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Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation and the Policing of Boy Racers: Dispersal Orders and Seizure of Vehicles (2014)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2014). Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation and the Policing of Boy Racers: Dispersal Orders and Seizure of Vehicles. Policing, 8(2), 135-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pau005

This article considers the policing of young drivers in Scotland who are known as boy racers. It outlines the ways in which the police addressed the problem of anti-social driving by youths in a built-up urban environment in the context of concern an... Read More about Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation and the Policing of Boy Racers: Dispersal Orders and Seizure of Vehicles.

Invisible from view: leaving and aftercare provision in the Republic of Ireland (2014)
Journal Article
Carr, N. (2014). Invisible from view: leaving and aftercare provision in the Republic of Ireland. Australian Social Work, 67(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2013.868014

The adequacy of provisions for young people leaving care and in aftercare in the Republic of Ireland have been the subject of recent policy attention. A landmark report, the Ryan Report (2009), into historic abuse in state institutions recommended st... Read More about Invisible from view: leaving and aftercare provision in the Republic of Ireland.

Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants (2014)
Journal Article
Zontini, E. (in press). Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2014.885543

This article focuses on ageing in transnationalism. Drawing on the experiences of Italians in the UK as a paradigmatic example of settled European migrants, it explores the lived experiences of this group of older migrants. Using Levitt and Glick Sch... Read More about Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants.

The socialist blues? Citizenship, class and civil society (2014)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (in press). The socialist blues? Citizenship, class and civil society. Sociological Review, 62(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12139

This article seeks to explore the relationship between the British labour movement, the Left and the Labour party. It does so through the intellectual prism of debates around citizenship and civil society. In this respect, I seek to recover a critica... Read More about The socialist blues? Citizenship, class and civil society.

“It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic (2014)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., & Zayts, O. (2014). “It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic. Symbolic Interaction, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.99

The recognition of uncertainty as a pivotal issue for the sociology of medicine is longstanding. More recently, the widespread integration of new medical technologies into healthcare has led to a renewed analytic focus on uncertainty. However, there... Read More about “It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic.

Reflexivity as situated problem-solving: A pragmatist alternative to general theory (2014)
Journal Article
Holmwood, J. (2014). Reflexivity as situated problem-solving: A pragmatist alternative to general theory. Sociologica, 2014(1), https://doi.org/10.2383/77051

Recent developments in sociological theory have addressed the linkage between structure and agency via a conception of reflexivity and the agent’s internal conversation as a means of understanding the (variable) contribution that the self and its pow... Read More about Reflexivity as situated problem-solving: A pragmatist alternative to general theory.

Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience (2014)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, D. (2014). Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience. Social Epistemology, 28(1), (70-85). doi:10.1080/02691728.2013.862878. ISSN 0269-1728

The technoscientific capacity to manipulate and remake the material substance of being is at the core of an expanding ontological imaginary that permeates culture in Global North societies. What are the political implications of this imaginary? What... Read More about Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience.

From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy (2014)
Journal Article
Holmwood, J. (2014). From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2013.873213

Public higher education has a long history, with its growth associated with mass higher education and the extension of a social right to education from secondary schooling to university education. Following the rise in student numbers since the 1970s... Read More about From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy.

Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults (2014)
Book Chapter
Kam-Tuck Yip, A., & Page, S. (2014). Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults. . Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272385_007

This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the United Kingdom in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from questionnaires, int... Read More about Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults.

A face in the crowd: imagining individual and collective disabled identities in contemporary China (2014)
Journal Article
Dauncey, S. (2014). A face in the crowd: imagining individual and collective disabled identities in contemporary China. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 25(2),

This essay explores the concept of a “disabled crowd” in the Chinese cultural and social imagination. It highlights key terms, analogies, and cultural locations of disability that are seen to relate to and inform group identity and collective behavio... Read More about A face in the crowd: imagining individual and collective disabled identities in contemporary China.

The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors (2014)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Hellsten, I. (2014). The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors. TATuP, 23(2),

This article charts the emergence and framing of anthropogenic climate change as risk through the lens of two metaphors: greenhouse effect and carbon footprint. We argue that the greenhouse effect metaphor provided the scientific basis for framing cl... Read More about The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors.

Signs of the nation: resisting globalization? (2014)
Book Chapter
Karner, C. (2014). Signs of the nation: resisting globalization?. In Z. Kloch, L. Gruetzmacher, & M. Kaszmierczak (Eds.), Znakowe wartosci kultury. WUW Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Human responses to climate change: social representation, identity and socio-psychological action (2014)
Journal Article
Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B., & Cinirella, M. (2014). Human responses to climate change: social representation, identity and socio-psychological action. Environmental Communication, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2013.846270

Climate change is one of the most important global challenges in the twenty-first century, given that a changing climate is likely to have negative and potentially irreversible consequences for the environment and human beings. Drawing upon Social Re... Read More about Human responses to climate change: social representation, identity and socio-psychological action.

When climate science became climate politics: British media representations of climate change in 1988 (2014)
Journal Article
Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (2014). When climate science became climate politics: British media representations of climate change in 1988. Public Understanding of Science, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662512440219

Climate change has become a pressing environmental concern for scientists, social commentators and politicians. Previous social science research has explored media representations of climate change in various temporal and geographical contexts. Throu... Read More about When climate science became climate politics: British media representations of climate change in 1988.

Fracking in the UK press: Threat dynamics in an unfolding debate (2014)
Journal Article
Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Fracking in the UK press: Threat dynamics in an unfolding debate. Public Understanding of Science, 23(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662513498835

Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”. This article examines the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate on... Read More about Fracking in the UK press: Threat dynamics in an unfolding debate.