Angela Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3652298 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Angela Smith |
| NOMBRES | Angela |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sunderland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4150-9439 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Not playing the game
This article looks at two prominent news interviews by non-political actors; one an accountability interview and the other part of a panel discussion. It shows how the exchanges contest the conventions of the journalistic interview, deploying a range of unorthodox verbal and non-verbal tactics. The accountability interview, broadcast on Sky News and posted on X (Twitter), includes a heightened performative component, using a variety of techniques…
Anti-imperial feminist geographies
The (un)sustainability of rural tourism travel in the Global South
Rural tourism transport provision makes sustainable travel challenging as evidenced by studies in the Global North. However, the nature of socio‐environmental challenges is different in the Global South, necessitating attention on resolving these different problems. Social practice theory (SPT) allows greater understanding of travel by considering the interplay between transport form and availability, the tourists' competences to make use of the …
The Aerial Witness and Infrastructures of Solidarity
European social movements in solidarity with migrants have taken many forms, from maritime struggles at the edge of territory to antideportation protests in urban centers. Over the last five years, a new site of solidarity and struggle has emerged in the skies, with activist pilots and civil society organizations launching their own aerial surveillance operations to challenge the state's monopoly over the aerial view. The materiality of aviation …
Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs
Negative Affect, Affect Regulation, and Food Choice
Maladaptive eating is one of the greatest threats to health and well-being in the 21st century. Psychological factors that drive maladaptive eating are of interest as they may offer low-cost intervention targets. One such factor is negative affect. If negative affect does lead to maladaptive eating, interventions that reduce negative affect should lead to improved eating and food choice. One relevant class of techniques is affect regulation strat…
Gender, Sexuality and the un's SDGs
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal
This study examines how emergent Twitter publics are organised and engage with political scandal and personalisation during Covid-19 in the UK. The analysis is centred on a series of media events around Chief Adviser to the then-UK Prime Minister, running from May 2020 to May 2021. The samples comprises original tweets that contain key hashtags, amounting to 38,326 items. These are subject to topic model analysis to identify semantic fields, befo…
Mask communication
Public acceptance of the use of drones for logistics
Policy makers are keen to understand public and stakeholder concerns in relation to the greater deployment of drones within transport systems and studies have sought to quantify public acceptance of drones with common themes including worries relating to privacy and safety and a lack of engagement with the technology amongst some demographic groups. This paper critically examines the research on public acceptance of drones finding the conflation …
Transnational Jean Rhys
Flags and fields
Researchers have shown that it is common to use nationalist appeals when marketing food products. Research has also shown that geographical places play an important role in creating feelings of national identity and national belonging. To a much lesser extent, research has shown how these “places” are represented and reproduced in the packaging of food products in specific national environments and to an even lesser extent, compared these represe…
Mute Force and Ignorance
This article considers the complex relationship between civility and gender in Scottish politics. It addresses two themes that have dominated discussion of Scotland's political tone. The first has been the seeming rise in intemperate political discourse, amplified by social media and the divisiveness of Scottish independence. The second has been those developments in the representation of gender in Scottish politics, both in the composition of th…
Gender Equality in Changing Times
From silos to solutions
Large urban school districts often struggle with hierarchy, fragmented processes and cultures whereby organisational silos between school and central office staff serve as a major barrier for reaching the desired strategic goals of improving student achievement. In addition, school district staff are undergoing change requiring leaders and staff in these organisations to adapt and build their capacity to support changing demands. However, little …
Clean eating’s surprising normalisation
Tough guys and little rocket men
This article looks at discourses of masculinity in the social media performance of US President Donald Trump. The article discusses the implications of these for the normalisation of regressive forms of masculinity in public discourse, where normalisation is the process of co-opting otherwise deviant behaviours by integrating them into institutional practice. The article begins by exploring ways in which Trump’s social media performance exhibits …
The mediated communication of gender and sexuality in contemporary politics
Introduction to Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics
Just call me Dave
This paper seeks to show how male politicians can draw on performances of masculinity to appeal to voters. The paper uses former UK Prime Minister David Cameron as an example of how performances of masculinity interact with the opportunistic use of populist forms of political engagement. It argues that while Cameron’s performances of populism are often situated in compatible policy initiatives such as the “big society”, we can also identify a mor…
How the hell did this get on tv?’
There is a long history of dating shows on TV, most famously in the United Kingdom in the form of the long-running ITV show Blind Date, which ran from 1985 until 2003; its re-boot has returned to ITV1. The game-show format continues in shows such as Take Me Out (also ITV1) and Dinner Date (More 4). Elsewhere, the make-over shows that dominated the schedule in the late 1990s and first decade of the century morphed into relationship/dating shows, s…
"Unpacking" Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
In this article, we, a team of scholars from Project Unpack, detail our process of successful cross-disciplinary collaboration. We include a discussion of the aims of our collaborative project, our process of collaboration and the roles of each individual organizer, the resources we used to support the collaboration, data sharing practices, and how our research approaches and methodologies have been influenced by engaging in collaborative researc…
Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Bulging biceps and tender kisses
This article explores recent developments in masculinity, focusing on the sexualisation of fatherhood in Anglophone media. As it becomes socially acceptable for men to engage with “hands-on” fatherhood roles that had previously been primarily associated with motherhood, the appeal lies not just in this shift in gendered performance, but the representation of this as an opportunity for men to reveal a desirably body image. Where previously the han…
Gay pornography
Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. The book explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer argues that gay pornography cannot be regarded as one-dimensional, but that it offers its audience a vision of plural masculinities that are more nuanced and ambiguous than they might seem. Mercer examines how the internet has gene…
British women of the Eastern Front
This book explores the experiences and contributions of British women performing various kinds of active service across the Eastern Front in Serbia, Russia and Romania during the First World War. The book is roughly chronological, but also examines related themes such as gender, nationality and legacy. Upon the outbreak of the War in 1914, rejected by the British military, surprising numbers of British women went to work for the allied armies in …
Lifestyle television programmes and the construction of the expert host
This article will seek to explore the role of the host presenter in television lifestyle programmes. In the general context of consumer culture, the apparently mundane interactions between the host of lifestyle programmes and the members of the public serve to circulate discourses about preferred lifestyles, aesthetic tastes and cultural activity. The most common format of many of the lifestyle programmes features a host who is constructed as ‘ex…
Mediated political masculinities
The media play a very influential role in our perceptions of our political leaders, irrespective of where in the world they appear. Since the latter part of the twentieth century, our leaders’ personalities came to play an increasing role in their appeal, in particularly their gendered performances. As Barack Obama's presidency draws to the end of its second term, this paper will examine the representation of his persona in the context of the ele…
Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice
Debates over the “death of environmentalism” juxtapose two approaches to environmental advocacy: an issues-based environmentalism that relies on technocratic, legal, scientific, policy-oriented and issue-specific advocacy activities and an ethics-based environmentalism that has as its primary focus the promotion of deep-seated changes in individual and societal values and behavior as they pertain to stewardship of the earth. The latter is present…
Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television
This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-sc…
Tough guys and little rocket men
This article looks at discourses of masculinity in the social media performance of US President Donald Trump. The article discusses the implications of these for the normalisation of regressive forms of masculinity in public discourse, where normalisation is the process of co-opting otherwise deviant behaviours by integrating them into institutional practice. The article begins by exploring ways in which Trump’s social media performance exhibits …
New Man’ or ‘Son of the Manse’? Gordon Brown as a Reluctant Celebrity Father
Public acceptance of the use of drones for logistics
Policy makers are keen to understand public and stakeholder concerns in relation to the greater deployment of drones within transport systems and studies have sought to quantify public acceptance of drones with common themes including worries relating to privacy and safety and a lack of engagement with the technology amongst some demographic groups. This paper critically examines the research on public acceptance of drones finding the conflation …
Bulging biceps and tender kisses
This article explores recent developments in masculinity, focusing on the sexualisation of fatherhood in Anglophone media. As it becomes socially acceptable for men to engage with “hands-on” fatherhood roles that had previously been primarily associated with motherhood, the appeal lies not just in this shift in gendered performance, but the representation of this as an opportunity for men to reveal a desirably body image. Where previously the han…
Not One of U.S
Although the professional activities of the war correspondent have commanded critical attention for much of the last century, discussion has intensified in recent years. This article seeks to place some of these debates within a longer-term perspective, by examining a broadcast by the BBC journalist Kate Adie, reporting on the US bombing of Tripoli in 1986: a broadcast that attracted widespread media and political hostility at the time, as well a…
How the hell did this get on tv?’
