‘Male homoerotic relations in history’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (in press). ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’. In M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, & M. Kuefler (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Sexualities (252 - 272). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895996.013

This chapter explores male homoerotic desire, whether idealised, romanticised, visualised or physically enacted. Male homoerotic practices and relations have sometimes been structured around notions of difference between two males who were thought to... Read More about ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’.

Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas (2023)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2023). Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas. History Workshop Journal, 96, 25–45. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbad014

The minutely documented diaries of an ‘everyman’ such as George Lucas enable us to view the complex pleasures and challenging realities of the postwar queer quotidian in remarkable detail. A sample of the years after 1957, when Lucas was aged in his... Read More about Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas.

‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’ (2022)
Book Chapter
Janes. (2022). ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’. In Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350143753.ch-4

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history.

The chapters cover a broad range of themes f... Read More about ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’.

The Experiences of Children in Custody: A Story of Survival (2021)
Journal Article
Day, A.-M. (2021). The Experiences of Children in Custody: A Story of Survival. Safer Communities, https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-11-2020-0040

This paper explores children’s experiences during their time in custody in England and Wales. Fortyeight children were interviewed, as part of a wider study on children’s pathways into, through and out of custody. The focus of this paper is on childr... Read More about The Experiences of Children in Custody: A Story of Survival.

Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk (2021)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2021). Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk. History of Psychiatry, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X20967299

The nineteenth century witnessed a great shift in how insanity was regarded and treated. Well documented is the emergence of psychiatry as a distinct area of medicine and the role played by county lunatic asylums. What remains unclear are the relatio... Read More about Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk.

Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine (2021)
Journal Article
Janes. (2021). Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine. Visual Culture in Britain, 275-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755

Francis Bacon made extensive use of photographs and other images from the visual culture of his time in the production of works that were implicitly queer. Homosexual men were widely represented in prose and through cartoons as camply effeminate ‘pan... Read More about Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine.

Working with and negotiating 'risk': Examining the effects of awareness raising interventions designed to prevent Child Sexual Exploitation (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Working with and negotiating 'risk': Examining the effects of awareness raising interventions designed to prevent Child Sexual Exploitation. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz045

This article considers the effects of an educational intervention with young people designed to reduce the risk of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Drawing on findings from a qualitative study, we consider processes of engagement with the initiative,... Read More about Working with and negotiating 'risk': Examining the effects of awareness raising interventions designed to prevent Child Sexual Exploitation.

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).

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)
Journal Article
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

Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002). The Journal of North African Studies, 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1229184

This article charts the roles and representations of Algerian Women as both agents and victims of violence in the War of Independence (1956–1962) and the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s in which the role of women emerged as a significant site of ideo... Read More about Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002).

Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010). French Cultural Studies, 62-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815602158

This article addresses the audio-visual representation of the victims of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in Algeria in the 1990s, drawing on both historical and testimonial sources before examining Xavier Beauvois’s Des hommes et des dieux (2010). B... Read More about Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010).

Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010). French Cultural Studies, 62-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815602158

Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives (2014)
Book
Janes, D. (2014). Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives

Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7 (2010)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M., Poole, E., & Holohan, S. (2010). Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6(2), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1386/mcp.6.2.169_1

It is widely agreed that the events which took place on 11 September 2001 have played a large part in reshaping global imaginings about contemporary acts of terrorism and their Islamic perpetrators. Given this transformation in the understanding of t... Read More about Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7.

Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias
Thesis
(2013). Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias

Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias

This thesis seeks to demonstrate that there has been a change in the social and cultural aspects of established organised criminal sub-cultures by observing the changes that h... Read More about Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias.

Research governance in pharmacogenetic based drug development: why the principlist approach?
Thesis
Williams, J. (2016). Research governance in pharmacogenetic based drug development: why the principlist approach?

The thesis will examine whether policy considerations based on the normative ethical framework of Principlism are adequate for drug development involving pharmacogenetics. In order to structure the analysis, the main research question will be based o... Read More about Research governance in pharmacogenetic based drug development: why the principlist approach?.