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Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences. Party Politics, 731-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817697630

This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties' policy preferences in the relatively new, cross-sectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six countries, comparing the prefer... Read More about Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences.

Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context: A Bourdieusian analysis of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context: A Bourdieusian analysis of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong. Sociological Review, 1128-1144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026117732669

This paper contributes to the updating of Bourdieusian sociology by proposing the notion of ‘transborder habitus’, a necessary extension of ‘habitus’ in a transborder context. ‘Transborder contexts’ refer to spaces that belong politically to the same... Read More about Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context: A Bourdieusian analysis of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong.

In the Zone of Pure Potential: Luciferian Speculations of the Age of Light (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). In the Zone of Pure Potential: Luciferian Speculations of the Age of Light. Cultural Politics, 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7093338

In 1970 the Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist Jan Hendrik van den Berg announced the end of classical psychoanalysis. In an age without taboos, the mere idea no longer made sense to van den Berg. In the same year Mark Rothko’s stark Chapel in Housto... Read More about In the Zone of Pure Potential: Luciferian Speculations of the Age of Light.

Depth in 21st Century Cells?: European Salafi Jihadi Terrorism and Psychoanalysis in the Luciferian Age (2018)
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(2018). Depth in 21st Century Cells?: European Salafi Jihadi Terrorism and Psychoanalysis in the Luciferian Age. New Criminal Law Review, 592-614. https://doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2018.21.4.592

The psychoanalytic interpretation of Salafi jihadism and terrorism, or the application of psychoanalytic categories to said issues, are not very common. Indeed the mobilisation of psychoanalysis in this context very often prompts accusations of orien... Read More about Depth in 21st Century Cells?: European Salafi Jihadi Terrorism and Psychoanalysis in the Luciferian Age.

An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946). Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 909-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2018.1519244

Before the Second World War it was a cardinal Commonwealth principle that intra-imperial disputes must be kept away from international fora. Yet in 1946 the not-yet-independent India complained to the United Nations about South African legislation di... Read More about An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946).

An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946). Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 909-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2018.1519244

Before the Second World War it was a cardinal Commonwealth principle that intra-imperial disputes must be kept away from international fora. Yet in 1946 the not-yet-independent India complained to the United Nations about South African legislation di... Read More about An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946).

Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities. International Review of Education, 598-627. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3139

The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations, with China and East Asia becoming key players in higher education. As China’s economic power and strateg... Read More about Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities.

Dignity, Law and Value: Enriching Sensen's Strong Priority Account (2018)
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Baiasu. (2018). Dignity, Law and Value: Enriching Sensen's Strong Priority Account. Studi Kantiani, 155-166. https://doi.org/10.19272/201802901008

According to Oliver Sensen’s book, Kant on Human Dignity, the notion of dignity which can be found in the Kantian corpus is fundamentally different from the notion that gains currency in politics-related contexts today, namely, dignity as a value inh... Read More about Dignity, Law and Value: Enriching Sensen's Strong Priority Account.

The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism: Global Power-Shift (2018)
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Fouskas, V. K., & Gökay, B. (2018). The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism: Global Power-Shift. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96818-6

This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the tran... Read More about The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism: Global Power-Shift.

Undergraduate Research, Learning Gain and Equity: The Impact of Final Year Research Projects (2018)
Journal Article
Parker. (2018). Undergraduate Research, Learning Gain and Equity: The Impact of Final Year Research Projects. Higher Education Pedagogies, 3(1), 145-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1425097

This study evaluates the impact of undergraduate research on student achievement. It analyses graduating students from 2011 to 2016 at a UK university that requires a research project comprising 25% of final-year credits in most subjects, providing a... Read More about Undergraduate Research, Learning Gain and Equity: The Impact of Final Year Research Projects.

Mind the gap: sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory (2018)
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(2018). Mind the gap: sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory. Probation Journal, 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518776773

This article discusses the relationships and tensions between the sentencing, statutory supervision and legal rehabilitation of lawbreakers under UK legislation. It does so with reference to both the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, which allows... Read More about Mind the gap: sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory.

The new informational paradigm: Developing practice led approaches to the use of mobile ICT in social work (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). The new informational paradigm: Developing practice led approaches to the use of mobile ICT in social work. British Journal of Social Work, 1791-1809. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx124

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has profound impacts on society as people integrate technology into their lives. Social work is similarly influenced by ICT as workplaces, individual practitioners and clients adopt new forms of technolo... Read More about The new informational paradigm: Developing practice led approaches to the use of mobile ICT in social work.

Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision. (2018)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2018). Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 112-119. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad739

Background: There is very little research into the way that offender management strategies impinge on the practices and decision-making of palliative care personnel in community settings. Aims: To improve understanding of the challenges that com... Read More about Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision..

Mega/City/Crime. Notes on the Cultural Significance of Reggio's' Koyaanisqatsi' (1982) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Mega/City/Crime. Notes on the Cultural Significance of Reggio's' Koyaanisqatsi' (1982). International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-018-9581-x

In his “non-narrative” film Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for 'life in imbalance') Godfrey Reggio documents the ecologically disastrous 'imbalanced' life in modern, industrialised mega-cities. In the film, he seems to mourn the loss of what he suggests was a m... Read More about Mega/City/Crime. Notes on the Cultural Significance of Reggio's' Koyaanisqatsi' (1982).

“Liberating the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’: A model for a new TEF metric, internationalisation and democracy” (2018)
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Hayes, A., & Cheng, J. (2018). “Liberating the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’: A model for a new TEF metric, internationalisation and democracy”. Educational Review, 72(3), 346-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2018.1505713

The paper proposes a statistical model for a TEF metric that could liberate the “oppressed” (international students) and the “oppressors” (home students) from the influence of public policies which, through constructions of international students as... Read More about “Liberating the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’: A model for a new TEF metric, internationalisation and democracy”.

Kind Behaving Badly: Intentional Action and Interactive Kinds (2018)
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Allen. (2018). Kind Behaving Badly: Intentional Action and Interactive Kinds. Synthese, 2927-2956. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1870-0

This paper investigates interactive kinds, a class of kinds suggested by Ian Hacking for which classification generates a feedback loop between the classifiers and what is classified, and argues that human interactive kinds should be distinguished fr... Read More about Kind Behaving Badly: Intentional Action and Interactive Kinds.

ECO-SECTARIANISM: FROM ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN SYRIA (2018)
Journal Article
Shahi, A., & Vachkova, M. (2018). ECO-SECTARIANISM: FROM ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN SYRIA. Asian Affairs, 49(3), 449-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2018.1487697

This study introduces ‘eco-sectarianism’, which is a new concept that explains the relationship between sectarian violence and environmental pressures in divided societies in the Middle East. Against the backdrop of climate change, ‘eco-sectarianism’... Read More about ECO-SECTARIANISM: FROM ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN SYRIA.