Outputs (8)

Distinctiveness of long-term pain that does not interfere with life: an observational cohort study. (2012)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Reporting of pain that does not interfere with life is common in the older population but little is known about people with such long-term non-interfering pain. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether non-interfering pain can be a long-term stat... Read More about Distinctiveness of long-term pain that does not interfere with life: an observational cohort study..

Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies (2012)
Journal Article

Technology plays an increasing role in policing and other aspects of the criminal justice process. This article will briefly outline the notion of a criminal justice ‘techno-fix’ as a potential attempt by criminal justice agencies to use technology a... Read More about Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies.

Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power (2012)
Journal Article

This paper introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The paper tracks the... Read More about Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power.

Religion, Public Policy, and the Academy: Brokering Public Faith in a Context of Ambivalence? (2012)
Journal Article

This article considers the growing range of religiously oriented policy demands on higher education institutions in the UK and the responses universities make to them. It sets this in the context of public anxiety and ambivalence about faith, taking... Read More about Religion, Public Policy, and the Academy: Brokering Public Faith in a Context of Ambivalence?.

Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics (2012)
Journal Article

Shi‘ite Messianism has been accommodated constitutionally and has been portrayed as an indispensable aspect of political culture under the Islamic Republic. If the state is using the concept as a form of legitimacy, the concept is standardized in acc... Read More about Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics.

The Road Less Travelled: Self-led Statebuilding and International ‘Non-Intervention' in the Creation of Somaliland (2012)
Book Chapter

Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective (2012)
Journal Article

This article compares the tactic of trashing genetically modified crops in activist campaigns in Britain and France. In Britain, most crop trashing was carried out covertly, while in France most activists undertook open, public actions. In seeking an... Read More about Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective.

Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy (2012)
Journal Article

Collingwood has failed to make a significant impact in the history of twentieth century philosophy either because he has been dismissed as a dusty old idealist committed to the very metaphysics the analytical school was trying to leave behind, or bec... Read More about Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy.