Wider Body Of Work Research Articles

Pluralising critical technical practice

In this special issue, we turn to ideas of and approaches to critical technical practices (CTPs) as entry points to doing critique and doing things critically in digitally mediated cultures and societies. We explore the pluralisation of ‘critical technical practice’, starting from its early formulations in the context of AI research and development (Agre, 1997a, 1997b) to the many ways in which it has resonated and been taken up by different publications, projects, groups, and communities of practice, and what is has come to mean. Agre defined CTP as a situational, practical, and constructive way of working: ‘a technical practice for which critical reflection upon the practice is part of the practice itself’ (1997a: XII). Communities of practice in which the notion has been adopted, adapted, and put to use range from human–computer interaction (HCI) to media art and pedagogy, from science and technology studies (STS) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) to digital humanities, media studies and data studies. This special issue affirms the pluralisation of CTP, and serves as an invitation to (re)consider what it means to use this notion drawing on a wider body of work, including beyond Agre. In this introduction, we review and discuss CTPs according to (1) Agre, (2) indexed research, and (3) contributors to this special issue. We conclude with some questions and considerations for those interested in working with this notion.

Twin-tunnelling: Case studies in clay

New developments in the theory and practice of tunnel construction are essential for the industry to progress but it is the relationship between these two areas that is equally as important. Tunnelling practice has greatly benefited from laboratory research; specifically, centrifuge modelling linked with field measurements. The wide body of work on the construction of single tunnels has led to the identification of parameters and techniques that are widely accepted for predicting and assessing the magnitude and extent of tunnelling ground movements. However, the usage of twin tunnels in urban areas for transportation purposes have increased and better understanding on the associated ground displacements are required. This paper firstly provides background to ground displacements due to single tunnel, twin tunnel constructions and common prediction methods used in practice. Then, it introduces recent technological advancements in centrifuge modelling, applied to the complex geotechnical events of twin-tunnelling, that has led to further insight. The tunnelling induced ground displacements obtained from twenty four case studies in clay around the world and eighteen centrifuge tests are presented for further analyses. From that, a comparison between the recent theories of proximity-dependent tunnelling-induced ground movements with case histories has been carried out to establish their validity and limitations. Published field measurements have been reanalysed taking into account newly discovered relationships between the tunnels’ proximity and the magnitude and extent of ground movements, reflected via volume loss and the settlement trough width, respectively. The applicability to field measurements of the additional volume loss prediction method (derived from consideration of the experiment work) for tunnelling in clay is assessed.

Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating

ABSTRACT This essay (re-) introduces the concept of the migration state and its significance for migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing its intellectual history and relationship to Hollifield’s wider body of work. The authors lay out the main features of the ideal-typical liberal democratic migration state before discussing the extent to which it can be used to describe and theorise a wider variety of migration states, paying attention to the particularities of state development across different cases and regions, but also looking forward to how imperial and colonial legacies may shape future state responses to managing migration and mobility. Drawing on the individual contributions to this special issue, we suggest three theoretical and conceptual moves that can enrich our understanding of contemporary migration states: historicisation, decolonisation, and disaggregation. We discuss how the articles in this special issue engage with the migration state concept in ways that incorporate developments in migration studies over the past twenty years, using the concept to push the field in new temporal and comparative directions that open up the possibility of a more global approach to understanding migration. The essay concludes by looking at the future of the migration state and suggests areas for further research.

“Enter your watchwoman”: Alanis Morissette’s feminist lessons

ABSTRACT As a feminist medium, Alanis Morissette’s music provides her fans with both a feminist perspective and lessons for living. As a young adult, she used music to uncover and resist the numerous challenges she faced as a female in a patriarchal business and sexist society. She continues to make the experiences and needs of young people a focus of her songs. Overall, Morrisette writes as a voice for many generations of youth, a popular voice that continues to matter. Beginning with a discussion of Morissette’s continued cultural relevance, this article reads the ways in which Morissette offers her fans a feminist vision of themselves as confident individuals and worthy contributors to society. Drawing on her wide body of work and scholarship on it, alongside studies of young people’s relationship practices and use of media, I argue that Morissette’s songs exemplify a feminist ethos that encourages her fans to demand equality.

On the move in the (post)colonial metropolis: The Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction

Literary texts convey the complexities of the urban experience in a tangible way. While there is a wide body of work on literary representations of Paris, the role of public transport as part of the (postcolonial) urban experience has not received much attention. This article sets out to analyse the meanings of the mobile public space comprising the Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the mid-20th century to the 2010s. The reading demonstrates how the texts represent the public space of the Metro as a symbol of modernity, a space of disappointment and alienation, an embodiment of social inequalities and as a site of convivial encounters and claims of agency. Through this analysis, the article highlights the role of literature in elucidating the intertwinement of mobility, public space and postcolonial urbanity.

2.15 or Not 2.15? An Historical‐Analytical Inquiry into the Nearest‐Neighbor Statistic

Nearest‐neighbor analysis (NNA)—a method for assessing the degree to which a spatial point pattern departs from randomness in the direction of being either clustered or regular—was imported into academic geography from an article published in 1954 by ecologists Clark and Evans. In its simplest form, concerned with distances to the first nearest neighbor, NNA hinged on the behavior of the “nearest‐neighbour statistic,” Rn, supposed to vary between 0 (complete clustering) and 2.15 (complete regularity). NNA and the wider body of work on point pattern analysis quickly gained in sophistication, meaning that this simple test statistic only featured briefly in the frontline research literature of geographical analysis. Nonetheless, given its easy‐to‐grasp logic, it became and remains a staple of quantitative geography textbooks for undergraduate students and statistical methods training in school‐level geography curricula. The purpose of this paper is to chart the history of NNA and its test statistic in academic geography, and to provide an analytical demonstration that the value of 2.15 has been mistakenly identified as an upper limit for the latter. Broader speculations are then offered about what may be learned from the history of how the discipline has handled this statistic.

On photographing the legacies of violence: A conversation with Jo Ractliffe

In her work, the South African photographer Jo Ractliffe has been exploring the idea of landscape as “pathology,” how past violence manifests in the landscape of the present. In 2007, she made the first of a number of visits to Angola and over the following 4 years photographed the lingering end of Angola’s civil war, one that South Africa was deeply involved in and was known to White South Africans as the South Africa’s “Border War.” For Violence: An international journal, she has come back on her wide body of work and shared her thoughts on the difficulties to grasp violence visually, the ethics of representation and the ways in which photography exercises one’s critical awareness.

P210 Clostridium difficile infection in pre-existing inflammatory bowel disease: Management and outcomes

Abstract Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a recognised risk factor for clostridium difficile infection (CDI), and CDI in an IBD patient is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. It is thought that factors including alterations in the gut microbiome, mucosal disruption and immunosuppression provide a synergistic environment for CDI to complicate an IBD flare. Despite this, there is conflicting evidence available on management. Our aim was to examine a series of recent cases to assess our own practice and subsequent outcomes. Methods A retrospective analysis was carried out of hospitalised cases of CDI in IBD patients in Greater Glasgow and Clyde from 2017 to 2018. Patients were identified via the CDI database held by the microbiology department; those with co-existing IBD were extrapolated. Data collected included demographics, IBD subtype and presence of other CDI risk factors. Severity of symptoms was assessed using Truelove and Witts Criteria. Initial management and changes following the diagnosis of CDI were noted. Outcomes were measured by the length of stay, survival to discharge, and requirement for surgical intervention. One year outcomes were assessed by recording mortality, treatment escalation and re-admission to hospital. Results 29 patients in total were identified (61% female, 39% male). Twenty-one had a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, 7 Crohn’s disease, and 1 IBD unclassified. Twenty-four were on immunosuppressive therapy at the time of CDI, 11 were on dual or triple immunosuppression. This was continued during admission in all but three cases. Once the diagnosis of CDI was established, metronidazole was given in 16 cases and vancomycin in 13. Steroid treatment varied - 13 received oral steroids, 5 IV steroids and 11 no steroids. There was no clear correlation between steroid management and outcome. Assessment with the Travis criteria on day 3 indicated a high chance of colectomy in 12 patients, however only one required surgical intervention. No patients received a faecal transplant. The median length of stay was 15 days (range 3–169). One patient did not survive to discharge. In those surviving to discharge, a further 6 had died at one year, bringing the one-year mortality to 24%. Three had CDI as a contributory factor listed on the death certificate. 31% of surviving patients had their IBD treatment escalated in the year following admission, 17% were treated for CDI relapse, and 28% had readmission to hospital. Conclusion Managing CDI in patients with co-existing IBD is challenging. This case series highlights the lack of consensus on how this should be approached, even within a single health board. Morbidity and mortality are high. This suggests that a wider body of work is required to establish guidelines and provide better outcomes.

