Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City (2017)
Journal Article
Parish, J. (2017). Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City. Journal of Material Culture, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517725100

This article examines the cosmology and secret practices of West African traditional priests in New York City in preventing the spread of witchcraft, an evil invisible spirit transmitted between female members of the Akan matrilineage. Explored is an... Read More about Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City.

(A)moral Representation: The Hyper-sexual Construction of Amanda Knox (2016)
Book Chapter
Holohan. (2016). (A)moral Representation: The Hyper-sexual Construction of Amanda Knox. In Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Know and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere (69-85). https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59004-6_4

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case.

(A)moral Representation: The Hyper-sexual Construction of Amanda Knox (2016)
Book Chapter
Holohan, S. (2016). (A)moral Representation: The Hyper-sexual Construction of Amanda Knox. In Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Know and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59004-6

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case.

From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling (2016)
Journal Article
Martens, L. (2016). From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(3), 447-462. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14758498374746

Global climate change poses challenging questions for how human beings should be living their lives in a more-than-human world. These questions are complex and multifaceted, and thus demand actions across a broad range of social and political fronts.... Read More about From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling.

Charisma and the clinic (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Charisma and the clinic. Social Theory and Health, 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-016-0023-0

Here we argue that ‘charisma’, a concept widely taken up within geography and the environmental humanities, is of utility to the social studies of medicine. Charisma, we suggest, draws attention to the affective dimensions of medical work, the ways i... Read More about Charisma and the clinic.

The Turnover Club: locality and identity in the North Staffordshire practice of turning over ceramic ware (2016)
Journal Article
Leach, R. (2016). The Turnover Club: locality and identity in the North Staffordshire practice of turning over ceramic ware. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 484-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2016.1178161

This paper explores a key practice adopted by those local to or from Stoke-on-Trent, and outlines its significance in the wider context of ‘ordinary’ consumption and material cultures, globalisation and local identity. Being a ‘turnover-er’ – someone... Read More about The Turnover Club: locality and identity in the North Staffordshire practice of turning over ceramic ware.

Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille (2016)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2016). Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille. Cultural Politics, 66-82. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3436391

In this article, I seek to explore the psychopolitical significance of the contemporary idea of luxury through reference to the Roman concept of luxus, which means excess, extravagance, indulgence, and debauchery. In the first section of the article,... Read More about Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille.

Grey areas and fine lines: negotiating operational independence in the era of the police and crime commissioner (2015)
Journal Article
Wells. (2015). Grey areas and fine lines: negotiating operational independence in the era of the police and crime commissioner. Safer Communities, 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-06-2015-0023

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the negotiation of boundaries of strategic vs operational responsibility between Chief Constables and Police Crime Commissioners (PCCs).

Design/methodology/approach
– The discussion reflects on i... Read More about Grey areas and fine lines: negotiating operational independence in the era of the police and crime commissioner.

The Media Construction of Segregated Communities in the UK (2014)
Book Chapter
(2014). The Media Construction of Segregated Communities in the UK. In Religion, Media and Social Change

Reading Representations / Representing Self: The Cultural Politics of Islam (2014)
Journal Article
Holohan, S. (2014). Reading Representations / Representing Self: The Cultural Politics of Islam. European Political Science, 297-301. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2014.14

Book reviews.

Group Conflict and ‘Confined’ and ‘Collaborative’ Collective Efficacy: The Importance of a Normative Core between Immigrants and Natives in an English Town (2014)
Journal Article
Griffiths. (2014). Group Conflict and ‘Confined’ and ‘Collaborative’ Collective Efficacy: The Importance of a Normative Core between Immigrants and Natives in an English Town

It has long been contended by both the ‘old’ and ‘new’ Chicago School that immigration fractures effective community controls, resulting in increased crime, conflict and social disorder. Building on the Chicago School approach, this article provides... Read More about Group Conflict and ‘Confined’ and ‘Collaborative’ Collective Efficacy: The Importance of a Normative Core between Immigrants and Natives in an English Town.

Sociological Perspectives on the Baby Boomers (2008)
Journal Article
(2008). Sociological Perspectives on the Baby Boomers. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, https://doi.org/10.1108/14717794200800024

The ‘baby-boom’ generation has emerged as a significant group in debates focusing on population change. The demographic context concerns the increase in the birth rate across industrialised countries from the mid-1940s through to the mid-1960s. From... Read More about Sociological Perspectives on the Baby Boomers.

Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis. Environmental Politics, 805 -825. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010701634182

Direct action campaigns against new roads in the UK received much attention, but campaign groups were locally organised and little is known about how they worked. Protests by three local environmental direct action groups in the years 1992-2001 are e... Read More about Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis.

Baby Boomers & adult Ageing: Issues for Social and Public policy (2007)
Journal Article
Biggs, S., Phillipson, C., Leach, R., & Money, A. (2007). Baby Boomers & adult Ageing: Issues for Social and Public policy. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 8(3), 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/14717794200700019

This paper provides a critical assessment of academic and policy approaches to population ageing with an emphasis on the baby boomer cohort and constructions of late-life identity. It is suggested that policy towards an ageing population has shifted... Read More about Baby Boomers & adult Ageing: Issues for Social and Public policy.

Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity. Environmental Politics, 860 -880. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937306

The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between majority (South) and minority (North) world environmental groups by focusing on one of the largest transnational environmental organisations: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI):1... Read More about Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity.

Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality. Environmental Politics, 881 -892. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937504

A consistent thread weaves through all the articles in this edition. Each author, in some fashion, reflects upon the dual concepts of a ‘global green public sphere’ and the ‘global governance state’, as they intersect with the politics of environment... Read More about Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality.

The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse (2007)
Journal Article
Biggs, S., Phillipson, C., Money, A., & Leach, R. (2007). The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse. Journal of Social Work Practice, 20(3), 239 - 250. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650530600931708

Through a critical engagement with policy trends, we ask how shifts in ideologies of ageing might influence the possibilities available to adults as they grow older. Of particular interest are the implications for how people are being encouraged to t... Read More about The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse.

Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms (2006)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2006). Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms. Environmental Politics, 697 -712. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937132

This introduction considers three themes that recur across the various contributions to this collection. The first is the nature of borders and how these have been affected by the increase in transnational collective action and the growth in the powe... Read More about Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms.

Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK (2004)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2004). Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK. Social Movement Studies, 199 - 220. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474283042000266128

Ecological sabotage (ecotage) has been a feature of the more radical parts of the environmental movement in the Western world for several decades. While it may be perceived as being the preserve of underground cells of 'eco-terrorists', in the UK tho... Read More about Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK.

Explaining the fuel protests (2003)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2003). Explaining the fuel protests. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1 -23. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00093

We describe and analyse the fuel protests in the UK in September and November 2000. We draw on theories of social movements to explain the success of the first of these protests and the failure of the second. We show how the loose, network forms of o... Read More about Explaining the fuel protests.