Becca Bland
Biographic Data
| ID | 370283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Becca Bland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Becca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bland |
| SIGNATURE | BLAND B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6620-8096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”
Popular music culture has often featured in postwar British history as a site of tolerance and inclusivity, of multicultural exchange and anti-racist activism. This article, while not denying music's intersections with progressive causes, presents a different narrative. I use the pages of Britain's most prominent weekly music paper, the New Musical Express ( NME ), to demonstrate the important role that music has played in perpetuating wider proc…
Imperial musicology” at the end of empire
Music, like every other aspect of the indigenous cultures encountered by British colonialists, was subjected to interpretations based on imperial racial hierarchies. Modes of understanding and analyzing music in colonial settings produced a kind of “imperial musicology” that went on to have a significant afterlife, not least by influencing musical criticism in Britain itself. After providing a historiographically-rooted overview of imperial music…
Charlotte Lydia Riley. Imperial Island
Estrangement Between Siblings in Adulthood
Relationships between siblings have been described as the longest lasting an individual can have, yet siblings both can and do become estranged from one another in adulthood. An online survey was disseminated to individuals who had sought support from the charity Stand Alone, which supports individuals who are experiencing family estrangement. Individuals estranged from one full genetic sister and/or brother were asked to describe the relationshi…
The efficacy of a facilitated support group intervention to reduce the psychological distress of individuals experiencing family estrangement
BACKGROUND: Stand Alone is a charity operating in the United Kingdom that supports adults who are estranged from a family member. The charity recognises that those who experience estrangement from a family member experience sadness, anger and a sense of loss. Due to stigma, they rarely disclose their experiences of estrangement to others. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of a six-session facilitated support group intervention for individuals exp…
Ryan Shaffer, Music, Youth and International Links in Post-War British Fascism
Global Fascism
In the early 1980s, British fascism was reeling from the failure of the National Front (NF) to build on the brief swells of support it attracted in the 1970s through its crude ethnic populism. Enter a group of young radicals who, via a series of splits, gained control of the party and pushed it in a startlingly new direction. As the decade wore on these radicals embraced ideas that would have confused or even horrified their (essentially neo-Nazi…
‘Publish and Be Damned?’ Race, Crisis, and the Press in England during the Long, Hot Summer of 1976
The summer of 1976 is an under-cited moment of significance in the history of race and immigration in post-war England. A series of major incidents appeared to highlight lasting racial fractures in English society, often exacerbated by the provocative editorial decisions of the press. This article, focused particularly on events in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, analyses some of the ways in which constructions of a ‘crisis of race relations’ w…
Holocaust inversion, anti-Zionism and British neo-fascism
The British extreme right has always struggled to distance itself from the crimes of the Third Reich, not helped by the high level of Holocaust consciousness in Britain and by the importance of antisemitic conspiracy theory to British neo-fascist ideology. Bland’s article charts attempts by British neo-fascist actors to use Holocaust inversion and—by extension—anti-Zionism as a mask for their Nazi sympathies. It shall, first of all, demonstrate h…
Robert Fine and Philip Spencer, Antisemitism and the Left
No Future
In spite, or perhaps because, of its consciously anti-establishmentarian approach, punk is the only form of youth culture that has become a near ubiquitous presence in long-form histories of post-war Britain. Unfortunately such histories often fail to acknowledge punk as being anything more than a brief moment of youthful rebellion. This is understandable, as such a reading fits conveniently into overarching narratives about the death of the hipp…
Rethinking the European far right
The far right has never gone away. The post-war period may have seen far-right movements largely ploughing a fallow field in Europe, but the recent burst into popular prominence of a revivified nat
Searching for Lord Haw-Haw
The life and times of an underground Führer
While one should not expect Oswald Mosley's place as Britain's most famous fascist to be challenged anytime soon, other figures from the country's complex history of right-wing extremism are gradua
Estrangement Between Siblings in Adulthood
Relationships between siblings have been described as the longest lasting an individual can have, yet siblings both can and do become estranged from one another in adulthood. An online survey was disseminated to individuals who had sought support from the charity Stand Alone, which supports individuals who are experiencing family estrangement. Individuals estranged from one full genetic sister and/or brother were asked to describe the relationshi…
