Matthew Whittle
Biographic Data
| ID | 116478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Whittle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittle |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2051-9630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The narrative practices of hostile environments
This article contributes to research into the importance of storytelling in asylum practice by examining the narratives used to promote and justify Hostile Environment policies. The two narrative practices identified are the “story of the nation-as-family”, which defines national belonging predominantly by markers of race and ethnicity, and the “story of security”, whereby racialized refugees are framed as potential threats to the nation's socio-…
Decolonization and the aesthetics of disorder
Decolonization is presented in dominant accounts as an orderly transition and not the culmination of anticolonial resistance movements. This in turn contributes to what Paul Gilroy terms an endemic “post-imperial melancholia” across contemporary European nations and the removal of empire and its demise from understandings of European history. Drawing on Bill Schwarz’s reconceptualization of a Fanonian commitment to disorder, this article focuses …
Equitable or elitist? The social impact of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ
The Tour de France Grand Départ came to the UK in July 2014. It was heralded as a great success, drawing in an estimated 3.5 million visitors and generating over £128 million for the local economy, but there has been little research on assessing the geodemographics of who attended this event – did it reach out to all sections of society as hoped, or was it contained to the ‘typical’ cycling spectator? Using previously unpublished data, this resea…
Empowering or impoverishing through credit
This article examines the evolution of the credit market for small-scale sugarcane producers in the Plan Chontalpa development program in Tabasco, Mexico. The plan promoted neoliberal policies that transformed the existing credit market available to small-scale producers. The availability of credit was supposed to lead to increased efficiency. However, making credit available to low-income farmers can result in unintended outcomes. We found that …
Lost trophies
This article argues that the work of contemporary American artist Walton Ford stages the paradoxical role that trophy hunting played in both establishing and undermining the strict racial, biological, and ecological hierarchization of colonial environments. American Flamingo (1992) and Lost Trophy (2005), from the 2009 collection Pancha Tantra, foreground how the tradition of nineteenth century naturalist art, characterized by John James Audubon,…
Afterword
This Afterword to the 50th anniversary issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature reflects on the journal’s establishment in Leeds, and the broader place that provincial regions played in generating interest in postcolonial and Commonwealth literatures. Drawing on archival research, it seeks to explore how the shifts in attitudes towards class and race in post-war Britain can be read as contributing to a dissent from a metropolitan literary …
These dogs will do as we say
This article examines responses to the impact of colonialism on post-independence national unity in Africa from the perspective of the colonizer and the colonized. Written out of experience of decolonization in Ghana, At Fever Pitch, written by the British novelist David Caute and published by Deutsch in 1959, depicts western models of economic development and nationhood as derailing the emancipatory possibilities of colonial self-determination. …
Commonwealth of letters
Commonwealth of letters: British literary culture and the emergence of postcolonial aesthetics." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(2), pp. 239–240
Hosts and Hostages
This article examines the challenge to colonialist centre-periphery relations in post-war novels by white British and Caribbean writers. Concentrating on the relationship between political debates surrounding mass immigration and the marginalization of non-white migrants within British communities, I analyse texts that depict the threshold of the home as the politicized site of racial tension, namely Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956), V.S.…
Migrant modernism
Migrant modernism: post-war London and the West Indian novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), pp. 755–756
Nabokov, Rushdie, and the transnational imagination
Migrant modernism
Migrant modernism: post-war London and the West Indian novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), pp. 755–756
Commonwealth of letters
Commonwealth of letters: British literary culture and the emergence of postcolonial aesthetics." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(2), pp. 239–240
Equitable or elitist? The social impact of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ
The Tour de France Grand Départ came to the UK in July 2014. It was heralded as a great success, drawing in an estimated 3.5 million visitors and generating over £128 million for the local economy, but there has been little research on assessing the geodemographics of who attended this event – did it reach out to all sections of society as hoped, or was it contained to the ‘typical’ cycling spectator? Using previously unpublished data, this resea…
The narrative practices of hostile environments
