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Getting a foot on the sanitation ladder: user satisfaction and willingness to pay for improved public toilets in Accra, Ghana (2017)
Journal Article
Mariwah, S., Hampshire, K., & Owusu-Antwi, C. (2017). Getting a foot on the sanitation ladder: user satisfaction and willingness to pay for improved public toilets in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 7(3), 528-534. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2017.007

Rapid urban growth in developing countries has led to an increase in unplanned, high-density settlements dependent on public toilets for sanitation, yet we know relatively little about users' perceptions and concerns about such facilities. This paper... Read More about Getting a foot on the sanitation ladder: user satisfaction and willingness to pay for improved public toilets in Accra, Ghana.

Prehistoric figurines in Italy (2017)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2017). Prehistoric figurines in Italy. In T. Insoll (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of prehistoric figurines (777-798). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.038

An overview is provided of anthropomorphic figurines in peninsular Italy and Sicily between the Palaeolithic and Copper Age. Some updated patterns in the data and contextual interpretations of the production, use, and deposition of figurines are pres... Read More about Prehistoric figurines in Italy.

Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City': Subjective Alienation and Mob Violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI (2017)
Journal Article
Gray, P., & Samely, M. (2019). Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City': Subjective Alienation and Mob Violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI. Textual Practice, 33(1), 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1310755

In his treatise The Right to the City, published in Paris just before the student riots of 1968, Henri Lefebvre claims that inhabitants have a ‘right to the city’ which supersedes the rights of property owners and advocates ‘re-appropriation’ of the... Read More about Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City': Subjective Alienation and Mob Violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI.

Spanish Erotic Cinema (2017)
Book
Fouz-Hernández, S. (Ed.). (2017). Spanish Erotic Cinema. Edinburgh University Press

This book is the first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema. It covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until today. Starting with a study of the eroticisation of technology in the silent period, the... Read More about Spanish Erotic Cinema.

Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Luff, J. (2017). Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom. American Historical Review, 122(3), 727-757. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.3.727

This article reveals a startling episode unknown to contemporaries and historians: Britain’s secret interwar bar on Communists in government service. Between 1927 and 1946, thousands of unwitting industrial workers suspected of Communist sympathies w... Read More about Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom.

'"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult' (2017)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2017). '"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult'. In K. Hodgson, A. Smith, & J. Shelton (Eds.), Twentieth-century Russian poetry : reinventing the canon (63-93). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0076.03

This chapter argues that Akhmatova's pre-eminent status in the contemporary canon rests not only on poetic talent but on extra-literary factors and processes which have elevated her to a form of secular sainthood. It explores the role played by biogr... Read More about '"Golden-Mouthed Anna of All The Russias": Canon, Canonisation, and Cult'.

Introduction. One Hundred Years of Sex (2017)
Book Chapter
Fouz-Hernández, S. (2017). Introduction. One Hundred Years of Sex. In S. Fouz-Hernández (Ed.), Spanish erotic cinema (1-18). Edinburgh University Press

Towards a high-throughput real-time confocal microfluidic system for monitoring absorbance spectra in mixed-phase chemical reactions (2017)
Journal Article
Lawton, P., & Girkin, J. (2017). Towards a high-throughput real-time confocal microfluidic system for monitoring absorbance spectra in mixed-phase chemical reactions. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 21(4), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-017-1904-9

In this work, we present a compact, real-time absorbance spectroscopy instrument, designed with a particular focus on taking spectroscopic readings in a microfluidic channel environment and selectively analysing an active volume in this channel by ad... Read More about Towards a high-throughput real-time confocal microfluidic system for monitoring absorbance spectra in mixed-phase chemical reactions.

Reisen (2017)
Book Chapter
Long, J. (2017). Reisen. In C. Oelschlaeger, & M. Niehaus (Eds.), W. G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung (158-166). Metzler

The Tactual Ground, Immersion and "the space between" (2017)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2017). The Tactual Ground, Immersion and "the space between". The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 55(1), 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12212

I ask whether figure-ground structure can be realized in touch, and, if so, how. Drawing on the taxonomy of touch sketched in Katz's 1925 The World of Touch, I argue that the form of touch that is relevant to such consideration is a species of immers... Read More about The Tactual Ground, Immersion and "the space between".

Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Snijders, J. (in press). Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories. [concert]. Performed at Durham, England. 1 March 2017

Consumption and Material Culture. (2017)
Book Chapter
Green, A. (2017). Consumption and Material Culture. In K. Wrightson (Ed.), A Social History of England, 1500-1750 (242-266). Cambridge University Press

The spectacle of death: visibility and concealment at an unfinished memorial in South Sudan (2017)
Journal Article
Cormack, Z. (2017). The spectacle of death: visibility and concealment at an unfinished memorial in South Sudan. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 11(1), 115-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2017.1288410

This article examines an attempt to build a memorial to local victims of civil war in South Sudan. The memorial commemorates the mass execution of civilians in 1964, close to the town of Gogrial in a rural part of South Sudan. During this massacre, l... Read More about The spectacle of death: visibility and concealment at an unfinished memorial in South Sudan.