The Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture is pleased to share its August and September news.
Dr Anna Chronopoulou had “My Days of Mercy and In Between: Echoing Changes in Cinematic Representations of Women lawyers”, published in AJL, 2020 Vol6(4) pp:391-406.
Two articles from the wider academic community have completed the ESLJ special collection on television drama, law and national identity, derived from a symposium arranged by the Centre a year ago and expertly edited by Professor Danny Nicol. In August, Anja Louis's article on Spanish police and justice television drama and its relationship to the post-dictatorship development of Spanish national identity was published in the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal. This was followed in September by Kim Weinert and Kieran Tranter’s piece on representations of techno-elites in Australian public life. Find out more about the full collection edited by Professor Nicol.
Professor Pippa Catterall was a panellist on a debate organised by the Sustainable Cities Project on 'Cancelling the Past: Statues, public space and democracy' attended by 100 architects, planners, politicians and policymakers. This was as a result of her ongoing work on memorialisation, inclusion and exclusion in public space. As part of this, she and her collaborator Ammar Azzouz from the University of Oxford won £15,000 in project funding from Arup Group in August for research into 'Queering Public Space'. As co-chair of the University of Westminster's LGBTQI+ Staff Network, she was also appointed to Westminster's new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Additionally, Professor Catterall published two papers in August, including ‘The Crown and Conservative Party Leadership: The Political Crisis of 1963 in Britain’ in H. Kumarasingham (ed) Viceregalism: Political Crises in the Post-War Commonwealth (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2020); and ‘The Plural Society: Labour and the Commonwealth Idea 1900-1964’ in H. Kumarasingham (ed) Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020).
Professor Guy Osborn had the latest in his series of collaborations with urban geographer Paul Gilchrist published in the Routledge Handbook of Street Culture. The piece is entitled 'Parkour and street culture. Conviviality, law and the negotiation of urban space'.
