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Research reports

Britishness in the last three General Elections: from ethnic nationalism to civic nationalism (co-authors:
Michael Billig, David Deacon, John Downey and Peter Golding)
Here's some information about the project, on the Commission for Racial Equality website.
And here's a direct link to the pdf of our full report.
The research is also summarised in an article for Catalyst magazine, written by Mick Billig - the link is below.

Presentations


Analysing Newspapers [powerpoint slides], 14 December 2007, 'Press Under Pressure' Research Colloquium, Dept of English and Language Studies, Canterbury University

Nation, Culture and Identity in a French Language Corsican Newspaper [powerpoint slides], 14 December 2007, 'Press Under Pressure' Research Colloquium, Dept of English and Language Studies, Canterbury University

Race and Class in recent Party Political Leaflets [powerpoint slides], 12 November 2007, Language, Ideology, Power research group, Lancaster University

'Asperger syndrome and argumentation', Research Colloquium, 10 February 2006, Dept of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam

Covering Islam, Faith Matter Week, Sheffield University, 5 May 2005

'Creating terror', Global Terror: a debate, Aston University, Birmingham, 8 April, 2005

Book reviews

(2008) Marxism and Communications Studies, edited by Lee Artz, Steve Macek & Dana L Cloud, Fifth Estate Online.

(2006) Global War-Local Views, edited by Stig Nohrstedt & Rune Ottosen, European Journal of Communication

(2006) Representing 'Race' by John Downing & Charles Husband, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics

(2005) Mediactive (3), Mediawar. Guest editors Anita Biressi & Heather Nunn. Journalism Studies, 6 (3): 398-400.

(2005) Cultural Citizenship by Nick Stevenson. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 13 (2): 255-256

(2004) Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies, by James Jasinski. Discourse Studies, 6 (3):413-415.

(2002) Identity Mania, by Thomas Meyer. Journal of European Area Studies, 10 (2): 321-323

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