Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X1103600308

Validating asylum claims on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation relies on discerning what constitutes sexuality and a ‘well founded fear’ of persecution. This administrative process works by suturing narratives of ‘functioning’ sexuality to sp... Read More about Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law.

Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire

Online technologies provide new participatory spaces for gay men to organise sexual and intimate encounters. While these spaces are often characterised as enabling new forms of sexual subjectivity and queer sociability, they mobilise new sexual templ... Read More about Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire.

Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village. Ageing and society, 103 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000079

There is currently much debate in the United Kingdom policy and practice literature about how best to respond to the care and accommodation needs of people as they retire and grow older. Against a policy background which espouses the benefits of ‘ li... Read More about Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village.