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ID10398
NAMER A Saunders
GIVEN NAMESR A
FAMILY NAMESaunders
SIGNATURESAUNDERS R A
AFFILIATIONSFarmingdale State College
ORCID0000-0001-7457-4574
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS230
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8
  • Marital Dynamics, Physical and Non-Physical Violence, and Indian Women's Reproductive Control

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Randi Saunders•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2025•References: 6

    Intimate partner violence is highly prevalent worldwide. Previous research has linked partner violence with reduced contraceptive use, but little is known about the role of non-physical violence in non-Western contexts. Using data from the 2015-16 India Demographic and Health Survey, this study investigates how unequal gender dynamics, marital violence, and coercive control influence unmet need for contraception. Findings suggest that coercive co…

  • Black + Brown ≠ Green

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2024•References: 27

    Four years after the globally-lauded premiere of Black Panther , Marvel-Disney launched its sequel Wakanda Forever . The film centres on the new all-female leadership of the fictional African monarchy as it grapples with an emergent threat from Namor, the centuries-old ruler of an undersea Mesoamerican kingdom known as Talokan. Employing an assessment of the absent presence of the Anthropocene in the text, this article interrogates the popular, p…

  • Landscapes in the frame

    Open Access•Irina Souch, R A Saunders et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Television…•2024•References: 35

    The world is ending; yet, at the same time, we keep making new worlds. In his discussion of the ‘Third Nature,’ the Marxist geographer Neil Smith (2008) presaged such a paradox wherein human-fabricated simulacra of the (un)natural world around us via technological means (analogue, digital, cinematic, televisual, AI-generated) would function as part of a continuance of capitalist-neoliberal exploitation of all resources, whether human, fauna, flor…

  • A See change? The problematic (visual) politics of screening the Anthropocene

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Television…•2024•References: 33

    Using the concept of the Anthropo(s)cene, this article interrogates the visual politics of See (2019-2022) to examine the ways in which screened landscapes can be deployed to engage with subconscious guilt associated with the despoiling of the natural environment. Employing a critical assessment of See's narrative, visuals and production practices, this article argues that the series serves as an example of humanity's attempt to address its impac…

  • Genealogical Journeys, Geographical Imagination, and (Popular) Geopolitics in Who Do You Think You Are

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Genealogy is now a global industry, accounting for $3 billion every year in the US market alone. Enhanced via public record digitisation, crowd-sourced data input, and consumer genetics testing, interest in one's ancestral roots has never been higher. Recognising the public interest in personal lineages, the BBC launched the docuseries Who Do You Think You Are? in 2004. Focusing on celebrities' family backgrounds and how their hitherto-unknown fo…

  • (Em)placing the popular in Cultural Geography

    Alex Hastie, R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 66

    Geographers have long been interested in popular culture, exploring everything from music and film, to fashion and sport. However, there remain some gaps in the field with some of the biggest and most widely consumed genres of popular culture suffering from neglect. Given the pace of technological change, geographers have been noticeably slow to come to grips with new digital popular media. This special issue presents work that interrogates popul…

  • Icymi

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Rhys Crilley et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    Research in political communication has recently begun to explore the role of non-Western English-language state-funded international broadcasters (NEIBs) in influencing international audiences. Despite this, there has been little attention given to understanding how NEIBs engage and influence young people in ‘Western’ democracies. Our article addresses this gap by providing a detailed analysis of RT's English-language, youth-orientated news prod…

  • Geopolitics on the 'Other Side

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 33

    Drawing on analytic frameworks from feminist IR’s interrogation of fear in geopolitics and approaches rooted in the popular culture-world politics (PCWP) continuum, this article examines the ways in which the television series Counterpart (STARZ, 2017–2019) presaged a world defined by a novel form of ideological xenophobia and apolitical anthropophobia at the global level. As a premier example of immersive geopolitical television, the series exam…

