English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions
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"Ana Mafi Khouf Min Kafeel": Counter-narratives in comedic video representations of migrant workers in the Arab Gulf States
(Moise A Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, 18 January 2022)In the Arab Gulf States, migrant workers are perceived as temporary and economic by dominant nationalist narratives that justify restrictive migration policies and exclusive citizenship laws. This article argues that online ... -
‘What about the coffee break?’ Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality
(Wiley, 9 November 2022)Geography, like many other disciplines, is reckoning with the carbon intensity of its practices and rethinking how activities such as annual meetings are held. The Climate Action Task Force of the American Association of ... -
Biologisms on the left and the right
(Routledge, 15 August 2022)Victorian Britain saw the rise of biologism, the practice of attributing biological cause to that which is explicable either wholly or in part by environment. Its most extreme expression was eugenics, first disseminated ... -
The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner': Psychosis and a (non)sense of time.
(SAGE Publications, 7 May 2020)This paper reads Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time as stories of deictic temporal crises. It critically examines the texts, exploring their representations of mental time travel (MTT), ... -
Having a moment: the revolutionary semiotic of COVID-19
(F1000 Research, 10 June 2020)The time of COVID-19 represents a distinct, but currently underdefined and under-theorised, temporal moment. Using semiotic methods, this paper examines how the mechanical actions of the virus, through becoming social, ...