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Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt (2022)
Journal Article
George. (2022). Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt

“Hayah Karima” or “Decent Life” is a national initiative that aims to improve the quality of life and provide better services in rural and unplanned settlements in Egypt within the framework of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030.... Read More about Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt.

Linguistics and the explanatory economy (2021)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2021). Linguistics and the explanatory economy. Synthese, 177 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02290-x

I present a novel, collaborative, methodology for linguistics: what I call the ‘explanatory economy’. According to this picture, multiple models/theories are evaluated based on the extent to which they complement one another with respect to data cove... Read More about Linguistics and the explanatory economy.

Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1941820

Drawing on a mix-methods study comprised of an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, this article presents findings about the complexity and development in time of health service use by Polish migrants living in the United Kingdom. The... Read More about Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK.

Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2021). Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7888

This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR... Read More about Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales.

On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification (2020)
Journal Article
Mookherjee. (2020). On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification. Social Theory and Practice, 46(4), https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20201029105

Amid now extensive debates about cosmopolitanism in political theory, this article explores the implications of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory for issues in international justice, not least the dire situation of poverty in the world. In contrast w... Read More about On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification.

Psychoanalysing the 21st Century: Introduction (2020)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2020). Psychoanalysing the 21st Century: Introduction. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 403-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09714-9

The purpose of this introduction is to sketch out the value of psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century and in particular the ways in which analysis might enable us to move beyond the crisis of the post-Cold War symbolic order.

A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy (2019)
Journal Article
Hammond. (2019). A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy. Environmental Values, 28(1), 55-74. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15445433913578

In the debate around ecological democracy, a pivotal point of contention has long been the question why democracy should actually be expected, as some claim, to deliver (more) ecological outcomes. This point is empirical as well as conceptual: it is... Read More about A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy.

Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda. Policy Sciences, 49, 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-015-9238-5

The systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory has shifted the focus away from seeking to design separate, internally deliberative ‘mini-publics’ and towards a new appreciation of their external, systemic quality. Yet, so far, such accounts have... Read More about Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda.

Women, nature and the Kantian sublime: can a reconciliation be found?
Thesis
Kings, A. E. (2016). Women, nature and the Kantian sublime: can a reconciliation be found?

This thesis will investigate the relationship between Immanuel Kant, women and the natural world. Using mainly Kant’s third critique, The Critique of Judgement and his Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, I will seek to establish... Read More about Women, nature and the Kantian sublime: can a reconciliation be found?.

The performance of public industrial enterprises in Algeria an empirical study
Thesis
(1984). The performance of public industrial enterprises in Algeria an empirical study

The aim of this study is to assess the performance of the
Algerian public industrial sector and identify the reasons for its inefficiency. The study is based on an empirical analysis of six public industrial enterprises: SONIC (pulp and paper), SNMC... Read More about The performance of public industrial enterprises in Algeria an empirical study.

A no-arbitrage affine term-structure model with macroeconomic and market factors and its empirical applications to the UK bond markets
Thesis
Jayathilaka, U. S. S. (2016). A no-arbitrage affine term-structure model with macroeconomic and market factors and its empirical applications to the UK bond markets

This study describes the joint dynamics of the U.K. risk-free government bonds and risky corporate bond yields using a large set of macroeconomic and market variables. In this context, the thesis develops for the new understanding of the determinatio... Read More about A no-arbitrage affine term-structure model with macroeconomic and market factors and its empirical applications to the UK bond markets.