Imagining the Future of a Complex Mixed-media Work: The Case of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Floating Museum

Over the last twenty years museums have systematically digitized the contents of their archives and, increasingly, the data and documents produced through these processes are used, alongside historic documents, to engage audiences on- and offline (see, for example, Tate’s Archives and Access project, 2012–2017).[1] For art museums, this has increasingly involved the digitization of materials related to performance and new media. When this has occurred, it has been found that museums often only have partial data pertaining to these kinds of works. This has to do with questions related to how museums originally documented performance and new media, as well as with the inherent complexity of capturing information about these specific genres.[2] Artists, too, nowadays often digitize historic documaentations of their work, frequently submitting existing documentations of their artworks that do not yet form part of museum collections to universities or national libraries and archives for preservation purposes. However, simply digitizing existing data pertaining to these works is often not sufficient to generate high-quality, future-facing documentations that could communicate the complexity of a work to generations to come. This is because, as Renée van de Vall, Anna Hölling, Tatja Scholte, and Sannike Stigter suggested, “The meaning of an object and the effects it has on people and events may change during its existence,” which means that we should construct the “lives” of these objects “as individual trajectories.”[3] Digitization projects, however, rarely cross-reference contextual documentation collected before, during, or after a given live event, which means that the relation between different versions of a work or different works that may form part of a wider body of work are often lost.

Pitch and gender in voice training: new methodological directions

The gendering of pitch. In this short essay, I lay out a number of practice-led insights about the gendered perception of the materiality of pitch. The research sits within a wider body of work that applies both feminist and gender theory to voice practice. Theories about the ways in which ‘individuality and the resonances of our gestures are carried in the vocalic bodies we emanate’ are particularly relevant to this discussion about perceptions of difference (Bonenfant 2010, p. 77).

Writing war/ethics: departures and directions

ABSTRACTWar fascinates and appals. Despite its evident violence, it continues to be produced as good. This article reflects on the responses to my War and the Politics of Ethics in this special issue by thinking through the challenges of writing war/ethics. It sets out the implications of starting from where I did and then explores the directions suggested by the contributions to the volume as well as a wider body of work that has emerged in the area. The article reiterates the significance of closely engaging with the production of ethics in and through war and with the mutual implication of war and ethics in each other. How we think and write about war/ethics requires constant attention and re-evaluation; it must not be left to those who think they know how to speak about it.

Celebrity capital, field-specific aesthetic criteria and the status of cultural objects: The case ofMasked and Anonymous

This article probes the explanatory value of the concept of celebrity capital in helping us to grasp the fate of celebrities and the cultural objects they produce when they move across to other fields. However, the article seeks to do more than this: with reference to the example of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s incursion into the cinematic field, where he co-wrote Masked and Anonymous (2003), it contributes to debates by examining the significance of field-specific aesthetic criteria in helping us to gain insight into the aesthetic value of cultural objects. While Dylan’s celebrity capital gave him access to a number of ‘A-List’ celebrity actors, the aesthetic dimension of the film did not have a meaningful relation to the state of play in the cinematic field and so the film was, in the main, critically panned. So, Masked and Anonymous made Dylan’s boundary-crossing journey in reverse: it retreated to the field of popular music where its aesthetic properties were warmly received when considered in relation to Dylan’s wider body of work. Meanwhile, it was difficult for the harshest critics to ignore the aesthetic value that Dylan’s wider body of work had accumulated over time. There is, then, a temporal dimension of aesthetic appraisal that needs to be considered, even when reviews are considered at a particular historical conjuncture. In this analysis of field-specific aesthetic criteria, we see that boundary work is effective in diminishing the status of a cultural object ( Masked and Anonymous), but we also see that each critic has only limited sway in the face of the totality of judgements which emerges as a supra-individual voice, heterogeneous and full of contradictions, deriving from all those who make evaluative judgements in the field of culture.

The Concept of Self

In 1960, Macfarlane Burnet became Australia’s second winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Neeraja Sankaran examines his wide body of work and enduring significance, both at home and abroad.

Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia by Simon Barton

Reviewed by: Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia by Simon Barton Theresa Earenfight KEYWORDS Muslims, Interfaith Marriage, Sexual Ethics, Women, Concubines, Reconquista, Medieval Iberia SIMON BARTON. Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia. U of Pennsylvania P, 2015. 264 pp. The complex dynamics of interfaith relations has occupied scholars of medieval Spain for decades as they try to understand how Jews, Christians, and Muslims managed to live in close proximity for seven centuries. Although we may not all agree on what to call this relationship—convivencia (as Américo Castro argued), conveniencia (Brian Catlos) cultural hybridity (Maria Rosa Menocal), or simply getting along with ambivalent neighbors whose existence was an uneasy equilibrium punctuated by violence (David Nirenberg)—one thing we all can agree on is that people living in medieval Spain worried about sex. A lot. The anxiety of Jews, Christians, and Muslims spills out in the legal documents, historical narratives, polemical and hagiographic works, poetry, music, and visual art of all three religions. Spanish Christians were not alone in their concern about Christian women having sex with non-Christian men. But, unlike Christians elsewhere in medieval Europe, physical proximity and a long war against Muslims made the concern quotidian and far more acute for Spanish Christians. In this new book, Simon Barton "seeks to elucidate why interfaith sex mattered greatly to secular and religious lawmakers" (4). To do this, he focuses on the [End Page 119] Muslim-Christian relationship and links changing attitudes towards female sexual purity with the political and military events that tipped the balance of power. Barton ultimately argues that sex, or to be precise, protecting Christian women from having sex with Muslim men, was a central feature of a masculine "national" political identity that developed in the later Middle Ages. Barton's study ranges from 711 to 1492, but his argument is centered primarily on the twelfth century and most of his sources are from the Christian perspective. His strengths as a political historian of the reconquest period are evident in his skillful synthesis of a wide range of materials. Much of this will be familiar to scholars of medieval Spain: the legendary, but fictional, payment of 100 maidens (cien doncellas) as tribute to a Muslim emir; Subh, the Christian concubine of al-Hakam in the tenth century; King Alfonso VI and Zaida. We all have our own transcriptions of archival material and heavily annotated copies of Olivia Remie Constable's collection that introduced undergraduate students to sources such as the fueros, chronicles, treaties, art, architecture, and poems that document life in a multifaith society. Barton's book treads familiar ground in a field that, since the pioneering work of Robert I. Burns, has documented the rich and complex society of medieval Spain. Scholars have plundered the rich archives of Spain and edited, translated, interpreted, analyzed, and theorized the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims. Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines encompasses this richly interdisciplinary zone of religion, politics, social dynamics, culture, art, architecture, and literature. For many Hispanists, this book will be an easy read. But just because you may already have read many of the works on the extensive bibliography does not mean you should ignore it, skim it, or simply recommend it to colleagues who study other parts of Europe. The value of the book is its vantage point. Barton pulls together this wide body of work, plus his own research, and then steps back from the fine-grained studies that take a singular literary work, legal document, or art object. He integrates all of this into a coherent political narrative that hinges on the politics of the shift in the balance of forces during the reconquista in the twelfth century. That century, he argues, was the pivot point that changed the rhetoric of the relationship between military conflict and sexual violence. The four chapters of the book follow a roughly chronological trajectory from the early to the late Middle Ages. Chapter one, "Sex as Power," examines the practice of sexual mixing in which Christian women—through marriage, concubinage, or slavery—were fundamental elements of...

No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton by Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon

Reviewed by: No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton by Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon Angela R. Cunningham No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton. By Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2017. viii+ 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95 CAD, $31.95 USD, paper. With No Man’s Land, Young and McKinnon provide the first biography of western Canadian artist, Mary Riter Hamilton. Relying on correspondence and gleaning newspaper advertisements and society pages, Young and McKinnon emphasize Hamilton’s professionalism, describing the artist’s businesslike decisions about where to train and how to market herself as well as the economic realities she faced: a reliance on patrons, the effects of financial hardship, and the necessity of teaching. Young and McKinnon also describe the geographical realities of Hamilton’s work. Having spent much of her youth in Manitoba, a province to which she would periodically return, Hamilton had to leave the Great Plains, studying and exhibiting in Europe and eastern and coastal Canada, to gain credibility as an artist. The book is at its best when describing these milieux in which Hamilton lived, from artists’ neighborhoods in Berlin and Paris, to Winnipeg, a rapidly developing city just beginning to establish a culture of fine art in the Canadian interior. Given the title of the book, I had hoped for a stronger engagement with recent scholarship about women as artists and women’s role in constructing narratives of the Great War. For instance, the authors cite World War I historian Jay Winter, but I was left wondering how Hamilton situated herself within the tension between modernism and traditionalism that Winter focuses on in Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. How might Hamilton’s letters or critics’ responses locate her battlefield paintings both within this wider discourse and her wider body of work? What insights could be gained by putting Hamilton’s experience into conversation with work on Great War women writers who, lacking frontline fighting experience, were perceived as not having the authority to speak about war? Were the conditions, products, and reception of Hamilton’s work—whether post-war or peacetime—shaped by gendered motivations as well as by gendered limitations? These questions are largely addressed with bibliographic references rather than sustained discussion. Young and McKinnon synthesize secondary and primary sources, including previously un-published material, to present a biography that will be appreciated by art historians interested in an important Canadian painter. However, the reader interested in a deeper analysis of why women’s artistic production was important, particularly in the context of World War I, would be best served by pairing No Man’s Land with other social and critical cultural histories. [End Page 92] Angela R. Cunningham Department of Geography University of Colorado–Boulder Copyright © 2019 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

‘I Depend More on Photographs to Help Me Along’: The Ngāi Tahu Portraits in Lore and History of the South Island Maori

When Lore and History of the South Island Maori was published in 1952 it filled a vacuum in terms of accessible Ngāi Tahu history in the public domain. Despite its scholarly shortcomings, it remained one of the only readily available texts on Ngāi Tahu history for another thirty years. A major element of the publication was its inclusion of photographs, all taken by the author, William Anderson Taylor. Using the Ngāi Tahu portraits in Lore and History as a starting point, and informed where possible by oral interviews with their descendants, this article introduces some of the tribal members who were Taylor’s informants, friends, and photographic subjects. Through a reading of the photographs, the article will briefly trace the trajectory of Taylor’s relationship with Ngāi Tahu and consider how the visual stories illuminate the text of Lore and History and Taylor’s wider body of work with the iwi (tribe) in the first half of the twentieth century. While Taylor is best known as an amateur historian and ethnographer, his photographic practice was also fundamental to his ethnographic research. The photographic contracts that Taylor entered into with the Ngāi Tahu subjects of his photographs created an environment that facilitated exchange, rapport, empathy, and, frequently, enduring bonds.

Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World ed. by F. S. Naiden, Richard J. A. Talbert

