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How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa (2018)
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(2018). How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa. Environmental Science and Policy, 9 -15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.009

Promoting inclusive and sustainable economic and social development whilst simultaneously adapting to climate change impacts and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions – Climate Compatible Development (CCD) – requires coherent policy approaches that spa... Read More about How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa.

Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia (2018)
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(2018). Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia. Global Networks, 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12174

Migrants and their transnational families represent children on social networking sites, documenting child-rearing practices to enhance social mobility. This article identifies a new group of migrant children—those sent home to parents’ countries of... Read More about Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia.

Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times (2017)
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Corcoran. (2017). Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times

Civil society is regaining critical relevance after decades of attempts to suborn non-governmental organisations and more recent governmental manoeuvres in Western democracies to control activists and social advocates (Civicus, 2016:31-32). In this a... Read More about Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times.

What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture (2017)
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(2017). What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture. Restorative Justice, 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/20504721.2017.1392777

A close reading of EU Directive 2012/29/EU of 25 October 2012 (EU Member States to comply by 16 November 2015), ‘establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime’, may reveal that a particular image of victimho... Read More about What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture.

L. S. Klejn and R. G. Collingwood on History, Archaeology, and Detection (2017)
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(2017). L. S. Klejn and R. G. Collingwood on History, Archaeology, and Detection. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 391 - 407. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341381

Collingwood is well-known for noting, in The Idea of History, similarities between the work of the historian and the work of the detective. In this essay I argue that it is not the historian who is similar to the detective but rather the archaeologis... Read More about L. S. Klejn and R. G. Collingwood on History, Archaeology, and Detection.

(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and Ethics (2017)
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(2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and Ethics. Social Studies of Science, 918-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344

In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and Ethics.

Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism (2017)
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D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

he philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophic... Read More about Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism.

The Military and the State in Iran: The Economic Rise of the Revolutionary Guards (2017)
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Forozan, H., & Shahi, A. (2017). The Military and the State in Iran: The Economic Rise of the Revolutionary Guards. MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, 71(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.3751/71.1.14

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a multilayered political, ideological, and security institution that has steadily acquired an increasing role in Iran's economy in recent years. This article analyzes the growing economic and business i... Read More about The Military and the State in Iran: The Economic Rise of the Revolutionary Guards.

Improving postpartum care delivery and uptake by implementing context specific interventions in four countries in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project (2017)
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(2017). Improving postpartum care delivery and uptake by implementing context specific interventions in four countries in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project. BMJ Global Health, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000408

Postpartum care (PPC) has remained relatively neglected in many interventions designed to improve maternal and neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. The Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health project developed and implemented a context-s... Read More about Improving postpartum care delivery and uptake by implementing context specific interventions in four countries in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project.

Conscientious objection, professional duty and compromise: A response to Savulescu and Schuklenk (2017)
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Hughes. (2017). Conscientious objection, professional duty and compromise: A response to Savulescu and Schuklenk. Bioethics, 126-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12410

In a recent article in this journal, Savulescu and Schuklenk defend and extend their earlier arguments against a right to medical conscientious objection in response to criticisms raised by Cowley. I argue that while it would be preferable to be less... Read More about Conscientious objection, professional duty and compromise: A response to Savulescu and Schuklenk.

Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender (2017)
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Wells, H., & Savigar, L. (2019). Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19(2), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895817738555

Roads policing is the most likely generator of an adverse-outcome encounter between the general public and the police and is therefore one of the most likely situations in which individuals are confronted with their own ‘law-abidingness’, or lack of... Read More about Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender.

Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children (2017)
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(2017). Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children. Illness, Crisis and Loss, https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137317742235

Older people may experience considerable loss when they endure emotional or social loneliness. Emotional loneliness is related to the loss or absence of a confidant whilst social loneliness describes the discrepancy between the nature of one’s desire... Read More about Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children.

Overcoming ethical barriers to research with hidden social groups (2017)
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Machin, H., & Shardlow, S. M. (2017). Overcoming ethical barriers to research with hidden social groups. Research Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016117739938

Researchers engaged in studies about “hidden social groups” are likely to face several ethical challenges. Using a study with undocumented Chinese migrants in the UK, challenges involved in obtaining approval by a University Research Ethics Committee... Read More about Overcoming ethical barriers to research with hidden social groups.

Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution (2017)
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Howlett, J. (2018). Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution. British Journal of Educational Studies, 66(2), 278-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2017.1400286

Wales, as Philip Dixon in this engaging and occasionally waspish account makes clear, has long been regarded as the Ugly Sister. Too often, educational narratives claiming to represent the United Kingdom in reality have meant just ‘England’ with Wale... Read More about Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution.

Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

The philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophi... Read More about Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism.

Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction (2017)
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D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

The philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophi... Read More about Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction.

The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’? (2017)
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Hayes. (2017). The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?. Journal of Studies in International Education, 21(5), 483-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315317720768

Research on international students in British higher education points to marginalization of their unique perspectives in university classrooms. The aim of the article is to consider how the most recent policy changes, particularly the teaching excell... Read More about The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?.

Solitude in NYC (2017)
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Loewenthal, J. (2017). Solitude in NYC. North American Dialogue, 20(2), 31-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/nad.12061

Conducting an ethnography of university graduates in New York City, it has emerged that many lack a sense of group belonging. The relationship between individualism as a cultural trait, solitude as an aspect of social organization, and loneliness as... Read More about Solitude in NYC.

Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu (2017)
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(2017). Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu. Review of African Political Economy, 7 - 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2017.1367655

The article considers the historiography of labour and class studies in sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the contemporary ‘cultural turn’ in sociological studies of class. It identifies three phases: from the 1960s, a highly empiricist Marxist appro... Read More about Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu.