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Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning (2023)
Journal Article
Harrington, E., Bell, K., McEwen, L., & Everett, G. (2023). Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning. Journal of Extreme Events, 9(02n03), https://doi.org/10.1142/s234573762350001x

Climate change-related extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, requiring urgent action to effectively plan for them. While disabled women are one group likely to be disproportionately and negatively affected by disasters, they a... Read More about Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning.

The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community (2022)
Journal Article
Bell, K., Hermoza, R. T., Staddon, C., Willems, B., Maldonado, F. C., Berrocal, N. T., & Flores, L. P. (2023). The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community. Journal of Rural Studies, 97, 224-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.10.004

In this study of the Andean town of Chuschi and its surrounding district of the same name, we consider the impacts of the proliferation of fencing on once open land. The paper contributes to a growing body of literature on the practice and impact of... Read More about The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community.

Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities (2021)
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Bell, K., & Bevan, G. (2021). Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities. Local Environment, 26(10), 1205-1220. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1970728

There is a resurgent interest in, and debate about, inclusive environmentalism. Within this context, it has been alleged that Extinction Rebellion (XR) exclude Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class people. To understand more about... Read More about Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities.

The failure of lifestyle environmentalism and the promise of the Green New Deal for working-class people (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, K., & Bevan, G. (2021). The failure of lifestyle environmentalism and the promise of the Green New Deal for working-class people. The Journal of Working-Class Studies, 6(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v6i1.6465

There is an urgent need to address a range of environmental issues, including climate change, but the policies enacted to date have usually done nothing to address class inequities and have often led to increased working-class disadvantage. The cause... Read More about The failure of lifestyle environmentalism and the promise of the Green New Deal for working-class people.

The tree of participation: A new model for inclusive decision-making (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, K., & Reed, M. (2022). The tree of participation: A new model for inclusive decision-making. Community Development Journal, 57(4), 595–614. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsab018

Community development often involves organizing participatory decision-making processes. The challenge is for this to be meaningful. Participatory decision-making has the potential to increase the transparency, accountability, equity and efficienc... Read More about The tree of participation: A new model for inclusive decision-making.

Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities (2018)
Journal Article
Kitson, J., Williamson, S. J., Harper, P. W., McMahon, C. A., Rosenberg, G., Tierney, M. J., …Gautam, B. (2018). Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities. Energy, 160, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.219

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper proposes a DC microgrid system, comprising multiple locally available renewable energy sources in an off-grid rural community, based on a commissioned field study carried out in a rural, off-grid village in Nepal, which... Read More about Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities.

Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2017). Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy

A discussion of the work of Fidel Castro in relation to sustainability in Cuba. When Fidel Castro became President of Cuba in 1959, the country's environment was in ruins as a result of hundreds of years of US and Spanish colonial exploitation of nat... Read More about Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy.

‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2017). ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability. Urban Planning, 2(4), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i4.1006

© 2017 by the author. While there is wide agreement on the need to move towards fairer and more sustainable societies, how to best achieve this is still the source of some debate. In particular, there are tensions between more market-based/technologi... Read More about ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2016). Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia. Journal of Political Ecology, 23(1), 71-92. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.v23i1

'Green Economy' and 'Living Well ('Vivir Bien)' have emerged as contending macro-policies in the search for a future direction that meets human needs whilst respecting environmental limits. There are a number of different interpretations of each conc... Read More about Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia.

Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2016). Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(10), Article 1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13101005

Gender continues to be a relatively marginal issue in environmental justice debates and yet it remains an important aspect of injustice. To help redress the balance, this article explores women’s experience of environmental justice through a review o... Read More about Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health.

How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys (2016)
Journal Article
Elliott, H., Gordon, D., Edwards, R., Phoenix, A., Gordon, G., Bell, K., …Fahmy, E. (2017). How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys. Quality and Quantity, 51(6), 2457-2473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-016-0403-5

© 2016, The Author(s). This article brings together analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys to explore changes in the conditio... Read More about How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys.

Endless Pressure: Life on a Low Income in Austere Times (2016)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Fahmy, E., Sutton, E., & Bell, K. (2017). Endless Pressure: Life on a Low Income in Austere Times. Social Policy and Administration, 51(7), 1156-1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12233

© 2016 The Authors Social Policy & Administration Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Much has been written that details the decline in living standards following the ‘credit crunch’ in the UK. It remains that we understand to a lesser degree the... Read More about Endless Pressure: Life on a Low Income in Austere Times.

Can the capitalist economic system deliver environmental justice? (2015)
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Bell, K. (2015). Can the capitalist economic system deliver environmental justice?. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125017

© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. Can a healthy environment for all social groups be delivered through capitalism via market mechanisms? Or is it the capitalist system, itself, that has been at the root of the environmental and social crises we now face? Th... Read More about Can the capitalist economic system deliver environmental justice?.

Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure (2015)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Sutton, E., Fahmy, E., & Bell, K. (2016). Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure. Critical Social Policy, 36(1), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018315601799

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Behavioural explanations of poverty and disadvantage have figured heavily in political rhetoric in the era of austerity, as a means to understand trajectories into poverty and subsequent relationships between benefit cla... Read More about Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure.

Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing (2014)
Journal Article
Bell, K., Fahmy, E., & Gordon, D. (2016). Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing. Quality and Quantity, 50(1), 193-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-014-0144-2

© 2014, The Author(s). When developing household surveys, much emphasis is understandably placed on developing survey instruments that can elicit accurate and comparable responses. In order to ensure that carefully crafted questions are not undermine... Read More about Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing.

Environmental justice in Cuba (2014)
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Bell, K. (2014). Environmental justice in Cuba

An overview of Cuba's achievements and constraints in relation to environmental justice.

Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights (2014)
Journal Article
Bell, K., & Cemlyn, S. (2014). Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights. International Journal of Human Rights, 18(7-8), 822-841. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2014.951339

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Public support for human rights in the UK remains limited, partly as a result of misleading media coverage, as well as political hostility. The UK Human Rights Act, in particular, has been under sustained attack and is now... Read More about Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights.

The Mohawk traditional council (2012)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2012). The Mohawk traditional council

This work discusses environmental justice issues in Kahnawake, one of the eight communities that make up the Mohawk Nation. The traditional territory of the Mohawk extends through vast regions of what is currently referred to as Quebec, Ontario, and... Read More about The Mohawk traditional council.

Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations (2012)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2013). Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 16(2), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2011.653217

Cuba, a country that is often portrayed as an isolated, secretive and bureaucratic dictatorship, would appear to present many challenges for a social researcher intent on eliciting the genuine opinions of the native population. However, in December 2... Read More about Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations.