Outputs (966)

Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

The everyday worlds of disabled children (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Reimagining Kashmir: Gender, resistance, and the futures of the state (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This event will explore the role of gender in reproducing militarisation and resistance in Kashmir. The centre of both a geopolitical territorial struggle between India and Pakistan and a resistance movement against the Indian Government, Kashmir is... Read More about Reimagining Kashmir: Gender, resistance, and the futures of the state.

Negotiating in/security: Women’s activism in Kashmir (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to interrogate the relationship between women’s activism and in/security through a narrative approach to feminist security studies. The investigation of women’s activism in the Kashmir Valley highlights gendered notions of in/security... Read More about Negotiating in/security: Women’s activism in Kashmir.

The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: Learning activism in health and social care education (2018)
Book Chapter

People involved in disabled children’s childhood studies, and others who contribute their experience of using health and social care services, strongly object to being seen by professionals as ‘the problem’. In contrast Experts by Experience involved... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: Learning activism in health and social care education.

The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods (2018)
Book

Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the r... Read More about The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods.

Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage (2018)
Book

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-inve... Read More about Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage.

Pitcairn (2018)
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 (UKOT) in the Pacific Ocean. Pitcairn, the only inhabited island of the group, had a tota... Read More about Pitcairn.

Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many negative portrayals of bisexuality within Western culture relate to relationships, yet only a small body of research has explored bisexual people’s experiences of their bise... Read More about Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships.

The role of the family in HIV status disclosure among women in Vietnam: Familial dependence and independence (2017)
Journal Article

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Insights into disclosure by people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) can inform strategies for treatment and support, yet Vietnamese women's self-disclosure patterns are poorly understood. We conducted interviews... Read More about The role of the family in HIV status disclosure among women in Vietnam: Familial dependence and independence.

Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice? (2018)
Journal Article

This article is focussed on working with parents and carers to develop nonviolent resistance (NVR) as a means of addressing controlling and self-destructive behaviours exhibited by their children. This practice is discussed as an alternative form of... Read More about Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice?.

‘Destructive masculinities’ and ‘women mediators’: Conceptualising gender in feminist foreign policy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper analyses Sweden’s agenda of feminist foreign policy (FFP). In 2014, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, proudly announced that the newly formed Social Democrat and Green coalition Government would pursue a new foreig... Read More about ‘Destructive masculinities’ and ‘women mediators’: Conceptualising gender in feminist foreign policy.

Contesting feminism/feminist contestations in debates on feminist foreign policy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In April 2017, Saudi Arabia was elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Of the 54 UN members eligible to vote, 47 voted for Saudi Arabia to join, while 7 abstained. Sweden was one of the states that partook in the election process,... Read More about Contesting feminism/feminist contestations in debates on feminist foreign policy.

Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century: Offshore finance, local élites and contentious politics (2018)
Book

This edited collection examines the realities of the last remnants of the European colonial empires in the Caribbean, namely the British, Dutch and French overseas territories. Although known and perhaps infamous for their role as high-end touris... Read More about Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century: Offshore finance, local élites and contentious politics.

Foreword (2018)
Journal Article

This introduction takes as its point of departure, three vignettes, each accounting for a particular contemporary articulation of the relations between nation/alism, gender and sexuality. Whilst inevitably selective, these vignettes nevertheless offe... Read More about Foreword.

Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality (2018)
Book

The 21st century has witnessed, to date, a dramatic resurgence in the forces of nationalism, but nationalisms taking new forms, and engaging gender and sexuality in innovative and transformational ways. This book explores the shifting and complex rel... Read More about Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality.

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

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).

Brexit: Challenges and opportunities for small countries and territories (2018)
Journal Article

This article is based on a round table discussion that was held at the Centre for Small States, Queen Mary University, London, on 18 September 2017. The article uses the presentations from the event, together with answers to questions that were posed... Read More about Brexit: Challenges and opportunities for small countries and territories.

Researching other women's experiences of not wanting children (2018)
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