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Call for Applications: Understanding Canada Grants & Awards
The objective of the Government of Canada’s Understanding Canada program is to develop a greater knowledge and understanding of Canada, its values and its culture among scholars and other influential groups abroad. The program is intended for foreign academics who want to study about or conduct research on Canada. Some components of the program are also available to promote teaching, publications and conferences about Canada in various disciplines.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to all disciplines and issues, however it is generally only disciplines in the social sciences and humanities which fit within the program’s objective.
Priority may be given to proposals which address the following areas:
• Peace and Security
• North American partnership
• Economic Development and Competitiveness
• Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights
• Managing Diversity
• Environment/ Energy
N.B. Purely scientific subjects and projects that focus exclusively on technological or methodological issues are not eligible for funding through these programs.
Faculty Research Program (FRP)
The FRP is designed to assist individual academics in higher education institutions to undertake short term research in and about Canada. The purpose is to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada through publication abroad of pertinent articles in the scholarly press.
Deadline: November 1
Guidelines and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/FRP_guidelines2010.pdf
Faculty Enrichment Program (FEP)
The FEP is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada abroad by assisting academics in higher education institutions to develop and teach courses about Canada in their own discipline, as part of their regular teaching workload. The program enables academic FEP award holders to gather the necessary information and material on Canada to devise a new course on Canada, or to modify or extend significantly the Canadian component of an existing course.
Deadline: November 1
Guidelines and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/FEP_guidelines2010.pdf
Doctoral Student Research Award (DSRA)
The DSRA is designed to assist full-time PhD students enrolled in higher education institutions abroad, whose dissertations are related in substantial part to Canada, to undertake part of their doctoral research in Canada. The purpose is to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada and to support the development of Canadian Studies.
Deadline: November 1
Guidelines and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/DSRA_guidelines.pdf
Canada-Asia-Pacific Award (CAPA)
The CAPA is designed to support scholars in universities or research institutes in the Asia-Pacific region to undertake short term research, including collaborative research, contributing to the understanding of bilateral and multilateral relations between Canada and this region.
Deadline: November 23
Guidelines:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/CAPAGuidelines.pdf
and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/CAPAForm_en.pdf
International Research Linkages (IRL)
The IRL program facilitates international collaborative research by providing assistance to teams of researchers from Canada and one or more countries abroad, in order to organize seminars or other forms of research linkages. The program is available worldwide.
Deadline: *November 23
Guidelines:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/IRLGuidelines2010.pdf
All applications from Australia or New Zealand must be submitted (by the relevant deadline below) to:
Academic Relations Officer
Canadian High Commission
Commonwealth Avenue
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Email: cnbra.academic@international.gc.ca
Ph: 02 6270 4051
For more details please visit:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/academic_relations_academiques/grants-bourses.aspx?lang=eng
or contact the Academic Relations Officer at the above address.
2011 H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship – call for nominations
ANU Schools and Centres from relevant areas are invited to nominate a Writer (including literature, prose, poetry, script writing) for the 2011 H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship.
Nominated persons should have an established reputation as an artist with a minimum of five years of professional practice. The purpose of the Fellowship is to allow the recipient to:
- Engage in a period of uninterrupted creative work in residence at the Australian National University, to conduct research and develop new ideas.
- Contribute to the fostering of the creative arts within the University.
- Interact with the University academic community, staff, students and visitors.
The nominee should be an Australian citizen or have formal residency status and have a strong arts connection to demonstrate that the benefits of the Fellowship will contribute to the development of Australia’s contemporary culture. The Fellowship amount of $33,000 includes percentages for stipend, accommodation, travel and material costs.
The Fellow is normally expected to be in residence at the University for a maximum of five months, at least half of which should be during the teaching periods.
Closing date for submissions; 29 October 2010
Outcome notified mid November 2010
For further details and nomination guidelines visit:
http://rsha.anu.edu.au/coombs/guidelines
or email Sharon.Komidar@anu.edu.au
The H. C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship is administered by the Research School of Humanities & the Arts (RSHA) and an Advisory Committee. This Committee is chaired by the Director of RSHA with representatives from the University. Two independent arts specialists are also invited each year, with specific expertise to the discipline being considered.
