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A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback (2012)
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James, D. M., Collins, L. C., & Samoylova, E. (2012). A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback. Journal of Transformative Education, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344613480562

This study describes a moment during clinical supervision when a student speech and language therapist reported that she had a moment of illumination that changed her trajectory from failing her clinical placement to passing it. The student’s self-re... Read More about A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback.

Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe (2012)
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Nerlich, B., & Jaspal, R. (2012). Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe. Metaphor and Symbol, 27(2), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2012.665795

Geoeengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media. This article examines promotional discours... Read More about Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe.

Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality (2012)
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Evetts, J. (2012). Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality. Professions and Professionalism, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.322

For a long time sociologists of professions have differentiated Anglo-American and European contexts for professional work. The presentation will address this distinction and argue that processes of convergence now render such differences somewhat ob... Read More about Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality.

An interpretative phenomenological analysis of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide (2011)
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Smith, A., Joseph, S., & das Nair, R. (in press). An interpretative phenomenological analysis of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 16(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2011.572047

This study explored experiences of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide. Six participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Transcribed interviews were analyzed from an interpretative phenomenological framewor... Read More about An interpretative phenomenological analysis of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide.

Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings (2011)
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Warren, T. (2011). Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings. Sociological Review, 59(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01993.x

The paper focuses on the potential of quantitative research methods for sociologists who research the gender division of unpaid domestic work. To begin, it reflects on the emergence of the sociological interest in unpaid domestic work and identifies... Read More about Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings.

Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe (2010)
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Warren, T. (2010). Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe. Community, Work and Family, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/13668801003765713

In the study of work time, a wealth of influential ideas have emerged about the potentially damaging impact of too many hours in the labour market on the rest of peoples’ lives, as well as about the negative economic ramifications of short hours work... Read More about Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe.

Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity (2010)
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Lumsden, K. (2010). Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity. Sociological Research Online, 15(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2123

This paper discusses female participation in the male-dominated 'boy racer' culture. Little is known about girls who join male-dominated subcultures while studies of car cultures have tended to describe girls as peripheral participants and emphasise... Read More about Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity.

From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation (2010)
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Koteyko, N., Thelwall, M., & Nerlich, B. (2010). From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation. Science Communication, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547009340421

Lexical combinations of at least two roots around "carbon" as the hub, such as "carbon finance" or "carbon footprint," have recently become ubiquitous in English-speaking science, politics, and mass media. They are part of a new language evolving aro... Read More about From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation.

Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology? (2010)
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Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2010). Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?. Environmental Communication, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030903522389

Individual and collective efforts to mitigate climate change in the form of carbon offsetting and emissions trading schemes have recently become the focus of much media attention. In this paper we explore a subset of the UK national press coverage ce... Read More about Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?.

Theory and language of climate change communication (2010)
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Nerlich, B., Koteyko, N., & Brown, B. (2010). Theory and language of climate change communication. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.2

Climate change communication has become a salient topic in science and society. It has grown to be something like a booming industry alongside more established ‘communication enterprises’, such as health communication, risk communication, and science... Read More about Theory and language of climate change communication.

Bird flu hype: the spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups (2010)
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Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. (2010). Bird flu hype: the spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(3),

Bird flu, otherwise known as avian influenza, has attracted widespread public and global attention. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was first documented as infecting humans in Hong Kong in 1997, and many of those infected died subsequently from the vi... Read More about Bird flu hype: the spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups.

Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry (2009)
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Nerlich, B., Brown, B., & Crawford, P. (2009). Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry. Health, Risk and Society, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570903329441

Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more info... Read More about Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry.

The ins and outs of biosecurity: bird 'flu in East Anglia and the spatial representation of risk (2009)
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Nerlich, B., Brown, B., & Wright, N. (2009). The ins and outs of biosecurity: bird 'flu in East Anglia and the spatial representation of risk. Sociologia Ruralis, 49(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2009.00488.x

Avian influenza, or 'bird 'flu' arrived in Norfolk in April 2006 in the form of the low pathogenic strain H7N3. In February 2007 a highly pathogenic strain, H5N1, which can pose a risk to humans, was discovered in Suffolk. We examine how a local news... Read More about The ins and outs of biosecurity: bird 'flu in East Anglia and the spatial representation of risk.

"The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function (2009)
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Nerlich, B., & James, R. (2009). "The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function. Public Understanding of Science, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662507087974

Discourses evoking an antibiotic apocalypse and a war on superbugs are emerging just at a time when so-called "catastrophe discourses" are undergoing critical and reflexive scrutiny in the context of global warming and climate change. This article co... Read More about "The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function.

Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’ (2009)
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Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2009). Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’. Global Environmental Change, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001

This article deals with climate change from a linguistic perspective. Climate change is an extremely complex issue that has exercised the minds of experts and policy makers with renewed urgency in recent years. It has prompted an explosion of writing... Read More about Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’.

'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia (2009)
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Sandy, L. (2009). 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 10(3), 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442210903114223

In the trafficking discourse and international law, debt-bonded sex workers have been defined as 'victims of trafficking'. The hyperexploitative contractual arrangements faced by debt-bonded sex workers may be the most common form of contemporary for... Read More about 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change (2009)
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Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2009). Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change. Environmental Communication, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030902928793

This article examines discourses associated with a new environmental movement, “Carbon Rationing Action Groups” (CRAGs). This case study is intended to contribute to a wider investigation of the emergence of a new type of language used to debate clim... Read More about Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change.