There is a long history of dating shows on TV, most famously in the United Kingdom in the form of the long-running ITV show Blind Date, which ran from 1985 until 2003; its re-boot has returned to ITV1. The game-show format continues in shows such as Take Me Out (also ITV1) and Dinner Date (More 4). Elsewhere, the make-over shows that dominated the schedule in the late 1990s and first decade of the century morphed into relationship/dating shows, s…
Belligerent broadcasting, male anti-authoritarianism and anti-environmentalism
This article considers the format and cultural politics of the hugely successful UK television program Top Gear (BBC 2002–2015). It analyzes how—through its presenting team—it constructed an informal address predicated around anti-authoritarian or contrarian banter and protest masculinity. Regular targets for Top Gear presenter’s protest—curtailed by broadcast guidelines in terms of gender and ethnicity—are deflected onto the “soft” targets of go…
Strategy, evasion and performance in the live two-way
The live two-way interview is a type of broadcast exchange between a studio-based presenter and a journalist on location. This article explores the use of such interviews in the context of war reporting, using the example of Kate Adie’s reports from the First Gulf War in 1991. The article discusses how such live two-ways are often delivered from a context of approved reporting pools or embedded journalists, and argues that such exchanges are rout…
The convenient ambiguity of ‘tone
Kate Adie’s coverage of the 1996 murder of 16 schoolchildren and their teacher in the Scottish town of Dunblane occasioned much critical discussion. Using material from the newly constituted Kate Adie Collection at the University of Sunderland Library, this article looks at aspects of the ‘tone’ and content in Adie’s reports, and reflects upon the ways in which style and practice can position the reporter relative to the affected community. The a…
My Husband, My Hero”
In spite of a record number of female parliamentary candidates, the 2010 general election campaign became notable for the intensity of coverage given to the female spouses of the three main party leaders. We find that this resulted from a combination of party communication strategy, established media discourses, and the agency and visibility of the wives themselves. First, Labour and the Conservatives were the most prominent in integrating their …
Discourses of morality and truth in social welfare
Drawing on Sarangi and Slembrouck's work on the language of State-sanctioned bureaucracy, this paper will explore one of the ways in which this developed in Britain in the early twentieth century. Looking in particular at the war widows' pension scheme as implemented under the Royal Warrant of 1916, this paper will explore how the first (financially) non-contributory pension, and the first specifically directed towards women in Britain, developed…
Early Tudor Canopywork at the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester
A fascinating example of early sixteenth-century carving is preserved in the church of the Hospital of St Cross, near Winchester, in the form of three sections of wooden frieze. The frieze is carved with a profusion of Renaissance imagery that has until now received little attention. The carved imagery of the frieze will be examined here in detail for the first time, along with its association with Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester 1501–28. The r…
Women and theatre in the age of suffrage
East African Writing in English
Flags and fields
Researchers have shown that it is common to use nationalist appeals when marketing food products. Research has also shown that geographical places play an important role in creating feelings of national identity and national belonging. To a much lesser extent, research has shown how these “places” are represented and reproduced in the packaging of food products in specific national environments and to an even lesser extent, compared these represe…
The mediated communication of gender and sexuality in contemporary politics
Introduction to Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics
Just call me Dave
This paper seeks to show how male politicians can draw on performances of masculinity to appeal to voters. The paper uses former UK Prime Minister David Cameron as an example of how performances of masculinity interact with the opportunistic use of populist forms of political engagement. It argues that while Cameron’s performances of populism are often situated in compatible policy initiatives such as the “big society”, we can also identify a mor…
"Unpacking" Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
In this article, we, a team of scholars from Project Unpack, detail our process of successful cross-disciplinary collaboration. We include a discussion of the aims of our collaborative project, our process of collaboration and the roles of each individual organizer, the resources we used to support the collaboration, data sharing practices, and how our research approaches and methodologies have been influenced by engaging in collaborative researc…
Hierarchy of impairment
Purpose This paper aims to focus on the experiences and observations of a black disabled woman in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a personal commentary from a black disabled woman who uses health and social care services in the UK. It details the author's disability and some recent barriers that she has faced in using services. Findings The author gives some examples of her recent experiences in relation to employment, independen…
Introduction
(2012). Introduction: Reporting war – history, professionalism and technology. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 131-136
Space frontiers for new pedagogies
This article draws together two linked studies on formal teaching spaces within one university. The first consisted of a multi‐method analysis, including observations of four teaching events, interviews with academics and estates staff, analysis of architectural plans, and a talking campus tour. The second study surveyed 166 students about their perceptions of existing teaching spaces and dreams of ideal spaces, eliciting qualitative comments. Re…
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Literary Reviews
Searching for truth. Who Killed Palomino Molero?. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam. London: Faber & Faber. 1988. 151pp. £9.95 hb The Perpetual Orgy. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. London: Faber & Faber. 1987. 240pp. £9.95 hb Metamorphoses. Men of Maize. Miguel Angel Asturias. Translated from the Spanish by Gerald Martin. London/New York: Verso. 1988. 335pp. £12.95/$19.95 hb From Tex…
