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Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development (2019)
Book Chapter
McKay. (2019). Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development. In Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development

This chapter explores the migration corridor between the Philippines and Hong Kong. A long-established destination for largely female migrants taking up domestic work, Hong Kong offers Filipino workers proximity to home and public space in which to s... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development.

Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance. Personnel Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2018-0400

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the curvilinear relationship between perceived negative workplace gossip and target employee’s task performance, and the moderating roles of perceived organizational support (POS).Design/methodology... Read More about Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance.

Sustainable Luxury Marketing: A synthesis and research agenda, (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Sustainable Luxury Marketing: A synthesis and research agenda,. International Journal of Management Reviews, 405-426. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12195

Abstract Sustainability has become a pervasive issue for the luxury sector, gaining traction with brand managers, scholars, policy-makers, the media, and academia. The purpose of this article is to examine the state of sustainable luxury research in... Read More about Sustainable Luxury Marketing: A synthesis and research agenda,.

Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography (2019)
Thesis
Molesworth, S. K. (2019). Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413840

This inquiry considers the importance of tacit knowledge, and how it might be characterised in an NHS memory service and a local authority day-care and respite service for people with dementia. When investigating the sorts of knowledge that might be... Read More about Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography.

When is a bed not a bed? Exploring the interplay of the material and virtual in negotiating home-work boundaries (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). When is a bed not a bed? Exploring the interplay of the material and virtual in negotiating home-work boundaries. Culture and Organization, 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2017.1349128

Working from home is often associated with possibilities of anytime-anyplace working and with a fusion of work and home. In this empirical paper, we explore how the sociomaterial contexts of home-working define and tether what is possible for home-wo... Read More about When is a bed not a bed? Exploring the interplay of the material and virtual in negotiating home-work boundaries.

A critical analysis of neo-liberal reforms to the English NHS since the year 2000 (2018)
Thesis
Benbow, D. I. (2018). A critical analysis of neo-liberal reforms to the English NHS since the year 2000. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410392

Solidarity was important in the creation and maintenance of the English NHS, which was the product of class compromise. Its founding principles were that it was to be free (at the point of access), universal, comprehensive and primarily funded from g... Read More about A critical analysis of neo-liberal reforms to the English NHS since the year 2000.

‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name? (2018)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2018). ‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name?. Journal of Adult Protection, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-07-2017-0029

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore and critique the conceptual and terminological shift – particularly from ‘vulnerability’ to ‘adult at risk’ - in adult safeguarding under the Care Act 2014 and the Social Services and Well-being (Wales... Read More about ‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name?.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death (2018)
Journal Article
Parish. (2018). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death. Anthropology Today, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12414

This article is an ethnographic study of individuals self-diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in Liverpool, UK. While much research on OCD has concentrated upon superstitious belief, psychosis and anxiety provoking disorder, the articl... Read More about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death.

Social Movements and the Scaling of Memory and Justice in Bhopal (2018)
Journal Article
Bisht, P. (2018). Social Movements and the Scaling of Memory and Justice in Bhopal. Contemporary South Asia, 26(1), 18-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2018.1425673

This paper examines the politics of scale in the commemorative work undertaken by the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB), a coalition of social movement organisations (SMOs) seeking justice for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster... Read More about Social Movements and the Scaling of Memory and Justice in Bhopal.

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

Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu (2017)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
(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’.

The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police. https://doi.org/10.23666/zzr201601

In the UK, private policing institutions have been rapidly increasing since the 1980s, so the lines between public- and private police have been blurred. This paper explores whether there is a policing function that is inherent in public police and i... Read More about The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police.

Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 176-195. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-24032091

This article examines the eu food industry (apropos of the 2013 ‘Horse Meat Scandal’) applying the notion of sociopathy which has hitherto been confined to analyses of corporate banking and insurance. In the ‘underground’ of the eu meat industry we e... Read More about Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry.