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‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee. (2016). ‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’. In Recognition and Global Politics: Critical encounters between state and world. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784993337.003.0003

This chapter critically assesses the ability of Nancy Fraser’s status model of recognition to foster an international, or ‘cosmopolitan’, feminist theory of recognition. Fraser’s tripartite account of recognition, redistribution and political represe... Read More about ‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’.

Rorty's Ambivalent Relationship with Kant (2016)
Journal Article
Tartaglia. (2016). Rorty's Ambivalent Relationship with Kant. Contemporary Pragmatism, 298-318. https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01303004

I argue that Kant is a key figure in understanding Rorty’s work, by drawing attention to the fact that although he is ostensibly the principal villain of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, at the end of that book Kant provides the basis of Rorty's... Read More about Rorty's Ambivalent Relationship with Kant.

Co-creation or collusion: The dark side of consumer narrative in qualitative health research. (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Co-creation or collusion: The dark side of consumer narrative in qualitative health research. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 251-269. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316662576

Health, mental health, and social care policy are dominated by the imperative of employing person-centered approaches. Such involvement of the “consumer” is generally claimed to provide a counter-narrative to the psychiatric and medical paradigm of i... Read More about Co-creation or collusion: The dark side of consumer narrative in qualitative health research..

The Devil is not in the Detail: Representational absence and Stereotyping in the Trojan Horse News Story (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Devil is not in the Detail: Representational absence and Stereotyping in the Trojan Horse News Story. Race Ethnicity and Education, 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1195350

Using Content Analysis, this study investigated the coverage of the Trojan Horse news story aiming to ascertain whether its representation by the British press emphasised ‘Islamist extremism’ over ‘poor school governance’. The sample coverage was ext... Read More about The Devil is not in the Detail: Representational absence and Stereotyping in the Trojan Horse News Story.

Why international students have been TEF-ed out? (2016)
Journal Article
Hayes. (2016). Why international students have been TEF-ed out?. Educational Review, 69(2), 218-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2016.1197183

he article offers a critical review of the developments in the proposals for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in the UK, focusing particularly on international students. The analysis points to the absence of views and discussions regarding the... Read More about Why international students have been TEF-ed out?.

Relational distressed and maternal absence: Young women's lived experience of familial breast cancer (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Relational distressed and maternal absence: Young women's lived experience of familial breast cancer. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 200-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316659419

Young women growing up within the context of familial breast cancer are faced with significant psychosocial challenges. The most profound of these are the temporary absence, and permanent loss, of their mothers. Eighteen young women (aged 18–34) from... Read More about Relational distressed and maternal absence: Young women's lived experience of familial breast cancer.

The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theatre-making: A Review (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theatre-making: A Review. The Gerontologist, e1-e26. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw093

Purpose of the Study: Although a number of existing reviews document the health and social benefits of arts participation by older people, there are none which focus specifically on theater and drama. This article presents the findings of a study co... Read More about The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theatre-making: A Review.

Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 176-195. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-24032091

This article examines the eu food industry (apropos of the 2013 ‘Horse Meat Scandal’) applying the notion of sociopathy which has hitherto been confined to analyses of corporate banking and insurance. In the ‘underground’ of the eu meat industry we e... Read More about Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry.

Age and Life Course Location as Interpretive Resources for Decisions Regarding Disclosure of HIV to Parents and Children: Findings from the HIV and Later Life Study (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Age and Life Course Location as Interpretive Resources for Decisions Regarding Disclosure of HIV to Parents and Children: Findings from the HIV and Later Life Study. Journal of Aging Studies, 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.06.001

Studies of disclosure among older people living with HIV (PLWH) are uninformed by critical social-gerontological approaches that can help us to appreciate how older PLWH see and treat age as relevant to disclosure of their HIV status. These approache... Read More about Age and Life Course Location as Interpretive Resources for Decisions Regarding Disclosure of HIV to Parents and Children: Findings from the HIV and Later Life Study.

The art of self-making: identity and citizenship education in late-modernity (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The art of self-making: identity and citizenship education in late-modernity. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 798-811. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1182006

Taking the English National Curriculum as its main example, this article argues that an overly nationalistic, normative and ‘fact-based’ citizenship education curriculum is failing to engage the dimensions of young people’s identities which they expe... Read More about The art of self-making: identity and citizenship education in late-modernity.

"Handing over our ethics?" Youth work conversations in times of austerity (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). "Handing over our ethics?" Youth work conversations in times of austerity. Ethics and Social Welfare, 369-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2016.1185795

This paper explores a sample of youth workers’ narratives in which ethical concerns over cuts to youth service funding was a prominent topic of conversation. It relies on data drawn from a qualitative inquiry into professional youth work practice tha... Read More about "Handing over our ethics?" Youth work conversations in times of austerity.

From privileged to thwarted stakeholders - Polish migrants' perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015 (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). From privileged to thwarted stakeholders - Polish migrants' perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015. Citizenship Studies, 899 - 913. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2016.1191430

Scotland in 2014 and 2015 provides an ideal context for examining EU citizenship political rights as established in the Maastricht Treaty of 1993 from the perspective of Polish migrants resident in Scotland. We argue that the contrast between Polish... Read More about From privileged to thwarted stakeholders - Polish migrants' perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015.

Aging and gay men (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Aging and gay men. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (61-66)