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Rational and Natural Theology in Anne Conway’s Principia (2021)
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Head. (2021). Rational and Natural Theology in Anne Conway’s Principia. Scottish Journal of Theology, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930621000041

This paper gives an account of the religious epistemology and theological working methods used in Anne Conway’s Principia Philosophiae antiquissimae et recentissimae (1690). It is argued that the epistemic foundations of Conway’s philosophical theolo... Read More about Rational and Natural Theology in Anne Conway’s Principia.

Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales (2021)
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Corcoran. (2021). Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7888

This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR... Read More about Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales.

Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales (2021)
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Corcoran. (2021). Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7888

This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR... Read More about Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales.

China goes green: coercive environmentalism for a troubled planet: by Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2020, vii + 240 pp., index. $64.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781509543113; $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781509543120 (2021)
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Wang-Kaeding, H. (2021). China goes green: coercive environmentalism for a troubled planet: by Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2020, vii + 240 pp., index. $64.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781509543113; $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781509543120. Environmental Politics, 30(4), 678-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1865738

Tailored communication methods as key to implementation of evidence-based solutions in primary child health care (2020)
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(2020). Tailored communication methods as key to implementation of evidence-based solutions in primary child health care. European Journal of Public Health, 92-99. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa234

BACKGROUND: Evidence-based policies should underpin successful implementation of innovations within child health care. The EU-funded Models of Child Health Appraised project enabled research into effective methods to communicate research evidence. Th... Read More about Tailored communication methods as key to implementation of evidence-based solutions in primary child health care.

Roundtable - John Herbert, Trevor McCrisken, and Andrew Wroe, The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £22.99, $29.99). Pp. 222. isbn 978 3 0300 4942 3 (2020)
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HARRINGTON, C., ASHBEE, E., ANGELO, N., HERBERT, J., MCCRISKEN, T., & WROE, A. (2020). Roundtable - John Herbert, Trevor McCrisken, and Andrew Wroe, The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £22.99, $29.99). Pp. 222. isbn 978 3 0300 4942 3. Journal of American Studies, 54(5), 1032-1048. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875820001103

Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15 (2020)
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Doherty. (2020). Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15. Sociology, 561-581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520954318

We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charge... Read More about Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15.

On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification (2020)
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Mookherjee. (2020). On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification. Social Theory and Practice, 46(4), https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20201029105

Amid now extensive debates about cosmopolitanism in political theory, this article explores the implications of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory for issues in international justice, not least the dire situation of poverty in the world. In contrast w... Read More about On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification.

Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance (2020)
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Corcoran. (2020). Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance. Theoretical Criminology, 651-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618819796

The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the establ... Read More about Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance.

The promised spring: death and neoliberalism in Iraq (2020)
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GÖKAY, B., & HAMOURTZIADOU, L. (2020). The promised spring: death and neoliberalism in Iraq. Security Dialogues, 45-60. https://doi.org/10.47054/sd2010045g

Globalisation and modernisation were expected to transform the Middle East, by ending regional conflicts and spreading democracy, freedom, prosperity and peace. However, the oil reserves of the Gulf have been the main stake in Western policies that l... Read More about The promised spring: death and neoliberalism in Iraq.

In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses (2020)
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Amietta. (2020). In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses. Social and Legal Studies, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920957378

<jats:p> Most sociolegal research on juries and other forms of lay participation in criminal justice has been limited to questions of how lay people make decisions. This article proposes expanding this focus through a conceptually and methodologicall... Read More about In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses.

Democratic Deliberation for Sustainability Transformations: Between Constructiveness and Disruption (2020)
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Hammond. (2020). Democratic Deliberation for Sustainability Transformations: Between Constructiveness and Disruption. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1814588

The discourse on sustainability transformations moves beyond accommodationist, reformist framings of sustainability to imply a radical, systemic shift toward new sustainable trajectories. While democracy has been accorded a central role in sustainabi... Read More about Democratic Deliberation for Sustainability Transformations: Between Constructiveness and Disruption.

The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility (2020)
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(2020). The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1804836

Transnational distinction is highly relevant in an age when western degree inflation intersects with harsh gender expectations for Chinese women student migrants, a significant group of players in the scene of UK higher education. Drawing on particip... Read More about The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility.