Outputs (1155)

Mediating hegemony through political humour: A discourse analysis of Spring Festival Gala sketches in China (2023)
Journal Article

What does humour do to us and our relationship with the society? This article examines political humour in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and asks how hegemony is mediated through political humour in China. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) of... Read More about Mediating hegemony through political humour: A discourse analysis of Spring Festival Gala sketches in China.

EU Climate and Energy Security after 24 February 2022 (2023)
Journal Article

Before 2022, EU conceptions of climate and energy security had begun to converge in a 'virtuous synergy' that supported the Union's continuing attempts at international climate policy leadership. This paper argues that the more orthodox military secu... Read More about EU Climate and Energy Security after 24 February 2022.

Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes (2023)
Book Chapter

There is a tension at the heart of much contemporary work in philosophy of psychology—specifically, within representational theories of mind. On the one hand, the central insight of this tradition is that mental and behavioral processes are understoo... Read More about Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes.

Counselling and Psychotherapy as a Career for Anthropology Graduates (2023)
Digital Artefact

What is the problem represented to be in China's world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis (2023)
Journal Article

Between pragmatism and ideology: role-conflict management in Turkey’s foreign policy towards Israel under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), 2002-2022 (2023)
Thesis

The opposed tendencies in Turkey’s foreign policy—shifting between pragmatism and ideology—have become an issue of debate in both political and academic circles ever since the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, or AKP) came to... Read More about Between pragmatism and ideology: role-conflict management in Turkey’s foreign policy towards Israel under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), 2002-2022.

Conscious robots: what happens when a philosophical confusion becomes a societal reality? (2023)
Thesis

This thesis is an investigation into philosophical issues surrounding the production of human-like robots. I will argue that there is no reason to think conscious robots will ever be built, but that supposedly conscious robots that are able to emulat... Read More about Conscious robots: what happens when a philosophical confusion becomes a societal reality?.

A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England (2023)
Thesis

Professional practice knowledge for beginning teachers involves grappling with the extent to which ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ should be evident during initial teacher education courses. The end point assessment tool for such programmes in England is tha... Read More about A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England.

Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study (2023)
Thesis

The aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between hope and local food growing projects within a sustainability context. Hope has often been overlooked or dismissed as naïve in sociological and political discourse, while interstitial polit... Read More about Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study.

Gender mainstreaming in Sri Lanka, 1978-2015 (2023)
Thesis

Gender mainstreaming has been the most “modern” policy approach to gender equality, over the globe. It is also served as a policy strategy to ensure equality for women in society. Sri Lanka is seriously pondering into uplifting gender mainstreaming s... Read More about Gender mainstreaming in Sri Lanka, 1978-2015.