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The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures (2024)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2024). The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures. European Journal of Social Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310241234180

My key objective in this article is to explore the history of the concept of utopia and its application in really existing social, political, economic and cultural forms. Starting with a consideration of what I call the economy of utopia, I theorise... Read More about The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures.

Turkey: Swinging Pendulum Away from the European Union, 2005-2022 (2024)
Journal Article
Gökay, B. (in press). Turkey: Swinging Pendulum Away from the European Union, 2005-2022. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2024.2308963

The past 22 years in Turkey can be divided into two sub-periods: during the 2002–10 period, the first AKP era, the party was broadly positioned as a moderate Islamist party with a clear intent to revive the failing economy of the country. The Turkish... Read More about Turkey: Swinging Pendulum Away from the European Union, 2005-2022.

Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson (2024)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (in press). Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson. History of Education, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2023.2220309

This paper has as its focus the life and thinking of the educational theorist and schoolmaster J. H. Simpson (1883–1959), who was not only a reforming teacher at Rugby School but was also the first headmaster of the progressive Rendcomb College. His... Read More about Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson.

Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation (2024)
Journal Article
Hu, W. Z. (in press). Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931241229445

As a promising Social Science Methodology, Structural/Mechanism Explanation (SME) retains the advantages of mechanism-based explanation (ME), particularly its focus on “identifying causal patterns from micro-level social phenomena.” It also acknowled... Read More about Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation.

Assemblies and the Courts (2024)
Book Chapter
Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2024). Assemblies and the Courts. In The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.26

To what extent is the protest trial a threat or an opportunity to protesters? This chapter argues that it is both. Trials potentially provide a site of resistance and the means for ongoing struggle and contestation, while simultaneously threatening t... Read More about Assemblies and the Courts.

Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, J., & Robertson, S. L. (in press). Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2302829

In this paper we ask: what does ‘the idea’ of the Chinese university mean at the current time, especially when the sector has been shaped by endogenous and exogenous globalising dynamics? We explore this question, drawing on cultural political econom... Read More about Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China.

Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War (2024)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2024). Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War. Journal of Ethics, 28(1), 27–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-023-09467-0

Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate exodus of a speed and scale which we’ve never seen. While corporate withdrawal appears to have conside... Read More about Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War.