The Inaugural National Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Conference
Indigenous Policy and Dialogue: New Relationships, New Possibilities
18-19 Nov 2010, UNSW
Keynote Speakers:
Culture and institutions in the rebuilding of Indigenous nations
Professor Joe Kalt Ford
Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Transforming the relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies: Understanding the need for a dialogue of political reconciliation
Professor Kiera Ladner
Canada Research Chair, University of Manitoba
How can Australia afford not to be reconciled?
Professor Patrick Dodson
Founding Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit, University of New South Wales
Panels:
Care or justice: do we really have to choose?
Chair: Associate Professor Sarah Maddison
Featuring: Mick Gooda (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner), Professor Bettina Cass (SPRC) and Muriel Bamblett (Aboriginal Child Care Agency)
Whatever happened to reconciliation? Reflecting on the decade since the end of the formal reconciliation process
Chair: Professor Patrick Dodson
Featuring: Sean Brennan (Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Faculty of Law, UNSW), Linda Burney MP, (Member for Canterbury, Minister for Community Services and Minister for the State Plan) and Helen Sham-Ho (former member of the NSW Legislative Council)
Register Now
The program is now available on the conference website.
http://nipdc.arts.unsw.edu.au/
For further information contact the conference organisers, nipdc@unsw.edu.au or by phone + 61 (2) 9385-7588
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies Public Lecture: Prof Graeme Turner – Humanities and the University in Australia
Thursday 14th October @ 5.30pm-6.30pm
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room, Level 1 Duhig Building
The Humanities and the University in Australia
Professor Graeme Turner
Over the last two decades we have seen successive governments downgrade the value and importance of higher education in Australia. The Rudd government may have temporarily arrested the steady decline in the funding environment, but there remains much to be done to keep our higher education system operating at an international standard. A most worrying long term trend has been the steady instrumentalisation of higher education – a focus on vocational and professional outcomes as the primary purpose of its teaching programs, and a privileging of
industry partnerships in research funding. The controversy over the restructuring of the Gillard government ministry is among the more recent indicators of this trend, as the initial removal of portfolio titles which explicitly mentioned education and research was seen as signalling an alarming narrowing of the presumed function of higher education. In this kind of context, the humanities disciplines have been especially disadvantaged. Many research funding programs and many of the national research strategies exclude the participation of the humanities, and the case for a humanities education is looking increasingly vulnerable as the broader function of education seems no longer to be recognised, let alone advanced, by government. In this lecture, drawing on many years of working between the university sector, government and other peak organizations dealing with the humanities, Professor Turner will discuss what he describes as a crisis for the humanities disciplines as they struggle to maintain their distinctive
presence in Australian universities today.
About the Presenter:
Professor Graeme Turner is ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. His research has produced 21 books, and his work has been translated into 9 languages, but this lecture will draw upon his experience in dealing with government and the university sector as a representative of the humanities over many years. In recent years, Professor Turner was the chair of the trial ERA for Humanities and Creative Arts (2009), the chair of the National Collaborative Research Information Strategy Working Group for Humanities and Creative Arts (2008), a member of the ARC ERA Indicators Committee for Humanities and Creative Arts (2008), and the ARC College of Experts for the Humanities and Creative Arts (2002-2004). As President and, before that, Vice-President, of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2002-2007), he has represented the humanities on the National Academies Forum, the Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee, the National Curriculum and Achievement Standards Committee, and many other fora, such as the
National Summit on National Research Priorities. He is one of only two humanities academics to have been appointed as a personal member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council since the Council was established during the Hawke government.
This lecture will be chaired by Professor Gay Hawkins, Deputy Director, CCCS, UQ. Members of the public are invited to attend this free lecture, after which light refreshments will be served.
Further information: Rebecca Ralph – ph. 3346 7407 or email on admin.cccs@uq.edu.au
THE ARC CULTURAL RESEARCH NETWORK PRESENTS:
A Masterclass with Professor Daniel Miller (University College, London)
Tuesday 30 November and Wednesday 1 December, 2010
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FROM POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND EARLY
CAREER RESEARCHERS
This is a call for expressions of interest from prospective participants in this two day masterclass from Professor Daniel Miller. The format for the masterclass will involve an opening discussion with Professor Miller around his work on consumption, media and material culture, followed by a series of discussions with participants about their own research projects. Participants will be asked to provide Professor Miller with a short outline of their current work as a means of framing each discussion.
The masterclass is designed for research higher degree students and early career researchers working on consumption and material culture. This work can be from a range of disciplinary perspectives – cultural studies, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, among them. The
number of participants is to be capped at 15, and so an early expression of interest is advised. Those from outside Brisbane who are selected will be offered financial assistance with airfares as well as accommodation for two nights in Brisbane.
Expressions of interest should be made up of a short cv together with a 300 word statement which outlines how the applicants’ current research would benefit from their participation in this masterclass.
The closing date for these submissions is October 15th
Expressions of interest and any enquiries should be sent to Fergus Grealy:
f.grealy@uq.edu.au
Daniel Miller is professor of material culture studies at the department of anthropology at UCL. He is the author and editor of many books based on ethnographic research in India, the Philippines, Trinidad and London on topics ranging from clothing and housing, the impact of mobile phones on poverty to the nature of consumption. His work has been used across a number of disciplines from anthropology to cultural and media studies. He is internationally regarded as one of the leading figures in the study of material culture. Current projects include The Global Denim project, a forthcoming book on the social impact of Facebook, and a Philippines’ based ethnographic study of the use of new media in maintaining relationships between people separated for long periods. The first of a two volume retrospective collection of Daniel Miller’s work, Stuff, was published by Polity in 2010.
Post-Doctoral Researchers (4 posts)
Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging
A unique opportunity exists for four outstanding post-doctoral scholars to join a dynamic interdisciplinary team investigating how Indigeneity is expressed and understood in our complex, globalising world. With funding of €2.36M over five years from the European Research Council, this frontier research, led by Professor Helen Gilbert at Royal Holloway (University of London), focuses on performance in relation to four conceptual themes: ‘Commodity and Spectacle’, ‘Heritage and Material Culture’, ‘Reconciliation and Social Cohesion’ and ‘Mobility and Belonging’. Applicants will be considered from across a range of disciplines including, but not limited to theatre and performance studies, film, cultural geography, anthropology, history, indigenous studies, sociology, politics, dance, ethnomusicology, international relations.
Suitable applicants will have some knowledge of performance studies, an outstanding research record relative to opportunity and a sound understanding of specific indigenous cultures in one or more of the following regions: the Americas, the Pacific, Australia, Southern Africa.
Applicants should have gained a PhD in a relevant discipline before the interview dates on 25–26 November 2010. Exceptions for candidates very close to completing their doctoral studies will be only made in cases where there is an extensive track record of high-quality research publications in one of the project fields.
Full details are available at:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/Ads/x0810-5989.html
Salary: £31,987 per year (including London allowance) plus limited travel support
Starting date: 1 April 2011 (posts are for two years with possible short-term extension)
Applications close: 12 Noon Wednesday 13 October 2010
Conference Call for Papers: “The Unacceptable"
29th April – 1st May 2011
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Host: Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
Venue: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
It wasn’t so long ago that with heroin chic and SM clubbing, what had been considered unacceptable became a voguish pretext for mass marketing. Now, with global hysteria about paedophilia and violent computer games and increasing calls for internet censorship, the unacceptable is being reinvented as an object of policing.
The issue of what is ‘fit to present’ has always haunted culture, especially in its relationship with social institutions: the proscription of heresy, the erasure of bodies (because of their age, race or gender), the silencing of sexualities, the purging of languages, the classification of desires as pathologies … marking things as unacceptable has been a key strategy in governing the media, education, the arts as well as the practice of everyday life. Conversely, resistance to the banning of texts and practices has long been one of the hallmarks of movements for liberalisation.
