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Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2016). Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms. In F. Stella, Y. Taylor, T. Reynolds, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315752563

The twenty-first century is often invoked as a period of greater sexual freedom, with restraint and traditionalism partitioned to the past. The new rights accorded to LGBTQ groups and women have cemented such a perception. But whilst some theorists (... Read More about Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms.

Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham (2016)
Book Chapter
Karner, C., & Parker, D. (2016). Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham. In M. Guest, & M. Middlemiss Le Mon (Eds.), Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies. Routledge

In 2010 lampposts topped by surveillance cameras appeared in parts of Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city. Unannounced, strategically placed at traffic intersections and along main roads, the cameras initially caused bemusement. The camera syst... Read More about Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham.

Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2016). Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality. In L. Gemzöe, M. Keinänen, & A. Maddrell (Eds.), Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion: European Perspectives (131-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42598-6_6

Equality has become an important concept within secular-liberal societies (Perrons 2005), with white, secular Western women interpellated as quintessentially embodying this equality (Gill and Scharff 2011; McRobbie 2011; Nayak and Kehily 2008). For r... Read More about Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality.

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

The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice (2016)
Book Chapter
Carr, N., & McAlister, S. (2016). The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice. In P. Mendes, & P. Snow (Eds.), Young people transitioning from care: international research policy and practice. Palgrave Macmillan

Research attention has focused on the reasons that lead young people from care to come into contact with the justice system at higher rates than young people within the general population. Findings from this literature can be distilled into three mai... Read More about The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice.

Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives (2016)
Book Chapter
Warren, T. (2016). Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives. In S. Lewis, D. Anderson, C. Lyonette, N. Payne, & S. Wood (Eds.), Work-life balance in times of recession, austerity and beyond (112-130). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315683263

If we think about the sort of person who is working hard to achieve a balance between their family, personal and working lives, what type of character tends to spring to mind? Might it be a working mum negotiating the demands of child-care and runnin... Read More about Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives.

Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism (2016)
Book Chapter
Akhgar, B., Choraś, M., Brewster, B., Bosco, F., Vermeersch, E., Luda, V., …Wells, D. (2016). Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism. In B. Akhgar, & B. Brewster (Eds.), Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (295-321). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38930-1_16

In this concluding chapter, we consolidate the broad spectrum of challenges discussed throughout this book towards the formulation of a number key priority topics to be addressed by future research related to cybercrime and cyberterrorism. During thi... Read More about Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism.

Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders (2016)
Book Chapter
Akhgar, B., Wells, D., & Brewster, B. (2016). Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders. In Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (39-51). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38930-1_3

The following chapter provides an in depth look at a broad selection challenges related to Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism, as identified through prolonged engagement with a multitude of horizontal and vertical cyber-security stakeholders. Out of six c... Read More about Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders.

Moral economy versus political economy: provincializing Polanyi (2016)
Book Chapter
Holmwood, J. (2016). Moral economy versus political economy: provincializing Polanyi. In C. Karner, & B. Weicht (Eds.), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia (143-166). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5

This theoretically focused chapter by John Holmwood adopts a strategy of conceptual ‘provincializing’ and thereby reveals race as a lacuna in Polanyian and neo-Polanyian scholarship. Alongside its wide-ranging theoretical engagement, including innova... Read More about Moral economy versus political economy: provincializing Polanyi.

Austria between “social protection” and “emancipation”: Negotiating global flows, marketization and nostalgia (2016)
Book Chapter
Karner, C. (2016). Austria between “social protection” and “emancipation”: Negotiating global flows, marketization and nostalgia. In C. Karner, & B. Weicht (Eds.), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia (195-222). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5_8

Focused on Austria, a national context that still ranks amongst the comparatively more affluent and structurally resilient, this chapter examines diverse public discourses formulated in the context of the global and European economic crises since 200... Read More about Austria between “social protection” and “emancipation”: Negotiating global flows, marketization and nostalgia.

Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012 (2016)
Book Chapter
Shaw, C., Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012. In J. Crichton, C. N. Candlin, & A. S. Firkins (Eds.), Communicating risk. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478788_13

The issue of climate change is intimately linked to notions of risk and uncertainty, concepts that pose challenges to climate science, climate change communication, and science-society interactions. While a large majority of climate scientists are in... Read More about Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012.