British women and cultural practices of Empire, 1770-1940
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 6259
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781501332159
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume not only incorporates Dias’s writing (an 8,000-word chapter, and 10,000-word co-written introduction), but it has also been carefully edited by Dias and Smith to ensure the cohesion and breadth of the volume, in terms of content and scholarly perspective. It also promotes a recent intersection between the fields of material culture, women’s history, and empire studies, thereby opening up a critical forum for contributions from younger scholars particularly. The volume is thus notable for the proportion of essays contributed by junior academics (a number were PhD students or recent postdoctoral researchers at the time) working on emerging areas of empire studies, collecting, material culture, and gender. The project was conceived initially as a symposium, for which proposals were accepted from several junior scholars and museum professionals working on the cultural constructions of empire by women. Dias and Smith also invited keynotes from two senior scholars in the field, David Arnold and Caroline Jordan. This mix allowed the project to take shape as a productive dialogue incorporating a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives, and new and established voices. Following the symposium, Dias and Smith selected promising papers and invited some new contributions to expand the scope of the volume in terms of its geographical and material range of the artefacts included. This was also done to ensure shared thematic concerns, which were organised across three sections of the book. Dias thus played an equal role to Smith in an editing process which involved supporting contributors in developing their approaches and arguments within their individual essays, as well as ensuring maximal cohesion across the volume, and responding to peer review. Both editors read all contributions, discussed the desired revisions between themselves and with contributors, read re-drafts, and re-shaped the introduction to reflect and engage with the contributors’ work.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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