Reviewed by: Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World ed. by F. S. Naiden, Richard J. A. Talbert Andrew M. Riggsby F. S. Naiden and Richard J. A. Talbert (eds.). Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxxiv, 419. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538684-4. The editors propose “an initial exploration of a new field” (communications in the ancient world) in a collection of seventeen compact chapters. The scope ranges in time from the founding of the Egyptian state to the rise of Islam and in space across the Mediterranean basin and the Near East, briefly extending to South Asia. The first two of four roughly equal sections treat topics that might be thought inherent to the idea of communications: (1) networks (constraints and opportunities presented by the Mediterranean environment; libraries as network nodes; communication in trade networks; battlefield communication) and (2) modes (in particular nonverbal ones: Hittite and Neo-Assyrian monuments, image types under the Roman Empire, music, and gesture). The latter two are structured around ideas that were found more distinctly, if contingently, important for the world under study: (3) communications with the gods (synthetic studies of communication in Mesopotamian religion and Christianity and more particular ones on Greek pilgrimage and oracles) and (4) the cross-cultural communications that necessarily arose in the great multicultural empires (two chapters on diplomatic communication, the special case of Egypt, Roman coinage, and mapping). The individual contributions generally aim at sophisticated description of the range of possibilities within their chosen areas of inquiry, rather than at defending narrow theses. In some cases this involves a mini-survey; more often it is a matter of carefully selected case studies. There is no way 350 pages or so could cover the enormous range of time, space, and practice the editors have chosen for themselves; but the wide variety of materials considered and the questions asked of them offer an important skeleton, and they are likely to serve well for what is meant to be an inspirational work rather than a capstone to the field. The one thing I felt lacking, even given the preliminary nature of the project, was more theorization of the notion of “communication.” Despite raising some important specific questions, the editors do not ever quite define the term, and few of the individual contributors (even ones who are in some narrower sense more “theoretical”) address it at all. Jennifer Trimble’s use of a distinction between “transmission” and “ritual” views of communication (and the editors’ appeal to a similar “informative” / “affective” distinction) hints at a number of important parameters that need to be developed, but both specific frameworks seem to me to cut off discussion by premature dichotomization. As it stands, the book immediately suggests a lot of future work that essentially fills in its matrix, whether that means doing full-length studies of topics briefly discussed here (as has already been done in a few cases) or—probably more to the point—by transposition. What could be learned by taking the questions of chapter X and applying them to the material of chapter Y (or some other analog)? What is less clear is how to build up from there analytically. Suppose that in the near future [End Page 581] we actually have an abundance of such studies. How would we move from aggregating them to integrating them? A particular case of this, but perhaps an especially important one, is the connection between utilitarian and, let us say with the editors, affective communication. Several contributors note these operating side by side in particular cases, but the connection, if any, typically remains opaque. Is there a way to bring them together, or is this a sign that we really are dealing with two distinct phenomena? In any case, the individual essays are clear, informative, and (in the areas in which I am competent to judge) convincing in their particulars, and the editors have gathered an impressively rich and wide body of work. Anyone interested in the “classical” world or the neighboring civilizations stands to learn a great deal from the collection, and I expect it...

Simulation and the Labour of Invisibility: Harun Farocki’s Life Manuals

This article focuses on Farocki’s four-part film cycle Parallel I–IV which explores the image genre of computer animation. In Parallel I–IV, Farocki traces the development of video-game graphics from the crude two-dimensional images of the early 1980s to the hyper-realistic environments of contemporary titles, such as Grand Theft Auto. The article situates the film cycle in relation to Farocki’s wider body of work and thematic interests, while also considering how Parallel I–IV sheds light on a media–archaeological reassessment of cinema history. Five interrelated topics are addressed: representation and reproduction; operational images; surveillance and the military; simulation and role play; and the labour of invisibility and the invisibility of labour.

A reassessment of E.H. Carr and the realist tradition: Britain, German–Soviet Relations and neoclassical realism

E.H. Carr’s connection to realism has increasingly been called into question. Revisionist literature has pointed to realism’s narrow understanding of Carr and drawn from his wider body of work in order to problematise Carr’s association with realism. Given that it overlooks two key texts produced by Carr, the revisionist literature is incomplete. Refocusing on Britain and German–Soviet Relations, especially the way in which they reflect ideas associated with the realist tradition, this paper demonstrates the continued traditional link between Carr and realism. Having done so, it considers the contemporary relevance of Carr’s lesser known realist work. Drawing parallels between Britain and German–Soviet Relations and neoclassical realism, the paper contends that Carr’s forgotten texts can serve as the foundation for a more classically orientated, European mode of neoclassical realism.

John Urry: E-Special Introduction

This article introduces a special electronic collection of many of the key works published by the late British sociologist John Urry (1946–2016) in the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society. It serves both to commemorate and to continue Urry’s profound contributions as a social theorist, as a network builder, and as a public intellectual who changed the face of British, and indeed global, social science. The selections range from 1982 to 2014, including articles and introductions to collections, both sole-authored and collaborative pieces, all of which are put into context here in relation to his wider body of work. By gathering this portion of his work in one place we seek to make it easily accessible, as well as marking the signal importance of his impact on contemporary social theory.