Women in African Literature Today
Journal Article Women in African Literature Today Get access Women in African Literature Today, edited by Eldred Durosimi Jones, Eustace Palmer and Marjorie Jones. James Currey, London, and African Word Press, Trenton N.J., 1987. 162 pp. £7.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 500 8. ANGELA SMITH ANGELA SMITH University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 348, July 1988, Pag…
East African Writing in English
Is Phallocentricity a Sin? or a Peccadillo
What I want to explore in this essay is the wit with which, in Voss, White responds to the challenge and to the gender bias implicit in Phillips's sketch of the square-jawed Common Man, and to compare him with a writer who seems to have been virtually ignored until the 1980s, Ethel Anderson. Anderson's collection of short stories, At Parramatta, was first published as a 'whole book' in 1956, though versions of the stories had appeared in the Bull…
East African Writing in English
Police Reforms in Child Abuse Investigation
The past decade has shown increased awareness, concern and understanding about the extent of child abuse, particularly sexual abuse, and the caring agencies response to listen to and to support the young victims. This article looks at the response of the police service over that decade to meet such demands and to work jointly and responsively with social services to further the welfare and protection of children. It also examines the constraints …
Fiction Reviews
Bones. by Chenjerai Hove, London: Heinemann. 1990. 113pp. £4.95pb The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories. by Amos Tutuola, London: Faber. 1990. 90pp. £3.99pb Ups and downs Traveller Without a Map. by Hsiao Ch'ien Translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey C Kinkley, London: Hutchinson. 1990. 276pp. £17.95hb Sensibility of recognition A Passage to England. by Nirad C Chaudhuri, London: Hogarth Press. 1989. 229pp. £6.95pb Thy Hand Great Anarch: Ind…
Black Writers in Britain 1760–1890
Journal Article Black Writers in Britain 1760–1890 Get access Black Writers in Britain 1760–1890, edited by Paul Edwards and David Dabydeen. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1991. xv+239 pp. £30.00 hardback, £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0 7486 0327 1 and 0 7486 0267 4. ANGELA SMITH ANGELA SMITH University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 368, July 1993, Pages 47…
Long Memoried Women
Discusses parallels between Oodgeroo and the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett, writers who shared 'the insight to recognise the value of her own indigenous culture, unpopular as that view was when she began to write
The turner thesis and discipline wars
Being Aplace
Daily Modernism
Elizabeth Podnieks. Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anaïs Nin. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2000. 407 pp. ISBN 0-7735-2021-X, $65.00
Women's Writing of the First World War
Early Tudor Canopywork at the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester
A fascinating example of early sixteenth-century carving is preserved in the church of the Hospital of St Cross, near Winchester, in the form of three sections of wooden frieze. The frieze is carved with a profusion of Renaissance imagery that has until now received little attention. The carved imagery of the frieze will be examined here in detail for the first time, along with its association with Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester 1501–28. The r…
Working for victory
Women and theatre in the age of suffrage
Fauvism and Cultural Nationalism
This essay argues that early twentieth-century Paris, as the most artistically avant-garde metropolitan centre of its time, enabled a group of artists and writers from British colonies to define their own national identity. Their nationalism was not primarily political but cultural. The Scottish Colourist J. D. Fergusson, the Canadian life-writer and painter Emily Carr and the Australian artist Margaret Preston all encountered in Paris the work o…
The pankhursts and the war
With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst dramatically changed the course of their militant campaign. Instead of fighting against the Government, they joined forces with their old Liberal adversaries, including Lloyd George, to support the war effort. Accordingly, they employed their periodical of the preceding years, The Suffragette, as a valuable resource for spreading the new word, renaming it Britannia to r…
The pankhursts and the war
With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst dramatically changed the course of their militant campaign. Instead of fighting against the Government, they joined forces with their old Liberal adversaries, including Lloyd George, to support the war effort. Accordingly, they employed their periodical of the preceding years, The Suffragette, as a valuable resource for spreading the new word, renaming it Britannia to r…
The girl behind the man behind the gun
The First World War saw a clash between the external, violent world of man-made destruction and the part women would be called upon to play in this. For the first time in Britain, women would be directly recruited by the state to play an active role in armed conflict. The dominant image of the female war worker of this conflict is that of the nurse, yet nursing was a role that was carried out by a very small number of women when compared with tho…
New Man’ or ‘Son of the Manse’? Gordon Brown as a Reluctant Celebrity Father
My housing experiences
In my article I describe the experiences I have had as a social housing tenant. In particular, I document my struggles as a black disabled woman to be recognised as an intelligent human being and tenant in my own right. I am writing this so that other disabled tenants will be encouraged to fight for their rights. I also want housing staff to use this article to reflect on their and their organisation's practice
The new politics of masculinity
Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice
Debates over the “death of environmentalism” juxtapose two approaches to environmental advocacy: an issues-based environmentalism that relies on technocratic, legal, scientific, policy-oriented and issue-specific advocacy activities and an ethics-based environmentalism that has as its primary focus the promotion of deep-seated changes in individual and societal values and behavior as they pertain to stewardship of the earth. The latter is present…
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