  • Out of time/in place

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Cultural Geographies•2022

    Television - as a form of representation, a space of affect, and an instrument of identity production - is a growing force in shaping perceptions of and views on international immigration. While geographers have examined the ways in which films, documentaries, and social media engage with the so-called 'migrant crisis' in Europe, there has been little work on fictional TV series as a force in world-building and place-making against the spectre of…

  • Nation-Branding in Practice

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Journal of Arabian Studies•2021

  • Walking in (a) Bordertown

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•TV/Series•2020

    Finnish programming is increasingly finding success beyond the country’s borders. Sorjonen - or as it is known internationally, Bordertown - is perhaps the best example of this trend, having been distributed with subtitles in multiple languages via Netflix. Set in the idyllic lakeside resort of Lappeenranta, which is also Finland’s closest city to St. Petersburg, Russia, Bordertown revolves around Detective Inspector Kari Sorjonen (Ville Virtanen…

  • Radio Free Sweden”

    R A Saunders, Henriette Bruun•ARTICLE•Global Society•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    Focusing on Danish comedian Jonatan Spang’s spoof of the Nordic drama The Bridge via his news parody series Close to the Truth, this article examines how satire simultaneously embodies and performs geopolitics. Through a close reading of Spang’s send-up of contemporary Swedish culture as “pc-totalitarianism”, we interrogate the comedian’s satirical intervention in bilateral cultural relations between Denmark and Sweden. Our approach begins with a…

  • Brexit and Empire

    R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The Journal of Imperial &…•2020•Cited by: 40•References: 14

    In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in character; they suggest, at least implicitly, that only Leave voters are subject to imperial patterns of thought; they fail to differentiate between Commonwealth and imperial loyalties; and they conflate ‘nostalgia’ with ‘amnesia’. Th…

  • Doubtful democrats

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Journal of Modern European History•2019•Cited by: 2

    Over the ‘long’ 19th century, British politics underwent a quiet revolution: a revolution, not in its governing institutions, but in the ideas that underpinned them. In little more than a century, the idea of ‘democracy’—once a term of abuse, from which even radical politicians sought to disassociate themselves—established itself as the civic religion of British politics: the one authority against which there could be no court of appeal. Like oth…

  • Pissing On the Past

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Rhys Crilley•ARTICLE•Millennium Journal of International…•2019•Cited by: 2

    When and where one can urinate is increasingly politicised around the globe. As an example of bio-political power, the provision, regulation and access to public toilets reflects larger structures in any given society. However, there is another side to micturition, that is the use of urine as a manifestation of bodily power over another/others. This article analyses the politics of the urinal through a close reading of the men’s toilet in The Lis…

  • A Great and Holy War’

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2019•Cited by: 2

    Looking back on the Edwardian suffrage campaign, the militant suffragette Annie Kenney thought it ‘more like a religious revival than a political movement’. Its language and iconography were steeped in Christian imagery, yet the religious arguments for enfranchisement have rarely received close attention. This article shows how campaigners grappled with patriarchal readings of Genesis, St Paul and the traditions of the Church to construct a Chris…

  • Televisual diplomacy

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Joel Vessels•ARTICLE•Politics•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    In a time when the current US president came to office via a career in reality television, it seems unnecessary to argue that popular culture and International Relations intersect in meaningful and dramatic ways. Operating from this premise, mass-mediating the act of diplomacy via a television series presents a fecund object of analysis that questions many of the myths surrounding what we call the ‘diplomatic community’. Consequently, this articl…

  • (Profitable) imaginaries of Black Power

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 24

  • Geopolitical television at the (b)order

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 48

    This article interrogates the geopolitical content of the internationally popular television series Bron/Broen ('The Bridge') and its two subsequent adaptations. In my analysis of The Bridge as a global phenomenon, I make a threefold contribution to the literature of popular geopolitics and cultural geography. First, in a normative contribution intended to challenge mainstream assumptions regarding the banality of the medium of television, I situ…

  • Small Screen IR

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2019•Cited by: 17•References: 71

    Daniel Drezner recently stated: ‘We live in a Golden Age of international relations programming on television’; however, while geopolitical television dramas have flourished since the new millennium, IR scholars and political geographers have paid relatively little attention, instead focusing more attention on films. Given the capacity of television series to respond to headlines from around the world, as well as cater to audience tastes, the med…

  • Reimagining the colonial wilderness

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Cultural Geographies•2019•Cited by: 6

    Novelists and other cultural producers have long employed the African continent as a palimpsest to construct fantastical tales. From Sir John Mandeville to Joseph Conrad, Africa's blank spaces on the map have been filled with monstrous creatures that fuel the western imagination. As a consequence, this constant othering of the so-called 'Dark Continent' has had a deleterious impact for African states and their citizenries, as spectacularly eviden…

  • Crossing the boundary

    R A Saunders•CHAPTER•Popular Geopolitics•2018

    This chapter focuses on the instances where the popular has triggered the real, specifically when certain pop culture artefacts have provoked state actors into geopolitical action, thus resulting in ramifications for international relations. It begins with an overview of the role played by &s;Hollywood&s; in international relations and world politics, before moving on to analyse several instances where popular culture provoked international contr…

  • Conclusion

    R A Saunders, Vlad Strukov et al.•CHAPTER•Popular Geopolitics•2018

    This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book combines a critical review of the interdiscipline&s;s history, domains, objectives, and preoccupation with its own grand narratives such as the Cold War, with conceptual framing of current and future research such as the examination of non-Anglophone popular cultures through the prism of the interdiscipline and from within the f…

  • Atomic obsession

    Campbell Craig, Stuart Lee et al.

    Reviewed by Campbell Craig, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK © 2011 Campbell Craig Ought we be concerned about or even obsessed by nuclear danger in the post-Cold War world? John Mueller insists t

  • Tres días que conmovieron España

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  • Brexit and Empire

    R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The Journal of Imperial &…•2020•Cited by: 40•References: 14

    In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in character; they suggest, at least implicitly, that only Leave voters are subject to imperial patterns of thought; they fail to differentiate between Commonwealth and imperial loyalties; and they conflate ‘nostalgia’ with ‘amnesia’. Th…

  • The History of Parliament

    R A Saunders, R Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2011•Cited by: 24

    Journal Article The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1820–1832 Get access The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1820–1832. Edited by D.R. Fisher (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2009; 7 volumes, pp. 6512. £490). Robert Saunders Robert Saunders St John's College, Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 523, Dece…

  • Small Screen IR

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2019•Cited by: 17•References: 71

    Daniel Drezner recently stated: ‘We live in a Golden Age of international relations programming on television’; however, while geopolitical television dramas have flourished since the new millennium, IR scholars and political geographers have paid relatively little attention, instead focusing more attention on films. Given the capacity of television series to respond to headlines from around the world, as well as cater to audience tastes, the med…

  • The ummah as nation

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2008•Cited by: 17•References: 24

    In the wake of the 2006 ‘Cartoons Affair’ which saw international protests by Muslims against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, it is clear that identity based on membership in the Islamic ummah goes far beyond simple religious affiliation. This essay presents a novel argument for treating the ummah (the transnational community of Muslim believers) as a nation. I begin with a theoretical treatment of the ummah as nation …

  • Talking up China

    Open Access•Sheng Ding, R A Saunders•ARTICLE•East Asia•2006•Cited by: 17

  • (Profitable) imaginaries of Black Power

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 24

  • Pagan places

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 22

    Focused on religiogeographic practices in contemporary western paganism (neopaganism), this paper aims to fill a gap in the existing literature through a critical assessment of how neopagans imagine, delimitate, and interact with space, place, and territory. Employing a novel categorization of religious space along four overlapping geographies (numinous, poetic, social, and political), this essay addresses the need for geographers to produce publ…

  • Buying into Brand Borat

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Slavic Review•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    Since 1991, the Eurasian republic of Kazakhstan has endeavored to build a recognizable and credible national brand as a resource-rich, multicultural, and stable outpost in an otherwise troubled region of the globe. It is therefore not surprising that Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of die fictitious Kazakhstani reporter "Borat Sagdiyev," touched a raw nerve with his parody of the country and its people as bigoted and backward. While the Borat sati…

