MATHEW HUMPHREY's Outputs (4)

“The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom (2022)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., & Andersson-Hudson, J. (2022). “The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom. International Journal of Motocycle Studies, 18,

This article examines the views of UK riders’ rights activists about perceived threats to the freedom to enjoy motorcycling, and how to mobilize the motorcycling community against these threats. Through semi-structured interviews with activists, we a... Read More about “The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Andersson-Hudson, J., Rose, J., Humphrey, M., Knight, W., & O'Hara, S. (2019). The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 129, 693-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.056

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Shale gas extraction is a highly controversial process. Despite significant proven or potential reserves, public reaction to extraction have often been negative. In some cases, this has prevented exploration. In this paper, we inv... Read More about The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom.

Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (2018)
Book
Umbach, M., & Humphrey, M. (2018). Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68566-3

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was inven... Read More about Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.