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The BJP and the war on history (2023)
Book Chapter
Sharma. (2023). The BJP and the war on history. In Passionate politics Democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election (53-62). https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00012

This book illustrates the economic, social and cultural processes that shaped political passions in India during the summer of 2019. The contributors compel us to take seriously the ‘structures of feeling’ in politics.

Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique. Cultural Politics, https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017200

The emergence of so-called post-truth politics saw popular calls to return to the ‘facts’ clash with humanities and social science work which maintains a commitment to situated knowledge: as crystallised by prominent attacks upon gender studies, post... Read More about Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique.

Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism (2019)
Journal Article
Poole, E., Giraud, E., & de Quincey, E. (2019). Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.406

This paper sets out quantitative findings from a research project examining the dynamics of online counter-narratives against hate speech, focusing on #StopIslam, a hashtag that spread racialized hate speech and disinformation directed towards Islam... Read More about Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism.

Working class politics in Lancashire 1885-1906: a regional study in the origins of the Labour Party
Thesis
Hill, J. (1971). Working class politics in Lancashire 1885-1906: a regional study in the origins of the Labour Party

Chapter 1: examines the economic, social and religious characteristics of the Lancashire industrial region. Heavy industry and extensive urbanisation favoured the development of large scale trades unionism. Industrial specialisation prevented the seg... Read More about Working class politics in Lancashire 1885-1906: a regional study in the origins of the Labour Party.