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Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers (2019)
Journal Article
Black, A., & Lumsden, K. (2020). Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers. Policing and Society, 30(1), 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1568428

This article explores the riskwork engaged in by call handlers, dispatchers and response officers in a police force control room in England. We present a novel approach by drawing on the work of Foucault and his concept le dispositif to study riskwor... Read More about Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers.

(Re)civilizing the Young Driver: Technization and Emotive Automobility (2013)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2015). (Re)civilizing the Young Driver: Technization and Emotive Automobility. Mobilities, 10(1), 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2013.823716

© 2013, © 2013 Taylor & Francis. ABSTRACT: Historically, youths have presented challenges to the authorities via their appropriation of the automobile and related inversion of mainstream motoring values. Recently, this has been demonstrated in the... Read More about (Re)civilizing the Young Driver: Technization and Emotive Automobility.

Survival of the Fastest: Ethical Dilemmas in Research with ‘Boy Racers’ (2013)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2013). Survival of the Fastest: Ethical Dilemmas in Research with ‘Boy Racers’. Young, 21(3), 273-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308813488814

This article grapples with the ethical dilemmas of youth research, and more specifically ‘edgework’, via an experiential account of fieldwork with ‘boy racers’ in Aberdeen, Scotland. ‘Edgework’ is ethically problematic for those who wish to conduct f... Read More about Survival of the Fastest: Ethical Dilemmas in Research with ‘Boy Racers’.

‘You are what you research’: researcher partisanship and the sociology of the ‘underdog’ (2012)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2013). ‘You are what you research’: researcher partisanship and the sociology of the ‘underdog’. Qualitative Research, 13(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794112439012

This article contributes to debates regarding the issue of researcher partisanship and bias within social research and situates it within the current trend towards reflexivity. The discussion draws upon the researcher’s experiences of conducting fiel... Read More about ‘You are what you research’: researcher partisanship and the sociology of the ‘underdog’.