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Item Embargo Shaping the discipline(Springer, 2025-04-10) Blair, Alasdair; Craig, John; Rose, G.; Honeyman, VictoriaThe question ‘What is Politics and International Relations?’ often goes unasked, potentially leading to varied interpretations across universities. The review of the Quality Assurance Agency’s (QAA) Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations in early 2022 provided a key moment to define the discipline. For over three decades, benchmark statements have been crucial in the UK higher education, guiding learning assurance and disciplinary self-definition. Despite their significance, the development process and impact of these benchmarks at a disciplinary level are underexplored. This article explores the history, development and influence of benchmark statements on Politics and International Relations, illustrating how they balance commonalities and differences across the UK institutions. It addresses concerns about the potential restrictiveness of these benchmarks and emphasises their voluntary nature. Through insights from four members of the Subject Benchmark Statement advisory group, the article aims to provide a thorough understanding of how benchmark statements shape and reflect the evolving landscape of the teaching of Politics and International Relations.Item Open Access Artificial Intelligence Challenges and Opportunities(Taylor and Francis, 2025-03-31) Blair, Alasdair; Butcher, Charity; Bhasin, Tavishi; Carter Hallward, Maia; McCartney, Alison Rios Millett; Usherwood, Simon; Gordon, ElizabethNoneItem Metadata only World of Sport: Transnational and Connected Histories(Routledge, 2024-12-10) Taylor, MatthewWorld of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history. Critically probing existing studies and offering new insights, this volume demonstrates that while sport was a national and international phenomenon, it was invariably constructed transnationally. Taking in topics ranging from the dissemination of football codes to transpacific surfing cultures, and the touring lives of baseball and hockey players to the contact zones of international competition, it emphasises the importance of transnational perspectives in the way people around the globe experience sport. Like other forms of popular culture, sport cannot be properly understood without reference to the cross-national connections that helped to disseminate rules and regulations, circulated styles of play and performance, and drove forward regional and international competition. Drawing on case studies that range time periods and continents, World of Sport is a must-read for students and researchers interested in the place of sport in the interconnected modern world and the transnational origins of the global sporting order in the twenty-first century.Item Open Access Introduction: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula(Brill, 2025-01-15) Kato, TakakoThis chapter argues the necessity to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around a long-established discipline, the study of incunabula. It sets out the past and future landscapes of incunabula studies, looking particularly at copy-specific features, and introduces subsequent chapters in the book, which will showcase how printed books were produced in the fifteenth century and subsequently used and transformed by readers and owners during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners’ hands.Item Open Access Perfecting and Completing Caxton’s Golden Legend: The Stratigraphy of Non-Homogeneous Copies(Brill, 2025-01-15) Kato, TakakoEvery incunable has a unique and often complicated history. Copies were bound and disbound. Individual leaves were dispersed, collected and re-bound again. This study focuses on William Caxton’s Golden Legend (1483–84), which today survives in thirty-three copies and ten fragments. By interrogating both the copy- and context-specific aspects of these copies, this study identifies different historical strata which exist in the copies of the Golden Legend, fills in gaps in the provenance histories of some copies, and unveils the intricate relationships and extensive network of antiquarians, book collectors and booksellers who were once involved in various attempts to perfect their books.Item Metadata only Speakingdance: Accessing, interpreting and performing the dancer’s sense of being(Intellect, 2025) Hay, MarieItem Metadata only Speakingdance and Attunement: The Moment of Discosing Who I am(Rowman and Littlefield, 2024-12-01) Hay, MarieFrom Heidegger to Performance explores convergences, direct or indirect, conscious or unconscious, between Martin Heidegger’s work and ideas of performance and performativity. The book's central provocation is to replace the word ‘being’ with ‘performance’ and interpret through Heidegger new ways of understanding both terms.Item Embargo Turkey’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa: A critical international political economy perspective(I.B. Tauris Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025-01-23) Erol, Mehmet ErmanItem Metadata only The Poetry of Married Life(Cambridge University Press, 2025-01-16) Phelan, J. P.This chapter examines the depiction of 'the quotidian reality of married life' in mid-Victorian poetry, identifying some of the challenges faced by poets in dealing with this topic and highlighting their preoccupation with issues remote from modern concerns such as the fate of married couples after death.Item Open Access Some problems in using numbers to represent the writing styles of Shakespeare and his contemporaries(Shakespeare Association of Korea, 2024) Egan, GabrielThe quantitative study of writing styles—sometimes called stylometry or computational stylistics—has in the past two decades been enhanced by the widespread availability of large digital textual corpora and easy-to-use software tools that lower the technical obstacles for participation in this field. For the study of early