Outputs (1631)

The recognition of religion in public spaces (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

Pitcairn political review: Issues and events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018 (2019)
Journal Article

The islands of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno (commonly known as Pitcairn) make up a single territory, the last remaining United Kingdom Overseas Territory (UKOTs) in the Pacific Ocean. But much of the period under review (1 July 2017–30 June 2... Read More about Pitcairn political review: Issues and events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

BBC The Big Questions (2019)
Other

Rachel Burden presents topical debate live from The Attenborough Centre at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Has social media ruined childhood? Is feminism in crisis?

The prevention of sexual abuse: Issues, challenges and resolutions (2019)
Journal Article

No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens (2019)
Journal Article

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. Dominant themes emerged which addressed the differences between the se... Read More about No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens.

Why psychosocial thinking is critical (2019)
Book Chapter

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

Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research (2019)
Journal Article

What is story completion? How come I’ve never heard of it? Can it be useful for me as a qualitative researcher? A relatively unknown method for qualitative data collection, story completion has a long history of use in psychotherapy practice and (qua... Read More about Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research.

Principled toleration and respectful indifference in the liberal polity: A conceptual landscape (2019)
Journal Article

This paper examines toleration at two levels. At the first level, liberal individualism is concerned that the individual must be as free as possible to pursue their own goals and lifestyles. At the second level, liberal political theory is concerned... Read More about Principled toleration and respectful indifference in the liberal polity: A conceptual landscape.

The Blue Economy in the Caribbean (2019)
Book Chapter

Caribbean Overseas Territories: Breaches, but not yet breaks, in the Frameworks of Governance (2019)
Book Chapter

Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology (2018)
Journal Article

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka’s philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology.

Repro-migration: An ethnography of the early days of cross border egg donation between Israel and Romania (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Risk assessment and management of perpetrators of sexual abuse in New Zealand (2018)
Journal Article

New Zealand has seen changes in sexual abuse policy and practice over the last 10 – 15 years that have been driven by social factors, political and policy decisions as well as risk management concerns. The changes to the prevention, assessment and ma... Read More about Risk assessment and management of perpetrators of sexual abuse in New Zealand.

Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Breaking gendered boundaries? Exploring constructions of counter-normative body hair practices in Āotearoa/New Zealand using story completion (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Do women with body hair continue to evoke disgust? Are men without body hair read only as athletes and/or gay? To explore contemporary sense-making practices around apparently counter-normative gendered b... Read More about Breaking gendered boundaries? Exploring constructions of counter-normative body hair practices in Āotearoa/New Zealand using story completion.

A note on gender and Kashmiriyat (2018)
Journal Article

Discourses of insaniyat, Kashmiriyat aur jamhooriyat (humanism, “Kashmiriness,” and democracy) have resurfaced in Indian discussions on Kashmir since 2016. The phrase was originally coined by the former prime minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,... Read More about A note on gender and Kashmiriyat.

Why marry? Understanding marriage in modern Britain (2018)
Journal Article

In the early 1990s Anthony Giddens proposed that major changes in working life, equal rights and globalisation trends had impacted significantly on the ways in which men and women relate to each other in their personal lives (Giddens 1992). This brea... Read More about Why marry? Understanding marriage in modern Britain.

How can a heterosexual man remove his body hair and retain his masculinity? Mapping stories of male body hair depilation (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study explores the gendered body hair removal norm and the meanings of male body hair by examining young people’s sense-making around male body hair removal. The novel technique of story completion w... Read More about How can a heterosexual man remove his body hair and retain his masculinity? Mapping stories of male body hair depilation.

Looking heteronormatively good! Combining story completion with Bitstrips to explore understandings of sexuality and appearance (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study sought to develop knowledge about understandings of sexuality and appearance by using a story completion task combined with an innovative visual methodology. Fifty-four (mainly female) particip... Read More about Looking heteronormatively good! Combining story completion with Bitstrips to explore understandings of sexuality and appearance.

The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union (2018)
Journal Article

This article explores the recent and significant growth of European Union cooperation on counter-terrorism by drawing upon the concept of ‘collective securitisation’. It highlights how 9/11 was a precipitating event, one which led some EU leaders to... Read More about The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union.