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Preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement in the European Union (2020)
Book Chapter
Kaunert, C., Leonard, S., & Ikrom, Y. (2020). Preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement in the European Union. In S. Hansen, & S. Lid (Eds.), In Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter examines the EU’s efforts to tackle radicalisation. The specific formulation of its title (i.e. ‘preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement’) reflects the EU’s emphasis on preventing radicalisation. Most of the radicalisation-... Read More about Preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement in the European Union.

The doubtful handshake: From international to comparative political economy (2019)
Book Chapter
Walzenbach, G. (2019). The doubtful handshake: From international to comparative political economy. In T. C. Lawton, J. N. Rosenau, & A. C. Verdun (Eds.), Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy (369-389). London and New York: Routledge

Ethics management and responsible research and innovation in the Human Brain Project (2019)
Book Chapter
Rainey, S., Stahl, B. C., Shaw, M., & Reinsborough, M. (2019). Ethics management and responsible research and innovation in the Human Brain Project. In R. von Schomberg, & J. Hankins (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation: A Global Resource (379-392). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00035

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a key concept in current discourses concerning research governance and policy. The practice of Ethics Management in the European Union (EU) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Human Brain Proj... Read More about Ethics management and responsible research and innovation in the Human Brain Project.

Lukacs, Kierkegaard, Marx and the Political (2019)
Book Chapter
Assiter, A. (2019). Lukacs, Kierkegaard, Marx and the Political. In P. Stokes, A. Buben, & E. Helms (Eds.), The Kierkegaardian Mind. Routledge

This is an attempt to show, contrary to most of the discussion on the subject, that Kierkegaard and Marx have more in common than is often thought to be the case.

Drugs decriminalization: The art of governing drug using populations (2019)
Book Chapter
Walmsley, I. (2019). Drugs decriminalization: The art of governing drug using populations. In S. Wilson (Ed.), Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory: Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances. Routledge

In the last fifteen years or so drugs decriminalization has (re)emerged as a pragmatic response to the ‘drug problem’, with the Portuguese model widely recognized as an alternative to drugs prohibition. The history of similar initiatives, however, te... Read More about Drugs decriminalization: The art of governing drug using populations.

Deliver us from evil: The case for scepticism (2019)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2019). Deliver us from evil: The case for scepticism. In T. Nys, & S. De Wijze (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Evil. Routledge

This chapter critically examines the philosophical arguments against the case for evil scepticism that I first outlined in my book, The Myth of Evil. It re-assesses and strengthens the case for scepticism by addressing some of the latest attempts to... Read More about Deliver us from evil: The case for scepticism.

Religious duties and equal opportunities in public space (2019)
Book Chapter
Thompson, S. (in press). Religious duties and equal opportunities in public space. In J. Seglow, & A. Shorten (Eds.), Religion in Public Life. ECPR Press

In a number of European states, laws and regulations of various kinds place limits on individuals’ ability to wear certain religious garments or to display certain religious symbols in public space. In this Chapter, I focus on how burqa bans fare wh... Read More about Religious duties and equal opportunities in public space.

On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being (2019)
Book Chapter
Mitcheson, K. (2019). On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being. In L. Irigaray, M. O'Brien, & C. Hadjioannou (Eds.), Towards a New Human Being (199-220). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03392-7_12

Luce Irigaray’s recent book To Be Born: Genesis of New a Human Being can be seen as a response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s well-known call for us to overcome humanity in its current form. Irigaray shares with Nietzsche the belief that to overcome the di... Read More about On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being.

The recognition of religion in public spaces (2019)
Book Chapter
Thompson, S. (2019). The recognition of religion in public spaces. In M. Kahlos, H. Koskinen, & R. Palmén (Eds.), Recognition and Religion: Contemporary and Historical Studies. London: Routledge

In this chapter, I consider the ways in which religion is recognized in contemporary societies, and also to think how it should be recognized. I focus on just one aspect of this very large and complex topic – namely the recognition of religion speci... Read More about The recognition of religion in public spaces.

Why psychosocial thinking is critical (2019)
Book Chapter
Frost, E. (2019). Why psychosocial thinking is critical. In S. Webb (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work (116-126). London: Routledge

This chapter discusses the relevance of psychosocial theory for social work understanding

The Blue Economy in the Caribbean (2019)
Book Chapter
Clegg, P., McConney, P., Mahon, R., & Oxenford, H. (2019). The Blue Economy in the Caribbean. In Europa Regional Surveys of the World - South America, Central America and the Caribbean. (27th). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England (2018)
Book Chapter
Carter, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England. . SAGE Research Methods: SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526434067

Our research methods case focuses on how, as researchers, we negotiated the topic of race in recruiting participants and conducting interviews for a study about the cultural reproduction of Whiteness at wedding fairs in the United Kingdom. Here, we d... Read More about Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England.

Repro-migration: An ethnography of the early days of cross border egg donation between Israel and Romania (2018)
Book Chapter
Nahman, M. (2018). Repro-migration: An ethnography of the early days of cross border egg donation between Israel and Romania. In S. Mitra, S. Schicktanz, & T. Patel (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel (351-370). Palgrave

What can the study of migration and reproduction together tell us about both conceptual arenas and sets of cultural practice? In this chapter, I juxtapose cross-border reproductive practices that occurred in 2002 with practices and imaginaries of bor... Read More about Repro-migration: An ethnography of the early days of cross border egg donation between Israel and Romania.

Climate change and global displacement (2018)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2018). Climate change and global displacement. In B. Schippers (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Rethinking Ethics in International Relations. Routledge

With the numbers of people displaced by climate-change related disasters predicted to be in the many millions, this chapter examines the possible frameworks that could offer those displaced some form of protection, as at present they fall outside the... Read More about Climate change and global displacement.

The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender (2018)
Book Chapter
Crociani-Windland, L. (2018). The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender. In A. Cummins, & N. Williams (Eds.), Further Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice. London: Routledge

This chapter tracks different ways of framing the use of subjectivity in psycho-social research, by offering different, yet convergent, ways of understanding its ontological basis. For this purpose, it tracks dualities in the work of Bergson and Bion... Read More about The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender.

Gendering the ‘White Backlash’: Islam, patriarchal ‘unfairness’, and the defence of women’s rights amongst women supporters of the British National Party (BNP) (2018)
Book Chapter
Mulholland, J. (2018). Gendering the ‘White Backlash’: Islam, patriarchal ‘unfairness’, and the defence of women’s rights amongst women supporters of the British National Party (BNP). In J. Mulholland, N. Montagna, & E. Sanders-McDonagh (Eds.), Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality (165-185). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76699-7

Formed in 1982 out of the overtly fascist National Front, The British National Party (BNP) went on to be the most successful ultra-nationalist party in British electoral history, reaching a high point of influence in 2010, only to suffer a dramatic d... Read More about Gendering the ‘White Backlash’: Islam, patriarchal ‘unfairness’, and the defence of women’s rights amongst women supporters of the British National Party (BNP).

The everyday worlds of disabled children (2018)
Book Chapter
Curran, T., Runswick-Cole, K., & Liddiard, K. The everyday worlds of disabled children. In G. Thomas, & D. Sakellariou (Eds.), Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday. London: Routledge. Manuscript submitted for publication

Drawing on our work in the developing area of disabled children's childhood studies, we expose the ways in which disabled children's lives are so often overshadowed by what we describe as the tyranny of the norm and by mundane everyday disablism. How... Read More about The everyday worlds of disabled children.

Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery (2018)
Book Chapter
Mitcheson, K. (2018). Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery. In M. Dennis, & S. Werkhoven (Eds.), Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge

In Michel Foucault’s late work he turns to ancient practices of the self, including stoicism, to explore whether such ‘technologies of the self’ can be taken up by the contemporary subject to cultivate a non-subjugated self. For Foucault, technologie... Read More about Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery.