Outputs (72)

Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle? (2021)
Journal Article

Forensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of strength- and recovery-based models of care should b... Read More about Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?.

Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty (2021)
Journal Article

The clinical identification of frailty is increasingly thought to be important in countries with ageing populations. Understanding how older people labelled as frail make sense of this categorisation is therefore important. A number of recent studies... Read More about Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty.

From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores the perception and politics of air pollution in Shanghai. We present a qualitative case study based on a literature review of relevant policies and research on civil society and air pollution, in dialogue with air quality indexes... Read More about From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai.

Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity (2021)
Journal Article

In 2008, just as the movement of the precarious seemed to be winning one political battle after the next, the fight against precarization suddenly dwindled. The cycle of struggles of the precarious that began in 2000 had seemingly come to an end. Iro... Read More about Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity.

Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital (2021)
Journal Article

People living with dementia (PLWD) are almost always admitted to the acute hospital for reasons unrelated to their dementia, finding themselves in the unfamiliar environment of a Health Care of Older Persons acute ward. The effect of this environment... Read More about Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital.

Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence (2021)
Journal Article

Despite a growth in analysis of women and conflict, this has tended to overlook the specific experiences of young women. Likewise, in research on youth, conflict and peace, the term ‘youth’ is often short-hand for young men. Young women’s experiences... Read More about Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence.

Abolishing The Police (2021)
Book

“This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt like when people were talking about abolishing slavery.” – Patrisse C... Read More about Abolishing The Police.

“Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice (2021)
Book Chapter

Buzzwords and acronyms are ubiquitous throughout public service provision worldwide. Additionally, such terms are subject to frequent change, and public servants are expected to use the most up-to-date language in their work in order to reflect curre... Read More about “Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice.

Free Soil, Free Produce, Free Communities (2021)
Book Chapter

Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector (2021)
Book Chapter

Hand car washing, the process of washing a vehicle by hand, is a relatively new business activity in the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to 2004, hand car washes (HCWs) were virtually non-existent (Clark & Colling, 2018). However, it is estimated that bet... Read More about Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector.