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Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia (2018)
Book Chapter
Lee, M., Johnson, M., & McCahill, M. (2018). Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia. In Race, criminal justice, and migration control: enforcing the boundaries of belonging (13-28). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0002

© Maggy Lee, Mark Johnson, and Mike McCahill, 2017. This chapter provides a transnational analysis of the ways in which migrant workers are placed at the sharp end of migration control based on gendered and racialized notions of domestic labour. Migr... Read More about Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia.

Figuring improvisation (2018)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2019). Figuring improvisation. In N. Gebhardt, N. Rustin-Paschal, & T. Whyton (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (221-230). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315315805-21

Improvisation is often regarded as a central, constitutive, and even defining element of jazz, and as a result it has figured large in jazz studies. This chapter sets out to explore the contingency of improvisation, looking at how it has been figured... Read More about Figuring improvisation.

Joseph Peters (2018)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2018). Joseph Peters. In E. Sandberg (Ed.), 100 Greatest Literary Detectives (144-146). Rowman & Littlefield

Encyclopedia entry First paragraph: “[. . .] he was useful, quiet, and steady, and above all, as his patrons said, he was to be relied on, because he could not talk.” The Trail of the Serpent was Mary Braddon’s first novel, and with it she... Read More about Joseph Peters.

The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views (2018)
Book Chapter
Connelly, J. (2018). The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views. In K. Dharamsi, G. D'Oro, & S. Leach (Eds.), Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology (35-75). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1_3

Connelly discusses the development of Collingwood’s conception of philosophical methodology and how his early reflections on the role and character of philosophical analysis gradually gave rise to his mature metaphilosophical views. He shows that con... Read More about The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views.

Gerard; or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1892). Mary Elizabeth Braddon. (2018)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2018). Gerard; or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1892). Mary Elizabeth Braddon. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (93). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

Encyclopedia entry First paragraph: One of Braddon’s later novels, Gerard is a rewriting of the Faust myth through an engagement with fin-de-siècle fears of moral degeneration, loss of religious belief, illegitimacy and increasing scientific know... Read More about Gerard; or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1892). Mary Elizabeth Braddon..

Performers' Perspectives on "Feel" in Music (2018)
Book Chapter
King, E., & Waddington, C. (2018). Performers' Perspectives on "Feel" in Music. In N. Reyland, & R. Thumpson (Eds.), Music, analysis, and the body: Experiments, explorations, and embodiments. Peeters Publishers

This chapter explores the concept of 'feel' in relation to music performers in the Western art tradition.

The Sikh Experience (2018)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2018). The Sikh Experience. In The Indian Army in the First World War: New Perspectives (187-206). Helion & Company

Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2018). Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity. In P. Mallett (Ed.), The Victorian novel and masculinity (116-150). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491541_6

In July 1907, Thomas Hardy attended a dinner given by the Medico-Psychology Society (later to become the Royal College of Psychiatrists) as the guest of Peter William Macdonald, MD, medical superintendent of Dorset County Asylum and President of the... Read More about Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity.

The topic of 'love' in early modern English lute songs or ayres (2018)
Book Chapter
Wilson, C. R. (2018). The topic of 'love' in early modern English lute songs or ayres. In K. A. Karlsson (Ed.), The essentially feminine: a mapping through artistic practice of the feminine territory offered by early modern music (65-90). ArtMonitor

Khadduri as gatekeeper of the Islamic Law of Nations? (2018)
Book Chapter
Allain, J. (2018). Khadduri as gatekeeper of the Islamic Law of Nations?. In International law and Islam: historical explorations (127-145). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388376_008

This chapter demonstrates the discrepancy between Majid Khadduri’s representation of Muhammad Shaybani and the Siyar – the Islamic Law of Nations – in his 1966 The Islamic Law of Nations, and that found in Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi’s 1998 translation of Sh... Read More about Khadduri as gatekeeper of the Islamic Law of Nations?.

Jazz and the Live Performance Event (2018)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2018). Jazz and the Live Performance Event. In R. Thumpston, & N. Reyland (Eds.), Music, analysis, and the body: experiments, explorations, and embodiments (209-224). Routledge

Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2018). Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’. In D. Kennedy, & R. Meek (Eds.), Ekphrastic Encounters (165-180). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526125804.00016

This chapter applies the idea of a non-hierarchical, creative exchange of meaning to Hamo Thornycroft’s 1884 sculpture of The Mower, and its accompanying epigraph from Matthew Arnold’s 1866 elegy for the poet Arthur Hugh Clough: ‘Thyrsis’. The chapte... Read More about Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’.

Brief Encounters: The Railway Station on Film (2018)
Book Chapter
Mazdon, L. (2018). Brief Encounters: The Railway Station on Film. In L. Bayman, & N. Pinazza (Eds.), Journeys on Screen - Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics (36-49). Edinburgh University Press

'It's my destiny': Narrating prison violence and masculinity in the Shaun Attwood trilogy (2018)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2018). 'It's my destiny': Narrating prison violence and masculinity in the Shaun Attwood trilogy. In C. Bielby, & J. S. Murer (Eds.), Perpetrating Selves : Doing Violence, Performing Identity (133-154). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96785-1_7

Metcalf engages with a trilogy of memoirs written by Shaun Attwood, a UK citizen who spent six years in the US prison system. Utilising the burgeoning field of narrative criminology to frame her study of Attwood’s books, Metcalf addresses the fascina... Read More about 'It's my destiny': Narrating prison violence and masculinity in the Shaun Attwood trilogy.