  • A Tale of Two Referendums

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The Political Quarterly•2016•Cited by: 8

  • Undead Spaces

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2012•Cited by: 8

    In recent years, zombies have enjoyed a dramatic renaissance in various forms of popular culture. This essay argues that the current obsession with the walking dead, and particularly the looming threat of human-zombie conflicts, is a reflection of the dangers of invasive alterity associated with uncontrolled spaces in a globalised world. This shift is especially prevalent in the United States following 9/11, as zombies have become phantasmal stan…

  • Denationalized digerati in the virtual near abroad

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Global Media and Communication•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    This article focuses on internet use as a mediating factor in identity formulation and maintenance among the minority Russian community living within post-Soviet space, but outside of the Russian Federation. I argue that regular internet usage among ethnic Russians in the near abroad has precipitated a denationalization of identity since the breakup of the USSR. The shock of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the often painful demands of living as…

  • The Ritual of Beer Consumption as Discursive Intervention

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Jack Holland•ARTICLE•Millennium Journal of International…•2017•Cited by: 7

    We draw on work on popular culture, critical geopolitics, visual politics, affect and the everyday in order to develop a framework for the analysis of the ritual of beer consumption as discursive intervention. Specifically, we argue the need for International Relations to expand theories of visual politics to a broader ‘sensory politics’, incorporating taste, smell, and touch. For our case study, we explore the empirical contestation of dominant …

  • (Em)placing the popular in Cultural Geography

    Alex Hastie, R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 66

    Geographers have long been interested in popular culture, exploring everything from music and film, to fashion and sport. However, there remain some gaps in the field with some of the biggest and most widely consumed genres of popular culture suffering from neglect. Given the pace of technological change, geographers have been noticeably slow to come to grips with new digital popular media. This special issue presents work that interrogates popul…

  • Geopolitical television at the (b)order

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 48

    This article interrogates the geopolitical content of the internationally popular television series Bron/Broen ('The Bridge') and its two subsequent adaptations. In my analysis of The Bridge as a global phenomenon, I make a threefold contribution to the literature of popular geopolitics and cultural geography. First, in a normative contribution intended to challenge mainstream assumptions regarding the banality of the medium of television, I situ…

  • Reimagining the colonial wilderness

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Cultural Geographies•2019•Cited by: 6

    Novelists and other cultural producers have long employed the African continent as a palimpsest to construct fantastical tales. From Sir John Mandeville to Joseph Conrad, Africa's blank spaces on the map have been filled with monstrous creatures that fuel the western imagination. As a consequence, this constant othering of the so-called 'Dark Continent' has had a deleterious impact for African states and their citizenries, as spectacularly eviden…

  • Icymi

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Rhys Crilley et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    Research in political communication has recently begun to explore the role of non-Western English-language state-funded international broadcasters (NEIBs) in influencing international audiences. Despite this, there has been little attention given to understanding how NEIBs engage and influence young people in ‘Western’ democracies. Our article addresses this gap by providing a detailed analysis of RT's English-language, youth-orientated news prod…

  • The Popular Geopolitics Feedback Loop

    R A Saunders, Vlad Strukov et al.•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 11

    In this article we use the concept of popular geopolitics feedback loops to define systems of exchange and iteration among (popular) geopolitical entities and subjectivities, which produce meaning and affects and influence our perception of the world as an imaginary geopolitical space. They are distinguishable from other related categories, such as knowledge and opinion, by the fact that—like the software code described above—they tend to re-prod…

  • Chartism from above

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Chartism existed to exert pressure on the parliamentary classes, yet the interaction between Chartism and its audience has rarely been closely examined. Studies of the political engagement with Chartism have usually focused on questions of policing and control, but such an emphasis was only possible if Chartism was first delegitimized as an authentic popular voice. This article explores the upper-class engagement with Chartism, arguing that it wa…

