Robertson, I. J., & Webster, D. R. (2016). People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity. cultural geographies, 24(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016659235

This short photographic essay emerges from the recognition that identity, landscapes and heritage landscapes in particular are rarely configured and conceptualised wholly linguistically. An affective and emotional charge can involve visual and tactil... Read More about People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity.

Writing in London. Home and Languaging in the Work of London Poets of Chinese Descent (2016)
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Bruno, C. (2017). Writing in London. Home and Languaging in the Work of London Poets of Chinese Descent. Life Writing, 14(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2016.1204259

This essay discusses literary works produced in London by poets of Chinese descent who are foreign-born or London native. Some of these works are written in English, and some in Chinese. The aim is to discuss poetry that has emphatically or reluctant... Read More about Writing in London. Home and Languaging in the Work of London Poets of Chinese Descent.

Solar PV and solar water heaters in China: Different pathways to low carbon energy. (2016)
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Urban, F., Geall, S., & Wang, Y. (2016). Solar PV and solar water heaters in China: Different pathways to low carbon energy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 64(2016), 531-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.06.023

This review paper examines pathways towards solar energy in China by examining two different solar energy technologies, namely solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar water heaters (SWH). The paper investigates these two case studies to understand how diff... Read More about Solar PV and solar water heaters in China: Different pathways to low carbon energy..

A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi (2016)
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Gibson, H. (2016). A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi. Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics, 184, 79-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.06.003

The Tanzanian Bantu language Rangi exhibits a comparatively and typologically unusual word order alternation in the future tense. Whilst declarative main clauses exhibit post-verbal auxiliary placement, the auxiliary appears pre-verbally in wh-questi... Read More about A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi.

Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production: revisiting French Marxist Anthropology and the history of central Africa (2016)
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Trapido, J. (2016). Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production: revisiting French Marxist Anthropology and the history of central Africa. Dialectical Anthropology, 40(3), 199-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9432-7

This essay seeks to understand the potlatch as indicative of a wider category of exchange. Looking at the similarity in wild exchange rituals between northwestern America and central Africa the article argues that potlatch ritual is not as an archaic... Read More about Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production: revisiting French Marxist Anthropology and the history of central Africa.

Art, Power and Knowledge: Claiming Public Space in Tunisia (2016)
Journal Article
Tripp, C. (2016). Art, Power and Knowledge: Claiming Public Space in Tunisia. Middle East Law and Governance, 9(2-3), 250-274. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-00802007

Charles Tripp argues that through artistic interventions – graffiti, visual street art, performances, demonstrations, banners, slogans – citizens have appropriated the public
sphere. Despite the monitoring of political dissent through persuasion or... Read More about Art, Power and Knowledge: Claiming Public Space in Tunisia.

Yuxian qingcuo hua cai tong: Rizhishiqi Taiwan de dianhua nü jiexiansheng 玉纖輕撮話纔通—日治時期臺灣的電話女接線生 (2016)
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Chen, L.-C. (2016). Yuxian qingcuo hua cai tong: Rizhishiqi Taiwan de dianhua nü jiexiansheng 玉纖輕撮話纔通—日治時期臺灣的電話女接線生. Jìndài zhōngguó fùnǔ shǐ yánjiū, 27, 95-190

電話接線生，又稱「交換手」，是一個曾被視為專屬 於女性，卻已走入歷史的職業。電話技術於十九世紀末引 入臺灣，並於1900 年開放大眾使用，當時尚需以人工操 作電話交換機以接通發話與收話兩端，並隨著電話的蓬勃發展，日本殖民政府大量採用女性擔任電話接線生，成為... Read More about Yuxian qingcuo hua cai tong: Rizhishiqi Taiwan de dianhua nü jiexiansheng 玉纖輕撮話纔通—日治時期臺灣的電話女接線生.

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein (2016)
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Campling, L., & Lerche, J. (2016). Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein. Journal of Agrarian Change, 16(3), 365-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12180

This special issue presents five essays and an interview in appreciation of Henry Bernstein. The essays – by major scholars in the field of agrarian political economy – engage with different aspects of Bernstein’s oeuvre: from direct critical reflect... Read More about Introduction to the Special Issue: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Essays in Appreciation of Henry Bernstein.