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Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster (2019)
Journal Article
McKay, D., & Perez, P. (2019). Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster. Third World Quarterly, 1903-1920. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1634470

In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations (Fouksman, 2016; Mercer & Green, 2015). On the front lines of crises, ‘citizen aid’ is what small... Read More about Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster.

Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies (2019)
Thesis
Gerosideris, C. Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413816

This study establishes the stakeholders’ perceptions of environmental and energy security through the application of Q methodology in the case of Greece. It explains in detail the essentiality of including individual viewpoints and the opinions of ac... Read More about Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies.

‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2019)
Thesis
Mason, S. ‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413817

Today technical web standards have become one of the most important mechanisms of internet governance, impinging on a wide range of areas of public policy from privacy and to freedom of speech. Despite their importance, however, the processes through... Read More about ‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Freedom as the pursuit of self-realisation: T. H. Green and the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom (2019)
Thesis
Swinbank, A. D. Freedom as the pursuit of self-realisation: T. H. Green and the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414416

This dissertation explores Green’s theory of freedom, it discusses where it sits in the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom, and what it contributes to it. I argue that Green presents us with a nuanced notion of freedom, informed by his robu... Read More about Freedom as the pursuit of self-realisation: T. H. Green and the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom.

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997: Failures by the Criminal Justice System in a Social Media Age (2019)
Journal Article
Higson-Bliss, L. (2019). The Protection from Harassment Act 1997: Failures by the Criminal Justice System in a Social Media Age. Journal of Criminal Law, 217 - 228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018319829262

<jats:p> This article will critically examine how the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is currently being used to tackle online abuse. The use of the Internet to abuse another is on the increase, with the police receiving increasing reports concer... Read More about The Protection from Harassment Act 1997: Failures by the Criminal Justice System in a Social Media Age.

Teaching cyber security to non-tech students (2019)
Journal Article
Arora, B. (2019). Teaching cyber security to non-tech students. Politics, 39(2), 252 - 265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395718760960

<jats:p> The majority of cyber security education and training has been based in computer science departments, but we are now seeing the agenda filtering into the political science and international studies curriculum. There exists a challenge in pre... Read More about Teaching cyber security to non-tech students.

Lessons from Roman law: EU law in England and Wales after Brexit (2019)
Journal Article
Cotter, J., & Dewhurst, E. (2019). Lessons from Roman law: EU law in England and Wales after Brexit. The Law Teacher, 53(2), 173 - 188. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2019.1585074

The experience of Roman law in legal education in England and Wales may serve as a cautionary tale for EU law post-Brexit. Similarly, past debates as to the position of Roman law in the curriculum may also be instructive in the EU law context. After... Read More about Lessons from Roman law: EU law in England and Wales after Brexit.

The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump (2019)
Book
Herbert, J., McCrisken, T., & Wroe, A. (2019). The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump. Springer

The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump provides a detailed explanation for the discrepancy between Trump’s extraordinary approach and the relative mediocrity of his achievements.

Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem? (2018)
Journal Article
Allen. (2018). Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem?. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 722-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1544732

Metaphysics has a problem with plurality: in many areas of discourse, there are too many good theories, rather than just one. This embarrassment of riches is a particular problem for metaphysical realists who want metaphysics to tell us the way the w... Read More about Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem?.

An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946). Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 909-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2018.1519244

Before the Second World War it was a cardinal Commonwealth principle that intra-imperial disputes must be kept away from international fora. Yet in 1946 the not-yet-independent India complained to the United Nations about South African legislation di... Read More about An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946).

What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland (2018)
Journal Article
Simpson. (2018). What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland. Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2018.1499620

This paper investigates individual’s perceptions of inequality and the impact this has on mass public opinion support for the European Union (EU) in the Republic of Ireland. This question is posed in the context of the onset of the economic and finan... Read More about What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland.

MacIntyre and green political thought: deliberative eco-politics for dependent rational animals (2018)
Thesis
Simcock, A. MacIntyre and green political thought: deliberative eco-politics for dependent rational animals. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411426

Ecologism is a political ideology that emerged in the 1970s. It challenged the neoliberal privileging of economic growth over environmental protection and a narrow conception of the self as autonomous, rational and self-interested. Ecologism’s normat... Read More about MacIntyre and green political thought: deliberative eco-politics for dependent rational animals.

Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre. Urban Planning, https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i2.1343

Henri Lefebvre’s project, developed over decades of research produced a corpus of work that sought to reprioritise the fundamental role of space in the experience and practice of social life. His assertion that there is ‘politics of space’ provides a... Read More about Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre.

Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization. Journal of Common Market Studies, 1263-1283. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12740

The involvement of subnational actors in EU politics has become an increasingly recognized facet of European integration. However, this highlights an interesting puzzle: subnational authorities in unitary and centralized polities usually lack formal... Read More about Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization.

Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion. International Political Sociology, 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olx024

International relations scholars are increasingly paying attention to “the emotional” as a way to understand global politics. What is often missing from these conversations is feminist knowledge on affect, and also discussions about methodology. By p... Read More about Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion.