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Ambient surveillance: how care-for-control emerges across diasporic social media (2020)
Journal Article
McKay. (2020). Ambient surveillance: how care-for-control emerges across diasporic social media. Ethnos, 309-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1543340

This article demonstrates how social control in the Filipino diaspora now works through social media surveillance, brokering exchanges of care between activists, on the one hand, and migrants, on the other. Taking care as the ‘pursuit of connections’... Read More about Ambient surveillance: how care-for-control emerges across diasporic social media.

In Between Old & New, Local & Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move (2020)
Book Chapter
Bisht, P. (2020). In Between Old & New, Local & Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move. In Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilizing Mediated Remembrance (173-196). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_7

Social movement organisations (SMOs) remain under-examined in the burgeoning accounts of collective memory’s transnational movements. There is also an analytical neglect of the difficulties of making memories move and the constraints characterising e... Read More about In Between Old & New, Local & Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move.

A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change (2020)
Journal Article
Noor. (2020). A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change. Nature Human Behaviour, 380-386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0815-z

Beginning with the historic racial desegregation in the United States, and spreading to other parts of the world, policy makers, guided by the findings of social scientists, have advocated for increased intergroup contact (e.g., in schools and neighb... Read More about A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change.

Utilizing the Moral Nobility of Older Chinese Women in Governance – the Uses of Humility, Empathy and an Ethics of Care in Moral Clinics in Huzhou City (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Utilizing the Moral Nobility of Older Chinese Women in Governance – the Uses of Humility, Empathy and an Ethics of Care in Moral Clinics in Huzhou City. British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12736

This paper examines the emergence of the role of “moral doctors” who volunteer in what are called “moral clinics” in Huzhou city. In these moral clinics, the characteristics, experiences, and attributes of older women, in particular, are highly value... Read More about Utilizing the Moral Nobility of Older Chinese Women in Governance – the Uses of Humility, Empathy and an Ethics of Care in Moral Clinics in Huzhou City.

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.

The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future? (2019)
Book Chapter
Pritchard-Jones, L. (2019). The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future?. In The Care Act 2014 Wellbeing in Practice

8. The. Care. Act. 2014. and. the. Mental. Capacity. Act. 2005: learning. lessons. for. the. future? Laura Pritchard-Jones ... and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 attempted to fill 'legal vacuum[s]' (Manthorpe et al., 2013:369): the Mental Capac... Read More about The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future?.

Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum. British Journal of Sociology, 1104-1127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12485

This article examines the narrative strategies through which Polish migrants in the UK challenge the formal rights of political membership and attempt to redefine the boundaries of ‘citizenship’ along notions of deservedness. The analysed qualitative... Read More about Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum.

Coping with negative workplace gossip: The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Coping with negative workplace gossip: The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics. Personality and Individual Differences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.025

Although researchers have examined the effects of negative workplace gossip on target employees’ work-related behavior, it remains unclear when and how personality traits play a role between negative workplace gossip and organizational citizenship be... Read More about Coping with negative workplace gossip: The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics.

Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: Comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: Comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 631-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1576121

This paper explores the impact of educational mobilities on the ethnic identity construction of minority students in China. Adopting ‘temporality’ as an analytical tool, this paper highlights the dynamic temporal multiplicity in ethnic identity const... Read More about Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: Comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China.

Playing with mud- becoming stuck, becoming free?...The negotiation of gendered/class identities when learning outdoors (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Playing with mud- becoming stuck, becoming free?...The negotiation of gendered/class identities when learning outdoors. Children's Geographies, 454-466. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1546379

In recent years there has been a growth in outdoor learning opportunities for children of primary school age in part due to concerns that children spend less time outdoors and have become disconnected from nature. This paper draws upon ethnographic f... Read More about Playing with mud- becoming stuck, becoming free?...The negotiation of gendered/class identities when learning outdoors.

The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012) (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012). Studies in French Cinema, 246-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1511182

This article explores the connections between vulnerability, gender and terrorist violence, drawing on Algerian filmmaker Djamila Sahraoui’s Yema (2012). The film will first be situated in relation to Sahraoui’s oeuvre, and within a wider context of... Read More about The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012).

Co-Producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Co-Producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions. Organizational Aesthetics, 34 -50

This article sheds light on the role of co-produced creative methods in creating change, with particular reference to marginalized communities and taboo topics. In doing so, the paper offers a vignette of a day-long theatrical outreach event explorin... Read More about Co-Producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions.

Volunteers as monstrous workers:'monsters' in UK live-action roleplay game organizations (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Volunteers as monstrous workers:'monsters' in UK live-action roleplay game organizations. Culture and Organization, 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1241254

This paper examines volunteers as workers in the leisure activity of festival-scale UK live-action roleplaying. The descriptive term ‘monsters’ is native within the field, referring to volunteer roles often involving dramatic performance of a ‘villai... Read More about Volunteers as monstrous workers:'monsters' in UK live-action roleplay game organizations.

Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Holohan. (2019). Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.423

Taking as its starting point Hannah Arendt’s (1994/1943) observations on the public response to the mass exile of Jews during World War Two, I argue that the UK’s mediatized reaction to those escaping conflict during the Mediterranean refugee crisis... Read More about Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers (2019)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2019). A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers. Interventions, 318-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1558094

The branding and marketing of post-millennial India as a global service provider has been relentless. Indian cities have now been de-exoticized from their previous association to elephants, snake-charmers, and slums, and are now being marketed as the... Read More about A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers.

Creative engagement with migration (2019)
Journal Article
Jeffery, L., Palladino, M., Rotter, R., & Woolley, A. (2019). Creative engagement with migration. Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 10(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc.10.1.3_1

This article introduces a special issue on arts-based engagement with migration, comprising articles, reflections, poems and images. The introductory article starts by exploring the ethical, political and empirical reasons for the increased use of ar... Read More about Creative engagement with migration.

Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries. Ecological Economics, 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.020

This paper uses a critical framework integrating Capability, Feminist and Critical Pedagogic theories to challenge the reductive focus within sustainability discourses on the physical environment, and education's typical 'development' focus on econom... Read More about Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries.

The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries (2019)
Journal Article
Alfadhlil, K., Güler, M., Cakal, H., & Drury, J. (2019). The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries. International Review of Social Psychology, 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.176

In spite of the harsh conditions that refugees of conflicts experience for many years in exile in developing countries, there is evidence showing that refugees of conflict help each other. This study aimed to explore one possible mechanism underlying... Read More about The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries.