Special Issue: Foreign Bodies: Neighbours, Strangers, Monsters
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 184753248
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/journals/bjrl/95/2/bjrl.95.issue-2.xml?rskey=1erEEH&result=1
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This issue of the Bulletin of The John Rylands Library originated in a 2016-2019 teaching and research collaboration, 'Connecting Collections', driven by the early modern European collections of the Universities of Manchester and Melbourne. The project brought together a bi-national team of researchers, from early career to senior scholars. Initial explorations of the collections prompted the overarching research question on how early modern images and objects constructed the foreign, the exotic, the other as people sought to establish literal and metaphorical borders to guarantee their wellbeing and prosperity, and to determine who was, and was not, part of a particular group. It is the first of two print publications, in addition to a supporting website (https://connectingcollections-manmel.com/). It features the work of the UK participants and focuses on questions prompted by the Manchester collections. Warr invited the UK the contributors and organised the UK workshop; with Dunlop she oversaw the publication of the special issue of the Bulletin, co-authored (50/50) the introduction (pp. 1-18) and wrote the article ‘In persona Christi’ (135-156). The theme ‘Foreign Bodies’ was chosen for the collaborative work for its current and early modern importance: defining foreignness was a hallmark of the early-modern era and one which has been debated in the context of uncertainties associated with Brexit, the status of UK and Australian nationals identified as terrorists, and the Australian policy of off-shore refugee imprisonment. Two workshops were held involving participants from the UK and Australia: Manchester in 2017 hosted by The John Rylands Library and the Whitworth, both part of the University of Manchester, and Chetham’s Library; Melbourne in 2018 hosted by the University of Melbourne, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the State Library of Victoria. These workshops gave rise to ongoing discussions around the notion of the foreign amongst the participants.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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