modern drama, the availability of the raw text datasets called ProQuest One Literature (formerly Literature Online (LION)) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes it easy to compare Shakespeare’s writing with that of his contemporaries. The result has been a boom in quantitative studies of early modern drama. Certain aspects of language, such as authorial preferences for particular words and phrases, are especially easy to quantify. But there are problems attendant on the quantitative analysis of language that are easily overlooked because language is a more complex subject than it first appears. This essay surveys four kinds of problems that can distort our perspective when we start using numbers to represent writing styles.Item Metadata only Anglo-Saxonism(Cambridge University Press, 2025-01-16) Phelan, J. P.This chapter examines the rise of Anglo-Saxonism as a political and cultural movement in the nineteenth century, and examines the ways in which it influenced the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, paying particular attention to his use of formal and metrical devices associated with Anglo-Saxon poetry as these were understood at the time.Item Metadata only Gender, Islamophobia and Romaphobia: Intersectional Insights(Charles University Press, 2025-01-10) Easat-Daas, AminaIslamophobia and Romaphobia or anti-gypsyism remain among the most significant, yet seemingly normalised racisms on the continent, if not across the globe. Both of these forms of racism have historical rootings and distinct gendered dimensions. This chapter seeks to understand and define how gendered Islamophobia and gendered Romaphobia can be understood through theoretical lenses to understand the intersections of the two, and I look forward to potential future research avenues in this novel area of inquiry.Item Open Access Obtenir les Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1968 : Conflit entre alliés de l'OTAN(ACAPS, 2025) Dichter, Heather L.Sept villes se sont portées candidates pour les Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1968, dont quatre appartenant à des États membres de l'OTAN : Lake Placid (États-Unis), Grenoble (France), Calgary (Canada) et Oslo (Norvège). Dans les années 1960, le sport international a dû faire face à la politique de la guerre froide qui a eu un impact sur la possibilité d'organiser des événements sportifs. Le Comité international olympique (CIO) a demandé à chaque ville candidate aux Jeux olympiques de 1968 de fournir une garantie gouvernementale que tous les participants seraient autorisés à entrer dans le pays s'il était choisi comme hôte. Les quatre États membres de l'OTAN ont compris qu'ils devaient travailler ensemble pour s'assurer que chacune de leurs réponses en faveur de leurs villes candidates respectives satisfasse le CIO tout en ne violant pas les accords de l'OTAN. Aucun de ces États ne voulait que les réponses de sa ville l'excluent inutilement de la sélection de l'hôte olympique. La demande du CIO d'une garantie gouvernementale au nom des villes hôtes des Jeux olympiques de 1968 a impliqué les gouvernements. Les actions des diplomates de l'OTAN et de leurs ministères des affaires étrangères ont finalement influencé la sélection de l'hôte olympique.Item Open Access What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teaching and Study of Politics and IR in Higher Education(Sage, 2024-11-16) Blair, Alasdair; Craig, John; Gann, Rose; Honeyman, Victoria; Bellaby, Ross; Kolpinskaya, Ekaterina; Adams, Lucy; Parker, JonathanThe paper asks whether there is a typical Politics and IR curriculum before reviewing the content and design of the revised fifth edition of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Politics and IR Subject Benchmark Statement that was launched in March 2023. The paper examines the manner by which the most recent edition differs from earlier subject benchmark statements and reflects on the implications of the strategic direction taken by the QAA to include new content areas that primarily focus on the development of disciplinary statements on Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), Accessibility and sustainability and Enterprise and entrepreneurship education (EED). The paper explores the implications of benchmark statements, given that while they are not a regulatory requirement, they nevertheless seek to define what can be expected of a graduate and are drawn upon by Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to inform the development and revision of Politics and IR undergraduate provision.Item Open Access Farmers' Boys and Doomed Youths: Producing the Poet in the Print Culture of the Romantic Era.(Taylor and Francis, 2024-05-05) Fulford, TimTwo of the ten bestselling poets of the nineteenth century were almost completely excluded from the twentieth-century canon. Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) and Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) were huge successes in the expanding print culture of the Romantic era. Their publications were influential on many of the poets who were admitted to the canon. Nevertheless, they have become so obscure that their influence—powerful on Clare, Keats, and Shelley for example— has been almost entirely forgotten. So has their role in shaping the cultural figure of the Romantic poet and their impact upon the publishing of poetry in a period when bookselling was transforming into a sales-driven mass market. Both were from the laboring class; each was publicized commercially because it was, supposedly, amazing that they had become poets at all, considering their social origins. They happened to be excellent poets but, in an early manifestation of PR, they were as much branded as phenomena as they were advertised for excellence. In this article I shall explore how this packaging worked and what it shows about the selling of books, the construction of a cultural image of the poet, and the influence of their poetry on aspiring poets.Item