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The social practice of silence in intercultural classrooms at a UK university (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Moskal, M., & Schweisfurth, M. (2022). The social practice of silence in intercultural classrooms at a UK university. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(4), 600-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1798215

The paper offers an examination of the dynamics between silence, agency and power for students and instructors in intercultural classrooms at a UK university. Silent students are often stereotyped as passive learners or incompetent in critical thinki... Read More about The social practice of silence in intercultural classrooms at a UK university.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female (2020)
Book Chapter
King, S. (2020). Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female. In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (287-302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_23

King’s chapter begins by describing the historical context of ‘premenstrual’ symptoms, which were first formally described in 1931. She then questions the prioritization of mood-based symptoms in the diagnostic criteria for Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS... Read More about Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female.

A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile. CUSP Working Paper No 25. (2020)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2020). A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile. CUSP Working Paper No 25

Compiled by academics at three UK universities, this report presents a profile of participants in Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) mass civil disobedience actions in London in April and October 2019. The report is compiled from three datasets: a protest s... Read More about A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile. CUSP Working Paper No 25..

Use of home-based records for children in the countries of the WHO European Region (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Use of home-based records for children in the countries of the WHO European Region

A home-based record (HBR) system has long been promoted by WHO as an effective tool for child health. The record contents, design and operation are unique to each individual country. This report compares the contents and processes for HBR use in all... Read More about Use of home-based records for children in the countries of the WHO European Region.

Introduction: marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice - an overview (2020)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2020). Introduction: marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice - an overview. In Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv138wr8f.7

Conclusion: what has been learned? (2020)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2020). Conclusion: what has been learned?. In https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv138wr8f (325-330)

Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children (2020)
Journal Article
Head. (2020). Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1776594

This paper makes a contribution to the developing field of the political economy of educational technology and to an understanding of the significance of digital technologies for home-school relations. The digitalisation of social life is increasing... Read More about Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children.

The impact of the governance of health insurance companies on patient satisfaction with hospitals in Saudi Arabia (2020)
Thesis
Alzahrani, A. H. (2020). The impact of the governance of health insurance companies on patient satisfaction with hospitals in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). Keele University

The aim of this research study is to investigate the impact of corporate-governance-related practices on the effectiveness of health insurance companies, and in turn, their impact upon the performance of hospitals as measured by patients’ satisfactio... Read More about The impact of the governance of health insurance companies on patient satisfaction with hospitals in Saudi Arabia.

The approach of the African National Congress to dealing with participatory spaces in post-apartheid South African local government (2020)
Thesis
Zantsi, L. K. (2020). The approach of the African National Congress to dealing with participatory spaces in post-apartheid South African local government. (Thesis). Keele University

This dissertation is an assessment of the African National Congress’s (ANC) approach to local participatory governance in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines public participation policies and the extent to which they have been implemented and se... Read More about The approach of the African National Congress to dealing with participatory spaces in post-apartheid South African local government.

Two pillars of US global hegemony: Middle Eastern oil and the petrodollar (2020)
Book Chapter
Gökay, B. (2020). Two pillars of US global hegemony: Middle Eastern oil and the petrodollar. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_334-1

What science means to me: Understanding personal identification with (evolutionary) science using the sociology of (non)religion (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, S. H., Elsdon-Baker, F., Catto, R., & Kaden, T. (2020). What science means to me: Understanding personal identification with (evolutionary) science using the sociology of (non)religion. Public Understanding of Science, 29(6), 579-596. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520923110

Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox (2020)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2020). Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox. In The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy (7-28). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654639-002

‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism (2020)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2020). ‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 451-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09717-6

How could we understand the emotive power of national-populist discourses, indeed the calls to ‘make our country great again’? This paper directly tackles the recent Brexit discourse, within the broader context of rising national-populist sentiments.... Read More about ‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism.

Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2991

This article gives key reasons for the UK's tardy and confused attempts to react to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explains very poor outcomes in the UK (in terms of the spread of the virus and high mortality, already striking at the time of writing), in... Read More about Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19..

Towards a Bureaucracy of the Body (2020)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2020). Towards a Bureaucracy of the Body. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 97-113. https://doi.org/10.3898/Newf%3A100-101.07.2020

The objective of this article is to explore the evolution of what Beatrice Hibou calls the bureaucratisation of the world through a cultural history of the idea of bureaucracy in the western canon, taking in readings of Max Weber, Franz Kafka, Hannah... Read More about Towards a Bureaucracy of the Body.

Time-temperature profiles and Listeria monocytogenes presence in refrigerators from households with vulnerable consumers (2020)
Journal Article
Dumitrascu, L., Nicolau, A. I., Neagu, C., Didier, P., Maitre, I., Nguyen-The, C., …Borda, D. (2020). Time-temperature profiles and Listeria monocytogenes presence in refrigerators from households with vulnerable consumers. Food Control, 111, Article ARTN 107078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.107078

A transdisciplinary observational study, coupled with a web-based survey, was conducted to investigate refrigerated storage of food, in five European countries. The investigated consumer groups in this study were: young families with small children a... Read More about Time-temperature profiles and Listeria monocytogenes presence in refrigerators from households with vulnerable consumers.

Moving global horizons: Imagining selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Moving global horizons: Imagining selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research. Culture and Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X20922141

This article explores imagined selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnography. Globalisation allows people with varying socio-economic and geographical backgrounds to imagine themselves with more possibilities. How can cre... Read More about Moving global horizons: Imagining selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research.

Navigating the unequal education space in post-9/11 England: British Muslim girls talk about their educational aspirations and future expectations (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Navigating the unequal education space in post-9/11 England: British Muslim girls talk about their educational aspirations and future expectations. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1769604

This paper explores educational inequalities through an analysis of the educational aspirations and future expectations of British girls and young women who identify as Muslim. It draws on qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with teen... Read More about Navigating the unequal education space in post-9/11 England: British Muslim girls talk about their educational aspirations and future expectations.

Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential (2020)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2020). Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential. In Educational Ills and the (Im)possibility of Utopia (26-38). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025849-4

My objective in this paper is to write a pharmacology of the university by thinking about its relationship to systemic stupidity, intelligence, and the possibility of becoming. Starting with an exploration of the contemporary dystopia of drive-based... Read More about Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential.

Apocalypse Now!: From Freud, Through Lacan, to Stiegler’s Psychoanalytic ‘Survival Project (2020)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2020). Apocalypse Now!: From Freud, Through Lacan, to Stiegler’s Psychoanalytic ‘Survival Project. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09715-8

The objective of this article is to explore the value of psychoanalysis in the early twenty-first century through reference to Freud, Lacan, and Stiegler’s work on computational madness. In the first section of the article I consider the original obj... Read More about Apocalypse Now!: From Freud, Through Lacan, to Stiegler’s Psychoanalytic ‘Survival Project.