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Social Representations of Colonialism in Africa and in Europe: Structure and Relevance for Contemporary Intergroup Relations (2018)
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(2018). Social Representations of Colonialism in Africa and in Europe: Structure and Relevance for Contemporary Intergroup Relations. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.05.004

European colonial powers invaded and then dominated a large part of the African continent from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The influence of colonialism did not cease after independence as it still impregnates the cultures and identities o... Read More about Social Representations of Colonialism in Africa and in Europe: Structure and Relevance for Contemporary Intergroup Relations.

Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia (2018)
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(2018). Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia. Global Networks, 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12174

Migrants and their transnational families represent children on social networking sites, documenting child-rearing practices to enhance social mobility. This article identifies a new group of migrant children—those sent home to parents’ countries of... Read More about Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia.

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.

Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children (2017)
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(2017). Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children. Illness, Crisis and Loss, https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137317742235

Older people may experience considerable loss when they endure emotional or social loneliness. Emotional loneliness is related to the loss or absence of a confidant whilst social loneliness describes the discrepancy between the nature of one’s desire... Read More about Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children.

Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia (2017)
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McKay. (2017). Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia. Global Networks, 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12174

Migrants and their transnational families document their children and child-rearing practices on social networking sites (SNS) to enhance their social mobility. In this article, I identify a new group of migrant children, namely those sent home to th... Read More about Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia.

The Ethicality of the Demand for (Trans)Parency in Sexual Relations (2017)
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(2017). The Ethicality of the Demand for (Trans)Parency in Sexual Relations. Australian Feminist Law Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2017.1376366

This article considers what we owe to each other by way of information disclosure prior to sexual intimacy. It does so in one specific context, namely sexual relations between cisgender and transgender people. In recent years, the UK has witnessed a... Read More about The Ethicality of the Demand for (Trans)Parency in Sexual Relations.

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.

The challenges of police-community collaboration: Identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting (2017)
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(2017). The challenges of police-community collaboration: Identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting. Public Management Review, 1353-1373. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2017.1383718

The turn to collaborative governance is a key feature of the New Public Governance environment in many Western economies. Within the UK, successive governments have mandated policing organizations to engage in public service partnerships and collabor... Read More about The challenges of police-community collaboration: Identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting.

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.

A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law (2017)
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(2017). A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 453 - 468. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2017.1341394

Who is the ‘queer refugee’? How do we manage their feelings, emotions and experiences when assessing or supporting their claims for asylum? In contemporary refugee decision-making and litigation, numerous challenges arise when discerning what constit... Read More about A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law.

Swearing as a response to pain: a cross-cultural comparison of British and Japanese participants (2017)
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Robinson, S., Stephens, R., & Robertson, O. (2017). Swearing as a response to pain: a cross-cultural comparison of British and Japanese participants. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 267-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjpain.2017.07.014

Background and aims
Research suggests swearing can moderate pain perception. The present study assessed whether changes in pain perception due to swearing reflect a “scripting” effect by comparing swearing as a response to pain in native English and... Read More about Swearing as a response to pain: a cross-cultural comparison of British and Japanese participants.

'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)' (2017)
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(2017). 'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)'. Law and Humanities, 228-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2017.1344478

This article considers, and renders more accessible, the figure of the Monster. It will first provide a theoretical framework for understanding this historical legal category and contemporary social theory template for the outsider. In doing so, it w... Read More about 'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)'.

Sports events and social interaction: Examining antecedents of spectators’ value creation (2017)
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(2017). Sports events and social interaction: Examining antecedents of spectators’ value creation. European Sport Management Quarterly, 193-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2017.1361459

Research question: Spectating at sports events comprises on-pitch and off-pitch benefits. Value may also derive from spectator-to-spectator interaction, however, we do not know whether all types of interaction have similar effects on value creation a... Read More about Sports events and social interaction: Examining antecedents of spectators’ value creation.

Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City (2017)
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Parish, J. (2017). Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City. Journal of Material Culture, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517725100

This article examines the cosmology and secret practices of West African traditional priests in New York City in preventing the spread of witchcraft, an evil invisible spirit transmitted between female members of the Akan matrilineage. Explored is an... Read More about Uncanny objects and the fear of the familiar: Hiding from Akan witches in New York City.

Developing a community-based psycho-social intervention with older people and third sector workers for anxiety and depression: a qualitative study. (2017)
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Kingstone, T., Burroughs, H., Bartlam, B., Ray, M., Proctor, J., Shepherd, T., Bullock, P., & Chew-Graham, C. A. (2017). Developing a community-based psycho-social intervention with older people and third sector workers for anxiety and depression: a qualitative study. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-017-0648-7

BACKGROUND: One-in-five people in the UK experience anxiety and/or depression in later life. However, anxiety and depression remain poorly detected in older people, particularly in those with chronic physical ill health. In the UK, a stepped care app... Read More about Developing a community-based psycho-social intervention with older people and third sector workers for anxiety and depression: a qualitative study..

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.

Enter the dragon: the ecological disorganisation of Chinese capital in Africa (2017)
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(2017). Enter the dragon: the ecological disorganisation of Chinese capital in Africa. European Journal of Development Research, 2082-2096. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1315299

This article draws on the theory and recent research on ‘ecological disorganization’- defined as ‘the ways in which human preferences for organizing economic production consistent with the objectives of capitalism are an inherent contradiction with t... Read More about Enter the dragon: the ecological disorganisation of Chinese capital in Africa.