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Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of ‘republican perfection’ (2014)
Book Chapter
Yarrington, A. (2014). Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of ‘republican perfection’. In E. Eger (Ed.), Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 (81-99). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667428.006

© Cambridge University Press 2013. The attainments of Anne Seymour Damer as artist, author and student of classical antiquity secure her place in this company of brilliant women. Although during her lifetime she was not directly referred to as a ‘blu... Read More about Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of ‘republican perfection’.

Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe (2014)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Vidal, C. (2014). Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe. In N. Barreyre, M. Heale, S. Tuck, & C. Vidal (Eds.), Historians across borders : writing American history in a global age (141-162). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520279278.003.0007

This chapter examines early American history (often known as Atlantic history, a recently burgeoning field) and its multiple reconfigurations from the 1960s in order to analyze the impact of location on the conceptualization of historical frameworks.... Read More about Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe.

Is there a social norm to recycle? (2014)
Book Chapter
Abbott, A., Nandeibam, S. S., & O'Shea, L. (2014). Is there a social norm to recycle?. In T. C. Kinnaman, & K. Takeuchi (Eds.), Handbook on Waste Management (53-74). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Leadership, sustainability and ethics (2014)
Book Chapter
Bottery, M. (2014). Leadership, sustainability and ethics. In C. M. Branson, & S. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of ethical educational leadership (81 - 92). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203747582-12

This chapter is concerned with what educational leaders can lear about the ethics of their practice from a study of environmental systems. It examiners three sources for such learning. One source is from an understanding of the epistemology of these... Read More about Leadership, sustainability and ethics.

Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 (2014)
Book Chapter
Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow... Read More about Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997.

After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire (2013)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2013). After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901 : The Sea and Global History (43-63). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312662_3

In the 26 years between 1807 and 1833, Britain not only put an end to its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, but also abolished slavery in the British Caribbean. These momentous events figure largely in the nation’s imagination and, indeed... Read More about After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire.

2. The Emergence of a Right to Democracy—An African Perspective (2013)
Book Chapter
Olivier, M. (2013). 2. The Emergence of a Right to Democracy—An African Perspective. In The Arab Spring (29-52). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004243415_003

The poor quality of governance, lack of democracy and inability of the rule of law to take root in Africa, have been longstanding causes for concern and are directly linked to the ills befalling the continent. This chapter examines the commitment of... Read More about 2. The Emergence of a Right to Democracy—An African Perspective.

The wind that failed to blow: British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, S. C. (2013). The wind that failed to blow: British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf. In L. Butler, & S. Stockwell (Eds.), The Wind of Change : Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization (235-251). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318008_12

While directed primarily at Britain’s African colonies, the ethos of the ‘wind of change’ speech found echoes beyond Africa. Shortly after Harold Macmillan’s demarche, Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod asserted that ‘H.M.G.’s policy for all the depende... Read More about The wind that failed to blow: British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf.

Embodiment as Sacrament: Francis Baconʹs Postwar Horror (2013)
Book Chapter
Arya, R. (2013). Embodiment as Sacrament: Francis Baconʹs Postwar Horror. In J. Romaine, & L. Stratford (Eds.), ReVisioning (311--322). CASCADE

The power of Francis Bacon{\textquoteright}s (1909–1992) art lies, in part, in the contradictory range of responses that it evokes. Some viewers experience his paintings as energetic and uplifting; others react to the despondent and annihilating qual... Read More about Embodiment as Sacrament: Francis Baconʹs Postwar Horror.

Bill Viola and the Sublime (2013)
Book Chapter
Arya, R. (2013). Bill Viola and the Sublime. In N. Llewellyn, & C. Riding (Eds.), The Art of the Sublime. Tate

The new media art of the 1970s and 1980s offered new possibilities for expressing the sublime. Rina Arya discusses selected works by the video artist Bill Viola in light of romantic notions of the sublime.

The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model (2013)
Book Chapter
Gaten, E., Moss, S., & Johnson, M. L. (2013). The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model. In Advances in Marine Biology; The Ecology and Biology of Nephrops norvegicus (107-148). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-410466-2.00004-2

The large reniform eyes of the reptant, tube-dwelling decapod Nephrops norvegicus are described in detail. Optically these reflecting superposition compound eyes are a little unusual in that they are laterally flattened, a feature that may enhance th... Read More about The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model.

Conservatism (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Sullivan, N. (2013). Conservatism. In M. Freeden, & M. Stears (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.0005

Conservative ideology in its moderate form is inspired by opposition to belief in radical political and social change on the ground that it rests on several mistaken assumptions, of which the most important are that human nature is highly malleable;... Read More about Conservatism.

Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia (2013)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2013). Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia. In W. Carter, B. Haran, & F. J. Schwartz (Eds.), Re-New Marxist Art History (260-282). Art/Books Publishing

In 1931 the Russian-American artist Louis Lozowick travelled with members of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers to Tajikistan, one of the new Central Asian republics of the USSR. In Tajikistan, Lozowick chronicled the ‘sovietization’ of... Read More about Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia.