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The return of Citizenship?: An empirical assessment of legal integration in time of radical socio-legal transformation (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). The return of Citizenship?: An empirical assessment of legal integration in time of radical socio-legal transformation. International Migration Review,

Intra-EU migrants have traditionally faced few pressures or incentives to formalise their 'permanent' residence or to naturalise in their EU host countries. Focusing on the United Kingdom and combining an analysis of secondary administrative data and... Read More about The return of Citizenship?: An empirical assessment of legal integration in time of radical socio-legal transformation.

Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials (2018)
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(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.

Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of women of colour surviving and thriving in British Academia (2017) Eds. Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Ann Tate, London: Trentham Books, IOE Press, 164 pages, £24.36 (Book review) (2018)
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(2018). Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of women of colour surviving and thriving in British Academia (2017) Eds. Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Ann Tate, London: Trentham Books, IOE Press, 164 pages, £24.36 (Book review). Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12273

Book review.

Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2018)
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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.

La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima) (2018)
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Montero Diaz, R. (2018). La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima). Anthropologica, 97 -120. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201801.005

En los últimos años, la fusión intercultural en Lima ha ido creciendo hasta convertirse en un género musical ‘nacional’ portador y visibilizador de interacciones inter-sociales e inter-étnicas, las cuales retan la segregación cultural sistemática de... Read More about La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima).

Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects (2018)
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(2018). Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects. Design Journal, 605-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2018.1469329

This paper aims to explore the types of spaces and experiences that are created by design and creative practices. More specifically, it focuses on how design and creative practices can engender transformations in the mindset, knowledge, emotions and... Read More about Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects.

Governing through ' the family' in China: the cultivation of ethical political subjects through officials' nearest and dearest (2018)
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(2018). Governing through ' the family' in China: the cultivation of ethical political subjects through officials' nearest and dearest. Families, Relationships and Societies, https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318x15271465130398

In this article we argue that the families of Communist Party members are increasingly being seen as both part of the problem and part of the solution to eradicating corruption in contemporary China. Our findings reveal how families are being investi... Read More about Governing through ' the family' in China: the cultivation of ethical political subjects through officials' nearest and dearest.

Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector (2018)
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(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.

Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi (2018)
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Lau. (2018). Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 372-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1461984

In the (re)presentation of India by Indian authors writing in English there is an overlooked, long-standing tradition of sterling commentaries produced by social analysts. In the best of that tradition which blurs the divide between the literary and... Read More about Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi.

Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it? (2018)
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Hayes. (2018). Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it?. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27(2-3), 288-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2018.1453305

This paper contributes to an understanding of the ways in which not being bound to the nation of education, in legal and cultural terms, excludes international students. Based on narrative interviews with 20 students from 6 countries, the paper consi... Read More about Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it?.

Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: A qualitative investigation (2018)
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(2018). Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: A qualitative investigation. AIDS care, 102-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1468016

Recent research into “successful ageing” and “resilience” in the context of ageing with HIV highlights older people living with HIV’s (OPLWH) adaptations and coping strategies hitherto neglected by early research’s emphasis on difficulties and challe... Read More about Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: A qualitative investigation.

A postcolonial framing of Indian commercial surrogacy: issues, representations, and orientalisms (2018)
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Lau. (2018). A postcolonial framing of Indian commercial surrogacy: issues, representations, and orientalisms. Gender, Place and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1471047

Although only legalised in 2002, Indian commercial gestational surrogacy (CGS) is an industry worth an estimated 2.3 billion USD to India at its height. Not only has this contentious topic been researched extensively from a spectrum of academic angle... Read More about A postcolonial framing of Indian commercial surrogacy: issues, representations, and orientalisms.

'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body (2018)
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Mandelbaum, M. (2018). 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 160-179. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0093-0

The section ‘gay rights in Israel’, part of the gaytlvguide.com website promoting gay life and culture in Israel, narrates Israel as ‘… one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities… by far the most tolerant... Read More about 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body.

New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside (2018)
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Pemberton, S., & Mackrell, P. (2018). New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside. Journal of Rural Studies, 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.01.009

To date, there has been relatively little focus on Eastern European 'accession' (EU8) migrants' representations of the rural in Western Europe. Through drawing on research conducted in England, this paper highlights how the materiality of the English... Read More about New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside.

Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept (2018)
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Carter. (2018). Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept. Journal of Political Ideologies, 23(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227

This article reconstructs the concept of right-wing extremism/radicalism. Using Mudde’s influential 1995 study as a foundation, it first canvasses the recent academic literature to explore how the concept has been described and defined. It suggests t... Read More about Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept.

Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: moving beyond ethno-national approaches (2018)
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Pemberton, S., & Phillimore, J. (2018). Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: moving beyond ethno-national approaches. Urban Studies, 733-750. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016656988

Whilst attention has previously focused on the importance of monolithic ethnic identities on migrant place-making, less attention has been paid to how place-making proceeds in super-diverse urban neighbourhoods where no single ethnic group predominat... Read More about Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: moving beyond ethno-national approaches.

Review of exhibitions British Library, “Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty” (2017) British Museum, “Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories” (2017) Tate Britain, “Queer British Art, 1861-1967” (2017) (2018)
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Janes. (2018). Review of exhibitions British Library, “Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty” (2017) British Museum, “Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories” (2017) Tate Britain, “Queer British Art, 1861-1967” (2017). https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.5.1.0103

The Cosmology of Economy: West African Witchcraft, Finance and the Futures Market (2018)
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Parish, J. (2018). The Cosmology of Economy: West African Witchcraft, Finance and the Futures Market. Culture and Religion, 19(1), 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2017.1416646

In this article, the relationship between cosmology and financial transactions via the sacred and deeply secret discourses of West African traditional priests in Europe is explored, who believe that they can spiritually manipulate the monetary pricin... Read More about The Cosmology of Economy: West African Witchcraft, Finance and the Futures Market.

‘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?.