Holocaust inversion, anti-Zionism and British neo-fascism
The British extreme right has always struggled to distance itself from the crimes of the Third Reich, not helped by the high level of Holocaust consciousness in Britain and by the importance of antisemitic conspiracy theory to British neo-fascist ideology. Bland’s article charts attempts by British neo-fascist actors to use Holocaust inversion and—by extension—anti-Zionism as a mask for their Nazi sympathies. It shall, first of all, demonstrate h…
Searching for Lord Haw-Haw
The life and times of an underground Führer
While one should not expect Oswald Mosley's place as Britain's most famous fascist to be challenged anytime soon, other figures from the country's complex history of right-wing extremism are gradua
No Future
In spite, or perhaps because, of its consciously anti-establishmentarian approach, punk is the only form of youth culture that has become a near ubiquitous presence in long-form histories of post-war Britain. Unfortunately such histories often fail to acknowledge punk as being anything more than a brief moment of youthful rebellion. This is understandable, as such a reading fits conveniently into overarching narratives about the death of the hipp…
Rethinking the European far right
The far right has never gone away. The post-war period may have seen far-right movements largely ploughing a fallow field in Europe, but the recent burst into popular prominence of a revivified nat
‘Publish and Be Damned?’ Race, Crisis, and the Press in England during the Long, Hot Summer of 1976
The summer of 1976 is an under-cited moment of significance in the history of race and immigration in post-war England. A series of major incidents appeared to highlight lasting racial fractures in English society, often exacerbated by the provocative editorial decisions of the press. This article, focused particularly on events in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, analyses some of the ways in which constructions of a ‘crisis of race relations’ w…
Holocaust inversion, anti-Zionism and British neo-fascism
The British extreme right has always struggled to distance itself from the crimes of the Third Reich, not helped by the high level of Holocaust consciousness in Britain and by the importance of antisemitic conspiracy theory to British neo-fascist ideology. Bland’s article charts attempts by British neo-fascist actors to use Holocaust inversion and—by extension—anti-Zionism as a mask for their Nazi sympathies. It shall, first of all, demonstrate h…
Robert Fine and Philip Spencer, Antisemitism and the Left
Global Fascism
In the early 1980s, British fascism was reeling from the failure of the National Front (NF) to build on the brief swells of support it attracted in the 1970s through its crude ethnic populism. Enter a group of young radicals who, via a series of splits, gained control of the party and pushed it in a startlingly new direction. As the decade wore on these radicals embraced ideas that would have confused or even horrified their (essentially neo-Nazi…
Ryan Shaffer, Music, Youth and International Links in Post-War British Fascism
The efficacy of a facilitated support group intervention to reduce the psychological distress of individuals experiencing family estrangement
BACKGROUND: Stand Alone is a charity operating in the United Kingdom that supports adults who are estranged from a family member. The charity recognises that those who experience estrangement from a family member experience sadness, anger and a sense of loss. Due to stigma, they rarely disclose their experiences of estrangement to others. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of a six-session facilitated support group intervention for individuals exp…
Estrangement Between Siblings in Adulthood
Relationships between siblings have been described as the longest lasting an individual can have, yet siblings both can and do become estranged from one another in adulthood. An online survey was disseminated to individuals who had sought support from the charity Stand Alone, which supports individuals who are experiencing family estrangement. Individuals estranged from one full genetic sister and/or brother were asked to describe the relationshi…
Charlotte Lydia Riley. Imperial Island
“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”
Popular music culture has often featured in postwar British history as a site of tolerance and inclusivity, of multicultural exchange and anti-racist activism. This article, while not denying music's intersections with progressive causes, presents a different narrative. I use the pages of Britain's most prominent weekly music paper, the New Musical Express ( NME ), to demonstrate the important role that music has played in perpetuating wider proc…
Imperial musicology” at the end of empire
Music, like every other aspect of the indigenous cultures encountered by British colonialists, was subjected to interpretations based on imperial racial hierarchies. Modes of understanding and analyzing music in colonial settings produced a kind of “imperial musicology” that went on to have a significant afterlife, not least by influencing musical criticism in Britain itself. After providing a historiographically-rooted overview of imperial music…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (4 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works)