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The Cultural History of Magic (1920 -present day) (2025)
Book

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‘Perforated Nations’, Universities, and the Zonal Politics of Knowledge Production(forthcoming) (2024)
Book Chapter

On the Insurability of Cyberwarfare: An Investigation into the German Cyber Insurance Market (2024)
Journal Article

Insurance is an important part of a constellation of institutions that assist in the provision of security, resilience and welfare. This is true across a range of threats, including those in the cyber domain. Cyber risks, particularly those associate... Read More about On the Insurability of Cyberwarfare: An Investigation into the German Cyber Insurance Market.

Ethnophilosophy as a Global Development Goal (2024)
Journal Article

The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but I approach it in search of lessons about philosophy in general. I show how this ongoing debate has been obsc... Read More about Ethnophilosophy as a Global Development Goal.

Powers Persistence And Temporary Intrinsics (2024)
Journal Article

David Lewis uses the problem of temporary intrinsics to motivate a perdurantist account of persistence in which four-dimensional individuals consist of temporal parts. Other philosophers use his argument to conclude that apparently persisting indivi... Read More about Powers Persistence And Temporary Intrinsics.

Sustaining professionalism: Teachers as co‐enquirers in curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article

In England, the development of teachers' curriculum design capabilities has been identified as a ‘challenge remaining’ (Department for Education [DfE]. (2022). Opportunity for all: Strong schools with great teachers for your child. https://www.gov.uk... Read More about Sustaining professionalism: Teachers as co‐enquirers in curriculum design.

Book Review: Literacy in the lives of working-class adults in Australia: Dominant versus local voices by Stephen Black (2024)
Journal Article

The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures (2024)
Journal Article

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.

Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson (2024)
Journal Article

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.

Editorial: Narrating exile (2024)
Journal Article

Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation (2024)
Journal Article

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.

Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China (2024)
Journal Article

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)
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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.

The all‐consuming mess of leaving the EU (2023)
Journal Article

“It’s in the law”: An ethnographic account of the effects of the introduction of lay participation on judicial bureaucracies in Greater Buenos Aires (2023)
Journal Article

The province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) introduced its first criminal jury system in 2013. This article discusses the design and initial findings of an ethnographic research project looking at this legal innovation with particular attention to the e... Read More about “It’s in the law”: An ethnographic account of the effects of the introduction of lay participation on judicial bureaucracies in Greater Buenos Aires.

Free will and believing in determinism [English original] (2023)
Journal Article

Wolna wola a wiara w determinizm [polskie tłumaczenie] (2023)
Journal Article

The article addresses the issue of free will and determinism through a discussion of Newcomb’s paradox, presented as a dialogue between the spirits of Lady Luck and Fate. I argue that commitment to determinism, which is suggested by materialist metap... Read More about Wolna wola a wiara w determinizm [polskie tłumaczenie].

Free will and believing in determinism (2023)
Journal Article

The article addresses the issue of free will and determinism through a discussion of Newcomb’s paradox, presented as a dialogue between the spirits of Lady Luck and Fate. I argue that commitment to determinism, which is suggested by materialist metap... Read More about Free will and believing in determinism.

Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town (2023)
Journal Article

What kinds of ‘sensory configurations’ (Thomas, 2010), and moral orders, are created in places that are simultaneously formed and rendered marginal by infrastructures of hegemonic automobility? In this paper, we explore this question with reference t... Read More about Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town.

To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
Book Chapter

How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.