Understanding how bodies, images and practices are judged unacceptable is key to understanding how culture, communication and creativity fit into society.
Issues:
• What is now unacceptable?
• Did the unacceptable ever go away or did it merely shift from what was outlaw to an object of voyeurism?
• How does what is deemed unacceptable reflect the racial, gender and sexual fault-lines of a society?
• From incineration to pathologization: how have strategies for policing the unacceptable evolved?
Abstracts are sought that engage with topics such as (but not limited to):
• Body modification
• Pornography
• Transgression in the Arts
• Political censorship
• Youth Culture and Behaviour
• Free speech
• Hate speech
• Excommunication
• Sexual Subcultures
• Outlaw Fashion
• Social Networking sites
• Political and aesthetic avant-gardes
• Gangs
• Imposture
• Homophobia
• Drug culture
• Infidelity
• Secret Lives
• Welfare dependency
• Internet censorship
• Religious cults
• Violence
• Worklessness
• Control of school and higher education curriculums
• Obesity
• Behaviour in Public Space
• Racism
Please send abstracts of 300 words, or panel proposals, via email to unacceptableconference@gmail.com by Friday, 30th September 2010.
Sponsored and hosted by the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.
For more details and keynotes:
http://unacceptableconference.wordpress.com/
Call for papers: PRism Journal 2011 Special Issue
Topic: Segmenting Publics (winning topic, PRism Prize 2011)
Due date: Full papers are due by January 28, 2011
Topic summary:
This special call asks the question, what is the climate of publics-based research in public relations, and what are current challenges and approaches to the strategic segmentation of publics by organisations? Vasquez and Taylor (2001) asserted, “the public is often understood as a means to an organization’s end goal. Publics are, however, an integral part of public relations practice, and as a communicatively constructed social phenomenon, they deserve serious attention” (pp. 139-140). The common definition used to conceptualise a public stems from Dewey’s (1927) understanding of the public: a group of individuals that organically emerge when impacted by a problem and who share a common interest in solving that common problem. However, although the public is the core concept of public relations, it is not well-defined or evolved to fit current media, political, and organisational climates. Furthermore, some prominent theories of publics have been criticised as inflexible in addressing the shifting nature of publics and the social construction of issues in the minds of publics: “When a public is conceptualized as a state of consciousness or as a sum of aggregate variables, the nature, role and influence of communication are overlooked completely, or at a minimum are taken for granted” (Vasquez & Taylor, 2001, p. 150).
To address the criticisms, new work is being done in this area. Kim and Grunig (in press) have initiated a new wave of studies that elaborates on traditional information-seeking variables, such as information forwarding. Vardeman and Tindall (in press) have challenged the basic premise of aggregating identities through additive identity approaches that most practitioners and researchers have used to identify publics, and in their research on health message construction for women of color, they found that multiplicative identities impact how women perceive messages and act on messages. Although the situational theory did apply to the publics, cultural and socioeconomic variables (which heavily impacted how women perceived the messages) were not addressed in the theory. This research echoes Sha’s work (2006) that used cultural identity theory to go beyond the typical and stagnant demographic approaches to segmenting publics.
The purpose of this special issue is to re-examine and question the basic set of assumptions about publics and serve as the natural extension of Vasquez and Taylor’s (2001) call to explore publics in greater depth and through multiple prisms: “The challenge for public relations scholars and professionals is twofold: to demystify the ambiguity of a public and to link theory with practice for more effective relationships with publics” (p. 154). The purpose of this special issue is to explore recent developments within the current segmentation theories, to highlight other theories that communicators can use to segment and prioritise publics, to highlight how publics are dynamic and socially constructed phenomena that simple aggregative techniques cannot measure, and to demonstrate how these approaches have been used in practice.
See more detail at: http://www.prismjournal.org/segment_cfp.html
Potential Manuscript Topics:
This call for papers invites research that explores new facets and approaches to conceptualising and segmenting publics.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cultural identity factors in understanding and segmenting publics
- Intersectionality and the use of this theory in understanding publics
- Evaluation and measurement of segmentation
- Impact of culture, ethnicity, and globalization on the segmentation of publics
- Development of methods to segment publics
- Use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies to explore segmentation
- Application of segmentation approaches to reach publics
- The role that internal diversity of practitioners plays in the understanding of diverse publics
- Theories of public-specific communication (e.g., according to identities like race, gender, class, sexual orientation, role identity [e.g., as a parent, as a student, as a community activist], nationality, among other identities, as well as according to situations)
This issue will be prepared during 2011 for publication before the end of that year.
Submission deadline: JANUARY 28, 2011
PRism journal: is a refereed, open-access online journal of public relations and communication research. (See http://www.prismjournal.org/homepage.html)
Queries: If you have questions about this CFP or would like to express interest in being part of this exciting project in 2011, please contact the guest editors Natalie Tindall drnatalietjtindall@gmail.com and/or Jennifer Vardeman-Winter jvardema@Central.UH.EDU
Call for Papers (CFP): Interrogating Multiculturalism in Aotearoa/ New Zealand: An Asian Studies Perspective
A One-day Symposium hosted by the Asia-NZ Research Cluster at Otago University
When: 19 February 2011
Where: University of Otago, Dunedin
Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 15 September 2010
New Zealand history and culture is an admixture of indigenous, settler and immigrant interrelations. Yet debates about multiculturalism have emerged here only of late. Why so, and in what ways?
At one level, a certain “multiculturalism” is visible through, e.g., celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year or the Diwali Festival of Lights as well as through new commodities (food) and activities (the martial arts). At another level, ideas about multiculturalism are receiving greater attention in government, community and popular discourse. Both levels call for investigation.
Questions to be explored include – but are not limited to:
1) What roles do religion, language, education, government, sports, food, fashion, art or architecture play in Kiwi multiculturalism?
2) What, if anything, is unique about multiculturalism in NZ? Is there a dominant form of multiculturalism in NZ? What is the place of Maori and Pakeha representations – taken together or respectively – in multicultural discourse?
3) How is multiculturalism in NZ linked to debates about nation, ethnicity, pluralism or cosmopolitanism?
As in the past, the research cluster’s symposium will culminate in a quality peer-reviewed publication.
Please send paper title, 200-word abstract and contact details to Dr Gautam Ghosh at gautam.ghosh@otago.ac.nz .
The symposium is free of charge and open to the public.
The Graphic Novels and Comics Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University: 5th and 6th July 2011
Audiences and Readership / Space and Time
Audiences and Readership
At the Graphic Novels and Comics Conference 2010, a major issue identified by the plenary panel as crucial for future directions regarding comics research was that of audiences and readership. Martin Barker, who pioneered and championed comics research when it was unfashionable reinforced this issue when reviewing the conference in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics noting, ‘it is striking to me…that no-one is currently following through to ask any of the questions we can and should, about readers, collectors, reviewers, circuits of reception, or even the longer-term shifting public status of comics.’ Whilst there has been some excellent work researching comics audiences and readership, this is currently, as Martin suggests, a largely neglected area. In summarising work in this area, Barker’s works on ideology (1989), readers (1993, 1997) and censorship (1984) examine the ways audiences consume such texts. Gibson’s work on female comics readers (2003a &b) demonstrates the ways comics influence identity construction and the transgressive reading practices of some female fans. She has also written on historical children’s comic collecting in Britain (2008) and tentatively begun work on British manga audiences (2007). In addition, Wright’s work on the development of the comics industry and distribution practices shows how audiences are influenced by but also influence comics creation and production (2001). However, as Martin suggested there is scope for many more sustained explorations of comics audiences and readership.
The aim of this conference, therefore, is to open up debates in comics audiences and readership. A longer term aim is to produce a special themed issue of The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics on these topics. Accordingly we are looking for papers in (but not confined to) the following areas surrounding audiences and readership:
Fandom, niche markets and subcultures
• Gendered identities (fanboys, women comics readers, encoded readership, manga readership)
• Subcultural reception and consumption – e.g. fractured identities, responses and poaching of specific texts, slash, cosplay, comicons
• Comics shops and their clientele
• Online comics production and production
• Comics collecting and collections
• Children, childhood and comics
• Library collections
Censorship
• Children perceived as a problematic audience
• Moral panics (e.g. horror comics, underground comics such as the work of Crumb)
• Specific case studies – e.g. Mike Diana and the Boiled Angel case
• National and local collection policies for library and other collections
Globalization, localities
• Hybrid identities
• Relationship between dominant Americanised texts vs localised texts
• Localities and small press comics production
• Subcultures on the internet
• Local responses to global texts
Readership
• Embodied readership
• Encoded readership and negotiated identities
• Reading practices
We are also interested in papers on research methods and theories in audiences and readership including:
• Assessing the effectiveness of qualitative and quantitative methods (focus groups, interview methods, snowballing, internet rhetoric, etc)
• Ideological, rhetorical, discursive analytical methods
• Reception theory – e.g. encoding/decoding
Space and Time
Comics’ flexible use of space and time allow for a wide range of creative approaches to storytelling. In accordance with Studies in Comics’ pursuit of articulating a specific theory of comics, we also invite papers that discuss the representation of space and time in non-European comics. The aim of this is to enhance the conference themes by including papers that fall outside the remit of the Bande Dessinée conference days, and to publish selected papers in a future issue of Studies in Comics.
Accordingly we also welcome papers in (but not confined to) the following areas:
• Uses of sequential or panoramic panels
• Distortion or manipulation of time
• Critiques of narratological approaches
• Representations of the past and future
• Methods of capturing the present
• Temporality and science fiction influences
• Aesthetics and the depiction of space
• Philosophical or scientific approaches to temporality and spatiality in comics
Please send abstracts of 250 words to comicsconference@gmail.com to reach us by December 1st 2010. Proposals for panels are also welcomed. Please indicate in the heading of your email whether your submission deals with “AUDIENCE” or “SIC-SPACE/TIME”.
Bibliography
Martin Barker, (1989) Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics. Manchester University Press.
Martin Barker, (1984) A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign. London: Pluto Press.
Martin Barker, (1993) Seeing how you can see: On being a fan of 2000AD. In: Buckingham, D. (ed.) Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 160-180.
Martin Barker, (1997) Taking an extreme case: Understanding a Fascist fan of Judge Dredd. In: Cartmell, D., Hunter I.Q., Kaye, H. & Whelehan, I. (eds.) Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience, London: Pluto Press, pp. 14-30.
David Buckingham (ed) (1993) Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press
Mel Gibson (2007) ‘“What is this mango, anyway?” Manga and younger readers in Ireland and Britain’. INIS. The magazine of Children’s Books Ireland, Dublin: CBI.
Mel Gibson (2003a) ‘'You can’t read them, they’re for boys!’ British Girls, American Superhero Comics and Identity'. International Journal of Comic Art Vol.5. No.1. Spring.
Mel Gibson (2003b) ‘What became of Bunty?’ The emergence, evolution and disappearance of the girls' comic in post-war Britain. In Bearne, E. and Styles, M. (eds.) Art, Narrative & Childhood. Trentham Books.
Mel Gibson (2008) What you read and where you read it, how you get it, how you keep it: Children, comics and historical cultural practice. Popular Narrative Media, Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2008, pp 151-167
Angela McRobbie (1991) Feminism and Youth Culture: From Jackie to Just Seventeen, London: Macmillan.
Nyberg, A. K. (1998) Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Pustz, Matthew J. (1999) Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers. University Press of Mississippi
Spigel, Lynn. (1993) Seducing the Innocent. In: Solomon, W.S. & McChesney, R.W. (eds.) Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communications History, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 264-265.
Frederick Wertham. (1954) The Seduction of the Innocent. New York: Rinehart.
Bradford W Wright (2001) Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press.
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