  • The Politics of Reform and the Making of the Second Reform Act, 1848–1867

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The Historical Journal•2007•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    The second reform act came at the close of a remarkable period of constitutional debate, in which seven different governments had committed themselves to reform. Yet historians have shown little interest in this debate, seeing it as largely irrelevant to the making of the second reform act. This article seeks to reconnect the discussions of the 1850s with the measure of 1867, and to explore some of the issues that shaped the course of legislation…

  • Genealogical Journeys, Geographical Imagination, and (Popular) Geopolitics in Who Do You Think You Are

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Genealogy is now a global industry, accounting for $3 billion every year in the US market alone. Enhanced via public record digitisation, crowd-sourced data input, and consumer genetics testing, interest in one's ancestral roots has never been higher. Recognising the public interest in personal lineages, the BBC launched the docuseries Who Do You Think You Are? in 2004. Focusing on celebrities' family backgrounds and how their hitherto-unknown fo…

  • Doubtful democrats

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Journal of Modern European History•2019•Cited by: 2

    Over the ‘long’ 19th century, British politics underwent a quiet revolution: a revolution, not in its governing institutions, but in the ideas that underpinned them. In little more than a century, the idea of ‘democracy’—once a term of abuse, from which even radical politicians sought to disassociate themselves—established itself as the civic religion of British politics: the one authority against which there could be no court of appeal. Like oth…

  • Pissing On the Past

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Rhys Crilley•ARTICLE•Millennium Journal of International…•2019•Cited by: 2

    When and where one can urinate is increasingly politicised around the globe. As an example of bio-political power, the provision, regulation and access to public toilets reflects larger structures in any given society. However, there is another side to micturition, that is the use of urine as a manifestation of bodily power over another/others. This article analyses the politics of the urinal through a close reading of the men’s toilet in The Lis…

  • A Great and Holy War’

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2019•Cited by: 2

    Looking back on the Edwardian suffrage campaign, the militant suffragette Annie Kenney thought it ‘more like a religious revival than a political movement’. Its language and iconography were steeped in Christian imagery, yet the religious arguments for enfranchisement have rarely received close attention. This article shows how campaigners grappled with patriarchal readings of Genesis, St Paul and the traditions of the Church to construct a Chris…

  • Televisual diplomacy

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Joel Vessels•ARTICLE•Politics•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    In a time when the current US president came to office via a career in reality television, it seems unnecessary to argue that popular culture and International Relations intersect in meaningful and dramatic ways. Operating from this premise, mass-mediating the act of diplomacy via a television series presents a fecund object of analysis that questions many of the myths surrounding what we call the ‘diplomatic community’. Consequently, this articl…

  • The Many Lives of Margaret Thatcher

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2017•Cited by: 2

    From the moment she stormed the Tory leadership in 1975, books and articles on Margaret Thatcher have gushed like a torrent from the printing press. The discerning Thatcher scholar can now choose from more than thirty biographies, several hundred books and articles, a movie adaptation, and numerous dramas and documentaries. The literature on ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ is rich, sophisticated and methodologically diverse, drawing not just on history and …

  • Lord John Russell and Parliamentary Reform, 1848–67

    R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2005•Cited by: 2

    Between 1848 and 1867, the reform of parliament was one of the key subjects of political debate in Britain. The central figure in this debate was Lord John Russell, but his approach to reform has been little understood. This article uses Russell's extensive writings and speeches on reform, accumulated over a period of fifty years, to reappraise his objectives as a reformer, and his reasons for returning to the subject twelve years after the ‘fina…

  • Talking up China

    Open Access•Sheng Ding, R A Saunders•ARTICLE•East Asia•2006•Cited by: 17

  • Denationalized digerati in the virtual near abroad

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Global Media and Communication•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    This article focuses on internet use as a mediating factor in identity formulation and maintenance among the minority Russian community living within post-Soviet space, but outside of the Russian Federation. I argue that regular internet usage among ethnic Russians in the near abroad has precipitated a denationalization of identity since the breakup of the USSR. The shock of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the often painful demands of living as…

  • Digital Dragons and Cybernetic Bears

    R A Saunders, Sheng Ding•ARTICLE•Nationalism and Ethnic Politics•2006

    This article compares and contrasts the Internet-based national identity projects of overseas Chinese and near abroad Russians. Our study, which is based on two diasporic communities of similar size and both characterized by a historical weakness of national identity, finds that while Internet use seems to be increasing nationalism and reifying national identity among the ethnic Chinese living in the Pacific Rim, it is paradoxically dampening nat…

  • In Defence of Kazakshilik

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Identities•2007

    This article explores the controversy surrounding Borat Sagdiyev—the fictitious Kazakhstani reporter whose foibles mock Kazakhstan in particular and post-Soviet culture in general. With his appearances on Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat persona long ago became the bête noire of the Kazakhstani government. However, when Borat was selected to host the MTV Europe Music Awards, the dispute over Borat's authenticity as a Kazakhstani became an…

  • The Politics of Reform and the Making of the Second Reform Act, 1848–1867

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The Historical Journal•2007•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    The second reform act came at the close of a remarkable period of constitutional debate, in which seven different governments had committed themselves to reform. Yet historians have shown little interest in this debate, seeing it as largely irrelevant to the making of the second reform act. This article seeks to reconnect the discussions of the 1850s with the measure of 1867, and to explore some of the issues that shaped the course of legislation…

  • Parliament and People

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Journal of Modern European History•2008•Cited by: 2

    Das Parlament und das Volk: Zur Entwicklung der britischen Verfassungsordnung im langen 19. JahrhundertDas Parlament und das Volk: Zur Entwicklung der britischen Verfassungsordnung im langen 19. JahrhundertGegenstand dieses Artikels sind die britischen Verfassungsdebatten im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Dabei will der Aufsatz zeigen, wie die ungeschriebene britische Verfassungsordnung als Fokus politischer Programme jeglicher Couleur diente und dadurc…

  • The ummah as nation

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2008•Cited by: 17•References: 24

    In the wake of the 2006 ‘Cartoons Affair’ which saw international protests by Muslims against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, it is clear that identity based on membership in the Islamic ummah goes far beyond simple religious affiliation. This essay presents a novel argument for treating the ummah (the transnational community of Muslim believers) as a nation. I begin with a theoretical treatment of the ummah as nation …

  • Buying into Brand Borat

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Slavic Review•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    Since 1991, the Eurasian republic of Kazakhstan has endeavored to build a recognizable and credible national brand as a resource-rich, multicultural, and stable outpost in an otherwise troubled region of the globe. It is therefore not surprising that Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of die fictitious Kazakhstani reporter "Borat Sagdiyev," touched a raw nerve with his parody of the country and its people as bigoted and backward. While the Borat sati…

  • Chartism from above

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Chartism existed to exert pressure on the parliamentary classes, yet the interaction between Chartism and its audience has rarely been closely examined. Studies of the political engagement with Chartism have usually focused on questions of policing and control, but such an emphasis was only possible if Chartism was first delegitimized as an authentic popular voice. This article explores the upper-class engagement with Chartism, arguing that it wa…

  • (Un)Disciplining Traumatic Memory

    R A Saunders, R Saunders et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Women s Writing•2010•References: 2

    Between 1915 and 1922, during and after World War I, hundreds of thousands of Armenian exiles, mainly young women and children, streamed into the streets of cities in Ottoman Turkey and the Russian Caucasus in search of family members and shelter. Having marched for hundreds of miles on foot across the plains of Anatolia, prodded on by zaptiehs (Turkish gendarmes) through bitter cold and insufferable heat, the remains of these tortured human cara…

  • Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain - By F.D. Parsons

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Parliamentary History•2010

  • The History of Parliament

    R A Saunders, R Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2011•Cited by: 24

    Journal Article The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1820–1832 Get access The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1820–1832. Edited by D.R. Fisher (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2009; 7 volumes, pp. 6512. £490). Robert Saunders Robert Saunders St John's College, Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 523, Dece…

  • Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815–1914

    R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Cultural and Social History•2012

    Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815–1914: Making Words Flesh. By William C. Lubenow." Cultural and Social History, 9(4), pp. 625–626

  • Undead Spaces

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2012•Cited by: 8

    In recent years, zombies have enjoyed a dramatic renaissance in various forms of popular culture. This essay argues that the current obsession with the walking dead, and particularly the looming threat of human-zombie conflicts, is a reflection of the dangers of invasive alterity associated with uncontrolled spaces in a globalised world. This shift is especially prevalent in the United States following 9/11, as zombies have become phantasmal stan…

  • An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet

    Open Access•Samuel Turner, Samuel Davis et al.•BOOK•Account of an Embassy to the…•2013

    In 1783, at the opportunity presented by a new Panchen (or Teshoo) Lama, Bengal governor-general Warren Hastings sent a deputation to Tibet and Bhutan in the hope of promoting British-Indian trade across the Himalayas. Samuel Turner (1759–1802), an army officer in the East India Company, was appointed leader of the mission. His journal, offering first-hand descriptions of these countries, was originally published in 1800 and remained the only suc…

  • Pagan places

    Open Access•R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 22

    Focused on religiogeographic practices in contemporary western paganism (neopaganism), this paper aims to fill a gap in the existing literature through a critical assessment of how neopagans imagine, delimitate, and interact with space, place, and territory. Employing a novel categorization of religious space along four overlapping geographies (numinous, poetic, social, and political), this essay addresses the need for geographers to produce publ…

  • God and the Great Reform Act

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Journal of British Studies•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    The struggle for the “Great” Reform Act was one of the most serious crises of the nineteenth century, stirring controversy not only in Parliament and the political unions but in churches and chapels across the country. For many of its supporters, reform was a holy cause; for its opponents, it was a “Satanic” measure. This article seeks to reestablish reform as a religious controversy, paying special attention to the religious press and to the hun…

  • The Winter of Discontent

    R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Twentieth Century British History•2015•Cited by: 1

    For most of the twentieth century, party identity in Britain drew heavily on narratives about the past. The politics of the left were underpinned by a school of ‘labour history’, propagated not just in university history departments but in working men’s clubs, labour colleges and the Workers’ Educational Association. The right deployed history as a proxy for ‘ideology’, mobilizing the authority of experience behind Conservative political position…

  • A Tale of Two Referendums

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The Political Quarterly•2016•Cited by: 8

  • The Ritual of Beer Consumption as Discursive Intervention

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Jack Holland•ARTICLE•Millennium Journal of International…•2017•Cited by: 7

    We draw on work on popular culture, critical geopolitics, visual politics, affect and the everyday in order to develop a framework for the analysis of the ritual of beer consumption as discursive intervention. Specifically, we argue the need for International Relations to expand theories of visual politics to a broader ‘sensory politics’, incorporating taste, smell, and touch. For our case study, we explore the empirical contestation of dominant …

  • Introduction

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•Parliamentary History•2017

  • The Many Lives of Margaret Thatcher

    Open Access•R A Saunders, Robert Saunders•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2017•Cited by: 2

    From the moment she stormed the Tory leadership in 1975, books and articles on Margaret Thatcher have gushed like a torrent from the printing press. The discerning Thatcher scholar can now choose from more than thirty biographies, several hundred books and articles, a movie adaptation, and numerous dramas and documentaries. The literature on ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ is rich, sophisticated and methodologically diverse, drawing not just on history and …

  • The Popular Geopolitics Feedback Loop

    R A Saunders, Vlad Strukov et al.•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 11

    In this article we use the concept of popular geopolitics feedback loops to define systems of exchange and iteration among (popular) geopolitical entities and subjectivities, which produce meaning and affects and influence our perception of the world as an imaginary geopolitical space. They are distinguishable from other related categories, such as knowledge and opinion, by the fact that—like the software code described above—they tend to re-prod…

  • Nerd ecology

    R A Saunders•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2017

    Nerd ecology: defending the earth with unpopular culture." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(6), pp. 891–892

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