Metadata only Robert Southey Essays Moral and Political 1832(Routledge, 2024-05-02) Fulford, TimRobert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey’s most influential journal pieces, providing important evidence for students of the political and literary culture of the Romantic period. Edited by Tim Fulford, this volume features a full introduction and detailed editorial notes setting the Essays in their contexts. The volume sets the Essays in the context of the political and social issues and controversies on which they comment, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary and Political History.Item Metadata only Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White(Liverpool University Press, 2024-09-13) Fulford, TimThis book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century—a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the Romantic artist as a young rebel against convention who is too sensitive to survive in the harsh commercial world. As a prodigy who made his incipient death the subject of his tragic poetry, he was influential on both sides of the Atlantic—on Keats, Byron, Shelley, Browning, Emerson and Bryant. The edition restores his powerful, macabre and prophetic verse to attention, and also demonstrates his variety and range. It includes a comprehensive introduction discussing the creation of his public image, the marketing of his poetry, and the impacts he made on nineteenth-century poetry, on labouring-class writing and on publishing history.Item Metadata only The cycleborg: everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female(Taylor and Francis, 2024-06-16) Garton, RosieThis article weaves together autoethnographic accounts, feminist readings of technology, agency, and performance, and historical points of reference to address the current gender gap in urban cycling in the UK. Through the lens of everyday performance, I examine how females on bicycles are marked as both highly visible spectacles and invisible ‘others’. In developing the feminist promise of the mechanically monstrous cyborg, I offer a new revolutionary figure of hope – the cycleborg – who puts her otherness to use. In doing so, she calls attention to the need re-think hegemonic attitudes towards mobility, agency, and environmentally conscious action. My argument for the performative and revolutionary potential of the cycleborg reconciles everyday gendered performance with environmental consciousness, and is analysed through two contemporary performances: Katie Mitchell’s Atmen (2013) and Hanna Cormick’s The Mermaid (2020). By examining the use of hybrid actors in these performances as tools for promoting social responsibility and radical statements about climate change, I propose, with a romantic, feminist, and fierce hope, that the cycleborg both offers a contemporary vehicle for environmental change and opens possibilities to claim a new kind of space in the world.Item Open Access Agentive Green Mobility: Everyday Performance Training for Women on Wheels(Taylor and Francis, 2024-10-01) Garton, RosieThrough the lens of everyday performance, I examine how females on bicycles are marked as both highly visible spectacles and invisible ‘others’. In developing the feminist promise of the mechanically monstrous cyborg, I offer a new revolutionary figure of hope – the cycleborg – who puts her otherness to use. In painting the image of the cycleborg, I suggest that she offers a position for the cycling female to make subversive use of her patriarchally-assigned image of the monstrous other. As she rallies against her training of feminine comportment, the cycleborg simultaneously welcomes her instinctive gendered training to navigate hostile, patriarchal climates. She joins her feminist killjoy allies in training to be a seen and heard nuisance. As our fast and fuel-less cycleborg pedals between exhaust fumes and traffic-jammed revving motors, she performs her honed physical, spatial and sensorial skills in an agile and agentive mode of environmentally-friendly mobility. An awareness of performance training offers this daily practice of green living a toolkit from which to understand the complex positioning of her embodied and gendered urban mobility and to carry out her spatial act of resilience. I argue that as an unfamiliar and more-than-human hybrid, she has the potential to make use of her performative hypervisibility to emphasise both a re-thinking of hegemonic attitudes whilst also presenting the potential for human agency and responsibility in the future of the environment.Item Metadata only From revolution to revenue stream: How corporate targets co-opt social movement attacks(Academy of Management, 2024-07-09) Marquez-Gallardo, S. L.; Krabbe, A. D.Research on social movements has shown that activist attacks on corporate targets can help to create new market opportunities. Because these opportunities tend to be oppositional to incumbent industries, theory posits that incumbents are unlikely to exploit these opportunities. However, we suggest that corporate targets might be able to leverage activist attacks to their own advantage. Drawing on a longitudinal study of commercial academic publishers’ responses to the Open Access Movement, we propose a theoretical model of how incumbent organizations can benefit from the market opportunities resulting from social movement attacks by manipulating powerful third-party stakeholders’ perception of alignment or misalignment with the corporate targets and social movement respectively. To do so, corporate targets first co-opt social movements’ frames by exploiting the distance between activists’ and powerful stakeholders’ concerns. Second, corporate targets redefine social movements’ claims to create new market opportunities that is aligned the powerful stakeholders’ concerns. Our paper moves beyond the current focus on how social movements create new, oppositional markets to how corporate targets co-opt social movement attacks to enhance their market position.