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Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu (2017)
Journal Article
(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.

Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminisms (2017)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, M. (2017). Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminisms. In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (595-606). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758152-48

The growth of writings on multiculturalism and postcolonialism over the past decades has produced new approaches to feminist philosophy associated with the "third wave". The term "multiculturalism" is deeply contested, and bears different sociologica... Read More about Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminisms.

From ‘NEET’ to ‘Unknown’: Who is responsible for young people not in education, employment or training? (2017)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2017). From ‘NEET’ to ‘Unknown’: Who is responsible for young people not in education, employment or training?. Youth and Policy,

Situating his discussion in its recent historical context, Liam Wrigley examines how young people labelled as ‘NEET’ have now become ‘unknown’ or ‘lost’, arguing that this is due to a lack of clear strategy concerning actors that have been responsibi... Read More about From ‘NEET’ to ‘Unknown’: Who is responsible for young people not in education, employment or training?.

How to Teach Health IT Evaluation: Recommendations for Health IT Evaluation Courses (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). How to Teach Health IT Evaluation: Recommendations for Health IT Evaluation Courses. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-808-2-3

Systematic health IT evaluation studies are needed to ensure system quality and safety and to provide the basis for evidence-based health informatics. Well-trained health informatics specialists are required to guarantee that health IT evaluation stu... Read More about How to Teach Health IT Evaluation: Recommendations for Health IT Evaluation Courses.

The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema (2017)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2017). The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1369686

In this article, I read the recent cinema of the Danish-American Director Nicolas Winding Refn through a contradictory complex of Freudian–Jungian psychoanalysis, Bataillean philosophy and Buddhist thought. By focusing on Winding Refn’s three most re... Read More about The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema.

A bone of contention: reflections on the experiences of mature learners in social work education (2017)
Journal Article
Machin. (2017). A bone of contention: reflections on the experiences of mature learners in social work education. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000013

Research has found that mature, female social work learners often face barriers to achievement in higher education due to the demands of managing practice placements and classroom learning around caring responsibilities (Lister, 2003). This paper, or... Read More about A bone of contention: reflections on the experiences of mature learners in social work education.

Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon (2017)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2018). Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon. History of Education, 47(3), 436-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2017.1356381

The subtitle of this work – the ‘noiseless revolution’ – comes from the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) who argued that many of the more fundamental cultural revolutions in taste, manners and mores were distant from the processes and... Read More about Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon.

Anne Conway on Time, the Trinity and Eschatology (2017)
Journal Article
Head. (2017). Anne Conway on Time, the Trinity and Eschatology. Philosophy and Theology, 277-295. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol201781480

This paper considers the conception of the Triune God, soteriology and eschatology in Anne Conway’s metaphysics. After outlining some of the key features of her thought, including her account of a timeless God who is nevertheless intimately present i... Read More about Anne Conway on Time, the Trinity and Eschatology.

Anne Conway and George Keith on the ‘Christ Within’ (2017)
Journal Article
Head. (2017). Anne Conway and George Keith on the ‘Christ Within’. Quaker Studies, 277-295. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol201781480

This paper explores the influence of early Quaker theology on the philosophy of Anne Conway, as presented in her The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690). We begin by exploring Conway’s rejection of the remnants of Cartesianism... Read More about Anne Conway and George Keith on the ‘Christ Within’.

Uncanny Objects and the Fear of the Familiar:Hiding from Akan Witches in New York City (2017)
Journal Article
Parish. (2017). Uncanny Objects and the Fear of the Familiar:Hiding from Akan Witches in New York City. Journal of Material Culture, 100-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517725100

This article examines the cosmology and secret practices of West African traditional priests in New York City in preventing the spread of witchcraft, an evil invisible spirit transmitted between female members of the Akan matrilineage. Explored is an... Read More about Uncanny Objects and the Fear of the Familiar:Hiding from Akan Witches in New York City.

Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City (2017)
Journal Article
Parish, J. (2017). Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City. Journal of Material Culture, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517725100

This article examines the cosmology and secret practices of West African traditional priests in New York City in preventing the spread of witchcraft, an evil invisible spirit transmitted between female members of the Akan matrilineage. Explored is an... Read More about Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City.

(De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research (2017)
Journal Article
Kearon, A., & Mahoney, I. (in press). (De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research. Research Ethics, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016117719050

This case study article draws upon experiences of a doctoral student (Mahoney) and supervisor (Kearon) to reflect on the way in which we construct ethical narratives around our research. We seek to draw attention to the manner in which strict adheren... Read More about (De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research.

Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending (2017)
Journal Article
Day, A.-M. (2017). Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending. Safer Communities, 122 - 133

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess the early findings of research which aims to hear the voice of looked after children about their pathways into offending and subsequent entry into the youth justice system, and the implications that thi... Read More about Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending.

Reply to Damian Veal (2017)
Journal Article
Tartaglia, J. (2017). Reply to Damian Veal

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