This article contributes to research into the importance of storytelling in asylum practice by examining the narratives used to promote and justify Hostile Environment policies. The two narrative practices identified are the “story of the nation-as-family”, which defines national belonging predominantly by markers of race and ethnicity, and the “story of security”, whereby racialized refugees are framed as potential threats to the nation's socio-…
Empowering or impoverishing through credit
This article examines the evolution of the credit market for small-scale sugarcane producers in the Plan Chontalpa development program in Tabasco, Mexico. The plan promoted neoliberal policies that transformed the existing credit market available to small-scale producers. The availability of credit was supposed to lead to increased efficiency. However, making credit available to low-income farmers can result in unintended outcomes. We found that …
Lost trophies
This article argues that the work of contemporary American artist Walton Ford stages the paradoxical role that trophy hunting played in both establishing and undermining the strict racial, biological, and ecological hierarchization of colonial environments. American Flamingo (1992) and Lost Trophy (2005), from the 2009 collection Pancha Tantra, foreground how the tradition of nineteenth century naturalist art, characterized by John James Audubon,…
Nabokov, Rushdie, and the transnational imagination
Hosts and Hostages
This article examines the challenge to colonialist centre-periphery relations in post-war novels by white British and Caribbean writers. Concentrating on the relationship between political debates surrounding mass immigration and the marginalization of non-white migrants within British communities, I analyse texts that depict the threshold of the home as the politicized site of racial tension, namely Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956), V.S.…
Migrant modernism
Migrant modernism: post-war London and the West Indian novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), pp. 755–756
Afterword
This Afterword to the 50th anniversary issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature reflects on the journal’s establishment in Leeds, and the broader place that provincial regions played in generating interest in postcolonial and Commonwealth literatures. Drawing on archival research, it seeks to explore how the shifts in attitudes towards class and race in post-war Britain can be read as contributing to a dissent from a metropolitan literary …
These dogs will do as we say
This article examines responses to the impact of colonialism on post-independence national unity in Africa from the perspective of the colonizer and the colonized. Written out of experience of decolonization in Ghana, At Fever Pitch, written by the British novelist David Caute and published by Deutsch in 1959, depicts western models of economic development and nationhood as derailing the emancipatory possibilities of colonial self-determination. …
Commonwealth of letters
Commonwealth of letters: British literary culture and the emergence of postcolonial aesthetics." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(2), pp. 239–240
Lost trophies
This article argues that the work of contemporary American artist Walton Ford stages the paradoxical role that trophy hunting played in both establishing and undermining the strict racial, biological, and ecological hierarchization of colonial environments. American Flamingo (1992) and Lost Trophy (2005), from the 2009 collection Pancha Tantra, foreground how the tradition of nineteenth century naturalist art, characterized by John James Audubon,…
Equitable or elitist? The social impact of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ
The Tour de France Grand Départ came to the UK in July 2014. It was heralded as a great success, drawing in an estimated 3.5 million visitors and generating over £128 million for the local economy, but there has been little research on assessing the geodemographics of who attended this event – did it reach out to all sections of society as hoped, or was it contained to the ‘typical’ cycling spectator? Using previously unpublished data, this resea…
Empowering or impoverishing through credit
This article examines the evolution of the credit market for small-scale sugarcane producers in the Plan Chontalpa development program in Tabasco, Mexico. The plan promoted neoliberal policies that transformed the existing credit market available to small-scale producers. The availability of credit was supposed to lead to increased efficiency. However, making credit available to low-income farmers can result in unintended outcomes. We found that …
Decolonization and the aesthetics of disorder
Decolonization is presented in dominant accounts as an orderly transition and not the culmination of anticolonial resistance movements. This in turn contributes to what Paul Gilroy terms an endemic “post-imperial melancholia” across contemporary European nations and the removal of empire and its demise from understandings of European history. Drawing on Bill Schwarz’s reconceptualization of a Fanonian commitment to disorder, this article focuses …
The narrative practices of hostile environments
This article contributes to research into the importance of storytelling in asylum practice by examining the narratives used to promote and justify Hostile Environment policies. The two narrative practices identified are the “story of the nation-as-family”, which defines national belonging predominantly by markers of race and ethnicity, and the “story of security”, whereby racialized refugees are framed as potential threats to the nation's socio-…
Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works)