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Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times (2017)
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Corcoran. (2017). Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times

Civil society is regaining critical relevance after decades of attempts to suborn non-governmental organisations and more recent governmental manoeuvres in Western democracies to control activists and social advocates (Civicus, 2016:31-32). In this a... Read More about Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times.

Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender (2017)
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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.

Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu (2017)
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(2017). Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu. Review of African Political Economy, 7 - 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2017.1367655

The article considers the historiography of labour and class studies in sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the contemporary ‘cultural turn’ in sociological studies of class. It identifies three phases: from the 1960s, a highly empiricist Marxist appro... Read More about Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu.

Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity (2017)
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Pemberton. (2017). Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity. Policy and Politics, 623 -641. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14755958613727

Little attention to date has focused on the role of urban planning in responding to migration-related super-diversity. Through a focus on a city (Liverpool, UK) which is becoming increasingly super-diverse, the paper highlights the importance of clas... Read More about Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity.

Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices (2017)
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Holdsworth. (2017). Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices. Children's Geographies, 741-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1334111

In recent years teenagers have reported a decline in under-age drinking at the same time as their access to public space has been increasingly curtailed. In this paper we explore the spatial practices and drinking behaviours of a group of teenage gir... Read More about Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices.

Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders (2017)
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(2017). Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders

In 2013, Breaking Free Group, a digital healthcare company based in Manchester, developed two accredited substance misuse treatment and recovery programmes for offenders within the criminal justice system. Based on community-setting versions of Break... Read More about Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders.

The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the ‘Refugee/Migrant crisis’ (2017)
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(2017). The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the ‘Refugee/Migrant crisis’. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2302

The UK media’s reporting of events in 2015 contained constantly evolving categorisations of people attempting to reach Europe and the UK, each with different implications for their treatment. A discursive analysis of UK media outputs charts the devel... Read More about The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the ‘Refugee/Migrant crisis’.