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    Peace with Pirates? Maghrebi Maritime Combat, Diplomacy, and Trade in English Periodical News, 1622-1714
    Cutter, N (MDPI AG, 2019-11-20)
    Commonly represented in contemporary texts and modern historiographical accounts as a dangerous and alien region, characterised by piracy and barbarism, the history of the early modern Maghreb and the cultural impact it had on British society is one highly limited by indirect sources, cultural, political, and religious biases, and the distorting influence of Orientalist and colonial historiography. Historians have drawn on a wide range of popular media and government-held archival material, each with its own limitations, but one important corpus has been neglected. Drawn from up-to-date and trusted sources and distributed to vast audiences from a wide range of social groups, periodical news publications provide a vast and fruitful body of sources for evaluating popular and elite English viewpoints on Maghrebi piracy. This paper draws upon a corpus of 3385 news items comprising over 360,000 words relating to the Maghreb and its people, drawn from Stuart and Republican English news publications, with a view towards examining the discourse and reality around Maghrebi maritime combat, diplomact and trade in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. To what extent did maritime combat dominate coverage of the Maghreb, over other social, political and military events? Why did news writers use the word ‘pirate’ so infrequently to describe Maghrebi ships? Was Maghrebi piracy chaotic and unfettered, or did peace treaties and consular presence lead to stable trade relations? Were Maghrebi economies seen to be fundamentally built on naval predation, or was real benefit available from peaceful engagement with the Maghrebi states? Examining these and other questions from English news coverage, this paper argues that the material in English periodical news is generally consistent with what we know of the military, diplomatic and economic conditions of the time, surprisingly neutral in tone with a possible emphasis on positive stories when dealing with British–Maghrebi relations, and increasingly after the Restoration played a significant role in influencing British popular discourse.
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    New collaborations in old institutional spaces: setting a new research agenda to transform Indigenous-settler relations
    Nakata, S ; Maddison, S (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2019-07-03)
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigate the social and political order of the Australian settler state in ways that seek to increase their personal freedoms and political autonomy. For some groups this means seeking a firmer place within the social, political and economic life of Australia, and for others it means navigating away, towards a more distant relationship based in the resurgence of Indigenous nationhood. This navigation is composed of multifaceted and multidirectional relations between Indigenous Australians, settler Australians, and the settler state. As a discipline, political science must move beyond the study of settler institutions and begin to engage more comprehensively in research that considers the dynamics and structures of Indigenous-settler relations as a matter of priority.
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    Groupwork to enhance learning beyond the classroom
    Li, D (Cambridge Assessment English, University of Cambridge, 2019-07-01)
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    Of Honour and Innocence: Royal Correspondence and the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
    Tunstall, E (The University of Melbourne, 2019)
    This article considers the diplomatic tension caused by the discovery of Mary Queen of Scots’ involvement in the Babington Plot and how it was negotiated in the correspondence of Queen Elizabeth of England and King James VI of Scotland. Rhetorical strategies of honour and innocence were utilised within these letters to create narratives that sought to balance the needs of both monarchs and their kingdoms. While the correspondence did not prevent the suspension of relations between the kingdoms following Mary’s execution, they did play a vital role in restoring it shortly before the coming of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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    The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries
    Jonauskaite, D ; Abdel-Khalek, AM ; Abu-Akel, A ; Al-Rasheed, AS ; Antonietti, J-P ; Asgeirsson, AG ; Atitsogbe, KA ; Barma, M ; Barratt, D ; Bogushevskaya, V ; Meziane, MKB ; Chamseddine, A ; Charernboom, T ; Chkonia, E ; Ciobanu, T ; Corona, V ; Creed, A ; Dael, N ; Daouk, H ; Dimitrova, N ; Doorenbos, CB ; Fomins, S ; Fonseca-Pedrero, E ; Gaspar, A ; Gizdic, A ; Griber, YA ; Grimshaw, GM ; Hasan, AA ; Havelka, J ; Hirnstein, M ; Karlsson, BSA ; Katembu, S ; Kim, J ; Konstantinou, N ; Laurent, E ; Lindeman, M ; Manav, B ; Marquardt, L ; Mefoh, P ; Mroczko-Wasowicz, A ; Mutandwa, P ; Ngabolo, G ; Oberfeld, D ; Papadatou-Pastou, M ; Perchtold, CM ; Perez-Albeniz, A ; Pouyan, N ; Soron, TR ; Roinishvili, M ; Romanyuk, L ; Montejo, AS ; Sultanova, A ; Tau, R ; Uuskula, M ; Vainio, S ; Vargas-Soto, V ; Volkan, E ; Wasowicz, G ; Zdravkovic, S ; Zhang, M ; Mohr, C (Elsevier, 2019-12-01)
    Across cultures, people associate colours with emotions. Here, we test the hypothesis that one driver of this cross-modal correspondence is the physical environment we live in. We focus on a prime example – the association of yellow with joy, – which conceivably arises because yellow is reminiscent of life-sustaining sunshine and pleasant weather. If so, this association should be especially strong in countries where sunny weather is a rare occurrence. We analysed yellow-joy associations of 6625 participants from 55 countries to investigate how yellow-joy associations varied geographically, climatologically, and seasonally. We assessed the distance to the equator, sunshine, precipitation, and daytime hours. Consistent with our hypotheses, participants who live further away from the equator and in rainier countries are more likely to associate yellow with joy. We did not find associations with seasonal variations. Our findings support a role for the physical environment in shaping the affective meaning of colour.
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    Transmigrant media: Mediating place, mobility, and subjectivity
    SETO, W ; Martin, F (SAGE Publications, 2019)
    This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered premigration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing orientation was taken toward Australian legacy media, some of which respondents found helped them relate to Australian culture while other forms were experienced as xenophobic and alienating. In the cosmopolitan-global orientation, respondents engaged global corporate, largely Anglophone media in ways that reinforced their sense of themselves as mobile and cosmopolitan. Most importantly, in our respondents’ experience, these three orientations were often not separable but interwoven into complex admixtures. We explore the implications of this hybrid experience of location through media both for the conceptualization of place in globalization, and for the study of migrant media.