Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
Freedom and the City
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Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left
In 2006 Lawrence Grossberg, the figure who played the most significant role in introducing the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies to the USA, published an essay ent...
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Resistance and Rationalisation: Exile and the Inner Cities in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion
This book is about fiction published in Britain, concerns itself mostly with the representation of London and interrogates the way in which a Jamaican (Hall) and an Englishman (Gilroy), building on the legacy ...
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Politics Is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard’s Late Dystopias
In principle, the Trafford Centre, opened on 10 September 1998 in Dumplington, Greater Manchester, is the same as any other suburban megamall developed during the last 30 years. It offers two floors of flexibl...
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Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Zadie Smith’s NW
In April 2013, four decades after Robin Hood Gardens welcomed its first residents, the process of removing the concrete housing complex began in Poplar, East London. The proposal to demolish had been controver...
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Introduction: ‘What We Need Now…’
This book examines the visions of urban space produced across a range of contemporary British fiction in order to evaluate the legacy of British cultural studies in the field of literary production between 198...
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Rave to the Grave: Hanif Kureishi and the Failure of Left Culturalism
On 26 August 1991, the most ostentatious contribution to the London skyline in nearly 30 years was officially opened by Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. Looming more than 240 metres above the capital, On...
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The New Culture Wars: Neo/liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
On 24 June 2007, the rock group Bon Jovi staged a concert at a music venue in Greenwich, East London, that had cost a combination of state and private funders around £800 million to develop over the course of ...
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Open AccessLeft ventricular twist mechanics during incremental cycling and knee extension exercise in healthy men
The objective of the present study was to investigate left ventricular (LV) twist mechanics in response to incremental cycling and isometric knee extension exercises.
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Open AccessLeft Ventricular Speckle Tracking-Derived Cardiac Strain and Cardiac Twist Mechanics in Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies
The athlete’s heart is associated with physiological remodeling as a consequence of repetitive cardiac loading. The effect of exercise training on left ventricular (LV) cardiac strain and twist mechanics are e...
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Open AccessLong-term athletic training does not alter age-associated reductions of left-ventricular mid-diastolic lengthening or expansion at rest
The interaction of ageing and exercise training status on left-ventricular (LV) peak strain is unclear. Additionally, strain analysis across the entire cardiac cycle facilitates a more detailed assessment of d...
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Open AccessThe influence of training status on right ventricular morphology and segmental strain in elite pre-adolescent soccer players
Cardiac modifications to training are a product of the genetic pre-disposition for adaptation and the repetitive haemodynamic loads that are placed on the myocardium. Elite pre-adolescent athletes are exposed ...
