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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death (2018)
Journal Article
Parish. (2018). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death. Anthropology Today, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12414

This article is an ethnographic study of individuals self-diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in Liverpool, UK. While much research on OCD has concentrated upon superstitious belief, psychosis and anxiety provoking disorder, the articl... Read More about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death.

Commentary: Urban friendship: Towards an alternative anthropological genealogy (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Commentary: Urban friendship: Towards an alternative anthropological genealogy. Urban Studies, 662 - 674. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017738960

This commentary outlines an intellectual genealogy of urban friendship stretching from the 1950s to the present, which influenced my own work on friendship. It begins by tracing this developing theory grounded in a basic contrast between close-knit,... Read More about Commentary: Urban friendship: Towards an alternative anthropological genealogy.

Civil and social death: criminalisation and the loss of the self (2018)
Book Chapter
(2018). Civil and social death: criminalisation and the loss of the self. In Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System: Dying in Chains

In this chapter I offer an alternative perspective to the themes of ‘dying’, ‘loss’ and bereavement’ within criminal justice and explore the relationships which exist between social practices of punishment, and the status or positioning of former law... Read More about Civil and social death: criminalisation and the loss of the self.

The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity (2018)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2018). The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity. Political Quarterly, 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12461

This article draws on some findings from research which investigated penal voluntary sector adaptation to the mixed market in criminal justice services. The article firstly reprises the main trends for aligning state relationships with the voluntary... Read More about The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity.

Developments in American Politics 8 (Ed. J Herbert) (2018)
Book
Herbert, J. (2018). G. Peele, C. J. Bailey, J. Herbert, B. E. Cain, & B. Guy Peters (Eds.). Developments in American Politics 8 (Ed. J Herbert). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-352-00182-2

In this state-of-the-art textbook, a distinguished team of established experts and rising scholars discuss the legacy of the Obama years and the impact of the unexpected Trump presidential victory of 2016. Carrying on the tradition set by its predece... Read More about Developments in American Politics 8 (Ed. J Herbert).

The Touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events (2018)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2018). The Touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events. Philosophical Explorations, 160-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2017.1421697

It is the ambition of natural science to provide complete explanations of reality. Collingwood argues that science can only explain events, not actions. The latter is the distinctive subject matter of history and can be described as actions only if t... Read More about The Touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events.

Kant’s Critique Of Religion: Epistemic Sources Of Secularism (2018)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2018). Kant’s Critique Of Religion: Epistemic Sources Of Secularism. Diametros: A Journal of Philosophy, 7-29. https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.54.2017.1131

The secular interpretation of Kant is widespread and Kant is viewed as the most prestigious founding father of liberal secularism. At the same time, however, commentators note that Kant’s position on secularism is in fact much more complex, and some... Read More about Kant’s Critique Of Religion: Epistemic Sources Of Secularism.

Bereavement work in the criminal justice system. (2018)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2018). Bereavement work in the criminal justice system. In Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System

This chapter considers the false demarcation that operates in practice between the administration of criminal justice and the inadequacies in the system when faced with managing the personal elements of bereavement. From a criminological vantage poin... Read More about Bereavement work in the criminal justice system..

Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia (2018)
Journal Article
(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.

How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa (2018)
Journal Article
(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.