‘Partly Copies from European Prints’

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-143
Author(s):  
Kee Il Choi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Landscape Art ◽  
Northern European ◽  
China Trade ◽  
River Thames ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This paper introduces the way Johannes Kip’s A Prospect of Westminster & A Prospect of the City of London (c. 1720) furnished the design for a handscroll of the River Thames enamelled on the rim of a renowned armorial porcelain service made around 1730-40. Having thus situated an important exemplar of northern European landscape art in China by 1750, it further suggests that Kip’s topographic print may well have played an influential, not to say seminal role in the conceptualization of monumental, panoramic handscrolls of the foreign factories from which ultimately the iconic landscape genre emerged. Descriptive of the site of both commerce and aesthetic exchange, these export paintings have exercised a lasting hold on the historical imagination. In as much as export porcelain signified the China trade for Westerners, export paintings came to represent Canton, if not the whole of China for a global audience.

scholarly journals “Go where the Love Is”: Failed Emotional Negotiations of Space and Identity in Tessa McWatt's This Body

2013 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Elena Igartuburu García
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Love Relationship ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way ◽  
Normative Ideals

Identity, space and emotions, although traditionally all traditionally naturalized and delinked from the construction of one another, might also be read as formed by intertwined processes that are guided and shaped by hegemonic powers. Nonetheless, as they delineating difference within and among themselves, the consideration of these three fields and the way they work together in these shaping opens up new ways to approach the split between normative categories of identity, assigned location and adequate feelings, and their subjective perception. Tessa McWatt’s novel This Body presents the reader with two Guyanese characters, Victoria and her nephew Derek, that undergo, at many different levels, this split between subjectivity and a socially and culturally given subject position. Challenging normative ideals, Victoria struggles with her categorization as Other; an endeavour marked by her trajectories and experiences as she negotiates and redeploys a physical as well as a social space of her own in the city of London. Still, her love relationship with a British man would make her drift towards assimilation inasmuch as this affair relocates Victoria within dominant gender, ethnic and class hierarchies.

scholarly journals Performing Place: A Rhythmanalysis of the City of London

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Nash
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Through its focus on the City of London as a particular work sector and setting, this paper emphasizes the symbolic and material significance of place to understanding the lived experiences of power relations within organizational life. The socio-cultural and material aspects of the City are explored through an analysis of the rhythms of place, as well through interview data. Using a methodological approach based on Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis in order to develop an embodied, immersive sense of how the City is experienced as a workplace, the paper makes a methodological, empirical and theoretical contribution to an understanding of the way in which rhythms shape how place is performed. Using rhythmanalysis as a method, the paper shows the relationship between rhythms and the performances of place, foregrounding a subjective, embodied and experiential way of researching the places and spaces of organizing.

scholarly journals Looking Back on the Space of a Boom: (Re)developing Spatial Matrices in the City of London

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Pryke
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Way

This paper is focused on the (re)development of the global financial space of the City of London during the mid-1980s. Although the financing of this process is the chief concern, the influence of the social space through which this funding was taking place is not ignored. Therefore, an interpretation is provided of, first, the ways in which a range of economic agents within a ‘structure of building provision’ interact with given sets of spatial practices to capitalise an established social space. And, second, the way in which these agents then realign to develop around newly emerging sociospatial relations is examined. The underlying influence of changes in the wider economic ‘setting’ of these agents is highlighted, with particular reference to how their economic calculations are mapped onto social space and the overall consequences of these processes.

Britain’s Journey to a National Security Approach and the Evolution of a Defence Academy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gearson
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
King's College ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Strategic Defense ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the evolution in Britain’s approach to national security in the post-Cold War period, including the development of academic provision for defense and military education. These are areas that Freedman pioneered and both his work and practice lay at the core of both. The chapter charts the shifts in approach from terrorism in the City of London, through the advent of strategic defense reviews, to, eventually, a National Security Strategy. It notes the way in which defense education formed part of this package of change and concludes that the policy–focused work of the war studies group at King’s College London, educated and inspired by Lawrence Freedman over three decades, contributed to some of the innovations and new thinking. The chapter exposes the way in which the interaction of values and circumstances combine in a way that allows real differences to be made in the world.

scholarly journals Signalling the ‘Multi-Local’ University? The Place of the City in the Growth of London-Based Satellite Campuses, and the Implications for Social Stratification

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Brooks ◽  
Johanna Waters
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
International Student ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Almost All ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Around 2009 some UK universities (based outside of the capital) began to open ‘satellite campuses’ in London. There are currently 14 such campuses at present, which have been developed primarily with an international student market in mind. Concerns have been raised, however, about the quality of teaching on these campuses and the fact that student attainment is ostensibly falling significantly below that for the ‘home’ campus. This project is the first of its kind to investigate, systematically, the ways in which universities are representing themselves in relation to these campuses (data include an analysis of prospectuses, YouTube content, websites and material garnered at open days). Using these data, we discuss the role that the City of London plays as a pivotal backdrop to these developments: the way it serves to substitute and compensate for lower levels of resources provided directly to the student from the university (here we consider accommodation, the outsourcing of teaching, the absence of a substantive campus environment and a general lack of focus on ‘pedagogical’ matters in almost all marketing materials). Instead, the universities place London at the front and centre of attempts to ‘sell’ the campus to potential students. The paper makes some innovative conceptual links between work in migration studies on the role and function of global cities in attracting workers and the way in which the city operates in this case to attract international students. These campuses feed into debates around the increasing inequalities evidenced as a consequence of the internationalisation of higher education, even when such developments are ostensibly ‘domestic’.

scholarly journals THE BURDEN OF TAXATION ON SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN W. ARCHER
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Direct Taxation ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article seeks to establish the burden of direct taxation in the city of London in the sixteenth century. Previous discussions have been confined to the yield of parliamentary subsidies which cannot give a full picture because of the way responsibility for equipping military levies was increasingly devolved on to the locality. Estimates of the costs of the various additional military levies are therefore made. Innovations in parliamentary taxation enabled the crown to levy extraordinary sums in the 1540s, but they required a level of intervention by the privy council which Elizabeth's government was not prepared to make. The subsidy performed especially badly in London in the later sixteenth century. Local military rates compensated to some extent, but tax levels in real terms were very much lower in the 1590s than the 1540s. Nevertheless taxation was becoming increasingly regressive, which helps explain the greater level of complaint in the 1590s.

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