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From Field to Application (2024)
Book Chapter

The chapter brings together the key observations about how leadership and collaboration can be realised in talk at work. This discussion entails specifically the consideration of the forms, functions and effects of communicative practices associated... Read More about From Field to Application.

Leading Others (2024)
Book Chapter

The chapter presents the analysis of the situated realisation of leadership, examining empirically how the notion gets embedded in everyday practices of work. Particular focus is placed here on the communicative practices which inevitably get associa... Read More about Leading Others.

Collaborating (2024)
Book Chapter

The chapter discusses how collaboration is realised in talk at work. We turn here to these instances of talk most closely associated with the expression of affiliation, recognising that these form part of a broader mosaic of practices that contribute... Read More about Collaborating.

Oxytocin (2024)
Book Chapter

The small peptide hormone oxytocin has long been recognized as a key factor in the natural induction of the birth process at the end of pregnancy, as well as in the release of milk upon suckling by the infant. It has additional roles within the brain... Read More about Oxytocin.

Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2024)
Book Chapter

Despite extensive criticisms of masculinities in Africa, mainly within sociology, critical men’s studies, masculinity studies, feminism and anthropology, there is little compelling research on the intersection between military masculinity, constructi... Read More about Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.

“Dirge to Slit Bodies”: EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku’s Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up (2024)
Book Chapter

Since the post-independent era, Nigerian literary and political activists from Fela Anikupo Kuti’s Zombie to Ken Saro-Wiwa’s “Silence Would Be Treason”, and Wole Soyinka’s The Man Die have utilized a plethora of genres to parody, protest, and provoke... Read More about “Dirge to Slit Bodies”: EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku’s Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up.