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Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz Hernández (Eds.), Rethinking ‘identities’ : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (21-42). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

In this essay, I examine contemporary renegotiations of feminism that constitute a challenge not only for self-defined feminists, but also for mainstream interpretive communities, and that in fact have the potential for a quasi-universal impact. I do... Read More about Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists.

Screening Chueca: Marking the Queer Territory in Spanish Cinema of the 2000s (2014)
Book Chapter
Fouz-Hernández, S., & Gras-Velázquez, A. (2014). Screening Chueca: Marking the Queer Territory in Spanish Cinema of the 2000s. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz-Hernández (Eds.), Rethinking ‘identities’ : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (67-88). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

Much has been written about Madrid’s iconic status in Spanish cinema as the epicentre of post-Franco liberation.1 Once symbolic of the totalitarian centrality promoted by the dictatorship, it soon became the site of modernity, urban freedom and jouis... Read More about Screening Chueca: Marking the Queer Territory in Spanish Cinema of the 2000s.

Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China (2014)
Book
Cao, Q., Tian, H., & Chilton, P. (Eds.). (2014). Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China. John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.54

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the politi... Read More about Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China.

The Mental Test as a Boundary Object in Early-20th-Century Russian Child Science (2014)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2014). The Mental Test as a Boundary Object in Early-20th-Century Russian Child Science. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), 22-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114527598

This article charts the history of mental testing in the context of the rise and fall of Russian child science between the 1890s and the 1930s. Tracing the genealogy of testing in scientific experimentation, scholastic assessment, medical diagnostics... Read More about The Mental Test as a Boundary Object in Early-20th-Century Russian Child Science.

Poetes ferits (2014)
Book
Fernández Recasens, C. (2014). Poetes ferits. Barcelona: Jordi Pagès

Pamiat' o "repressirovannykh naukakh" v istorii Rossii: Sluchai pedologii (2014)
Book Chapter
Byford, A. (2014). Pamiat' o "repressirovannykh naukakh" v istorii Rossii: Sluchai pedologii. In G. Lobacheva (Ed.), Istoricheskaia pamiat’ Rossii : proshloe i nastoiashchee : materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, 11-13 aprelia 2014 goda (16-29). Saratovskii gosudarstvennyi tekhnicheskii universitet

Анализируется дискуссия, развернувшаяся в постсоветские годы вокруг «вытравленной» науки педологии, некоторых современных попыток её реабилитации и частичного возрождения. Педология здесь выступает в качестве «профессионального / научного движения»,... Read More about Pamiat' o "repressirovannykh naukakh" v istorii Rossii: Sluchai pedologii.

Recognition of Translator Expertise Using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martinez-Gomez, P., Minocha, A., Huang, J., Carl, M., Bangalore, S., & Aizawa, A. (2014). Recognition of Translator Expertise Using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes. In P. Qvarfordt, & D. Witzner Hansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications - ETRA '14 (299-302). https://doi.org/10.1145/2578153.2578201

Professional human translation is necessary to meet high quality standards in industry and governmental agencies. Translators engage in multiple activities during their task, and there is a need to model their behavior, with the objective to understa... Read More about Recognition of Translator Expertise Using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes.

Paper: 'Bigas Luna’s Early Erotic Passions: Bilbao(1978) and Caniche (1979)' and coordination of panel 'A Homage to Bigas Luna (1946-2013)'. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle USA 19-23 March 2014. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fouz-Hernández, S. (2014, March). Paper: 'Bigas Luna’s Early Erotic Passions: Bilbao(1978) and Caniche (1979)' and coordination of panel 'A Homage to Bigas Luna (1946-2013)'. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle USA 19-23 March 2014

Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2014). Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction. Modern and Contemporary France, 22(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2013.867151

This article analyses literary mediations of francophone Jewish attitudes towards Israel, and particularly towards the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Its primary corpus comprises two female-authored novels published during the Second Intifada: Olivia... Read More about Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction.

Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others" (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others". In M. Rossello, & S. Dasgupta (Eds.), What's queer about Europe? : productive encounters and re-enchanting paradigms (91-113). Fordham University Press

Abjection, Marriage, and the Burrowing Worm: The Body as Bounded System in the Dança General de la Muerte (2014)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. M. (2014). Abjection, Marriage, and the Burrowing Worm: The Body as Bounded System in the Dança General de la Muerte. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 91(8), 965-980. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2014.62

This article explores the depiction of the burrowing gusano in the Dança general de la Muerte, arguing that Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection offers a previously untested hermeneutic for interpretation. It argues that the action of the worm in dev... Read More about Abjection, Marriage, and the Burrowing Worm: The Body as Bounded System in the Dança General de la Muerte.

Understanding Care Leavers in Russia: Young People's Experiences of Institutionalisation. (2014)
Journal Article
Stepanova, E., & Hackett, S. (2014). Understanding Care Leavers in Russia: Young People's Experiences of Institutionalisation. Australian Social Work, 67(1), 118-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2013.868011

Care leavers in Russia represent one of the most disadvantaged groups in society. However, they have rarely been the focus of welfare policy debate and they receive little or no support in their independent living. This paper presents the findings of... Read More about Understanding Care Leavers in Russia: Young People's Experiences of Institutionalisation..