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.

Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia (2019)
Journal Article
Bruce. (2019). Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia. Studies in Arts and Humanities, 5(1), 129 - 144. https://doi.org/10.18193/sah.v5i1.156

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum politicians and journalists invoked the concept of utopia to disparage positions diametrically opposed. On the one hand, the adjective ‘utopian’ was deployed to describe appeals to the possibility of a rediscov... Read More about Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia.

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.

Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials. Economy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2018.1528103

As part of its anti-corruption campaigns in China, the Communist Party of China (CCP) provides officials opportunities to redeem themselves and renew their vows of loyalty to the Party and the people they serve. Officials must regain honour through a... Read More about Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials.

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).

Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2018)
Journal Article
Parke, H., Michalska, M., Russell, A., Moss, A. C., Holdsworth, C., Ling, J., & Larsen, J. (2018). Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2018.08.001

Objectives This study reviews qualitative research into the sociocultural meanings and subjective experiences that midlife men in the United Kingdom (UK) associate with their drinking. In the UK, average weekly alcohol consumption is highest among mi... Read More about Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies.

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.

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.

More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work. Sociology, 1239-1256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517692512

Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collectiv... Read More about More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work.

(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.

(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.

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.