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Teaching cyber security to non-tech students (2019)
Journal Article
Arora, B. (2019). Teaching cyber security to non-tech students. Politics, 39(2), 252 - 265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395718760960

<jats:p> The majority of cyber security education and training has been based in computer science departments, but we are now seeing the agenda filtering into the political science and international studies curriculum. There exists a challenge in pre... Read More about Teaching cyber security to non-tech students.

Problem-oriented policing of transnational environmental crimes: a social harms approach (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Problem-oriented policing of transnational environmental crimes: a social harms approach. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 145-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2018.1515093

Since the publication of Herman Goldstein’s seminal article on Problem-oriented Policing (POP) in 1979, criminologists have attempted to apply its proactive methodology, with a large body of police work concentrating on how operational policing can b... Read More about Problem-oriented policing of transnational environmental crimes: a social harms approach.

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support: Challenges for Evaluating AI and Practical Implications (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support: Challenges for Evaluating AI and Practical Implications. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677903

OBJECTIVES
This paper draws attention to: i) key considerations for evaluating artificial intelligence (AI) enabled clinical decision support; and ii) challenges and practical implications of AI design, development, selection, use, and ongoing surve... Read More about Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support: Challenges for Evaluating AI and Practical Implications.

Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights. The International Journal of Human Rights, 23(4), 476-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1161211

The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis of police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing, and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the p... Read More about Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights.

The globalization of neoliberal violence and its implications for International Criminal justice in Africa (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The globalization of neoliberal violence and its implications for International Criminal justice in Africa

The article critically engages with the logics of neoliberal economics, not only as a specific form of violence, but also one whose toxic mix with the nature of the post-colonial African state neutralizes any revolutionary effort to redress rampant i... Read More about The globalization of neoliberal violence and its implications for International Criminal justice in Africa.

Regional solidarity undermined?: Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time (2019)
Journal Article
Hayes. (2019). Regional solidarity undermined?: Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time. Comparative Education, 55(2), 157-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2018.1504884

The paper theorises fragility of regional solidarities in light of the emerging ways in which two Arabian Gulf states, Bahrain and Oman, are undertaking their transition to a knowledge economy. The paper shows ways in which regional symbolic solidar... Read More about Regional solidarity undermined?: Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time.

Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance. International Political Sociology, 13(2), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olz003

We most commonly encounter the word defiance when used as an adverb to classify a peculiarly courageous or risky act of resistance. However, the use of the word defiance in this way is a departure from the historical meaning of the word. Moreover, it... Read More about Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance.

State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England. Geoforum, 21 -31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.006

This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisat... Read More about State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England.

Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries. Ecological Economics, 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.020

This paper uses a critical framework integrating Capability, Feminist and Critical Pedagogic theories to challenge the reductive focus within sustainability discourses on the physical environment, and education's typical 'development' focus on econom... Read More about Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries.

Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation (2019)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2019). Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation. Probation Journal, 96 - 112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518820118

This article explores the experience of voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) in the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) experiment. It identifies the motivations, expectations, rationalities and experiences of voluntary sector participants, drawing on... Read More about Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation.

Abundance in the Anthropocene (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Abundance in the Anthropocene. Sociological Review, 357-373

Numerous attempts have been made to understand the Anthropocene in relation to overwhelming species and habitat loss. However, amidst these losses ecological niches have emerged and been taken as signs of resilience and hope: from mushrooms that flou... Read More about Abundance in the Anthropocene.

Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential (2019)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2019). Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51(3), 297-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1477044

My objective in this paper is to write a pharmacology of the university by thinking about its relationship to systemic stupidity, intelligence, and the possibility of becoming. Starting with an exploration of the contemporary dystopia of drive-based... Read More about Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential.

Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering (2019)
Journal Article
Millie, A., & Wells, H. (2019). Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering. Policing and Society, 29(4), 371-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1584624

Research on policing has tended to focus on paid and warranted officers, often overlooking the large and, in many jurisdictions, expanding army of volunteers working with or for the police. Where there has been research on police volunteering this ha... Read More about Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering.

Red capital in Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Wang-Kaeding, H., & Kaeding, M. P. (2019). Red capital in Hong Kong. Asian Education and Development Studies, 8(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeds-02-2018-0032

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to recount the scale, composition and agents of red capital in Hong Kong; second, to conceptualise the peculiarity of red capital; and third, to explore the impact of red capital on the politica... Read More about Red capital in Hong Kong.

A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy (2019)
Journal Article
Hammond. (2019). A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy. Environmental Values, 28(1), 55-74. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15445433913578

In the debate around ecological democracy, a pivotal point of contention has long been the question why democracy should actually be expected, as some claim, to deliver (more) ecological outcomes. This point is empirical as well as conceptual: it is... Read More about A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy.

DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (2019)
Journal Article
Shahi, A. (2019). DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. Asian Affairs, 50(1), 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1567100

Approximately 97% of the country is experiencing drought conditions. Due to gross water mismanagement and its damaging impact on the country, Iran faces the worst situation in water resources of any industrialized nation. Tens of thousands of village... Read More about DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.