Outputs (1631)

Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media (2019)
Journal Article

Women continue to be economically disadvantaged and under-represented in positions of power and leadership. A discursive disjunction between cultural and media representations of women and leadership has been implicated in these continuing inequaliti... Read More about Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media.

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes (2019)
Journal Article

This article charts a course from the literature of the classical world through to a select number of classic texts in sociology by Marx, Weber and Bauman, and some more recent psychoanalytically informed studies, to offer a metaphor for the vicissit... Read More about Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes.

Deconstructing princess empowerment: A discourse analytic commentary on media representations of royal fashion (2019)
Journal Article

Refugees, Security and the European Union (2019)
Book

This book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of asylum-seekers and refugees in the EU.

The book argues that the development of the EU asylum policy, far from 'securitizing' asylum-seekers and refugees, has led to the str... Read More about Refugees, Security and the European Union.

The variable and evolving nature of ‘cuckooing’ as a form of criminal exploitation in street level drug markets (2019)
Journal Article

A form of criminal exploitation rarely mentioned in the academic literature has recently emerged, evolved and taken meaningful hold in the UK. Hundreds of cases of ‘cuckooing’ have been reported, where heroin and crack cocaine dealers associated with... Read More about The variable and evolving nature of ‘cuckooing’ as a form of criminal exploitation in street level drug markets.

Best practice in the management of online sex offending (2019)
Report

Our report sets out the outcomes from reviews of the relevant literature, and a series of consultations held by IWG_OSO, with participation from practitioners and researchers working in the field of child protection and online sex offending.

Onli... Read More about Best practice in the management of online sex offending.

Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This article presents empirical data from survey research into lesbian and queer masculinities in the United Kingdom, conducted in 2017, which garnered over two hundred responses. Four dominant themes emerged from the data gathere... Read More about Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK.

Reflections on devolution: Twenty years on (2019)
Journal Article

May 2019 marks twenty years since the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. This report discusses a paper published by the Institute for Government (IFG) that reflects on the experience to date of devolution, drawing on inter... Read More about Reflections on devolution: Twenty years on.

Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis (2019)
Journal Article

Since initially writing on thematic analysis in 2006, the popularity of the method we outlined has exploded, the variety of TA approaches have expanded, and, not least, our thinking has developed and shifted. In this reflexive commentary, we look bac... Read More about Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis.

Hate Speech and Self-Restraint (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, The Author(s). In this article, my aim is to consider under what circumstances, and for what reasons, individuals may freely choose not to speak hatefully about others. Even if not threatened with legal sanction, why might they decide not to... Read More about Hate Speech and Self-Restraint.

Seen and not heard: The service user’s experience through the justice system of individuals convicted of sexual offenses (2019)
Journal Article

User experience and client satisfaction is capturing more attention in the field of social services. The provision of treatment services to individuals convicted of sexual offenses, in particular, has expanded exponentially over the last 20 years. Th... Read More about Seen and not heard: The service user’s experience through the justice system of individuals convicted of sexual offenses.

Lukacs, Kierkegaard, Marx and the Political (2019)
Book Chapter

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

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

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.

Establishing a pragmatic path to greater autonomy and decolonization (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The British Overseas Territories, especially those in the Caribbean, are experiencing a period of significant uncertainty. There is the still unresolved issue of ‘Brexit’, and the likely impact on the territories in regard to trade, aid, and politica... Read More about Establishing a pragmatic path to greater autonomy and decolonization.

Multicultural political theory (2019)
Book Chapter

Our aim in this chapter is to consider the contribution that political theory – and, in particular, multicultural political theory – can make to the study of law and religion. Whilst these are, of course, very distinct academic enterprises, we belie... Read More about Multicultural political theory.

Religious duties and equal opportunities in public space (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

Procedure over substance? CETA and the political economy of subsidiarity (2019)
Journal Article

Competing notions of subsidiarity can help to understand the intricacies of new types of trade deals as concluded between Canada and the European Union. From this perspective the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) balances two fundamen... Read More about Procedure over substance? CETA and the political economy of subsidiarity.

On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

Introduction: Two spaces of subsidiarity? (2019)
Journal Article

Scholarship on subsidiarity conducted since the nineteenth century has developed two strands of interpretation suggesting competing models of social organisation as far as the potential location of decision-making power is concerned. While this intel... Read More about Introduction: Two spaces of subsidiarity?.