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Politics en Vogue: an exploration of entanglements of US consumer capitalism, feminisms, and environmental concerns (2024)
Thesis
Dawson, C. S. (2024). Politics en Vogue: an exploration of entanglements of US consumer capitalism, feminisms, and environmental concerns. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/853316

An entanglement, a lack of self-contained existence, between feminism and neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s in popular media and consumer culture. Since, feminist scholars have attempted to describe and explain postfeminism. Postfeminism emphasises... Read More about Politics en Vogue: an exploration of entanglements of US consumer capitalism, feminisms, and environmental concerns.

Sustainable integration: an ethnographic study of a British Muslim community in Birmingham (2022)
Thesis
Elsayed, S. (2022). Sustainable integration: an ethnographic study of a British Muslim community in Birmingham. (Thesis). Keele University

Drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken in an area of Birmingham, this thesis investigates meanings and understandings of integration in a community deemed nonintegrated, namely the Muslim community. Exploring real-world stories and mundane exp... Read More about Sustainable integration: an ethnographic study of a British Muslim community in Birmingham.

‘Social worker’ perceptions of organisational and professional changes to their work in Canada, England and South Africa (2021)
Thesis
Spolander, G. C. (2021). ‘Social worker’ perceptions of organisational and professional changes to their work in Canada, England and South Africa. (Thesis). Keele University

Growing global inequality, austerity and retrogressive social policy (Basu et al., 2017) provide the context for social work practice. The profession is committed to empowering people and addressing social justice, inequality and social cohesion but... Read More about ‘Social worker’ perceptions of organisational and professional changes to their work in Canada, England and South Africa.

Rational and Natural Theology in Anne Conway’s Principia (2021)
Journal Article
Head. (2021). Rational and Natural Theology in Anne Conway’s Principia. Scottish Journal of Theology, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930621000041

This paper gives an account of the religious epistemology and theological working methods used in Anne Conway’s Principia Philosophiae antiquissimae et recentissimae (1690). It is argued that the epistemic foundations of Conway’s philosophical theolo... Read More about Rational and Natural Theology in Anne Conway’s Principia.

Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15 (2020)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2020). Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15. Sociology, 561-581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520954318

We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charge... Read More about Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15.

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.

Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’ (2020)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2020). Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’. Journal of Classical Sociology, 21(2), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X20915667

Given the recent non-human turn in sociology and the social sciences, the popularity of theories of entanglement, and contemporary concern with the concept of the anthropocene, it is easy to forget that classical sociology was always-already aware of... Read More about Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’.

Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities (2019)
Book Chapter
Martens. (2019). Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities. In What is Food?: Researching a topic with many meanings (11-30)

In 2015 and 2016, we took what is a rare opportunity in the social sciences to re-visit the study ‘Eating Out’, which was first conducted in 1995 (Warde and Martens, 2000). This study explored from the point of view of diners the increasingly popular... Read More about Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities.

Fragmentation, demonisation and breakdown : an exploration of how neoliberalism and the recession have affected older people's lives in Stoke-on-Trent (2019)
Thesis
Jones, A. L. (2019). Fragmentation, demonisation and breakdown : an exploration of how neoliberalism and the recession have affected older people's lives in Stoke-on-Trent. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413778

Whilst there has been an academic ‘obsess[ion]’ with the topics of neoliberalism and the recession, there remains a significant gap in sociological and gerontological literature concerning how these macro forces have impacted upon real people, specif... Read More about Fragmentation, demonisation and breakdown : an exploration of how neoliberalism and the recession have affected older people's lives in Stoke-on-Trent.

Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Debt (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone. (2019). Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Debt. In The sociology of debt (1-26)

This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.

Ecologies of Indebtedness (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone. (2019). Ecologies of Indebtedness. In The sociology of debt

This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.

Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential (2019)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2019). Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51(3), 297-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1477044

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.

Tactics and Strategic Action (2018)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2018). Tactics and Strategic Action. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2nd edition (271 -288)

We discuss ongoing debates over tactical choice and change, from Tilly's action repertoires model and protest event analysis to more recent actor-centred approaches stressing the importance of identity and taste. We argue that while contentious polit... Read More about Tactics and Strategic Action.

Mega/City/Crime. Notes on the Cultural Significance of Reggio's' Koyaanisqatsi' (1982) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Mega/City/Crime. Notes on the Cultural Significance of Reggio's' Koyaanisqatsi' (1982). International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-018-9581-x

In his “non-narrative” film Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for 'life in imbalance') Godfrey Reggio documents the ecologically disastrous 'imbalanced' life in modern, industrialised mega-cities. In the film, he seems to mourn the loss of what he suggests was a m... Read More about Mega/City/Crime. Notes on the Cultural Significance of Reggio's' Koyaanisqatsi' (1982).

Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector. Geography Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12378

The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a con... Read More about Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector.

Political habitus in cross-border student migration: A longitudinal study of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and beyond (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Political habitus in cross-border student migration: A longitudinal study of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and beyond. International Studies in Sociology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1415768

This paper contributes to the understanding of how shifting time, space and subject positions can impact on the political habitus of border-crossing students. Employing in-depth interview data from a longitudinal project involving 31 mainland Chinese... Read More about Political habitus in cross-border student migration: A longitudinal study of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and beyond.

Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent (2018)
Journal Article
Kearon, T., & Mahoney, I. (2018). Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent. International Journal of Social Quality, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3167/IJSQ.2018.080102

In this article, we seek to provide a social quality–led analysis of some of the conditions that led to the UK population’s collective decision to leave the European Union in June 2016. We draw on interview data collected between 2010 and 2012 to arg... Read More about Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent.

Mrs Home: the moral and cultural construction of domesticity and respectability between the wars (2018)
Journal Article
Leach, R. (2018). Mrs Home: the moral and cultural construction of domesticity and respectability between the wars. Home Cultures, 137-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2017.1373444

This article uncovers archive material from the Foundations of Sociology archive: the output of the Institute of Sociology (Le Play House), exploring the cultural constructions of gendered domesticity and respectability among the lives of the poor an... Read More about Mrs Home: the moral and cultural construction of domesticity and respectability between the wars.

Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender (2017)
Journal Article
Wells, H., & Savigar, L. (2019). Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19(2), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895817738555

Roads policing is the most likely generator of an adverse-outcome encounter between the general public and the police and is therefore one of the most likely situations in which individuals are confronted with their own ‘law-abidingness’, or lack of... Read More about Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender.