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Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea (2019)
Journal Article
Bueger, C., Edmunds, T., & Ryan, B. (2019). Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea. International Affairs, 95(5), 971-978. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz145

In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article ‘Beyond seablindness: a new agenda for maritime security studies’, published in this journal in No... Read More about Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea.

The Disciplined Sea: A History of Maritime Security and Zonation (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). The Disciplined Sea: A History of Maritime Security and Zonation. International Affairs, 95(5), 1055-1073. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz098

This article details the evolution of maritime security from the perspective of its impact on the historical architecture of sea space. It argues that, as the fundamental unit of governance, zoning provides keen insight into the mechanics of maritime... Read More about The Disciplined Sea: A History of Maritime Security and Zonation.

Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum. British Journal of Sociology, 1104-1127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12485

This article examines the narrative strategies through which Polish migrants in the UK challenge the formal rights of political membership and attempt to redefine the boundaries of ‘citizenship’ along notions of deservedness. The analysed qualitative... Read More about Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum.

Urban redevelopment, the new logics of expulsion, and individual precarity in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower (2019)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2019). Urban redevelopment, the new logics of expulsion, and individual precarity in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower. cultural geographies, 147447401987165 - 147447401987165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019871653

Drawing on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film Aquarius (2016) and Aravind Adiga’s novel Last Man in Tower (2011), this article is concerned with the impact on individuals and communities of forms of impersonal, systemic violence resulting from neoliberal a... Read More about Urban redevelopment, the new logics of expulsion, and individual precarity in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower.

How to (and not to) defend the manifest image (2019)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2019). How to (and not to) defend the manifest image. In Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315180854-7

Claims such as ‘there are no tables and chairs’ have become increasingly common in the philosophical context, and eliminativism is a fairly well-established position in contemporary debates in analytic metaphysics. Locating manifest properties requir... Read More about How to (and not to) defend the manifest image.

Teachers and multi-agency working: a study of secondary school teachers’ engagement with multi-agency work in the context of the Every Child Matters agenda (2019)
Thesis
Somerfield, R. (2019). Teachers and multi-agency working: a study of secondary school teachers’ engagement with multi-agency work in the context of the Every Child Matters agenda. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414421

This thesis seeks to uncover how teachers engage with multi-agency working within the context of the Every Child Matters agenda (DfES, 2003) and how this impacts on their sense of identity. To do this it provides an account of a qualitative study of... Read More about Teachers and multi-agency working: a study of secondary school teachers’ engagement with multi-agency work in the context of the Every Child Matters agenda.

Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility (2019)
Book Chapter
Loewenthal, J., & Broughton, J. (2019). Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility. In Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging (66-79). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203712412-6

This chapter presents findings from exploratory research with a group of adolescents from migrant backgrounds who have grown up in New York City. The main data source involves two group interviews staged around a large world map in which the youth di... Read More about Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility.

Assessing President Obama's Climate Change Record (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Assessing President Obama's Climate Change Record. Environmental Politics, 847-865. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1494967

This essay assesses President Obama’s climate change record by looking at his success in translating policy goals into policy outputs (laws or regulatory action) during his time in office. It begins by using Obama’s campaign speeches to identify spec... Read More about Assessing President Obama's Climate Change Record.

Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England (2019)
Journal Article
Catney. (2019). Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England. Town Planning Review, 339-358. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2019.24

Variations in the character, performance and impact of policies and practices to capture land value for the community are usually examined by analysing experience in different countries. Such international comparative research is cross-sectional and... Read More about Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England.

Diversification and internationalization in the sociological study of science and religion (2019)
Journal Article
Catto, R., H. Jones, S., Kaden, T., & Elsdon‐Baker, F. (2019). Diversification and internationalization in the sociological study of science and religion. Sociology Compass, 13(8), Article e12721. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12721

Classical sociology addressed the relationship between science and religion, but interest in the topic waned during the 20th century. A second wave of research has emerged in the 21st century, focusing on scientists' (ir)religiosity, evolution, and t... Read More about Diversification and internationalization in the sociological study of science and religion.

The dynamics of community participation: evidence from practice (2019)
Thesis
Mawomo, K. (2019). The dynamics of community participation: evidence from practice. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414217

This study investigated the dynamics of community participation (CP) manifest in participatory processes, both formal (‘invited’ or ‘induced’) and informal (‘created’ or ‘organic’), in two Tswana speaking rural communities in Botswana, namely Mogonye... Read More about The dynamics of community participation: evidence from practice.

The consciousness science paradox (2019)
Thesis
Balmer, A. L. (2019). The consciousness science paradox. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413842

This thesis argues that there are two claims we can persuasively make about consciousness. The first is that we should be able to identify consciousness through the sort of empirical observation characteristic of standard scientific practices. The se... Read More about The consciousness science paradox.

Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana (2019)
Thesis
Dery, L. G. (2019). Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413811

Despite evidence of widening geographical inequalities in maternal and child health (MCH) coverage and outcomes between the Upper West region (UWR) in the north and the Ashanti region (AR) and Greater Accra region (GAR) in southern Ghana, the relativ... Read More about Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana.

Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies (2019)
Thesis
Gerosideris, C. (2019). Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413816

This study establishes the stakeholders’ perceptions of environmental and energy security through the application of Q methodology in the case of Greece. It explains in detail the essentiality of including individual viewpoints and the opinions of ac... Read More about Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies.

‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2019)
Thesis
Mason, S. (2019). ‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413817

Today technical web standards have become one of the most important mechanisms of internet governance, impinging on a wide range of areas of public policy from privacy and to freedom of speech. Despite their importance, however, the processes through... Read More about ‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography (2019)
Thesis
Molesworth, S. K. (2019). Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413840

This inquiry considers the importance of tacit knowledge, and how it might be characterised in an NHS memory service and a local authority day-care and respite service for people with dementia. When investigating the sorts of knowledge that might be... Read More about Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography.