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Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context (2016)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., & Zayts, O. (in press). Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12346

Shared decision making has been widely advocated across many branches of healthcare, yet there is considerable debate over both its practical application and how it should be examined or assessed. More recent discussions of SDM have highlighted the i... Read More about Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context.

Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom (2016)
Book
Stevenson, N. (2017). Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742236

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global... Read More about Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom.

Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions (2016)
Book Chapter
Gardner, A., & Lowndes, V. (2016). Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions. In M. Bevir, & R. Rhodes (Eds.), Rethinking Governance: Ruling, rationalities and resistance (125-143). Routledge

Despite 30% cuts in English local government budgets since 2010, alongside rising demands for services, there has been little outward sign of crisis. On the contrary, political protest has been muted, public satisfaction remains steady and no local... Read More about Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions.

Experiencing youth justice and penality (2016)
Book Chapter
McAlister, S., & Carr, N. (2016). Experiencing youth justice and penality. In A. Furlong (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood. Routledge

E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons (2016)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2017). E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons. Cultural Sociology, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975516655462

There is currently a need for cultural sociology to readdress the work of humanistic and cultural Marxism. While more recently much of this work has been dismissed the appearance of more radical social movements and the on-going crisis of neoliberali... Read More about E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons.

The problem of expertise in knowledge societies (2016)
Journal Article
Grundmann, R. (in press). The problem of expertise in knowledge societies. Minerva, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-016-9308-7

This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broade... Read More about The problem of expertise in knowledge societies.

Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Purser, A. C. E. Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance. Presented at 5th International Health Humanities Conference

Dance plays a role in healing rituals across a number of cultures and is also recognised to promote social bonding. This, of course, includes contemporary Western medicine, in which dance is used in psychotherapeutic contexts in the form of dance/mov... Read More about Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance.

Palimpsests of the romantic (2016)
Journal Article
Karner, C., & Kazmierczak, M. (in press). Palimpsests of the romantic. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, https://doi.org/10.1080/0965156X.2016.1219161

This articles offers a longue durée perspective to illustrate that just as romanticism was a necessary, though not single-handedly sufficient condition for nationalist movements of the 19th century, an understanding of later cultural and political ph... Read More about Palimpsests of the romantic.

Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice (2016)
Book
Clamp, K., & Paterson, C. (2016). Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice. Routledge

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study. This book draws together these diverse theoreti... Read More about Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice.

Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. (2016). Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea. ERA-Forum, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-016-0434-3

Special non-contributory benefits (SNCBs) include benefits intended solely for the specific protection of disabled people. SNCBs are not exportable under EU law. This paper asks whether SNCBs discriminate against disabled people exercising their righ... Read More about Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea.