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Brexit has started: so what should Remain Vote Scotland do to protect its interests? (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Blake, J. (2017). Brexit has started: so what should Remain Vote Scotland do to protect its interests?. Edinburgh, Scotland

This Scotsman newspaper article is based on research by James Blake - examining the impact of Brexit on the creative industries - and other reports from members of the RSE Young Academy Scotland. The article highlights the ongoing social and politica... Read More about Brexit has started: so what should Remain Vote Scotland do to protect its interests?.

A study of the relationship between personalised 3D printed 'Souvenirs of Place' and public perception of modern architectural heritage (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vettese, S., Anastasiadou, C., & Vones, K. (2017, April). A study of the relationship between personalised 3D printed 'Souvenirs of Place' and public perception of modern architectural heritage. Presented at EAD12/2017 Design for Next, Rome, Italy

At present, there is a disconnection between academic and public perception of Modern heritage, particularly Brutalist architecture. This research utilises the processes and experiences of making 3D printed ‘souvenirs of place’ to investigate their p... Read More about A study of the relationship between personalised 3D printed 'Souvenirs of Place' and public perception of modern architectural heritage.

Introduction: Modernism and the First World War (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction: Modernism and the First World War. Modernist Cultures, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2017.0153

Introduction to special issue of Modernist Cultures on Modernism and the First World War. Surveys recent critical issues at the intersection of First World War and Modernist Studies, and introduces essays in the issue.

The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism. In K. Tuteja, & K. Chakraborty (Eds.), Tagore and Nationalism (245-256). BMC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3696-2_16

Rabindranath’s stand on the ideas of nation and nationalism has become a part of a national debate that often left him isolated and misunderstood in his own country. This paper explores the India Rabindranath Tagore envisioned at the end of her journ... Read More about The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism.

These Shadows, These Ghosts (2017)
Book Chapter
Lam, L. (2017). These Shadows, These Ghosts. In H. McDaid, & L. Jones (Eds.), Nasty Women. 404 INK

With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever to share real experiences and hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection... Read More about These Shadows, These Ghosts.

The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2016). The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion. In B. Knotkova-Capkova (Ed.), Tagore on Discriminations: Representing the Unrepresented. (1)

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Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. Exhibited at Govan, Glasgow. 2 May 2016 - 2 May 2016

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening at Pearce Institute of films I have produced with Plantation Productions. This event was part of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival.

Plantation Productions have been making films with, by and about t... Read More about Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016..

Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism (2016)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2016). Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism. European Journal of American Culture, 35(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.35.1.51_1

This article examines the depiction of exceptionalism in David Simon and Eric Overmeyer’s television series, Treme, and argues that the series uses its New Orleans microcosm to articulate wider points about American society. It begins with the unlike... Read More about Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism.

The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun (2014)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2014). The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun. Comparative American Studies, 12(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570014Z.00000000081

While the initial literary and cultural response to 9/11 consisted mostly of domestic narratives of trauma and mourning that avoided explicit political discourse, narrative representations of Hurricane Katrina, from the beginning, have been highly po... Read More about The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun.

Position, commission and production: a self-reflexive investigation into the generation of ethnographic knowledge through documentary production for BBC Alba (2014)
Thesis
MacLean, D. Position, commission and production: a self-reflexive investigation into the generation of ethnographic knowledge through documentary production for BBC Alba. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8850

This thesis takes as its object of study issues emerging from the synthesis of documentary practice and theoretical discourse. Its context is formed by the production of four published works commissioned and broadcast by the BBC in 2011/2012. These... Read More about Position, commission and production: a self-reflexive investigation into the generation of ethnographic knowledge through documentary production for BBC Alba.

Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2013, October). Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'

Difficulty and complexity are values most often associated with a modernist avant-garde of ‘serious’ music. Their presence in popular music tends to attract the opprobrium of critics who seek to maintain a purity for popular music founded on values... Read More about Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'..

Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages (2013)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K. (2014). Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(3), 293-303. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877913487550

This article offers a way of understanding not only Festival Cities, but also the Creative City paradigm and to some extent the practices employed through the convergence of culture and urban planning that has come to dominate the logic of urban spac... Read More about Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages.

Pundit for post-industrial times? Walter Lippmann as an information society theorist. (2013)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2013). Pundit for post-industrial times? Walter Lippmann as an information society theorist. Information, Communication and Society, 16(6), 967-988. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2012.755209

Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was perhaps the most prominent pundit of the late-industrial era. His place in the annals of journalism is secure, but his legacy should not stop there. The article argues for a fresh interpretation of Lippmann as an early... Read More about Pundit for post-industrial times? Walter Lippmann as an information society theorist..

Genre and the cultural politics of territory: The live experience of free improvisation (2012)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012). Genre and the cultural politics of territory: The live experience of free improvisation. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(4), 427-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549412442671

This paper is concerned with the relationship between performers and audiences in the live performance of popular music, a relationship that is examined through the concept of genre culture and a microsociological study of improvised music as a terri... Read More about Genre and the cultural politics of territory: The live experience of free improvisation.

A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens (2012)
Thesis
Xenou, A. S. A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5423

Using my family experience as an auto-ethnographic case, I consider how photography creates postmemory and counter-memory and how it has come to adopt the position it currently holds in funereal rituals in Athens. My historical examination begins fro... Read More about A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens.

Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre (2011)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2011). Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23, 324-342

Recent theoretical interest in Noise has drawn attention to the difficulties of making sense of it as a musical practice. Various claims have been made: Noise challenges the entire history of musical codes; it represents the end of music; it is a ne... Read More about Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre.

Design thinking - a critical analysis. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodgers, P., & Winton, E. (2010, September). Design thinking - a critical analysis. Presented at INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION

The latest buzz phrase to enter the world of design research is “Design Thinking”. But is this anything new and does it really have any practical or theoretical relevance to the design world? Many sceptics believe the term has more to do with busines... Read More about Design thinking - a critical analysis..